Gillian King is a painter, art educator, and art therapist-in-training from Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba and holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa (2016). She is the winner of the 2019 Espronceda Centre for the Arts and Culture Artistic Prize (Barcelona, Spain), the 2017 RBC Emerging Artist Award, as well as the recipient of the 2017 Nancy Petry Award.  King is in the process of obtaining her Art Therapy certification through the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and works as a Studio Arts Instructor for seniors living in long term care