Filipino-born Khim Hipol is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Squamish, TsleilWaututh, and Musqueam people. Hipol focuses his work primarily on lens-based media and has expanded to printmaking, sculpture, and text. By investigating the impacts of colonialism and the Filipino migration it caused, Hipol considers how identity and culture cross-pollinate between the Philippines and Canada. His positionality, which lies between these two colonized and colonial structures, is the motivation behind his practice, at once highlighting and complicating these systems.

He graduated with a Certificate of Photography (2019) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Photography and a Minor in Art and Text (2023) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Hipol is a recipient of the Audain Travel Award (2022), Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography (2023), An honorable mention of the Seymour Art Gallery ‘New and Emerging’ (2022) and was long-listed for the Lind Prize (2022). He has shared his works in group shows at FIlter Photo in Chicago Illinois (2024), Blue Sky Gallery in Oregon (2024), Pendulum Gallery (2024), Access Gallery (2024), The Center of Fine Arts Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (2022), Calgary (2022 and 2023), and Vancouver and Philippines (2023). His works have been privately collected in Vancouver, Toronto, Canada, the USA, and the Philippines.