Catherine Hois is a visual artist from Toronto, Canada. She completed her BFA, BED, and MFA at York University. She has shown her work in Toronto, and Windsor Ontario, and is currently working on her second Canada Council for the Arts funded project. Her current work focuses on creating a confrontational atmosphere through exposure of the typically private and unspoken: stigmatized body types, and issues with the normalization of extreme body management. Her work is inspired by her own recovery from an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, and using art making as a way to shed light on her experiences. Her process involves reflecting on her evolving relationship with her body, and connecting her experiences with issues of unhealthy societal body ideals. Catherine works with a variety of mediums, including soft sculpture, painting, drawing, and stop-motion animation.