Biography 

Paula González-Ossa (Talca, Chile) 

Paula González-Ossa, also known as Bomba, is a Chilean educator and visual artist based in Toronto. She is a mentoring artist at Na-Me-Res Sagatay Native Men’s Residence, and has had 17 years of experience as a community youth worker with youth at risk in Toronto’s west end. Paula’s artistic practice and mural production are constructed through continuous engagement with communities to produce street-level public art. 

Paula González-Ossa’s studio work is through graffiti and mural painting in public spaces. Her work is instructed by research to depict Indigeneity and land history. Her murals have been showcased across Toronto since 2000. She partnered with Na-Me-Res to make the mural Butterfly Effect (2022) at the Centre For Social Innovation in Toronto, the Toronto Transit Commission for the commissioned mural The Spirits of the Ancestral Trees (2019) at St. Clair West subway station for Street Art Toronto, and the untitled mural at the Dupont–Shaw underpass (2018).