Miles Saraswat is a multidisciplinary artist currently based on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Relocating from Treaty One Territory (Winnipeg), Miles is pursuing studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His creative practice includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, music, and writing.

Central to Miles’ practice is the reclamation and redefinition of South-Asian spiritual practices in reflection with intersections of queer identity. Currently, Miles has been exploring oral storytelling and spiritualism, investigating reincarnation and rebirth as metaphors for life in movement through migration, transition, and environment. Layering photo processes, textiles, South-Asian patterns, and gestural mark making, his work explores intricate storytelling motifs through deeply layered imagery. By connecting traditional South-Asian visual languages into his work, Miles investigates the complexities of living in the South-Asian diaspora.

Miles has been working with themes of family tied into the diasporic experience. By looking inward at his experiences growing up in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, Miles explores what it means to be a brown person moving across Canada. Through this introspection, Miles investigates how his experience is impacted by in-flux moments both generationally through his family’s immigration and personally within his life.

By merging cultural tradition with personal and environmental narratives, Miles creates work that invites viewers to think about how culture, identity, and connection evolve past and through generations and borders.