Born December 9, 1975, in Calgary. Lives and works in Calgary. In a practice that ranges from performance to photography to film and video works, Blackfoot artist Terrance Houle remakes the trouble...

Born in 1966 in Ukraine. Based in part in Lethbridge.   Taras Polataiko a Ukrainian-Canadian artist known for provocative performances, paintings and films in which he tests the boundaries ...

Born in Niagara Falls in 1971. Lives and works in Toronto.   Kristan Horton uses a variety of media—including but not limited to photography—to elaborate on the ways in which movement i...

Born in Montreal in 1970. Lives and works in Montreal. Working across sculpture, installation and other media, often in site-specific context, Michel de Broin’s practice strikes a deft balance be...

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. Lives and works in Montreal.

Multidisciplinary artist Massimo Guerrera uses performance, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting to explor...

Born in Upsala, Ontario, in 1960. Lives and works in Winnipeg. Since the late 1980s, the work of Anishinabe artist Rebecca Belmore has pivoted on a highly charged balance between the personal and t...

Born in Calgary in 1969. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Utilizing multiple mediums including photography, sculpture, drawing, painting and video, Damian Moppett’s conceptual and studio-b...

Born in Manchester, England, in 1978. Lives and works in Montreal.   David Spriggs is known for his unusual large-scale installations, which meld a sense of intensity with a sense of delica...

Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, in 1970. Lives and works in Vancouver and Fort St. John.   Sculptor and multidisciplinary artist Brian Jungen employs repurposed materials and a com...

Born in Winnipeg in 1948. Lives and works in Vancouver.

Liz Magor is one of Canada’s most important contemporary sculptors. Her technical virtuosity allows her to create an...

Born in 1976 in Windsor. Lives and works in Toronto.   Annie MacDonell shifts through photography, film, sculpture, sound and installation in a practice that questions the assumptions of or...

Born in Winnipeg in 1976. Lives and works in Winnipeg.

The work of Sarah Anne Johnson engagingly and unpretentiously suggests photography’s limits in conveying one’s full...

Born in South Africa in 1953. Lives and works in Toronto.   Evan Penny's uncanny, lifelike figurative sculptures test the limits of human optics in their experimentation with depth, scale, ...

Jasmin Bilodeau: Born in Lac-Mégantic in 1973. Sébastien Giguère: Born in Arthabaska in 1972. Nicolas Laverdière: Born in Quebec City in 1972. All live and work in Quebec City. Few Canadian art...

Born  in London, Ontario, on September 1, 1948. Lives and works in London, Ontario.

Political conflict, social activism and cultural displacement are some of the themes wove...

Born in Montreal in 1967. Lives and works in Montreal.   Valérie Blass has generated one of the most diverse, intelligent and disarming bodies of sculpture to emerge from Canada in recent ...

Born in 1965 in Edmonton. Lives and works in Toronto.   Marla Hlady is a celebrated sound artist and kinetic sculptor. Her pieces deal with the nature of sound, often materializing it for v...

Cardiff born in 1957 in Brussels, Ontario; Bures Miller born in 1960 in Vegreville, Alberta. Live and work in Berlin, Germany, and Grindrod, British Columbia.   Janet Cardiff and George Bur...

Marman born May 2, 1965, in Toronto. Borins born February 18, 1974, in Toronto. Both live and work in Toronto.   The art of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins is fun and rigorous—a marriag...

Born in Alert Bay in 1970. Lives and works in London, Ontario.   Sky Glabush’s multifaceted practice concerns ways in which gesture and biography grapple with art history—particularly h...

Born in New Westminster in 1968. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Steven Shearer is a multidisciplinary artist known for his paintings and drawings, photo collages, sculptures and text-based...

Lives and works in Halifax. Combining music, sound art, social practices, improvisation and other modes of creation, the art of Eleanor King is difficult to classify, but remains reliably enjoyabl...

Born in 1981. Based in Canada and the United States.   Jason de Haan is a multidisciplinary artist known for sculptures, installations, collages and other works that condense varying spans ...

Born in Calgary in 1978. Lives and works in Montreal.   “My work really begins where the rest of the world ends.” So writes Maskull Lasserre in describing a sculptural practice that str...

Born in Burlington in 1972. Lives and works in the UK.   Kelly Richardson’s works take the sublime and surreal traditions of landscape painting into the contemporary digital realm. Richar...

Born in 1975 in Dublin, Ireland. Lives and works in British Columbia.   Brendan Tang is one of Canada’s most exciting emerging ceramics-based artists. His work came to wider attention in ...

Born in 1967 in Tainan, Taiwan. Lives and works in Toronto.   Toronto-based artist An Te Liu is an innovative and incisive installation artist and sculptor whose work is influenced by his b...

Born in 1961 in London, Ontario. Lives and works in Vancouver. Myfanwy MacLeod brings a wry, alert humour to projects that help underscore personal and environmental vulnerabilities in the face of ...

Born in Montreal in 1923.  Died at Île-aux-Grues, Quebec, in 2002.

The internationally renowned Quebec painter and sculptor Jean Paul Riopelle began his career studying und...

Born in Toronto on December 10, 1929. Lives and works in Toronto.   Senior artist and member of the Order of Canada, Michael Snow is a pioneer of conceptualist and multimedia practice in Ca...

Born in Ottawa in 1972. Lives and works in Vancouver. Kevin Schmidt’s interdisciplinary work tries, tests and ultimately celebrates traditional notions of the sublime in the Canadian landscape. T...

Born in Ottawa on July 5, 1968. Lives and works in St. John's. Will Gill is a Newfoundland-based artist known for his wide-ranging and often poetic works in sculpture, painting, photography and vid...

Duke born in 1972 in Halifax; Battersby born in 1971 in Penticton. Live and work in LaFayette, New York, and Beach Meadows, Nova Scotia.   Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby are an artist ...

Born in Montreal in 1966. Lives and works in Lethbridge.   David Hoffos’s unique hybrid of sculptural diorama and low-fi cinema lends his work a magical buoyancy while often addressing me...

Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, in 1976. Lives and works in Toronto.   Derek Sullivan employs drawing, painting, sculpture, book works and installation to question familiar forms and genres...

Born in London, England, in 1959. Lives and works in Montreal.   Adrian Norvid’s drawing-based artworks combine many elements: psychedelic flashbacks and Victorian sympathies; ironic humo...

Born in Vancouver in 1976. Lives and works in Toronto.   Aleesa Cohene is an emerging media artist who uses found footage and sounds to create videos and installations about human intimacie...

Born in 1960 in Winnipeg. Lives and works in Toronto.

Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based multimedia artist whose many-tiered practice includes sculpture, installation, photograp...

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1958. Lives and works in Toronto.

Ed Pien creates drawing-based installations that pull from a myriad of sources, including myths and legends from ...

Born in Lima, Peru, in 1970. Lives and works in Toronto.

Luis Jacob is a Toronto-based multimedia artist and curator concerned with notions of collectivity, and, increasingly...

Born in Kelowna in 1958. Lives and works in Vancouver.

A photographer and video artist, Jayce Salloum is known for installation works that sensitively investigate historical, social and cul...

Born in 1960 in Montreal. Lives and works in Toronto.

Laurel Woodcock is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, video, audio, photography and performance. She is kn...

Born in Saskatoon in 1970. Lives and works in Montreal.

Luanne Martineau is best known for large-scale felted wool sculptures that she creates using, in part, traditional cra...

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1939. Lives and works in Calgary.   A highly individual and experimental artist, John Will deals primarily with issues of mortality, death, politics, religion and...

Born in 1978 in Toronto. Lives and works in Los Angeles.   Jed Lind is a sculptor and installation artist currently based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited widely since receiving his MFA at ...

Born in Frankfurt in 1969. Lives and works in Toronto and Frankfurt.   Oliver Husain is a filmmaker and installation artist with a particular interest in theatrical and cinematic notions of...

Born in Winnipeg in 1971.   Daniel Barrow is a draftsperson who works in video, performance and installation. He is best known for his intricate, live, manual animations on overhead project...