Kamila Orbegoso is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Born in Canada and raised in Lima, Peru, she studied psychology before moving to Canada in 2017 to pursue art. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2024 with a BFA in Textiles and Fashion.

Working with weaving, creative writing, and installation, Kamila explores grief, memory, imagination as ways of understanding personal and collective experience. Her practice is often rooted in family archives and lived histories, using art as a tool to process emotion, reimagine narratives, and create space for reflection and dialogue. 

Since graduating, Kamila has continued to develop her practice alongside facilitating textile- and fashion-based workshops for youth with Wonder’neath, NSCAD Art Factory, and the MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning. These experiences inform her interest in art as a shared, accessible process grounded in storytelling and making together.

She is a 2025 recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, through which she is researching the intersection of creative arts therapy theory and storytelling across writing, weaving, and installation. In 2023–2024, she participated in the Flaxmobile Project residency and exhibition series, creating Holding Each Other Up, a work made with locally grown flax that explores themes of sustainability, scarcity, and abundance.