Pearl van Geest established her studio in the Trafalgar Building in downtown Guelph in 1997.
Since then, her art has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Her work is part of the Canada Art Council's collection, and is included in private and corporate collections.
Pearl's involvement in the arts extends to winning the Canadian Art Foundation's Art Writing
Prize in 2015. She has also written exhibition essays and reviews for publications like Memento,
C-Magazine, and Canadian Art magazine. In 2014, as the City of Guelph's inaugural Artist in
Residence, she created a permanent artwork for the West End Community Center.
Currently, Pearl serves as sessional faculty in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University.
She actively engages in the artistic community, as a member of the Throbbing Rose collective,
exploring ideas related to queer ecology. She is also part of the International Broken Forest
Group, which works collaboratively to establish an international art residency in Temagami.