Paulina Drohomyrecky

Artist

Paulina Drohomyrecky (they/them) is a disability justice focused multidisciplinary artist and patient partner, whose work focuses on making art that reflects disabled experience, and centering the disabled experience in medical research.

After obtaining a PhD in immunology, they pivoted to dance, visual and textile art, and community arts facilitation. They have worked with Shay on their dance films in a producing capacity, as well as having been a long time participant in Toronto’s contra dance community and performed with Propeller Dance at Fall for Dance North 2024. Most recently, they were a participant in The Bentway’s production of Walking:Holding, as well as the associated portrait series.

Paulina is the Co-Director of Pushmakers – a national initiative focused on excellence in manual wheelchair dance. They also currently serve on a Steering Committee for a Long COVID Web research project, as well as working on other patient partnership projects.