Leena Raudvee is a Toronto based visual and performance artist, focusing on precariousness and uncertainty through the lens of disability and aging.
Raudvee’s drawings investigate the performative embodied within the drawing of a line. Her drawings have been exhibited in numerous juried shows including Drawing 2025 at the John B. Aird Gallery and were part of the Rendezvous with Madness Festival presented by Workman Arts in 2021. Her drawings were part of Unpacking Pandemic Pondering online at OCADU and Gallery 1313 in 2021 and in Lines and Inscriptions with Coman Poon in 2026 at the Arcadia Art Gallery.
In performance, she has been exploring the relation between her drawing practice and her daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility. She performed “Teetering on an Edge” for Pi*llOry at TMAC in Toronto in 2019 and her performance-based video, “making space for the fumble, the fall: drawing a line”, was screened in the Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival presented by Hamilton Artists Inc. and Hamilton Art Gallery in 2020. “Precarious Gestures”, her performance as video, was curated by Critical Design Lab for #CripRitual at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in 2022.
For Precarious Gestures and subsequent projects, Raudvee has invited videographer Alexandra Gelis to create B&W split screen video documentation of her performances and installations.
In 2023, in a residency called Precarious Lines: Interacting with a Chair at The Arcadia Art Gallery, Raudvee continued her investigation of her physically disabling body, examining her daily efforts to get up from a chair. She responded to the performances that emerged with a series of large charcoal drawings and many small ink drawings. These were accompanied by several of Gelis’ videos. In 2024,for CONTACT at Gallery 1313, she exhibited close-up photographs of these drawings as Interior Lines.
In 2025, in Finding Balance, a residency at Tangled Art + Disability Gallery,s he was investigating ways to walk without falling, focussing on interdependence and risk. She needed to ask for help and to find ways to trust others to help her walk. The final installation included drawings, a performance, contracts for mutual care and a wall-size video documenting her performance of walking with.
As Co-Artistic Director of ARTIFACTS, a performance art company formed by Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee, she has performed and exhibited collaboratively for over 30 years. In 2017 ARTIFACTS performed in “Listening: On the Architecture of Aging” for the Made of Walking festival in La Romieu, France.