The Body Keeps the Record
What Survives the Crossing.
Régis Souto — Queer Brazilian Figurative Painter, Toronto
Pride · Toronto · June 2026
MORPHING
featuring Pinkity Twinkity · 16×20 · Mixed media on canvas
Queer resilience, painted. A new work navigating transformation, visibility, and the body — part of Régis Souto's ongoing dialogue between identity and survival.
Official Partner
Régis Souto paints what deserves to be kept: tropical birds suspended against black fields, carnival faces built over buried poems, flowers isolated from the noise, bodies negotiating between discipline and desire. One hand holds it all together — the black contour line, layered construction, backgrounds that erase everything that doesn't matter. Brazilian-born, Toronto-based, queer.
Painting as a frontier. Identity as movement.
Solo Exhibition · The Show Gallery · April 2026
Beyond the Contour
Oil paintings about the body's relationship to identity, choice, and what we decide to keep.
Seven days. Three acts. One hundred and thirty people.
