Dr. Tania Cañas is a Kuskatlán –born artist-researcher who grew up on unceded Wadawurrung and Boonwurrung Kulin Nation Country. She was born the year of a terremoto and during the armed conflict. She arrived in so-called Australia as a child through the refugee and humanitarian program. Her lineages came from Usulutan and La Union.
Her practice explores memory, displacement, and community-engaged creative processes, working across creative practice and collaborative research.
She is currently a tangata Tiriti living in Aotearoa New Zealand as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST), Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.