Mikhyla Stewart was born in 1975 in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. At age six she and her family moved to Seattle, Washington, where she lived until the age of twenty. Realizing the US was not her home, she packed up and moved back to BC where she has been residing since 1996. She is currently in Vancouver and works as a hair stylist. Mikhyla has her degree in fine arts through Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is a multi-disciplined artist but mainly explores conceptions through paint. Mikhyla has exhibited her work in numerous solo, shared, and group shows in BC.