Candice Gima is an LA-based artist born and raised on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. In 2016, Candice received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa with a concentration in Painting. She has previously been recipient of both the Yoko Radke and Helen Gilbert-Bushnell Memorial awards. Gima is to be featured in the upcoming publication of Friend of the Artist Volume 18 as well as both DTLA/Museum Row exhibitions of Positive Exposure SCAAA 2023-2024. Gima continues to work out of her studio in Los Angeles, CA.

In a post-pandemic world, Candice Gima's work has been suitably focused on the shared fear of familial loss, preoccupations over emotional restraint, and existence at the mercy of cyclical grief. Can we diminish the pangs of loss by first exasperating it within the imaginary, long before engagement is ever forced upon our reality? Through these psychological vistas, Gima utilizes personal symbolism and cultural folk tales from both her home in Hawai‘i and the world at large to embellish narratives with a sensitivity to humanity that may feel nostalgic to all. Sensations of love, fear, desire, and anguish draw viewers through inner depths to reveal the folklore of their own psyche.