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 1957 in Picton, Ontario. Lives and works in Toronto. Since the mid-1980s, photographer Robert Burley has used the camera as a recording device to make fleeting traces of the material world ...

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 Edmonton in 1981. Died in Brooklyn in 2011.

During his short career, Mathieu Lefevre created a series of paintings and sculptures that humourously deconstructed the n...

Born in Claresholm, Alberta, in 1956. Lives and works in Winnipeg.

Using photography and drawing, Diana Thorneycroft often explores the darker side of supposedly innocent or benign ...

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 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...

Lives and works in Vancouver.   James Nizam is known for photographs in which the medium's connection to sculpture and architecture is explored, as well as notions of the home and the ephem...

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 Hamilton, Ontario, in 1949. Lives and works in Toronto.

Photographer Jack Burman is widely known for his depictions of human remains, some embalmed for religious purp...

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 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 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 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 Toronto in 1974. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Brad Phillips is known for photorealist paintings that integrate literary references and texts. His canvases, which have become more...

Born in Montreal in 1953. Lives and works in Toronto.

Joanne Tod is known primarily for her paintings, which tend to use a realist style to generate cogent social critiques. ...

Born in Shoreham, England in 1943. Lives and works in Vancouver.

Ian Wallace is a celebrated artist and teacher, best known as...

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 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 Montreal in 1980. Lives and works in Ottawa.   Melanie Authier is an Ottawa artist known for lush, complex paintings. Her works elegantly morph and layer various shapes, lines and ...

Born in Detroit in 1947. Lives and works in Toronto.

Suzy Lake is known for photo-based works in which the politics of the body, beauty and gender are explored in intelligent...

Born in Whitford, Alberta, in 1927. Died in Toronto in 1977.

William Kurelek, the painter, illustrator and author, grew up in Stonewall, Manitoba, and studied at the Ontario ...

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 North Vancouver in 1969. Lives and works in Vancouver.   How and why can simple brushstrokes evoke smoke, whipped cream or snowflakes? Can brushstrokes themselves be duplicated on c...

Born in 1958 in Hamilton, Ontario. Lives and works in London, UK.   Photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis emerged on the Toronto art scene in the 1980s after attending London’s Harrow Col...

Born in Montreal in 1962. Lives and works in Southern Ontario.

John Kissick creates abstract paintings that feature a hybrid pictorial space which balances art-historical all...

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 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 Toronto in 1924. Died in Peterborough in 1990.

Harold Town was a Canadian abstract painter who played a quintessential part in shaping the Toronto art scene of the 19...

Born in 1919 in Sussex, England. Lives and works in West Vancouver.   Gordon Smith is a key figure in the history of Modernist painting in Vancouver. Born in the UK, Smith immigrated to Can...

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 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 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 1905 in Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. Died in 1960 in Paris, France.

A legendary Canadian abstract painter, Borduas wrote the Refus Global manifesto that served as a corners...

Born in Vancouver in 1946. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Widely acknowledged as the figurehead of the Vancouver school of photo-conceptual art, Jeff Wall, through his large-scale lightbox...

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 Toronto on April 11, 1952. Lives and works in Toronto.

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Ruminations on life, death and the human condition resound throughout Spring Hurlbut’s practice. Whether...

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 St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1955. Lives and works in Toronto.

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer known internationally for his images on the shaping of lands...

Born Regina in 1977. Lives and works in Montreal. Jessica Eaton’s photographs dissect chemical and optical phenomena, the materiality of film, and the language of light itself. Eaton came to inte...

Born in 1974 in Wainwright, Alberta. Lives and works in Toronto. Synonymous in Canada with the idea of “extreme painting,” Kim Dorland rose to the forefront of our contemporary painting scene i...

Born on August 5, 1877, in Claremont, Ontario. Died on Canoe Lake, Ontario, in 1917. Tom Thomson's paintings have defined the northern landscape for generations of Canadian artists and art lovers. ...

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...

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...

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...

Born in Simcoe, Ontario, in 1967. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Elizabeth McIntosh is a painter who puts questions of resolution at the core of her work: her lively, intriguing canvases r...

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 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 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 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 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...

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 North Vancouver in 1976. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Karin Bubaš looks at ways in which environments, both natural and built, interact with, shape and reflect their inhabitants...

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 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in 1964.  Died in New York City in 2012.   Denyse Thomasos was known for large abstract paintings in which intensive, energetic, dynamic use of line and co...

Born in Sarnia in 1956. Lives and works in Toronto.   Stephen Andrews is a multimedia artist interested in a handmade engagement with mechanically generated images. Work from the 1990s expl...

Born in Montreal in 1926. Died in Toronto on November 17, 2012.   Arnaud Maggs began working as a visual artist in the mid 1970s at the age of 47, following successful careers as a graphic ...

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 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 Ikerrasak, Baffin Island, on October 3, 1927. Died in Cape Dorset on January 8, 2013.   Kenojuak Ashevak is one of the best known and most acclaimed Inuit artists of the last 50 yea...

Born in 1983 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Rebecca Brewer’s paintings bridge figuration and abstraction in fresh, unexpected ways. Brewer’s works—which some may reg...

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 1975 in Toronto. Lives and works in Toronto.

Known for the production of monumentally large paintings—one measures 18 feet high by 12 feet wide—FitzGerald has bui...

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 Seoul in 1960. Lives and works in Vancouver. The intersections between identity and location have been a central theme in Jin-me Yoon's work. Having emigrated from Seoul to Vancouver as a c...

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 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...

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 Calgary in 1962. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Attila Richard Lukacs famously combines reverence and irreverence in his large-scale paintings.  Lukacs graduated from Vancouver’...

Born in 1960 in Montreal. Lives and works in Montreal.   Since the mid 1980s, photographer Alain Paiement has shown internationally, making his mark in contemporary photography through a su...

Born in Fort Collins, Colorado. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Monique Mouton is a Vancouver-trained artist garnering growing attention. Her work bridges several poles: fragility and stren...

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 Victoria on December 13, 1871. Died in Victoria on March 2, 1945. Emily Carr has been called "the most important BC artist of her generation" by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Known for paintin...

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 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 New York in 1971. Lives and works in Montreal and Vancouver.   Adad Hannah is known for beautiful, cleverly staged tableaux vivant videos that often revisit or re-enact f...

Born in London, Ontario, on March 25, 1931. Died in London, Ontario, on April 13, 1978.

Best known for realistic paintings that celebrate the city where he lived most his lif...

Born in Vancouver in 1960. Lives and works in Vancouver.   Stan Douglas is recognized as part of the Vancouver School of photoconceptualists that also includes Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall and Ro...

Born in Montreal in 1976. Lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles.

The paintings of Etienne Zack suggest the nearly infinite possibilities that can be found in an artist’s st...

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 Montreal in 1933.  Died in Montreal in 2004.

The name Guido Molinari is synonymous with abstract painting in Canada. From his studio in Montreal, Molinari found hims...

Born in Hamilton in 1977. Lives and works in New York.   Paul P. is a painter and draughtsperson whose exquisite landscape and figurative work has equal roots in late-19th-century aesthetic...

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 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, ...

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 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 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...

Condé born in Hamilton in 1940. Beveridge born in Ottawa in 1945. Both live and work in Toronto.   Since the mid-1970s, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge have been producing socially engage...

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 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...