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Kirsten Abrahamson Kirsten Lillian Abrahamson is a Canadian ceramic artist. Personal background She was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. She moved to Canada with her family at the beginning of her high school years and subsequently became a Canadian citizen. After ...

(born 1960), ceramist *

Kim Adams Kim Adams (born 17 December 1951) is a Canadian sculptor who is known for his assemblages combining prefabricated elements, often parts of cars or other machine-made structures. His visual style is influenced by industrial design, architecture a ...

(born 1951), sculptor * Michael Adamson (artist) (born 1971), painter * Marc Adornato (born 1977), painting, sculpting, performance and new media *

Latcholassie Akesuk Latcholassie Akesuk (1919–2000) was an Inuk sculptor. Early life and family He was born in 1919, on Anatalik Island in the Northwest Territories. His father Akesuk Tudlik (1890–1966) was a renowned sculptor, as was his brother, Solomonie ...

(1919–2000), sculptor *

Manasie Akpaliapik Manasie Akpaliapik (born 1955) is a Canadian Inuit sculptor. Akpaliapik was born in Baffin Island and lived with his family in Arctic Bay from 1967. He was sent to school in Iqaluit but never graduated. Instead, he got married and returned to Ar ...

(born 1955), sculptor *

Eric Aldwinckle Eric Aldwinckle (22 January 1909 – 13 January 1980) was a Canadian Official war artist, designer and one of the most prominent illustrators of the 20th century. He was also a teacher at the Ontario College of Art, 1936–42; Principal ...

(1909-1980), designer *

David T. Alexander David T. Alexander (born January 13, 1947) is a Canadian painter, known for breathing new life into the landscape tradition of Canada as well as for working in a serious and ambitious manner to reinvigorate the contemporary practice of landscap ...

(born 1947), painter *

M.J. Alexander Mary Jane Alexander (born July 18, 1961) is an American writer and photographer, playwright, poet, and lyricist who documents people and places of the American West, with an emphasis on centenarians and American Indian culture. She was inducted ...

(born 1961), artist *

Vikky Alexander Vikky Alexander (born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1959) is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited internationally since 1981 as a practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism, and as an ...

(born 1959), artist * John Martin Alfsen (1902–1971), printmaker *

Ralph Allen Ralph Allen (1693 – 29 June 1764) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist, who was notable for his reforms to the British postal system. Allen was born in Cornwall but moved to Bath to work in the post office, becoming the postmaster a ...

(1926–2019), artist, painter and printmaker *

Edmund Alleyn Edmund Alleyn (June09, 1931 December24, 2004) had an art career that underwent many stylistic changes. He explored various styles of painting including abstraction, narrative figuration, technology and pop art, as well as different media.Josée D ...

(1931–2004), painter *

Stephen Andrews Stephen Andrews was Anglican Bishop of Algoma from 2008 to 2016. Early life and education He studied classics at the University of Colorado and theology at Regent College and Wycliffe College, gaining an M.Div. degree in 1984. After spending ...

(born 1956), artist *

Kay Angliss Katherine Margaret "Kay" Angliss (1923 – 2004) was a Canadian artist. She was born on a farm in Port Coquitlam and grew up in British Columbia. Angliss graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1946, continuing her studies at the Emma L ...

(1923–2004), printmaker, watercolour and fibre art *

Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq (1916–2003) was an innovative Canadian Inuk textile artist active from the 1970s to early 2000s. Angnaqquaq's work explores textile creations while experimenting with non-traditional methods. Her style has been described a ...

(1916–2003), textile artist *

Danielle April Danielle April (born July 1, 1949) is a Canadian artist working in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, printmaking and drawing. April's work often explores time and memory. Life and work Danielle April was born on J ...

(born 1949) *

Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk (1898–1954) (also known as Akeeaktashuk) was an Inuit artist. Early life He was born in the Inukjuak area of Quebec. Art career In 1953, he was a featured artist in an exhibition at London's Gimpel Fils gallery. His w ...

(1898–1954), sculptor *

Louis Archambault Louis Archambault (April 4, 1915 – January 27, 2003) was a Quebec sculptor and ceramicist, who was one of the members of the "new sculpture" movement in Canada that moved away from traditional methods towards abstraction. Career Born in M ...

(1915-2003), sculptor, ceramicist *

Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau (18 April 1933 — 25 April 2022) was a Canadian ceramic artist and potter. He also had an academic career in post-secondary art studies. Personal history Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States in 1933, he immigrated to Can ...

(born 1933), ceramist *

Shelagh Armstrong Shelagh Armstrong (born 1961) is a Canadian illustrator, and was the recipient of the 1985 Will Davies award for excellence in illustration.http://www.mint.ca/RoyalCanadianMintPublic/en-CA/Vancouver2010/Collect/Artists/default.htm - 12k Life and ...

(born 1961), painter *

Roy Arden Roy Arden (born 1957) is a Canadian artist, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He also creates sculpture from found objects, oil paintings, graphite drawings and collage, and curates and writes on contemporary art. Career Arden gra ...

(born 1957), sculptor *

Kenojuak Ashevak Kenojuak Ashevak, (Inuktitut: ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ, Qinnuajuaq Aasivak), (October 3, 1927 – January 8, 2013) is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art. Early life and family Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo ...

(1927–2003), artist and printmaker * Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970), new media artist *

Barbara Astman Barbara Astman RCA is a Canadian artist who specializes in a hybrid of photography and new media, often using her own body as object and subject, merging art and technology. Early life Astman was born in Rochester, New York, the second of three ...

(born 1950), photography and new media *

William Edwin Atkinson William Edwin Atkinson (1862–1926), also known as W.E. Atkinson, was a Canadian painter of landscape, a founding member of the Canadian Art Club in 1907, whose work was influenced by Impressionism combined with aesthetics drawn from the Barbizo ...

(1862-1926), painter

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Frédéric Back Frédéric Back (April 8, 1924 – December 24, 2013) was a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.John L. Kennedy and Eugene Walz"Frédéric Back". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 4, 2007. During a long career with Rad ...

(1924–2013), painter, animator *

Joan Balzar Joan Balzar (November 8, 1928 – January 16, 2016) was a Canadians, Canadian artist, known for her vividly coloured Hard-edge painting, hard-edged Abstract art, abstract paintings, which sometimes included metallic powders or Neon lighting, neon ...

(1928–2016), painter *

Frances Bannerman Frances Bannerman (born Jones) (1855 – 1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She painted in oil and watercolour and made black and white illustrations. Biography She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter o ...

(1855–1944), painter, poet *

Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes (born 1963) is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Describing her work as graphic art, Marian Bantjes is known for her custom lettering, intricate patterning and decorative style. Inspired by illuminat ...

(born 1963), graphic designer, artist, illustrator, typographer, writer *

Bruce Barber Bruce Barber (born 1950 in New Zealand) is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at NSCAD University. His artwork has been shown at the Paris Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, the New Museum of C ...

(born 1950), multimedia installation artist * J. M. Barnsley (1861–1929), painter *

Ed Bartram Ed Bartram (March 21, 1938 – August 25, 2019), also known as Edward or Ted Bartram, was a Canadian artist who was known for capturing the rockscape of Georgian Bay through printmaking, painting and photography. Career Ed Bartram, born in Lon ...

(1938–2019), printmaker, painter *

Earl W. Bascom Earl Wesley Bascom (June 19, 1906 – August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine art his own experiences of cowboying ...

(1906–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker, Fellow of the

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* Robert Bateman (born 1930), painter, naturalist * Patricia Martin Bates (born 1927), printmaker * Jay Battle (born 1966), Canadian-born sculptor now working in

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, England * Helen D. Beals (1897–1991), painter *

Carl Beam Carl Beam (May 24, 1943 – July 30, 2005), born Carl Edward Migwans, made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe), to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. A major retrospec ...

(1943–2005), painter *

Jackson Beardy Jackson Beardy (July 24, 1944 – December 7, 1984) was an Indigenous Oji-Cree Anishinaabe artist born in Canada. His works are characterized by scenes from Ojibwe and Cree oral history and many focus on the relationship between humans and nature. ...

(1944–1984), painter *

J. W. Beatty J. W. Beatty (in full, John William Beatty) (1869–1941) was a Canadian painter who was a forerunner in the movement which became the Group of Seven (artists), Group of Seven in 1920. Early Painting Life image:John William Beatty - Ablain St- ...

(1869–1941), painter * Henri Beau (1863–1949), Impressionist painter *

Charles Beil Charles A. Beil LL. D. (1894 – July 29, 1976) was a Canadian sculptor best known for his sculptures of cowboys and the plain Indians of the early West. He was a protégé and friend of artist Charles Marion Russell. He was born in Germany and l ...

(1894–1976), sculptor *

Sylvie Bélanger Sylvie Bélanger (8 May 1951 - 8 October 2020) was a Canadian interdisciplinary artist using sound, video, photography and installation. She lived and worked in Toronto as an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo until her reti ...

(1951–2020), installation artist *

Léon Bellefleur Léon Bellefleur D.F.A. (February 8, 1910 February 22, 2007) was a French-Canadian abstract painter and print-maker. Career Léon Bellefleur was born in Montréal, Quebec, in 1910, and by the age of ten was drawing and painting. He earned a te ...

(1910–2007), painter *

Rebecca Belmore Rebecca Belmore D.F.A. (born 1960) is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation). B ...

(born 1960), performance artist, installation artist *

Louis Belzile Louis Belzile (April 17, 1929 – February 12, 2019) was one of the main figures of geometric abstraction in painting in Quebec and one of the members of the Plasticiens group in Montreal along with Jauran (Rodolphe de Repentigny), Jean-Paul Jé ...

(1929–2019), painter, member of the

Plasticiens The Plasticien movement was a Canadian non-figurative painting movement, which appeared around 1955 in Quebec. It was a more orderly style of painting in reaction to Les Automatistes In 1954, a young critic and painter newly returned from Paris, , ...

in Montreal * Lorraine Bénic (born 1937), painter, sculptor *

Tom Benner Thomas Earl Benner (January 5, 1950September 21, 2022) was a Canadian sculptor of large sculptures, a painter and an installation artist who explored such themes as the environment, history and nature. His work was widely exhibited in Canada and ...

(born 1950), sculptor, installation artist *

Douglas Bentham Douglas Bentham (born 1947) has been since the late 1960s, acknowledged as one of Canada's pre-eminent producer of large-scale welded steel sculpture. Career Bentham was born in Rosetown, Saskatchewan but moved with his family to Saskatoon in 1 ...

(born 1947), sculptor *

William Berczy William von Moll Berczy (December 10, 1744 – February 5, 1813) was a German-born Upper Canada pioneer and painter. He is considered one of the co-founders of the Town of York, Upper Canada, now Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Biography Berczy was ...

(1744–1813), painter *

Judith Berry Judith Berry (born 1961) is a Canadian painter. Life and work Judith Berry was born in London, Ontario and raised in Saskatoon. She studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and then attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.J ...

(born 1961), painter *

George Théodore Berthon George Théodore Berthon (3 May 1806 – 18 January 1892) was a Canadian portrait painter. Born in Vienna to a well-known French portrait painter, René Théodore Berthon, he emigrated first to Great Britain, and then to Canada, sometime be ...

(1806–1892), painter *

Derek Michael Besant Derek Michael Besant (born 1950) is a Canadian artist living in Calgary, Alberta who, since the 1980s, has created prints, watercolours and large-scale art, shown in exhibitions and as public art projects in Canada and abroad. Since the mid-199 ...

(born 1950), printmaker, painter *

Aggie Beynon Aggie Beynon is a Canadian metalsmith based in Waterloo, Ontario. She is noted for her technique of compressing metal powder to create jewellery. Benyon graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1975. She developed a patented process for Pow ...

, metalsmithRCA Academicians elected 2007
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David Bierk David Charles Bierk (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre. Early life Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Glennon Bierk and Doris Ruth Steenson, Bierk moved with hi ...

(1944–2002), painter * B. C. Binning (1909–1976), painter *

David Blackwood David Lloyd Blackwood (November 7, 1941 – July 2, 2022) was a Canadian artist known chiefly for his intaglio prints, often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry, such as shipwrecks, seal hunting, ic ...

(1941-2022), printmaker * David Blatherwick (born 1960), painter, video artist *

Molly Lamb Bobak Molly Lamb Bobak (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to docum ...

(1920–2014), painter, printmaker * Catherine Bolduc (born 1970), drawing, sculpture, installation, public art *

David Bolduc David Bolduc (1945–2010) was an abstract artist who used colour and central imagery in his paintings, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush. Critics suggest that he and artists such as Daniel Solomon formed a bridge between the second and thir ...

(1945–2010), painter *

Eleanor Bond Eleanor Bond (born 25 March 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist and art educator who is best known for reworking the Canadian landscape tradition using a new ecological awareness. Early life Eleanor Bond was born in Winnipeg to pharmacist H ...

(born 1948), multi-media artist, art educator *

Theodosia Bond Theodosia Mary Dawes Bond (1915 – October 27, 2009) was a Canadian art collector and amateur photographer living in Quebec. She was also known as Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton. The daughter of Rachel Mary Dawes and F. Lorne Campbell Bond, vi ...

(1915–2009), photography *

Jordi Bonet Jordi Bonet i Godó, known professionally as Jordi Bonet (7 May 1932 – 25 December 1979), was a Spanish-born Canadian painter, ceramist, muralist, and sculptor who worked principally in Quebec. Life and work Born in Barcelona, Spain of Cata ...

(1932–1979), sculptor, muralist *

Paul-Émile Borduas Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québecois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Bord ...

(1905–1960), painter *

Sam Borenstein Sam Borenstein (15 January 1908 – 15 December 1969) was a Canadian painter. During his forty-year career he painted numerous scenes of Montreal and Laurentian villages and Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Q ...

(1908–1969), painter * Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945), painter, textile artist *

Céline Boucher Céline Boucher (born 1945) is a Canadian artist working in the fields of painting, drawing and sculpture. Biography Boucher was born in 1945 in Sainte-Béatrix, Quebec. Collections *''Comme un oiseau'', painting, 1983, Musée national des beau ...

(born 1945) *

Robert Bourdeau Robert Bourdeau (born November 14, 1931) is a Canadian photographer whose career bridges modernists of the early 20th century and contemporary photographers. Biography Bourdeau was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1931. In 1957, he moved to Toron ...

(born 1931), photographer *

John Boxtel John Boxtel (21 June 1930 – 1 October 2022) was a Dutch-Canadian sculptor and art teacher. His works include sculpture, woodcarving, architectural drafting, design, and building. Biography Born in Goirle, Netherlands, Boxtel studied archit ...

(born 1930), sculpture, woodcarving *

John Boyle (artist) John Boyle (born 23 September 1941) is a Canadian painter known for his use of subjects drawn from his own specific life experience and from Canadian history. He was a part of the London Regional art movement. Biography Boyle lived most of ...

(born 1941), painter *

Shary Boyle Shary Boyle D.F.A. (born May 26, 1972) is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto. Early life and education Boyle was born in the Toronto s ...

(born 1972), sculpture, painting, drawing, performance * Barry Bradfield (born 1981), cartoonist *

Claude Breeze Claude Breeze , also known as Claude Herbert Breeze, and sometimes as C. Herbert (born 1938) is a Canadian figurative painter, known for paintings with raw, unsettling imagery. He is a Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto, Ontario, C ...

(born 1938), painter *

Roland Brener Roland Brener (February 22, 1942 – March 22, 2006) was a South African-born Canadian artist. Life Brener was born Roland Albert Brener on February 22, 1942, in Johannesburg. He studied art at Saint Martin's School of Art under Anthony Caro ...

(1942–2006), sculptor * Mark A. Brennan (born 1968), landscape painter *

Rita Briansky Rita Briansky (born July 25, 1925) is a Polish-born Canadian painter and printmaker. Briansky is associated with the Jewish Painters of Montreal. Early life Briansky emigrated to Ontario, Canada with her mother and two sisters in 1929. The year ...

(born 1925), painter and printmaker *

AA Bronson AA Bronson (born Michael Tims in Vancouver in 1946) is an artist. He was a founding member of the artists' group General Idea, was president and director of Printed Matter, Inc., and started the NY Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair. Earl ...

(born 1946), mixed-media artist * Reva Brooks (1913–2004), photographer * J. Archibald Browne (1862–1948), painter *

William Brymner William Brymner, (December 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) was a Canadian figure and landscape painter and educator. In addition to playing a key role in the development of Impressionism in Canada, Brymner taught numerous artists who became leadin ...

(1855–1925), painter * Karin Bubaš (born 1976), painter, photographer * David Buchan (artist) (1950-1994), performance artist, designer * Cecil Tremayne Buller (1886–1973), printmaker *

Martin Bureau Martin Bureau is a Canadian multimedia artist from Quebec. He is most noted for his exhibition ''Les murs du désordre'', an exploration of the use of literal or metaphorical walls to enforce national, ethnic or religious divisions. ''Bonfires'', ...

, multimedia *

Dennis Burton (artist) Dennis Burton (December 6, 1933 – July 8, 2013) was a Canadian modernist painter. Biography He was born in 1933 in Lethbridge, Alberta. He won a scholarship to Pickering College in Newmarket, and then attended the Ontario College of Art, stu ...

(1933–2013), painter *

Ralph Wallace Burton Ralph Wallace Burton (1905-1983) was a well known Ottawa Valley artist who was a student of, regular painting companion and friend to A.Y. Jackson from the Group of Seven. His many paintings and sketches, now housed at the City of Ottawa archives ...

(1905–1983), painter *

Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of indust ...

(born 1955), photographer *

Jack Bush John Hamilton Bush (March 20, 1909 – January 24, 1977) was a Canadian abstract painter. A member of Painters Eleven, his paintings are associated with the Color Field movement and Post-painterly Abstraction. Inspired by Henri Ma ...

(1909–1977), painter * Jane Buyers (born 1948), sculptor

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Elaine Cameron-Weir Elaine Cameron-Weir (born 1985 in Alberta, Canada) is a contemporary visual artist known for her sculptures and installations. She currently lives and works in New York City.

(born 1985), visual artist *

Janet Cardiff Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art worl ...

(born 1957), installation artist * James Carl (born 1960), sculptor *

Florence Carlyle Florence Emily Carlyle (September24, 1864 May2, 1923) was a Canadians, Canadian figure and portrait painter, known especially for her handling of light and fabric. Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Childho ...

(1864–1923), painter *

Franklin Carmichael Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 – October 24, 1945) was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontario ...

(1890–1945), member of the

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Emily Carr Emily Carr (or M. Emily Carr as she sometimes signed her work) (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the painters in Canada to ado ...

(1871–1945), painter *

Ian Carr-Harris Ian Carr-Harris (born 1941) is a Canadian artist living in Toronto. In addition to exhibiting internationally, Carr-Harris is a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Life Ian Carr-Harris was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1 ...

(born 1941), installation artist *

Barbara Caruso Barbara Caruso (1937–2009) was an abstract painter. Career After graduation from the Ontario College of Art in 1965, Caruso worked in Toronto. In 1985, she moved to Paris, Ontario with her husband poet, editor and publisher and bookseller Nels ...

(1937–2009), painter *

Gino Cavicchioli Gino Cavicchioli (born March 9, 1957) was born in Australia and is a Canadian sculptor/artist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Having spent most of his formative years in Rome, Italy, he cites the work of the Italian Renaissance as the earli ...

(born 1957), sculptor, artist *

Christiane Chabot Christiane Chabot (born 17 December 1950) is a French-Canadian artist. She is a multidisciplinary artist, working in the fields of painting, pastels, watercolors, sculpture, installation art, photography and also computer and video graphics. Life ...

(born 1950), artist * Cynthia Chalk (1913–2018),

nature photography Nature photography is a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures. Nature photography tends to put a stronger emphasis o ...

Frederick Challener Frederick Sproston Challener (1869–1959), also known as F.S. Challener, was a Canadian painter of murals as well as an easel painter of oils and watercolours and a draftsman in black-and-white and pastel. He also did illustrations for books an ...

(1869–1959), muralist, painter, teacher * Jack Chambers (1931–1978), artist and filmmaker * Horace Champagne (born 1937), master pastelist *

Robert Chaplin Robert Chaplin (born January 17, 1968) is a Canadian artist and publisher, currently based in Vancouver. His practice includes carving gem stones, making sculptures, drawing and painting pictures, writing stories, and publishing books. He holds ...

(born 1968), artist, publisher * Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985), painter and medical artist *

Ann Clarke (artist) Ann Clarke (born 1944) is a Canadian artist, who creates vibrant gestural abstract paintings and drawings which reveal her formal interests as well as a fascination with twenty-first century technologies. She is also an educator. Career Clarke ...

(born 1944), abstract painter *

Benjamin Chee Chee Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee (26 March 1944 – 14 March 1977), known as Benjamin Chee Chee, was an Ojibwa Canadian artist born in Temagami, Ontario. Early life Chee Chee's early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, for whom he spen ...

(1944–1977), printmaker, painter * F. S. Coburn (1871–1960), painter, illustrator, photographer * Stanley Cosgrove (1911–2002), painter, draughtsperson and muralist *

Graham Coughtry Graham Coughtry (June 6, 1931January 13, 1999), was a Canadian modernist figurative painter. Biography Coughtry was born in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, on June 8, 1931. He learned to paint at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School, then attended ...

(1931–1999), painter * Yucho Chow (1876–1949), photographer * F. S. Coburn (1871–1960), painter, illustrator, photographer *

Daniel Cockburn Daniel Ernest Cockburn is a Canadian performance artist, film director and video artist. Cockburn won the Jay Scott Prize in 2010 and the European Media Art Festival's principal award in 2011 for his debut feature film '' You Are Here.'' Educa ...

(born 1976), video artist, performance artist, film director * Keith Cole, performance artist * Nicole Collins, painter *

Alex Colville David Alexander Colville, LL. D. (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) was a painter and printmaker who continues to achieve both popular and critical success. Early life and war artist Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his ...

(1920–2013), painter *

Stephanie Comilang Stephanie Comilang (born 1980) is a Filipina-Canadian artist and filmmaker working in Toronto and Berlin. Background Stephanie Comilang's parents immigrated from the Philippines to Canada in the 1970s to escape the political unrest of Ferdinand ...

(born 1980), artist and filmmaker *

Christian Corbet __NOTOC__ Christian Cardell Corbet (born 1966) is a Canadian artist. He is Sculptor in Residence for the Royal Canadian Navy. Works In 2011, the National Museum of Ireland acquired a forensic facial reconstruction of an Irish-born Canadian soldi ...

(born 1966), painter, sculptor * Sonia Cornwall (1919–2006), painter * Bruno Cote (1940–2010), painter *

Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms ''Generation X'' and ''McJ ...

(born 1961), sculptural installation *

E.B. Cox E.B. Cox (1914–2003) was an internationally known sculptor from Toronto, Canada.Gladstone, Bill. "Obituary: Sculptor E.B. Cox", Globe and Mail, October 22, 2011. http://www.billgladstone.ca/?p=3464 He was part of a generation of sculptors such a ...

(1914–2003), sculptor * Josephine Crease (1864–1947), painter *

Marlene Creates Marlene Creates (born 1952) is a Canadian artist lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Creates studied visual arts at Queen's University, then lived in Ottawa for twelve years, moving to Newfoundland in 1985. ...

(born 1952), artist *

Susan Reynolds Crease Susan Reynolds Crease (November 18, 1855 – July 15, 1947) was an English-born Canadian artist and activist for women's rights. Life The daughter of Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease and Lady Sarah Lindley Crease, she was born in Antron, Corn ...

(1855–1947), painter and women's rights activist * William Nicoll Cresswell (1818–1888), painter *

Arthur Crisp Arthur Watkins Crisp (26 April 1881, Hamilton, Ontario – 28 June 1974, Biddeford Pool, Maine) was a Canadian painter, muralist, and designer. Career By 1898, Crisp was attending the Hamilton Art School, studying with the artist and teache ...

(1881-1974), designer, illustrator, muralist * Donigan Cumming (born 1947), multimedia artist *

Greg Curnoe Greg Curnoe (19 November 1936 – 14 November 1992) was a Canadian painter known for his role in the Canadian art movement labeled London Regionalism, which, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important centre for artistic produ ...

(1936–1992), painter, musician * George Cuthbertson (1898–1969), marine artist, researcher, author

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Karen Dahl Karen Dahl (born 1955) is a Canadian ceramics artist. Born in Winnipeg, Dahl attended the University of Regina, graduating in 1978. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canad ...

(born 1955) ceramist *

Greta Dale Greta Dale (1929–1978) was a Canadian mural sculptor who executed numerous public and private commissions in Canada and the United States, including the mural in the lobby of the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Biography Greta D ...

(1929–1978), sculptor *

Frederick Dally Frederick Dally (July 29, 1838 – July 28, 1914) was an English Canadian portrait and landscape photographer best known for his views of the Cariboo goldfields in British Columbia. Early life and Victoria He was born on July 29, 1838, in South ...

(1838–1914), photographer *

Ken Danby Ken Danby, D.F.A. (6 March 1940 – 23 September 2007) was a Canadian painter. Danby is best known for creating highly realistic paintings that study everyday life. His 1972 painting '' At the Crease'', portraying a masked hockey goalie defe ...

(1940–2007), painter *

Charles Daudelin Charles Daudelin, (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a French Canadian pioneer in modern sculpture and painting. He worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, metal and ceramic sculpture, jewelry, and marionettes which he mad ...

(1920–2001), sculptor, painter *

Olea Marion Davis Olea Marion Davis (May 20, 1899 – 1977) (née Montgomery) was a Canadian artist and craftsperson who worked in architecture and decorative art as well as sculpture and pottery. Her sculptural and ceramic work was exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, ...

(1899–1977), ceramist, sculptor *

Raven Davis Raven Davis (born 1975) is a multimedia Indigenous artist, curator, activist, and community organizer of the Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Nation in Manitoba. Davis's work centers themes of culture, colonization, sexuality, and gender and racial justice. ...

(born 1975), multimedia and mixed media artist * Betty Davison (1909-2000), printmaker *

Dennis Day Dennis Day (born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty; May 21, 1916 – June 22, 1988) was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He was of Irish descent. Early life Day was born and raised in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, New York City, the ...

(born 1960), video artist *

Forshaw Day Forshaw Day (1831–1903) was a Canadian artist known for his landscapes. Life and work Forshaw Day was born in London, England in 1831. He studied architecture and design at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland in 1857. He studied archit ...

(1837–1901), landscape artist, printmaker *

Nicholas Raphael de Grandmaison Nicholas Raphael de Grandmaison (1892–1978) was a Russian-born Canadian artist. Early life De Grandmaison was born in southern Russia and lost his father when he was eight years old. He and the family then moved to Obojan to live near his mo ...

(1892–1978), painter *

Louis de Niverville Louis de Niverville (June 7, 1933February 11, 2019) was a Canadian modernist painter whose work has a quality of imaginative fantasy, sometimes described as surreal. He drew on memories, dreams and observations, pulling out of himself the feeli ...

(1933–2019), painter *

Eric Deis Eric Deis (born 1979) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale photographs. In particular, his work addresses the "narrative potential of an all-encompassing picture plane". Life Born in Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, ...

(born 1979), photographer *

Roseline Delisle Roseline Delisle (1952 – November 12, 2003) was a Canadian ceramic artist. Personal history Delisle was born in 1952 in Rimouski, Quebec. She was married to painter Bruce Cohen and they had one daughter. Delisle died of ovarian cancer in 20 ...

(1952–2003), ceramist *

Xiomara De Oliver Xiomara De Oliver (born 1967) is a Canadian-born Black artist. She is known for her paintings, which explore the concerns of Black women. She is based in Marina del Rey, California. Biography Xiomara De Oliver was born in 1967 in Grand Forks, B ...

(born 1967), painter *

René Derouin René Derouin (born April 28, 1936) is a multidisciplinary artist, known for revitalizing the print medium. Career Since he was a student in the 1950s, René Derouin has spent time in Mexico as well as Quebec. The Americas, Mexico’s archaeo ...

(born 1936), printmaker *

Berthe des Clayes Berthe des Clayes (1877–1968) was a Scots-born artist who lived in England and Canada. She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey School of Art with H. Herkomer and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules L ...

(1877–1968), painter *

Bonnie Devine Bonnie Devine is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.Walter Dexter (1931–2015), ceramist * Yuri Dojc (born 1946), photographer *

Lynn Donoghue Lynn Donoghue (April20, 1953November22, 2003) was a painter, known for her portraits. Career Lynn Donoghue, who was born in Red Lake, Ontario, in 1953, was trained at H. B. Beal Secondary School, London, Ontario, where Herb Ariss and Paterson ...

(1953–2003), painter *

Stan Douglas Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining t ...

(born 1960), installation artist * Ann MacIntosh Duff (born 1925), painter * Walter R. Duff (1879–1967), painter, designer * Caroline Dukes (1929–2003), painter, installation artist *

Albert Dumouchel Albert Dumouchel (April 15, 1916 – January 11, 1971) was a Canadian printmaker, painter and teacher. A multi-talented individual, Dumouchel also was a photographer and gifted musician. His work as an artist was largely abstract.A Dictionary of ...

(1916–1971), printmaker, painter, teacher *

Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn (born February 27, 1986) is a Canadian composer, arranger, and live performer of modern compositional and guitar based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 200 ...

(born 1986), sound artist, composer, painter * Aganetha Dyck (born 1937), sculptor, installation artist *

Edmond Dyonnet Edmond Dyonnet was a painter and photographer, born French and a naturalised Canadian. He taught numerous students in Quebec province and was an academician and secretary of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1910-1947), author of a history of t ...

(1859–1954), painter, teacher *

Marcel Dzama Marcel Dzama (born May 4, 1974) is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings. Education Dzama r ...

(born 1974), artist

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* Susan Edgerley (born 1960), glass artist * Arthur Elliot (1809–1892), watercolourist * Emily Louise Orr Elliott (1867–1952), oil painter and fashion designer * Harold Elliott (1890-1968), painter *

Ennutsiak Ennutsiak (also known as Innutsiak or Eenutsia) (18961967) was an Inuit sculptor. Living on Baffin Island, he depicted scenes of daily life in the Arctic. His work is held by several museums, including the Art Gallery of Toronto and the National ...

(1896–1967), sculptor *

Arthur John Ensor Arthur John Ensor (2 January 1905 – 18 January 1995) was a British-Canadian painter and industrial designer. Early life Ensor was born in Llanishen, Wales on 2 January 1905. His parents moved to Canada when he was a child but he returned to ...

(1905–1995), painter * Lucassie Etungat (1951–c. 2016), sculptor *

Evergon Evergon (born Albert Jay Lunt, 1946), also known by the names of his alter-egos Celluloso Evergoni, Egon Brut, and Eve R. Gonzales, is a Canadian artist, teacher and activist. Throughout his career, his work has explored photography and its rel ...

(born 1946), photographer and photo-collage *

Paterson Ewen Paterson Ewen D.Litt LL. D. (April 7, 1925 – February 17, 2002) was a Canadian painter. Ewen was a founding member of the Non-figurative artist's association of Montréal, along with Claude Tousignant, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Guido Molinari, and M ...

(1925–2002), painter *

Ivan Eyre Ivan Kenneth Eyre (15 April 1935 – 5 November 2022) was a Canadian artist best known for his prairie landscapes and compositionally abstract, figurative paintings. In addition, Eyre was a Professor Emeritus of painting and drawing at the Uni ...

(born 1935), painter

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Barker Fairley Barker Fairley, (May 21, 1887 – October 11, 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, and scholar who made a significant contribution to the study of German literature, particularly for the work of Goethe, and was an early champion and friend ...

(1887–1986), painter, writer * Lilias Farley (1907–1989), painter *

Geoffrey Farmer Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) is best known for extensive multimedia installations made of cut-out images which form collages. Life Early career Farmer was born on Eagle Island, BC in 1967. His career as an artist was unplanned, but he attended an ...

(born 1967), installation artist * Caroline Farncomb (1859–1951), painter *

André Fauteux André Fauteux is a Canadian artist born in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada on March 15, 1946, who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Fauteux is a sculpture, sculptor known for his abstract welded steel sculpture, which is related to Geometric abstraction. ...

(born 1946), sculptor *

Marcelle Ferron Marcelle Ferron, (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a Canadian '' Québécoise'' painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec c ...

(1924–2001), painter,

glazier A glazier is a tradesman responsible for cutting, installing, and removing glass (and materials used as substitutes for glass, such as some plastics).Elizabeth H. Oakes, ''Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs'' ( Infobase: ...

George Fertig George Fertig (1915–1983) was a Canadian artist. He was born in Carmangay, Alberta and died in Burnaby, British Columbia. He began with photography in his early 20s and started oil painting at the age of 24. In 1941 he moved to Vancouver from ...

(1915–1983), painter * Peter Flinsch (1920–2010), painter, sculptor, television set designer *

Dulcie Foo Fat Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946) is a British-born Canadian landscape painter, based in Calgary, Alberta. Foo Fat is known for her large Representation (arts), representational paintings made from her photographs of the microscopic landscape of the fo ...

(born 1946), painter *

Marc-Aurèle Fortin Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter. Career Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec, son of Thomas Fortin. He studied in Montreal under Ludger Larose and Edmond Dyonnet, then unde ...

(1988 -1970), painter *

Margaret Frame Margaret Frame (1903 – 1985) was a Canadian painter known for her portraiture. Biography Margaret Frame was born in 1903 in Oxford, Nova Scotia. In 1906 her family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan and there she studied with Inglis Sheldon-Wi ...

(1903–1985), painter * Leonard Frank (1870–1944), photographer * Statira Elizabeth Frame (1870–1935), painter

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Louise Landry Gadbois Louise Landry Gadbois (27 November 1896 – 10 August 1985) was a Canadian painter associated with the Contemporary Arts Society in Montreal. She is known for her portraiture. Biography Marie Marguerite Louise Gadbois was born in 1896 in Montrea ...

(1896–1985), painter *

Robert Ford Gagen Robert Ford Gagen , also known as R. F. Gagen and as Robert F. Gagen, (May10, 1847March02, 1926) was a Canadian painter of seascapes and landscapes. Biography ] Robert Ford Gagen, was born in London, England. He came to Canada with his parents ...

(1847–1926), painter *

Charles Gagnon (artist) Charles Gagnon (May23, 1934 April16, 2003) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his painting, photography and film. Career Charles Gagnon was born and grew up in Montreal. He studied graphic art and interior design at Parsons School of Des ...

(1934-2003), multidisciplinary artist * Yechel Gagnon (born 1973), mixed media artist *

Marianna Gartner Marianna Gartner (born 1963) is a Canadian painter. Gartner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but moved to Calgary, Alberta during her early childhood. She has also lived and worked in Budapest and Berlin. Gartner has exhibited and been collected ...

(born 1963), painter *

Pierre Gauvreau Pierre Gauvreau (23 August 19227 April 2011) was a Québécois painter and writer who also worked in film and television production. Career He was born in Montreal, and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1937, today part of ...

(1922–2011), painter, writer * Wyn Geleynse (born 1947), pioneer film and video projection artist * Carlo Gentile (1835–1893), photographer *

Robert Genn Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 13 ...

painter *

Will Gill Christopher William (Will) Gill (born July 5, 1968) is a Canadian visual artist known for his wide-ranging works in sculpture, painting, photography, video and installation art. Biography Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Gill receive ...

(born 1968), sculptor, painter, photographer and video artist *

Violet Gillett Violet Amy Gillett (1898–1996) was a Canadian artist and educator known for her encouragement of the arts in New Brunswick. Early life and education Gillett was born in Liverpool, England in 1898. Her parents, Walter Gillett and Ada Syson, had ...

(1898–1996), painter *

Joseph Giunta Joseph Giunta (1911–2001) was a Canadian painter whose career spanned over 70 years. He was born in Montreal and began painting at the age of 14. He studied the arts at the Monument National and at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Gi ...

(1911–2001), painter, collage/assemblage artist *

Gerald Gladstone Gerald Gladstone (7 January 1929 – 7 March 2005) was a Canadian sculptor and painter. Life Born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ralph and Dora Gladstone, Gerald was the sixth of nine children. In his youth, Gladstone was ...

(1929–2005), sculptor, painter *

Henry George Glyde Henry George Glyde (June 18, 1906 – March 31, 1998) was a Canadian painter, draftsperson and art educator. Teaching career Born in Luton, England, Glyde attended the Royal College of Art in London, England (1926–1930) was a student instructor ...

(1906–1998), painter, draftsperson, art educator *

Elaine Goble Elaine Goble is a Canadian visual artist who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Biography Early life Elaine Goble was born in 1956 in St. Thomas, Ontario to Mr. and Mrs. Grant Goble of Avon, Canada.Brandon, Laura. “Colville to Goble: Some Thoughts ...

visual artist *

Ted Godwin Edward W. (Ted) Godwin, D.F.A. (August 13, 1933 – January 3, 2013) was the youngest member of the Regina Five, a group of five artists ( Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore and Douglas Morton) all based in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1961 when ...

(1933–2013), painter, member of the

Regina Five Regina Five is the name given to five abstract painters, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Bloore, who displayed their works in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's exhibition "Five Painters from Regina". W ...

* Eric Goldberg (1890–1969), painter *

Dina Goldstein Dina Goldstein (born 1969) is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Goldstein creates tableau with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human cond ...

(born 1969), visual artist *

Noam Gonick Noam Gonick, (born March 20, 1973) is a Canadian filmmaker and artist.Ingrid Randoja"Gonzo Gonick" ''Now'', May 31, 2021. His films include ''Hey, Happy!'', ''Stryker'', ''Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight'' and '' To Russia with Love''. His work ...

(born 1973), filmmaker *

Betty Goodwin Betty Roodish Goodwin, (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist who expressed the complexity of human experience through her work. Early life Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian imm ...

(1923–2008), printmaker, sculptor, painter * Paul Goranson (1911–2002), painter *

Hortense Gordon Hortense Mattice Gordon (24 November 1886 – 6 November 1961), born Hortense Crompton Mattice, was a Canadian artist who worked abstractly in later life and became a member of Painters Eleven. Life and early work Born in Hamilton, Ontario, ...

(1886–1961), painter *

Richard Gorman Richard Gorman (December 20, 1935 – August 6, 2010) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. He was known for his magnetic prints which he created using ink covered ball-bearings manipulated with a magnet held behind the drawing board and for hi ...

(1935–2010), painter, printmaker * K.M. Graham (1913–2008), painter *

Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

(born 1949), photographer, installation artist *

Pierre Granche Pierre Granche (March 14, 1948 – September 30, 1997) was a French-Canadian sculptor. Having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and the Université de Vincennes in Paris, he taught in the art history department of the Université d ...

(1948–1997), sculptor *

John Greer (sculptor) John Greer (born 1944) is a Canadian sculptor who likes to bring cultural and natural history together. One critic calls him one of Canada's most philosophically minded artists. He looks to ancient Celtic stones and Greek sculpture for inspirati ...

(born 1944), sculptor *

Edmund Wyly Grier Sir Edmund Wyly Grier DCL (also known as E. Wyly Grier) (November 26, 1862 – December 7, 1957) was an Australian born Canadian portrait painter. Career Grier first came to Canada with his parents in 1876 and attended Upper Canada College but ...

(1862–1957), painter *

Angela Grossmann Angela Grossmann (born 1955) is a Canadian artist, known for her oil paintings and mixed media collages. Her works range from simplistic drawings to rendering of the human body by layering torn and manipulated photos of body parts. Early life a ...

(born 1955), painter * Aline Gubbay (1920–2005), photographer, art historian * Suzanne Guité (1927–1981), sculptor, painter

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Samra Habib Samra Habib is a Pakistani Canadian photographer, writer and activist. They are most noted for ''Just Me and Allah'', a photography project they launched in 2014 to document the lives of LGBTQ Muslims, and ''We Have Always Been Here'', a memoir ...

, photographer *

Alexandra Haeseker Alexandra Haeseker (born 1945) is a Dutch-born Canadian painter, print maker, and installation artist, based in Calgary, Alberta. She is a professor emerita at Alberta University of the Arts. Her works can be found in public collections in C ...

(born 1945), painter, printmaker, installation artist * Fred Hagan (1918–2003), lithographer, painter, art instructor *

John Hall (Canadian artist) John Hall (born January 17, 1943) is a Canadian modernist painter from Alberta, known for his highly realistic painting style. Life He has taught fine art at Ohio Wesleyan University, the Alberta College of Art and Design, and the University ...

(born 1943), painter *

Paul Hartal Paul Hartal (born 1936) is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, attempting to unite the scientific with the creative, or in ...

(born 1936), painter, poet *

John Hartman John Hartman (March 18, 1950 – September 22, 2022)Bess Larkin Housser Harris Bess Larkin Housser Harris (1890–1969) was a Canadian painter who participated in Group of Seven exhibitions and was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters. Biography Bess Larkin was born in 1890 in Manitoba. She attended Havergal Col ...

, (1890–1969), painter *

Lawren Harris Lawren Stewart Harris LL. D. (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter, best known as a leading member of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art and as a visionary in Canadian landscape art. ...

(1885–1970), painter * Douglas Haynes (1936–2016), painter * J. C. Heywood (born 1941), printmaker *

Fred Herzog Fred Herzog D.F.A. (September 21, 1930 – September 9, 2019) devoted his artistic life to walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica, photographing - mostly with colour slide film - his observations of the st ...

(1930-2019), photographer *

Colleen Heslin Colleen Heslin (born 1976) is a Canadian mixed-media artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Heslin works predominantly with textiles and quilting to create an abstract compositions. Personal life Heslin was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Lo ...

(born 1976), painter *

Carle Hessay Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay (30 November 1911 - 1 January 1978),McMann 2003, p. 101.Hilmo, in Woods 2005, p. v. was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Cana ...

(1911–1978), painter *

Barbara Roe Hicklin Barbara Roe Hicklin (December 8, 1918 – December 24, 2010) was a Canadian painter who, in 1975, became the first woman president of the Alberta Society of Artists. Biography Barbara Roe Hicklin (née Barbara Jane Roe) was born in Toronto, Onta ...

(1918–2010), painter *

Gilah Yelin Hirsch Gilah Yelin Hirsch (born 1944) is a mwod:multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary artist who works as a painter, writer, curator, and filmmaker. Her work explores the connections between science, art, and spirituality. She has been a leader in the Int ...

(born 1944), multi-disciplinary artist * William G. Hobbs (1927–2012), painter, historian *

Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM, O.Ont (7 November 1913 – 23 February 2009) was a Canadian portrait sculptor, medal designer and liturgical artist. Education and training Born in Hamilton, Ontario, on November 7, 1913, Elizabeth Bradford ...

(1913–2009), sculptor *

Edwin Holgate Edwin Headley Holgate (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter, muralist, and wood-cut artist. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he both studied and t ...

(1892–1977), painter * Elsie Holloway (1882–1971), photographer * Robert Holmes (artist) (1861 – May, 1930), naturalist painter *

Thaddeus Holownia Thaddeus Holownia (born July 2, 1949) is a British-born Canadian artist and professor. He taught photography at Mount Allison University and served as the head of the Fine Arts Department, retiring in 2018. Career Born in England, the family o ...

(born 1949), photographer *

Margaret Lindsay Holton Margaret Lindsay Holton is a Canadian artist primarily known for her 'naive-surreal-folk-abstracts' oil and acrylic paintings, pinhole photography, short documentary film productions, poetry and literary novel works. Holton is the winner of the K ...

(born 1955), painter, pinhole photographer, writer * Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins (1894–1991), painter *

Frances Anne Hopkins Frances Anne Hopkins (February 2, 1838 – March 5, 1919) was a British painter. She was the third of Frederick William Beechey's five children. In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to Nor ...

(1838–1919), painter * Robin Hopper (1939–2017), ceramist *

Cleeve Horne Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, , (January 9, 1912 – July 5, 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor. Career Born in Jamaica, British West Indies, Horne came to Canada with his parents in 1913.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volum ...

(1912–1998), painter, sculptor *

Robert Houle Robert Houle (born 1947) is a Saulteaux First Nations Canadian artist, curator, critic,"Robert ...

(born 1947), First Nations artist *

Yvonne McKague Housser Yvonne McKague Housser, (1897–1996) was a Modernist Canadian painter, and a teacher. Early life and education Yvonne McKague was born in Toronto in 1897 to Hugh Henry McKague and Louise Elliott. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) ...

(1897–1996), painter, teacher * Barbara Howard (1926–2002), painter, wood engraver *

Alexander Hryshko Alexander Hryshko (born April 1980 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian historical photographer, noted for changing his style to fit the subject matter. His art exhibit in April 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which featured elderly punk icons ent ...

(born 1980), photographer *

Simone Hudon-Beaulac Simone Marie Yvette Hudon-Beaulac (9 September 1905 – 5 August 1984) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Early life Born Simone Marie Yvette Hudon in Quebec City, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in her native city, graduating in 19 ...

(1905–1984), painter, printmaker * Natalka Husar ((born 1951), painter

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Charlie Inukpuk Charlie Inukpuk (born 1941) is an Inuk carver from Nunavik. Early life and education He was born in 1941, in Kotak, a place north of Inukjuak. His father Johnny Inukpuk was an artist; he was the eldest son. He learned to carve as a teenager, fro ...

(born 1941), sculptor *

Johnny Inukpuk Johnny Inukpuk (Inuktitut ᔭᓇ ᐃᓇ; 1911–2007) was an important Inuit artist, known as a sculptor and storyteller. His son Charlie Inukpuk is also a sculptor. Career Johnny Inukpuk began carving in the early 1950s while living on the lan ...

(1911–2007), sculptor *

Osuitok Ipeelee Osuitok Ipeelee (23 September 1923 Neeouleeutalik camp-2005 Cape DorsetJay Isaac (born 1975), painter *

Gershon Iskowitz Gershon Iskowitz (1919 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland. Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto, who was liberated at Buchenwald. The circumstances of his early life—the ...

(1921–1988), painter

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A. Y. Jackson Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. (October 3, 1882April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing toget ...

(1882–1974), painter * Sybil Henley Jacobson (1881–1953), British-born Canadian painter * Donald Jarvis (1923–2001), painter *

Mendelson Joe Mendelson Joe (born Birrel Josef Mendelson on July 30, 1944) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, painter and outspoken political activist who uses his art to express political themes. Career Born and raised in Maple, Ontario and educat ...

(born 1944), painter, musician *

Frank Johnston (artist) Francis Hans Johnston (also known as Frank H. Johnston and as Franz Johnston) (June 19, 1888July 9, 1949) was a member of the Group of Seven. Life and career Frank Johnston was born on June 19, 1888 in Toronto, the son of Hugh Hans and Mary Eliza ...

(1888–1949), painter, member of the

John Young Johnstone John Young Johnstone (November12, 1887February13, 1930) was a Canadian Impressionist painter, known for his paintings of life in city, town or countryside, as well as for scenes of Montreal's Chinatown. Biography Johnstone is considered to b ...

(1887–1930), Impressionist painter *

G.B. Jones G. B. Jones (born 1965) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines born in Bowmanville, Canada. She is known for producing J.D.s with her acclaimed''Tom Girls'' drawings before going on to create more musically, cinematica ...

, illustrator, visual artist, experimental filmmaker * Anique Jordan, multi-disciplinary artist *

Leonel Jules Leonel Jules is a Contemporary Canadian painter from Montreal, Quebec, originally from Haiti. A graduate of the Université du Québec in Fine Arts, he has done research in history and semiotics of art. After receiving numerous awards and fellow ...

(born 1953), painter *

Brian Jungen Brian Jungen (born April 29, 1970 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is an artist of Dane-zaa and Swiss ancestry living and working in the North Okanagan of British Columbia.Hoffmann, Jens. "Brian Jungen: Prototypes for New Understanding ." ''Flas ...

(born 1970), sculptor, installation artist

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Dusan Kadlec Dušan Kadlec (December 21, 1942 – September 12, 2018) was a Czech-Canadian painter, born in Humpolec, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). He pursued his interest in art from a very early age, ultimately studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in ...

(1942–2018), painter *

Anne Kahane Anne Kahane (born March 1, 1924) is an Austrian-born Canadian artist. Best known for her figures carved in wood, Kahane began her career as a printmaker and commercial artist. In addition to her work as a sculptor using wood, brass, and aluminum, ...

(born 1924), sculptor *

Yousuf Karsh Yousuf Karsh, FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was a Canadian-Armenian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. An Armenian ...

(1908–2002), photographer * Herzl Kashetsky (born 1950), painter *

Ali Kazimi Ali Kazimi D. Litt. (born 1961) is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker, media artist and writer. Early life and education Born and raised in India, Kazimi attended St. Columba's School and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in 198 ...

(born 1961), filmmaker and media artist *

Shelagh Keeley Shelagh Keeley (born 1954) is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist. She is best known for her drawings and immersive installations, but her practice also includes photography, film, collaborative performances, and artist's books. Life Keeley was ...

(born 1956), visual artist *

Augustus Kenderdine Augustus Frederick Lafosse (Gus) Kenderdine (1870–1947) was a landscape and portrait artist of Lancashire and Saskatchewan, a farmer of Saskatchewan, and academic at the University of Saskatchewan. England Kenderdine was born the third of six ...

(1870–1947), landscape and portrait artist *

Garry Neill Kennedy Garry Neill Kennedy, (6 November 1935 – 8 August 2021) was a Canadian conceptual artist and educator from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the mid-1970s, he created works that investigated the processes and materials of painting. In the first decade o ...

(1935–2021), conceptual artist and educator *

Kiakshuk Kiakshuk (1886 – May 3, 1966) was a Canadian Inuit artist who worked both in sculpture and printmaking. Kiakshuk began printmaking in his seventies and, is most commonly praised for creating “real Eskimo pictures” that relate traditional In ...

(1886–1966), sculptor and printmaker * Alicia Killaly (1836–1908), painter * Holly King (artist) (born 1957), photographer * Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (1926–1994), painting, performance, multi-media, photography *

Harold Klunder Harold Klunder (born 1943) is a Canadian painter. Career Born in Deventer, The Netherlands, Klunder immigrated with his family to Canada in 1952. He studied art at the Central Technical School, Toronto. In 1994, he began to teach at Memorial ...

(born 1943), abstract painter *

Dorothy Knowles Dorothy Elsie Knowles, (born April 6, 1927) is a Canadian artist, most notable for her landscape paintings. She is the widow of William Perehudoff, a fellow artist who is closely associated with the Color Field movement. Career Knowles studie ...

, (born 1927), painter * Deborah Koenker, (born 1949), interdisciplinary artist *

John Koerner "Spider" John Koerner (born August 31, 1938, in Rochester, New York, United States) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as a guitarist and vocalist in the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, with Dave Ray and Ton ...

, (1913–2014), painter *

Germaine Koh Germaine Koh (born 1967) is a Malaysian-born and Canadian conceptual artist based in Vancouver. Her works incorporate the artistic styles of neo-conceptual art, minimalism, and environmental art, and is concerned with the significance of everyda ...

(born 1967), conceptual artist * Valérie Kolakis (born 1966), sculpture, installation *

Cornelius Krieghoff Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 5, 1872) was a Dutch-born Canadian-American painter of the 19th century. Krieghoff is most famous for his paintings of Canadian landscapes and Canadian life outdoors, which were as sought ...

(1815–1872), painter *

Nobuo Kubota Nobuo Kubota D.F.A. (born 1932) is a Canadian multimedia artist. Life Kubota grew up with a strong Japanese focus in his home and with an early interest in the writings by Jack Kerouac and D. T. Suzuki. These two factors partially explain his ...

(born 1932), multimedia *

Maya Kulenovic Maya Kulenovic is a Canadian artist and painter. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and exhibits internationally. Biography Kulenovic was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. She studied at Ontari ...

(born 1975), painter *

William Kurelek William Kurelek, (March 3, 1927 – November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer. His work was influenced by his childhood on the prairies, his Ukrainian-Canadian roots, his struggles with mental illness, and his conversion to Roman Catho ...

(1927–1977), painter

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Stephen Lack Stephen Lack (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian artist and former actor and screenwriter best known for his leading role in David Cronenberg's ''Scanners'' and Allan Moyle's ''The Rubber Gun'', for which he was nominated for two Genie Awards. ...

(born 1946), actor, painter * Sylvie Laliberté (born 1959), performance artist, video artist, musician * Michel Lambeth (1923–1977), photographer * Cal Lane (born 1968), sculptor *

Fenwick Lansdowne James Fenwick Lansdowne, (August 8, 1937 – July 27, 2008) was a self-taught Canadian wildlife artist.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker Nationa ...

(1937–2008), wildlife artist * Christine Laptuta (born 1951), photographer *

Jules Lasalle Jules Lasalle (born April 1, 1957, Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec, Canada) is a sculptor living and working in Montreal. He has made many commemorative monuments that can be seen in Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec city, and other places... Works I ...

(born 1957), sculptor *

Ozias Leduc Ozias Leduc (October 8, 1864 - June 16, 1955) is one of Quebec's early painters. He was born in Saint-Hilaire-de-Rouville. Leduc produced many portraits, still lifes and landscapes, as well as religious works. Biography Leduc was mainly self-t ...

(1864–1955), painter * Gary Lee-Nova (born 1943), painter, printmaker, sculptor, filmmaker * Elizabeth Lefort (1914–2005), tapestry artist *

Joseph Légaré Joseph Légaré (March 10, 1795 – June 21, 1855) was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. Early life The eldest son in a family of six children, Joseph Légaré was born in Quebec City, the son of ...

(1795–1855), painter * Enid Legros-Wise (born 1943), ceramist * Jean Paul Lemieux (1904–1990), painter *

Michel Lemieux Michel Lemieux (born February 13, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Canadian multimedia artist from Quebec, whose career has incorporated work in theatrical design, installation art, film, video, dance and music."'Technology is a tool' to ar ...

(born 1959), multimedia artist (film, video, performance) *

Serge Lemoyne Serge Lemoyne (June 13, 1941 – July 12, 1998) was a Canadian artist from Quebec. He worked as a performance artist as well as creating paintings, assemblages and prints. Lemoyne explored themes such as the environment, technology, and socia ...

(1941–1998), painter * Beatrice Lennie (1905–1987), sculptor *

Rita Letendre Rita Letendre, LL. D. (November 1, 1928 – November 20, 2021) was a Canadian painter, muralist, and printmaker associated with Les Automatistes and the Plasticiens. She was an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Governor Gene ...

(1928–2021), abstract painter * Laura L. Letinsky (born 1962), photographer * Mark Lewis (born 1958), installation and film artist *

Maud Lewis Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965 ...

(1903–1970), painter * Robert Henry Lindsay (1868–1938), painter * Robert Linsley (1952–2017), painter and writer *

Oleg Lipchenko Oleg Yurievich Lipchenko ( uk, Олег Юрійович Липченко; born 13 July 1957) is a Canadian artist and illustrator. He is a member of CANSCAIP.Arthur Lismer Arthur Lismer, LL. D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage. Early life ...

(1885–1969), painter *

Glen Loates Martin Glen Loates (born 1945) is a Canadian artist who paints wildlife and landscapes in a naturalistic style. Loates has designed a number of coins for the Royal Canadian Mint. In 1982, the former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau a ...

(born 1945), painter and coin designer *

Judith Lodge Judith Lodge (born July 25, 1941) is an American Canadian painter and photographer who often explores how the two mediums play off of and inform one another. Her abstract portraits of memories, situations, events, and people are inspired by the un ...

(born 1941), painter and photographer *

Karen Lofgren Karen Lofgren (born 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian artist. Lofgren received her MFA at CalArts. Her works include installation, site-specific projects, video, and sound. She has been an artist-in-residence at Pitzer College (2009) and ...

(born 1976), painter *

Victor Albert Long Victor Albert Long (May 24, 1866 – December 18, 1938) was a Canadian artist specializing in portraits of politicians and community leaders. His works hang in universities, in city halls, in provincial legislatures and in Canada's Parliament Bui ...

(1866–1938), portrait painter * Frederick Loveroff (1894–1959), painter *

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. Lozano-Hemmer lives and works in Montreal and Madrid. Biography Rafael Lozan ...

(born 1967), installation artist *

Attila Richard Lukacs Attila Richard Lukács (born 1962) is a Canadian artist. Lukács gained international attention via his ''E-werk'' series—a collection of very large figure paintings that he created in the 1980s and 90s, while living in Berlin. The paintings f ...

(born 1962), painter * James Lumbers (born 1929), painter *

Almuth Lütkenhaus Almuth Lütkenhaus (née Wirsing; 8 March 1930 in Hamm, Westphalia – 1996 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a sculptor, also known as Almuth Lütkenhaus-Lackey. From 1948 until 1952 she studied art at schools in Dortmund and Münster. She married Erich Lüt ...

(1930–1996) *

Laura Muntz Lyall Laura Muntz Lyall (June 18, 1860 – December 9, 1930) was a Canadian Impressionist painter, known for her sympathetic portrayal of women and children. Life and work Laura Adeline Muntz was born at Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Engla ...

(1860–1930), painter

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J.E.H. MacDonald James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873–1932) was an English-Canadian artist, best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common heritage stemming from early modernism in Europe in the ear ...

(1873–1932), painter, member of the

Thoreau MacDonald Thoreau MacDonald (April 21, 1901 at Toronto, Ontario – May 30, 1989 at Toronto) was a Canadian illustrator, graphic and book designer, and artist. Career MacDonald was the son of Group of Seven member J. E. H. MacDonald. He was self-taught, ...

(1901–1989), illustrator, graphic and book designer, artist *

Jock Macdonald James Williamson Galloway Macdonald (31 May 1897 – 3 December 1960), commonly known in his professional life as Jock Macdonald, was a member of Painters Eleven (Painters 11, or P11), whose goal was to promote abstract art in Canada. Macdo ...

(1897–1960), member of Painters Eleven * John MacGregor (artist) (1942-2019), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Landon Mackenzie Landon Mackenzie (born November 29, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is nationally known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (she i ...

(born 1954), painter * Sarah Jean Munro Maclean (1873–1952), painter *

Arnaud Maggs Arnaud Maggs (May 5, 1926 – November 17, 2012) was a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements, which illustrate his interest in systems of identification and c ...

(1926–2012), photographer *

Liz Magor Liz Magor (born 1948) is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver. She is well known for her sculptures that address themes of history, shelter and survival through objects that reference still life, domesticity and wildlife. She often re-purpo ...

(born 1948), visual artist *

Lorraine Malach Josephine Lorraine Malach (March 23, 1933 – March 3, 2003) was a Canadian ceramic artist, ceramic muralist and painter. Personal history She was born at Regina, Saskatchewan in 1933, the only child of Stan and Beth Malach. She was educated at Sa ...

(1933–2003), ceramist *

Rafał Malczewski Rafał Marceli Ludwik Fortunat Józef Malczewski (24 October 1892 - 15 February 1965) was a Polish landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, author and columnist. He was a noted Tatra mountaineer, skier and populariser of the Tatra Mountai ...

(1892–1965), landscape and portrait painter * Jen Mann (born 1987), portrait artist *

Kavavaow Mannomee Kavavaow Mannomee (also known as Qavavau Manumie) (born September 21, 1958) is an Inuit printmaker who lived and worked in Nunavut. Early life He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, when his mother was hospitalized there for tuberculosis. However, th ...

(born 1958), printmaker *

Enook Manomie Enook Manomie (July 24, 1941–December 2, 2006) was an Inuk carver. Early life and education Manomie, who grew up in Kinngait on Baffin Island, started carving while in his teens. His father, Manomie Sako, was a well-known carver, and Manomie ...

(1941–2006), carver *

Charles Marega Charles Carlos Marega (September 24, 1871 – March 27, 1939) was a Canadian sculptor in the early 20th century. He was born in Lucinico, in the commune of Gorizia, then part of the Austrian- Hungarian Empire. He received training in plaster work ...

(1871–1939), sculptor *

Robert Markle Robert Markle (August 25, 1936July 5, 1990) was a Canadian painter of the female nude. Early life and career Markle was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1936. In 1954, he began attending the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, where he met his wife, ...

(1936–1990), draughtsman, painter of the female nude * Arthur N. Martin (1889–1961), painter * Bernice Fenwick Martin (1902–1999), painter, printmaker *

Ron Martin (artist) Ron Martin (born 1943) is a Canadian abstract painter. His way of generating his paintings by conceptually defined strategies differs from modernist abstraction, which seeks to enhance an artist's special aesthetic genius and craft skills. Mart ...

(born 1943), abstract painter *

Thomas Mower Martin Thomas Mower Martin (1838–1934) was an English-born Canadian landscape painter dubbed "the father of Canadian art" Life and work Martin Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw (1958–2006) was a Cree and French Métis theorist, curator and artist. Maskêgon-Iskwêw was a significant figure in the field of contemporary Indigenous arts, and a formative proponent of digital media within Indigeno ...

(1958–2006), media artist *

Hannah Maynard Hannah Hatherly Maynard (Bude, 1834 – Victoria, 1918) was a Canadian photographer best known for her portrait work and experimental photography involving photomontage and multiple exposures. She also photographed people using techniques that ma ...

(1834–1918), photographer * Richard Maynard (1832–1907), photographer *

Doris McCarthy Doris McCarthy, LL. D. (July 7, 1910 – November 25, 2010) was a Canadian artist known for her abstracted landscapes. Life and career Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from 1926 to 1930, where she was award ...

(1910–2010), painter, printmaker *

Ryan McCourt Ryan McCourt (born February 23, 1975) is a Canadian artist best known for his sculptures.Terry Fenton, "Edmonton Sculpture: The Next Generation," Harcourt Expressed, Volume 12, Summer/Fall 2002 He lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Early life and edu ...

(born 1975), sculptor, designer * Gregory A McCullough (born 1960), painter,artist * Clark McDougall (1921-1980), painter *

Jean McEwen Jean Albert McEwen (1923 – 1999) was a Canadian painter known for his lyrical abstraction. Early life McEwen was born in 1923 Montreal to a Scottish father and French-Canadian mother. He began his working life as a pharmacist, having received ...

(1923–1999), abstract painter *

Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles Elizabeth Annie McGillivray Knowles (January 8, 1866October 4, 1928) was a Canadian landscape painter, known for her paintings of domestic animals, especially fowl. Canada Elizabeth Annie Beach was born in Ottawa on January 8, 1866. She was a nie ...

(1866–1928), painter *

Florence Helena McGillivray Florence Helena McGillivray (March1, 1864May 7, 1938), also known as F H. McGillivray, was a Canadian landscape painter known for her Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist style. Her family home was in Whitby, Ontario. She lived in Ottawa from ...

(1864–1938), painter * Elizabeth McIntosh (born 1967), painter *

Rita McKeough Rita McKeough (born 1951) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, musician and educator who frequently works in installation and performance. Training and career McKeough was born in 1951 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. McKeough completed her BFA at th ...

(born 1951), installation and performance artist *

Ruth Gowdy McKinley Ruth Gowdy McKinley (1931 – December 8, 1981) was an American-born Canadian ceramic artist noted for her skill in designing functional ceramic ware. She specialized in making teapots, cups and vases. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, M ...

((1931–1981), ceramic artist *

Isabel McLaughlin Isabel McLaughlin, (10 October 1903 - 26 November 2002) was a Modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist. She specialized in landscapes and still life and had a strong interest in design. Biography Born in Oshawa, Ontario, McLaughl ...

(1903-2002), painter, patron, philanthropist *

Helen McNicoll Helen Galloway McNicoll (December 14, 1879 – June 27, 1915) was a Canadian impressionist painter. She was one of the most notable women artists in Canada in the early twentieth century and achieved considerable success during her decade- ...

(1879–1915), painter *

Ray Mead Ray Mead (1921–1998) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. In his work, he often used a high horizon line as a structural element. Early life and career Born in Watford, Uni ...

(1921–1998), painter, member of

Painters Eleven Painters Eleven (also known as Painters 11 or P11) was a group of abstract artists active in Canada between 1953 and 1960. They are associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. History Since the 1920s, artists in English Canada had been h ...

Ivar Mendez Ivar Mendez is a neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and Professor of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan. He is internationally known for his work in cell transplantation for Parkinson's disease and the use of remote presence robotics in neurosur ...

, photographer and sculptor *

John Meredith (artist) John Meredith Smith (July 24, 1933 – May 9, 2000), known professionally as John Meredith, was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter. His trademark as a painter was rich, exciting colour which he combined with loosely figurative images of ...

(1933–2000), abstract painter *

Gwendolyn Mews Gwendolyn Dufill Mews (1893 – 1973) was a Canadian-born artist who later settled in the United States. Life The daughter of Arthur Mews (or Meux), deputy colonial secretary, and Mabel Woods, she was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. She st ...

(1893–1973), painter *

Arnold Mikelson Arnold Mikelson (1922-1984) was a Latvian artist who specialized in wood carvings. Starting in 1947, he was chief designer for Royal Crown Derby Porcelain of England, before working as an architectural draftsman for a number of years. In the late ...

(1922–1984), wood sculpto * Laura Millard (born 1961), mixed media artist, educator *

Kenneth G. Mills Kenneth George Mills (January 25, 1923 – October 8, 2004) was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became not ...

(1923–2004), painter * David Milne (1882–1953), painter * Janet Mitchell (1912–1998), painter * Ellen Moffat (born 1954), mixed media artist * Esmaa Mohamoud (born 1992), sculptor, installation artist *

Leo Mol Leonid Molodozhanyn, known as Leo Mol, (January 15, 1915 – July 4, 2009) was a Ukrainian Canadian stained glass artist, painter and sculptor. History Born Leonid Molodozhanyn in Polonne, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Mol learned the art o ...

(1915–2009), stained glass artist, painter, sculptor *

Guido Molinari Guido Molinari (October 12, 1933 – February 21, 2004) was a Canadian artist, known internationally for his serial abstract paintings. Biography Molinari was born in Montreal, Quebec to Italian heritage with his parents from Cune (Borgo a ...

(1933–2004), painter * E. Louise De Montigny-Giguère (1878–1969), sculptor *

Edmund Montague Morris Edmund Montague Morris, known as Edmund Morris (1871-1913), was a Canadian painter and pastelist who recorded the First Nations in paint and photographs and collected their artifacts (today in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto ...

(1871–1913), painter * Ron Moppett (born 1945), painter *

Kathleen Morris Kathleen "Kay" Moir Morris (December 2, 1893 – December 20, 1986) was a Canadians, Canadian painter and member of the Beaver Hall Group. Biography The fourth child and only daughter of Montague John Morris and Eliza Howard Bell, she was bor ...

(1893-1986), painter *

Michael Morris (artist) Michael Morris D.F.A. (16 May 1942 - 18 November 2022) was a British-born Canadian visual artist, archivist, educator, and curator. Morris has also completed successful works in film, photography, video, installation, correspondence art, and ...

(born 1942), visual artist, educator, curator *

Norval Morrisseau Norval Morrisseau (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation. Known as the "Picasso of the North", Morrisseau created works depi ...

(1932–2007), painter *

Rita Mount Rita Mount (7 February 1885 Montreal – 22 January 1967 in Montreal) was a Canadian painter. Biography Rita Mount was born in Montreal in 1885. Her cousin was son of Mélaine Delfausse and Josephine Mount, 16 years older than her. He sta ...

(1885–1967), painter *

Jean-Paul Mousseau Jean-Paul Mousseau (January 1, 1927 – February 7, 1991) was a Quebec artist. He was a student of Paul-Émile Borduas, a member of the Automatist group and a founding member of the Association of Non-Figurative Artists of Montreal. Career Jea ...

(1927–1991), painter, ceramist, muralist *

Kellypalik Mungitok Kellypalik Mungitok (also known as Mungitok Kellypalik, Mungituk, Mangitak, Mangitak Qillipalik, or Mungitok Killipalik) (1940–?) was an Inuit printmaker from Kinngait, Cape Dorset. Early life As a child, Mungitok learned to hunt from his fath ...

(1940–?), printmaker *

Kathleen Munn Kathleen Jean Munn (1887– October 19, 1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of Modern art, modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radica ...

(1887–1974), painter *

Will Munro William Grant Munro (February 11, 1975 – May 21, 2010) was a Toronto artist, club promoter, and restaurateur known for his work as a community builder among disparate Toronto groups.Whyte, Murray (August 5, 2010).Will Munro: Force of culture: ...

(1975–2010), artist * Paula Murray (born 1958), ceramist * Robert Murray (born 1936), sculptor

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* Mina Napartuk (1913–2001), textile artist *

Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton (1890–1967) was a Canadian painter known for her watercolours and woodblock prints. Biography Newton was born in Leith, Scotland in 1890. From 1900 to 1905 she studied at Trinity Academy, Edinburgh, Trinity Aca ...

(1890–1967), painter *

Lilias Torrance Newton Lilias Torrance Newton LL. D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painterJack Nichols (1921–2009), painter * Grace Nickel (born 1956), ceramist * Adamie Niviaxie (1925–?), sculptor * Louise Noguchi (born 1958), multidisciplinary visual artist * Arnold Nogy, painter * Alice Nolin (1896–1967), sculptor *

Naveed Nour Navid or Naveed may refer to: *Navid (satellite), an experimental Iranian earth observation satellite *Naveed (album), ''Naveed'' (album), a 1994 album by Our Lady Peace *Naveed (song), "Naveed" (song), a 1995 single by Our Lady Peace People wi ...

(born 1963), Iranian-Canadian/American photographer *

Elizabeth Styring Nutt Elizabeth Styring Nutt (1870 – 1946), was an artist and educator, known for her leadership of the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax. Biography Elizabeth Styring Nutt was born on the Isle of Man in 1870. Following the death of her fathe ...

(1870–1946), painter

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* John O'Brien (1831–1891), marine painter *

Lucius Richard O'Brien Lucius Richard O'Brien (or L. R. O'Brien as he was known) (15 August 1832 – 13 December 1899) was an influential 19th-century Canadian oil and watercolour landscape artist. Life and career Lucius O'Brien was born in Shanty Bay, Upper ...

(1832–1899), painter, illustrator, first President of the

Royal Canadian Academy The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880. History 1880 to 1890 The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The Governor General ...

* Will Ogilvie (1901–1989), painter, war artist *

Katie Ohe Katie Ohe, (born Katherine Dorothea Minna von der Ohe 1937, near Peers, Alberta) is a Canadian sculptor living in Calgary, Alberta. Ohe is known as one of the first artists to make abstract sculpture in Alberta, and has been influential as a t ...

(born 1937), sculptor *

Bobbie Oliver Roberta Anne Oliver (born June 17, 1943) is a Canadian-American abstract art, abstract painter. Biography After moving to New York from London in 1971, she worked for Isamu Noguchi and La Monte Young. In the 1980s she taught painting at Prince ...

(born 1943), abstract painter *

Kim Ondaatje Kim Ondaatje (born Betty Jane Kimbark; born October 2, 1928) is a Canadian Painting, painter, photographer, and documentary film, documentary Filmmaking, filmmaker. Biography Early life and training Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ondaatje studie ...

(born 1928), painter, filmmaker * Sheokjuk Oqutaq (1920–1982), sculptor * Nina May Owens (1869–1959), painter

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Charles Pachter Charles Pachter, D.F.A. LL. D. (born December 30, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian contemporary artist. He is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne, art history at ...

(born 1942), artist, filmmaker, social commentator * George Paginton (born 1901–1988), painter *

Aaron Paquette Aaron Paquette is a Canadian writer, artist, speaker"Artist Paquette pens his first novel; Fantasy tale not simply about 'being native'" '' Edmonton Journal'', June 27, 2014. and politician who currently serves on the Edmonton City Council, repre ...

(born 1974), painter and writer *

Josie Pamiutu Papialuk Josie Pamiutu Papialuk (surname variously spelled as Papialook and Paperk) (1918–1996) was an Inuit artist who lived in Puvirnituq, Quebec. Early life He was born in the Issuksiuvit Lake area of Quebec. Career He worked in printmaking (in ...

(1918–1996), printmaker and sculptor *

Mimi Parent Mimi Parent (born Marie Parent; September 8, 1924June 14, 2005) was a Canadian surrealist artist. For many years she lived and worked in Paris, France. Her art is known for its symbolism, and the metaphorical use of existing objects, including hu ...

(1924–2005), painter * Andrew James Paterson (born 1962), interdisciplinary artist *

Paul Peel Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime. Career and life ...

(1860–1892), painter *

Sophie Pemberton Sophia Theresa "Sophie" Pemberton or Sophie Pemberton Deane-Drummond (13 February 1869 - 31 October 1959) was a Canadian painter considered to be British Columbia's first professional woman artist. Despite the social limitations placed on female a ...

(1869-1959), painter considered to be British Columbia's first professional woman artist * Freda Pemberton-Smith (1902–1991), painter *

William Perehudoff William Perehudoff (April 21, 1918 – February 26, 2013) was a Canadian artist closely associated with colour field painting. He was married to the landscape painter Dorothy Knowles. Life and career Perehudoff was born in St. Paul's Hospita ...

(1918–2013), painter *

Mark Prent Mark Prent (born Poland, 1947, died USA, 2020) was a Canadian sculptor and performance artist that lived in the United States and was best known for the graphic realism of his figurative sculpture. Prent's sculptures have been described as dis ...

(1947-2020), sculptor, performance artist * Rajni Perera (born 1985), painter, sculptor * Sheouak Petaulassie (1918 or 1923–1961), printmaker *

Ed Pien Ed Pien (born February 23, 1958) is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for his drawings and large-scale drawing-based installations inspired by multiple sources (Inuit as well as European and Chinese) and traditions, printmaking, paper cuts a ...

(born 1958), known for drawings, large-scale drawing-based installations *

Marjorie Pigott Marjorie Pigott (January 6, 1904, in Yokohama, Japan – January 12, 1990, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Japanese Canadian artist, who adapted Japanese watercolour techniques to paint Canadian scenes. Marjorie Pigott was born to an English ...

(1904–1990), painter *

Robert Pilot Robert Wakeham Pilot (October 9, 1898 – December 17, 1967) was a Canadian artist, who worked mainly in oil on canvas or on panel, and as an etcher and muralist. He is considered to be the last artist in Canada to paint Impressionistically wit ...

(1898–1967), painter * Leopold Plotek (born 1948), painter * Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931–2000), printmaker and sculptor *

Kananginak Pootoogook Kananginak Pootoogook (1 January 1935 – 23 November 2010) was an Inuk sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Biography Pootoogook was bo ...

(1935–2010), sculptor and printmaker *

Narcisse Poirier Narcisse Poirier (March 19, 1883 – April 3, 1984) was a Quebec artist. Poirier was born in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec and moved to Montreal, where he studied at the Monument-National. He continued his studies in art at the Académie Julia ...

(1883–1984), painter *

Edward Poitras Edward Poitras (born in 1953) is a Métis artist based in Saskatchewan. His work, mixed-media sculptures and installations, explores the themes of history, treaties, colonialism, and life both in urban spaces and nature.Christopher Pratt John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.Mary Pratt (1935–2018), painter *

Ned Pratt Ned Pratt (born 1964) is a Canadian photographer based in St. John's, Newfoundland. Pratt grew up in the community of St. Catherine's in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland. In 1986 he graduated with a BA in Art History from Acadia University then move ...

(born 1964), photographer

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Lucy Qinnuayuak Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915–1982) was an Inuit graphic artist and printmaker. Biography Qinnuayuak was born in or near Salluit, Quebec in 1915. At an early age her family moved to Baffin Island, where they settled in Cape Dorset. She was married to ...

(1915–1982), graphic artist and printmaker

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* George Raab (born 1948), printmaker * Nina Raginsky (born 1941), photographer *

William Raphael William Raphael (August 22, 1833 – March 15, 1914), born Israel Rafalsky (), was a Prussian-born Canadian painter, best known for his lively genre scenes of the Montreal harbour and market life. He was the first Jewish professional artist to ...

(1833–1914), painter *

Gordon Rayner Gordon Rayner (June 14, 1935 – September 26, 2010) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter. His way of creating art was idiosyncratic and characterized by constant innovation and often by transformation of his medium. Later, he integrated ...

(1935–2010), abstract expressionist painter * Walter Redinger (1940–2014,) sculptor * Gladys Reeves (1890–1974), photographer * Don Reichert (1932–2013), painter, multimedia artist *

Bill Reid William Ronald Reid Jr. (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) ( Haida) was a Canadian artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid is ...

(1920–1998), sculptor *

George Agnew Reid George Agnew Reid (also known as G. A. Reid) (July 25, 1860 – August 23, 1947) was a Canadian artist, painter, influential educator and administrator. He is best known as a genre painter, but his work encompassed the mural, and genre, f ...

(1860–1947), painter, influential educator, administrator *

Leslie Reid (artist) Leslie Reid (born 1947) is a Canadian painter and printmaker from Ottawa, Ontario, known for adding a visual and sensory experience of light to the landscape tradition of painting in Canada. She is also an educator. Early years Born in Ottawa, R ...

(born 1947), painter, printmaker *

Mary Hiester Reid Mary Augusta Hiester Reid (10 April 1854 – 4 October 1921) was an American-born Canadian painter and teacher. She was best known as a painter of floral still lifes, some of them called "devastatingly expressive" by a contemporary author, and by ...

(1854–1921), painter * Reinhard Reitzenstein (born 1949), environmental sculptor *

Kelly Richardson Kelly Richardson (born 1972) is a Canadian artist working with digital technologies to create hyper-real landscapes. Early life and education Richardson was born August 2, 1972, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. From 1994 to 1997, she studied at t ...

(born 1972), video artist, photographer *

Jean-Paul Riopelle Jean-Paul Riopelle, (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the ''Refus Global'', the 1948 manif ...

(1923–2002), painter *

Jim Robb James I. Robb (born 1933) is a Canadian artist known for his paintings celebrating the life, culture and history of the Yukon. Early life Robb was born in 1933 in Quebec City, Quebec, and moved to Montreal with his family when he was six yea ...

(born 1933), Yukon watercolour painter *

Goodridge Roberts William Goodridge Roberts (1904–1974) was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings, still lifes, figure paintings and interiors. He was also a teacher. Career Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist George Edward Theod ...

(1904–1974), painter *

Albert H. Robinson Albert Henry Robinson , also known as Albert H. Robinson and as A. H. Robinson (January 2, 1881 – September 7, 1956) was a Canadian landscape painter, an invited contributor to the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920, as well as a founding ...

(1881-1956), landscape painter *

Mélanie Rocan Mélanie Rocan (born 1980) is a Canadian artist from La Broquerie, Manitoba. She works mostly in various paint mediums. She also has been known to work in multimedia, especially when working collaboratively. Education Rocan began her undergradu ...

(born 1980), painter *

Brent Roe Brent Roe (born 1956) is an artist who uses words and sentence fragments in his paintings to challenge aesthetic and philosophical ideas. Career Brent Roe was born in Oshawa, Ontario. He graduated from York University in Toronto with his Master ...

(born 1956), painter *

David Rokeby David Rokeby (born in 1960 in Tillsonburg, Ontario) is an artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982. He lives with his wife, acclaimed pianist Eve Egoyan, and daughter, Viva Egoyan-Rokeby, in Toronto, C ...

(born 1960), new media artist *

William Ronald William Ronald Smith (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998), known professionally as William Ronald, was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art group Painters Eleven in 1953 and for h ...

(1926–1998), painter *

Ethel Rosenfield Ethel Rosenfield (1910 – 2000) was a Polish-born Canadian sculptor who lived in Montreal, Quebec. After enrolling in art classes in her mid-forties, she began working primarily in limestone and marble, exploring "organic forms, abstract or ...

(1910–2000), sculptor *

Evelyn Roth Evelyn Roth (born December 27, 1936) is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked in the areas of textiles, sculpture, performance, dance and interactive fabric arts. She specializes in environmentally sensitive events, festivals, school program ...

(born 1936), interdisciplinary artist *

Endel Ruberg Endel Ruberg (21 May 1917 – 29 December 1989) was an Estonian-Canadian artist, naturalist, and humanitarian. He is best known for his leather and watercolour artwork as well as his volunteer work with children. Biography Endel Ruberg was bor ...

(1917–1989), artist, educator *

Jeffrey Rubinoff Jeffrey Rubinoff (October 23, 1945January 24, 2017) was a Canadian sculptor and founder of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island where he lived and worked since 1973. He produced over 100 sculptures in the last four decades. Biogr ...

(1945–2017), sculptor, founder of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island * John Wentworth Russell (1879–1959), painter *

Erica Rutherford Erica Rutherford (1 February 1923 in Edinburgh – 11 April 2008 in Charlottetown) was a British-Canadian artist, filmmaker and writer. She received the Father Adrien Arsenault Senior Arts Award (2001) and was elected to the Royal Canadian Acade ...

(1923–2008), painter, filmmaker, writer

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* Benita Sanders (born 1935), printmaker, painter, pastelist *

Henry Saxe Henry Saxe (born September 24, 1937) is a Canadian artist who creates sculpture, painting and drawing. Career Born in Montreal, Quebec, Saxe attended Sir George Williams University (1955-1956) and the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (1956-1 ...

(born 1937), sculptor, painter, draughtsman * Carl Schaefer (1903–1995), painter, war artist *

Tony Scherman Antony Scherman (August 13, 1950 – February 28, 2023) was a Canadian painter. He was known for his use of encaustic and portraiture to depict events of historical, cultural and popular significance. Early life, education and career Scherma ...

(born 1950), painter *

Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber (21 May 1834 – 3 July 1922) was an English-Canadian painter and illustrator, among the first of Canada's notable female painters.

(1834–1922), painter *

Jacques Schyrgens Jacques Schyrgens (born 8 January 1923) is a Belgian-Canadian painter (watercolors) and illustrator. Schyrgens was born in Elsene, Belgium, on 8 January 1923. His father was Antoine Schyrgens (1890–1981), architect, draftsman, painter, teacher ...

(born 1923), painter, illustrator *

John Scott (Canadian artist) John Scott (May 11, 1950 – February 17, 2022) was a Canadian multimedia painter, sculptor, and installation artist. Early life Born in 1950 in Windsor, Ontario, Scott began working in a factory on assembly lines at 15 to support his family ...

(1950-2022), painter * Regina Seiden (1897–1991), painter *

Aqjangajuk Shaa Aqjangajuk Shaa (17 March 1937 – 2019) was an Inuit artist.Jean Blodgett (August 20, 2019)Aqjangajuk Shaa ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. He was born at Shartoweetuk camp near Cape Dorset, Nunavut. He is known for his stone carvings, includin ...

(1937–2019), stone carver *

Jack Shadbolt Jack Leonard Shadbolt, (February 4, 1909 November 22, 1998) was a Canadian painter. Early life Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in April 1911. He was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. He studied at t ...

(1909–1998), painter *

Steven Shearer Steven Shearer (born 1968) is a contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, part of the photoconceptualism scene of the Vancouver School. Work Shearer attended Emily Carr University in Vancouver, and then painted work which combined ...

(born 1968), painter, draughtsman * Peter Clapham Sheppard (1879–1964), painter *

Henrietta Shore Henrietta Mary Shore (January 22, 1880 – May 17, 1963) was a Canadian-born artist who was a pioneer of modernism. She lived a large part of her life in the United States, most notably California. Early life Shore was born in Toronto, Canada, to ...

(1880–1963), painter *

Coral Short Coral Short (born 1973) is a queer Canadian multimedia artist and curator. Based in Berlin and Montreal, they are best known for their performance art, as a curator of short film programs, and as a creator of affordable queer artist residencies. ...

(born 1973), performance artist * Edward Scrope Shrapnel (1845-1920), painter * Ron Shuebrook (born 1943), abstract painter, administrator *

Joe Shuster Joseph Shuster (; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), professionally known simply as Joe Shuster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 (c ...

(1914–1992), cartoonist, co-creator of ''

Superman Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publi ...

'' *

Dave Sim Dave Sim (born 17 May 1956) is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher, best known for his comic book ''Cerebus'', his artistic experimentation, his advocacy of self-publishing and creators' rights, and his controversial political and philosophical b ...

(born 1956), comic book artist *

Ellen Rosalie Simon Ellen Rosalie Simon (April 15, 1916November 19, 2011) was a Canadian stained-glass artist, illustrator and printmaker. Biography Ellen Simon was born in Toronto and studied art at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto with Yvonne McKague Houss ...

(1916–2011), stained-glass artist, illustrator, printmaker *

James Simpkins James Nathaniel Simpkins (November 26, 1910 – February 1, 2004) was a Winnipeg-born cartoonist and artist. He was one of the original artists at the National Film Board of Canada where he worked for many years before launching a successful fr ...

(1910–2004), cartoonist, illustrator, film strips *

Dionne Simpson Dionne Simpson (born 1972) is a Jamaican Canadian textile artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Simposon was born in Jamaica in 1972. She emigrated to Canada with her family as an infant. Simpson studied at the Cooper Union ...

(born 1972), textile artist *

Charlie Sivuarapik Charlie Sivuarapik (Sheeguapik) (1911 – 26 September 1968) was an Inuk sculptor, illustrator and storyteller from Povungnituk in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada who settled in the then newly established village of Puvirnituq in the 1950s where he remained ...

(1911–1968), sculptor, illustrator, and storyteller *

Paul Sloggett Paul Sloggett (born 1950) is an abstract painter known for his use of geometric shapes and patterns in creating paintings and for his many teaching and administrative appointments at OCAD University, Toronto. Biography Sloggett was born in C ...

(born 1950), abstract painter * Damien Smith (born 1969), visual artist * Gord Smith (born 1937), sculptor *

Gordon A. Smith Gordon Appelbe Smith (June 18, 1919 – January 18, 2020) was an English-born Canadian artist, known for expanding the dialogue between abstraction and representation, working with mediums such as painting, printmaking, and sculpting. Smith taug ...

(1919–2020), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Jean Smith Jean Isabel Smith (born 1959) is a Canadian writer, painter and the lead singer of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal. Career Music Smith co-founded Mecca Normal with bandmate David Lester in 1981, while the two were working together at a Vancouv ...

(born 1959), musician, painter, author *

Michael Snow Michael Snow (born December 10, 1928) is a Canadian artist working in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are ''Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Région Centrale'' (1971), with the f ...

(born 1929), painter, filmmaker, musician * Nicolas Sollogoub (1925–2014), sculptor, glassmaker *

Daniel Solomon Daniel Solomon (born 1945) is an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush and is a painter and professor in Drawing and Painting at OCAD Univers ...

(born 1945), abstract painter *

David G. Sorensen David Sorensen (May 20, 1937 – February 17, 2011) was a Canadian artist. Career Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sorensen studied at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson (archite ...

(1937–2011), painter, sculptor * David Spriggs (born 1978), sculptor, installation artist *

Gerald Squires Gerald Leopold "Gerry" Squires, (November 17, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was an artist from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Perhaps best known for painting dramatic landscapes in acrylic and oil, Squires also produced major work in sculpture, l ...

(1937–2015), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Helen Stadelbauer Helen Stadelbauer (December 20, 1910 – April 6, 2006) was a Canadian painter and educator known for her establishment of the Art Department at the University of Calgary. Biography Helen Barbara Stadelbauer was born in Calgary, Alberta, on D ...

(1910–2006), painter * Arlene Stamp (born 1938), two-dimensional artist and designer * Owen Staples (1866–1949), painter, etcher, political cartoonist *

Barbara Steinman Barbara Steinman D.F.A. (born February 3, 1950) is a Canadian artist known for her work in video and installation art. Biography Steinman was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1950. She began her career as a pioneering videotape artist in Vancouver i ...

(born 1950), video and installation artist *

Godfrey Stephens Godfrey Rupert Cripps Stephens (born 28 October 1939) is a Canadian artist, best known for his protest sculpture ''Weeping Cedar Woman'' and large abstract wooden columns. His painting and sculpting style combines West Coast iconography from Fir ...

(born 1939), painter, sculptor, boat builder *

Ginny Stikeman Virginia "Ginny" Stikeman is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer and editor known for her documentary work. Stikeman had a 30-year career at the National Film Board of Canada, and led its women's unit, Studio D, from 1990 until its closure in ...

(born 1941), filmmaker *

Reva Stone Reva Stone (born 1944) is a Canadian artist known for her digital artworks. Stone's work explores how technology changes the relationship between humans and our surroundings, and how those relationships have the potential to shape our future. She ...

(born 1944), digital artist * Ron Stonier (1933-2001), abstract painter * Rudolf Stussi (born 1947), painter * Jack Sures (1934–2018), ceramist * Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1869–1937), painter, sculptor * Gabor Szilasi (born 1928), photographer

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* Otis Tamasauskas (born 1947), printmaker, painter *

Takao Tanabe Takao Tanabe, (born 16 September 1926) is a Canadian artist who painted abstractly for decades, but over time, his paintings became nature-based. Biography Born Takao Izumi in Seal Cove, today part of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, the son o ...

(born 1926), painter * Ewa Tarsia, painter, printmaker *

Jamasie Teevee Jamasie Teevee (July 2, 1910 – October 31, 1985) was an Inuit artist. Early life He was born in the Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) area of Nunavut. Career He began to draw in the early 1960s, first focusing on engraving copper plates. However, th ...

(1910–1985), printmaker * Ningeokuluk Teevee (born 1963), illustrator *

Nalenik Temela Nalenik Temela (1939–May 7, 2003) was an Inuit sculptor from Kimmirut. Career Temela carved using soapstone and serpentine. His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Penn Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the ...

(1939–2003), sculptor *

Mashel Teitelbaum Mashel Teitelbaum (1921–1985) (variant name Mashel Alexander Teitelbaum) was a Canadian painter, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1921. He was the father of museum director Matthew Teitelbaum. Career At first, self-taught but studied from 1 ...

(1921–1985), painter *

Louis Temporale Louis Temporale, (October27, 1909 May22, 1994) was an Italian–born Canadian sculptor. Career Louis Temporale was born in Maiano (now Fiesole), Fruili province, Italy.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and vo ...

(1909–1994), sculptor *

David Thauberger David Thauberger, (born 1948) is a Canadian painter known for work that is influenced by popular culture, postcard imagery, folk art, and utopian urban planning concepts. Career Born in Holdfast, Saskatchewan, Thauberger received a Bachelor of ...

(born 1948), painter *

Genevieve Thauvette Genevieve Thauvette is a Toronto-based Ottawa-born multi-disciplinary artist. Her notable works include "Breaking News" (2017), "Cake is Freedom" (2012), "The Dionne Quintuplets" (2009) and "Beheld: Iconic Self-Portraits."(2008) Thauvette is the ...

(born 1985), photographer *

George Campbell Tinning George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, known as Campbell Tinning, (February 25, 1910 – February 28, 1996) was a Canadian painter, graphic designer, muralist, and illustrator. He was an Official Canadian War Artist in World War II; the only one born in ...

(1910–1996), painter, graphic designer, muralist, illustrator * Jeff Thomas (born 1956), photo-based storyteller *

Denyse Thomasos Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 – July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. "''Hybrid Nations''" (2005) ...

(1964-2012), painter *

Tom Thomson Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career, he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and approximately 50 larger works on canvas. His w ...

(1877–1917), painter *

Gentile Tondino Gentile (Gerry) Tondino (September 3, 1923 – August 29, 2001) was a Canadian educator and artist, who lived in Montreal, Quebec. He painted in oil figures, semi-abstracts and still-life.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. ...

(1923–2001), painter *

Serge Tousignant Serge Tousignant (born May 28, 1942) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and a photographer. Career After receiving his graphic arts diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1962, Tousignant began to study lithography and etchi ...

(born 1942), multidisciplinary artist, photographer * Jackie Traverse (born 1969), painter * Julie Tremble, animator, experimental videographer * Angus Trudeau (1905–1984), painter, builder of ship models *

Akesuk Tudlik Akesuk Tudlik, commonly known simply as Tudlik (1890–1966), was an Inuit printmaker and carver from Cape Dorset, Canada. He is best known for his stylized carvings of animals, particularly birds with round eyes. Early life He was born in 1890 ...

(1890–1966), printmaker and carver

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* Ina D.D. Uhthoff (1889–1971), painter

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Armand Vaillancourt Armand J. R. Vaillancourt (born September 3, 1929) is a Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist from Quebec. He is known for his public art fountain entitled Vaillancourt Fountain located in San Francisco. He lives in Montreal. Biogra ...

(born 1929), performance art, sculptor, painter *

John Vanderpant John Vanderpant (January 11, 1884 – July 24, 1939) was a Dutch-Canadian photographer, gallery owner and author. He made his living doing portrait work while becoming known as a major member of the International Modernist photography movement i ...

(1884–1939), photographer, gallery owner, author *

Frederick Varley Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881 – September 8, 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven. Career Early life Varley was born in Sheffield, England, in 1881, the son of Lucy (Barstow) and Samuel James Smith Varley the 7th. He ...

(1881–1969), painter *

Bill Vazan Bill Vazan (born 1933) is a Canadian artist, known for land art, sculpture, painting and photography. His work has been exhibited in North America and internationally. Career Born in Toronto, Ontario, Vazan studied Fine Arts at the Ontario Colle ...

(born 1933), land art, sculptor, photographer, painter *

Claude Vermette Claude Vermette (August 10, 1930 – April 21, 2006) was a Canadian ceramist and painter. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and died in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. He was an artist with an international reputation, and he made important contribution ...

(1930–2006), painter, ceramist *

Frederick Arthur Verner Frederick Arthur Verner (February 26, 1836 – May 16, 1928) was a Canadian painter, well-known for his paintings of the First Nations in the Canadian west and for his paintings of buffalo. His pictures of the buffalo were thought to be � ...

(1836–1928), painter *

Arthur Villeneuve Arthur Villeneuve, (January 4, 1910, Chicoutimi, Quebec - May 24, 1990, Montreal, Quebec) was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada. Life before painting Villeneuve was raised in a working-class family in Chicoutimi. His fath ...

(1910–1990), painter *

Ola Volo Ola Volo is a Kazakh Canadian artist, best known as a public muralist. Her style blends aspects of Eastern European folk art with a focus on pattern and narrative to depict fantasy scenes. Born in Kazakhstan, she moved to Canada with her family at ...

, muralist * Julie Voyce (born 1957), multi-media artist, printmaker

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* Marion Wagschal (born 1943), painter * Ruth Salter Wainwright (1902–1984), painter *

Horatio Walker Horatio Walker LL.D. (May 12, 1858 – September 27, 1938) was a Canadian painter. He worked in oils and watercolours, often depicting scenes of rural life in Canada. He was influenced by the Barbizon school. Life and work Early life ...

(1858–1938), painter *

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Van ...

(born 1946), photographer *

Esther Warkov (artist) Esther Warkov (born October 12, 1941) is a Canadian artist. Warkov is known for her large, segmented surrealist paintings and detailed drawings that invoke a fantasy world in their imagery.Anne Newlands, "Esther Warkov". A Dictionary of Canadia ...

(born 1941), painter, draughtsman * Lowrie Warrener (1900–1983), painter *

Margaret Watkins Margaret Watkins (1884–1969) was a Canadian photographer who is remembered for her innovative contributions to advertising photography.

(1884–1969), photographer *

Homer Watson Homer Ransford Watson (January 14, 1855 – May 30, 1936) was a Canadian landscape painter. He has been characterized as the painter who first painted Canada as Canada, rather than as a pastiche of European painting. He was a member and pres ...

(1855–1936), painter *

Gordon Webber (artist) Gordon Webber (March 12, 1909 – November 17, 1965) was a multimedia pioneer of modernism in Canada. He was also an educator. Career Gordon Webber was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the eldest of five children. He was introduced to fine ar ...

(1909–1965), multi-media pioneer of modernism, teacher *

Esther Wertheimer Esther Wertheimer (née Estera Sheps) (1926 – August 18, 2016) was a Canadian sculptor and educator. She is known for her semi-abstract figurative bronze sculptures and portrait busts in terra cotta. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Werthei ...

(1926–2016), sculptor, educator *

W. P. Weston W. P. Weston (November30, 1879 December12, 1967), also known as William Percival (Percy) Weston, was a painter and printmaker, best known for his landscapes of British Columbia, and as a teacher. Career Weston was born in Battersea, London, Eng ...

(1879–1967), painter, teacher *

Phil R. White Phil R. White (born 1963) is a Canadian artist and sculptor. He is the Dominion Sculptor of Canada, a position whose duties include the creation of original works of art in sculpture. His works are primarily in figurative art. He is an architect ...

(born 1963), sculptor * Tim Whiten (born 1941), sculptor, performance and installation artist *

Peter and Catharine Whyte Peter and Catharine Whyte were twentieth-century Canadian artists from Banff, Alberta known for their landscape paintings of the Canadian Rockies. Their paintings and extensive collection of regional artifacts formed the genesis of what would la ...

(1905–1966, 1906–1979), painters *

Joyce Wieland Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1930 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and e ...

(1930–1998), painter *

Robert Wiens Robert Wiens (born 1953 in Leamington, Ontario) is a Canadian visual artist. Biography Robert Wiens was born in Leamington, Ontario in 1953, and currently lives in Picton, Ontario. He attended the New School of Art from 1973 to 1974, and had ...

(born 1953), painter, sculptor *

Peter Wilkins Peter Wilkins (born July 26, 1968) is a British people, British multimedia artist living in Newfoundland, Canada. He is best known for his kinetic portraits, in particular, ''12 Kinetic Portraits of Canadian Writers''. These works have been exh ...

(born 1968), multimedia artist *

Yvonne Williams Yvonne Williams (1901–1997) was a stained glass artist, known for her design and creation of stained glass windows in Canada, including the windows in St. John's Shaughnessy in Vancouver, Chalmers United Church in Guelph, Ontario and St. Mi ...

(1901–1997), stained glass artist *

Curtis Williamson Curtis Williamson (January2, 1867 April18, 1944) known for his portraits and figure painting; also genre and landscape. He was nicknamed "the Canadian Rembrandt" because of his dark, tonal style. Williamson showed his work at the Canadian Art Cl ...

(1867–1944), painter *

Jeff Willmore Jeffrey John Willmore (born December 23, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario, whose work combines painting, performance and storytelling. His paintings are held in the collections of The University of Western Ontario, Museum L ...

(born 1954), painter, performance artist *

Robert Willms Robert Byron Willms (born 1969) is a Canadian sculptor and teacher, best known for creating assembled, abstract steel sculptures. Biography Willms was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia in 1969 and resides in Edmonton, Alberta.He has live ...

(born 1969) * Joan Willsher-Martel (1925–2017), painter *

York Wilson York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

(1907–1984), painter, muralist * Rita Winkler (born 1987), artist *

Susan Wood Susan Wood may refer to: * Susan Wood (visual artist) (1953–2018), Canadian artist * Susan Wood (literary scholar) (1948–1980), Canadian professor, critic, and science fiction fan * Susan Wood (poet) (born 1946), professor at Rice University * ...

(1954–2018), artist * Anna Wong (1930–2013), printmaker *

Hilda Woolnough Hilda Mary Woolnough (11 February 1934 12 December 2007) was an artist with a wide range of media (drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture) as well as a teacher, who exhibited her work worldwide.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by ...

(1934–2007), printmaker, painter, draughtsman * Kamila Wozniakowska (born 1956), painter * Andrew Wright (born 1971), multimedia artist *

Mary E. Wrinch Mary Evelyn Wrinch (1877–1969), was a Canadian artist who created miniature paintings, oil paintings, and block prints, sometimes inspired by the Northern Ontario landscape.Harper, J. Russell. ''Early Painters and Engravers in Canada'', Toronto ...

(1877–1969), painter, printmaker *

Dana Wyse Dana Wyse (born August 9, 1965) is a Canadian writer and visual artist. Life Wyse received her BFA from the University of British Columbia in 1991. She lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Work Wyse’s early career was characterize ...

(born 1965), installation artist

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* Gu Xiong (born 1953), multidisciplinary artist

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* Xiaojing Yan (born 1978), sculptor, installation artist *

Walter Yarwood Walter Yarwood (September 19, 1917 – December 22, 1996) was a Canadian abstract painter and a founding member of Painters Eleven. Yarwood became known for his painting beginning in the 1950s. During the 1960s he completed a number of public sc ...

(1917–1996), abstract painter and a founding member of

Cecil Youngfox Cecil Youngfox (1942–1987) was an Ojibwa The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in ...

(1942–1987)

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* Jarko Zavi (1907–1987), ceramist *

Joy Zemel Long Joy Zemel Long (August 16, 1922 – September 16, 2018) was a Canadian painter who lived in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Zemel grew up in Vancouver and attended the Vancouver School of Art (later renamed the Emily Carr University of Art and ...

(1922–2018), painter *

Robert Zend Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and a multimedia artist.Ro ...

(1929–1985), typewriter, collage, multimedia, and digital artist; concrete poet * Lorena Ziraldo (born 1960), painter * Edward "Ted" Fenwick Zuber (born 1932), painter, photographer *

Tim Zuck Tim Zuck (born 1947) is a Canadian painter of representational images with an orientation towards abstraction and a tranquil atmosphere distilled from the world around him.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and ...

(born 1941), painter

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* Les Automatistes * Canadian Group of Painters * Eastern Group of Painters * General Idea *

* Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. (informally known as "Indian Group of Seven") *

* The Royal Art Lodge

Dealers

* Dorothy Cameron Bloore (1924–2000), Toronto art dealer, and installation artist * Douglas Moerdyke Duncan (1902–1968), Toronto art dealer * Heffel Gallery, Canada-wide auction house * Avrom Isaacs (1926–2016), Toronto art dealer * Alan Klinkhoff of Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal art dealer * G. Blair Laing (1911-1991), Toronto art dealer * David Mirvish (born 1944), Toronto art dealer * Pete Ohler (1940-2021), football player and Calgary and Vancouver art dealer * Jack Pollock (1930-1992), Toronto art dealer * Ash K. Prakash, Toronto art dealer, patron and writer * D. & J. Ritchie Auctioneers and Appraisers, Toronto auction house * Max Stern (gallery owner), Max Stern (1904–1987), Montreal art dealer * Jean-Pierre Valentin of Valentin Gallery, Montreal art dealer * Walker's Auctions, Ottawa * William R. Watson (1887–1973), Montreal art dealer

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