short arms. big work.

Zandra Xōchitl is a Victoria-based LatinX Canadian artist drawn to the crunch and texture of urban spaces. Her hard-edged abstracts juxtapose pastel colour with raw texture and found collage materials — arriving somewhere between modernist rigour and street-level instinct.

Autodidactic by nature, with over a decade working as an advertising art director before committing fully to studio practice, Xōchitl was the only Canadian selected for the 249th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London, and was featured in the BBC's annual documentary on the exhibition. She was also a finalist for a 40-foot public installation at Victoria International Airport.

Her work has been recognized by Create Magazine (selected by The Jealous Curator), named a "One to Watch" by London Art News and London Post, and shown internationally — including through After Nyne Contemporary, London. She has previously exhibited under the name Stratford.

She lives and works in Victoria, BC, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.