The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Canadian literature, music, cinema and culture. For more specific information on the arts in Canada, see Canadian art. Th
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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 (born 1951), sculptor *

Michael Adamson (artist) Michael Adamson (born June 30, 1971) is a Canadian painter, known for a style that blends landscape with abstraction. Biography Michael Adamson was born in Toronto and studied art at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. ...

(born 1971), painter *

Marc Adornato Marc Adornato (born June 7, 1977) is a contemporary Canadian artist based in Ottawa, Ontario, working in a variety of mediums including painting, mixed media, video and performance. He is known for his satirical and subversive artwork that often ...

(born 1977), painting, sculpting, performance and new media * Latcholassie Akesuk (1919–2000), sculptor * Manasie Akpaliapik (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 (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 (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 (1927–2003), artist and printmaker *

Myfanwy Ashmore Myfanwy Ashmore is a Canadian artist known for her game-related art. She works across digital and new media formats. Education Ashmore studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1990, moving to the Ontario College of Art & Design's ...

(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 (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 James Macdonald Barnsley (February20, 1861February25, 1929) was a Canadian painter of Marine art, maritime art. His watercolours and some of his oils reflect the influence of the Hague School which, starting in the 1870s, created moody landscapes ...

(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 Jay Battle, ARBS (born 1966) is a Canadian/British sculptor, born in Toronto. Battle now lives and works in Salisbury, England, UK. Included in his figurative work are the series of new statues he sculpted for the West Front of Salisbury Cath ...

(born 1966), Canadian-born sculptor now working in Salisbury, England *

Helen D. Beals Helen D. Beals (May 27, 1898 – April 17, 1991)Obituary
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(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 Henri Beau (''né'' Louis-Henri Beau; 27June 186315May 1949) was a French-Canadian Impressionist painter. He is noted for ''Chemin en été'', ''La dispersion des Acadiens'', ''L'arrivée de Champlain à Québec'', and ''Les Noces de Cana''. Be ...

(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 (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 Lorraine Bénic (born July 27, 1937) is a Canadian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Career Bénic was born in Montreal. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1958-1962) and engraving in Paris (1963-1965). Following her studies, she taught en ...

(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 ...

(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, 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 Bertram Charles Binning (10 February 1909 in Medicine Hat, Alberta – 16 March 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia), popularly known as B. C. Binning, was best known for his drawings until 1946 when he first exhibited his witty s ...

(1909–1976), painter * David Blackwood (1941-2022), printmaker * David Blatherwick (born 1960), painter, video artist * Molly Lamb Bobak (1920–2014), painter, printmaker *

Catherine Bolduc Catherine Bolduc (born 1970 in Quebec, Canada) is a contemporary visual artist. Biography Catherine Bolduc acquired a B.A. in Art History from the Université de Montréal in 1993. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts from the Université du Q ...

(born 1970), drawing, sculpture, installation, public art * David Bolduc (1945–2010), painter * Eleanor Bond (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 (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 Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) was a Canadian painter and textile artist. She was known for her primitive style of painting. Early life Simone Mary Bouchard was born in 1912 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. She began her career creating hooked r ...

(1912–1945), painter, textile artist * Céline Boucher (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 (born 1972), sculpture, painting, drawing, performance * Barry Bradfield (born 1981), cartoonist * Claude Breeze (born 1938), painter * Roland Brener (1942–2006), sculptor *

Mark A. Brennan Mark Brennan (born 1968) is a Canadians, Canadian landscape Painting, artist. Mark Brennan’s work is an exploration of the human connection to the landscape. He situates himself along the edge of the divide between human interaction with the ...

(born 1968), landscape painter * Rita Briansky (born 1925), painter and printmaker * AA Bronson (born 1946), mixed-media artist *

Reva Brooks Reva Brooks (May 1913 – 24 January 2004) was a Canadians, Canadian photographer who did much of her work in and around San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. The San Francisco Museum of Art chose Reva Brooks as one of the top 50 women photographers in ...

(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 Karin Bubaš (born 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a contemporary Canadian artist known for her work in various media including photography, painting, and drawing. Early life Bubaš grew up in North Vancouver and graduated from Emily Ca ...

(born 1976), painter, photographer *

David Buchan (artist) David William Buchan (11 February 1950 – 5 January 1994) was a Canadian artist who was part of the alternative art scene. He was also a graphic designer. Life Buchan was born in 1950 in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a B.A. Hono ...

(1950-1994), performance artist, designer *

Cecil Tremayne Buller Cecil Tremayne Buller (September 15, 1886 – September 29, 1973) was a Canadian artist. She was born in Montreal and studied with William Brymner at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Association of Montreal and at the Art Students League ...

(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 (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 Jane Buyers (born 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist who evokes the human presence and its impulse to manipulate through drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Her investigation and practice has a formal and thematic substance. Themes that have ...

(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 James Carl (born 1960, in Montreal) is a Canadian artist with a thirty-year exhibition history in Canada and internationally. Life Carl completed a BFA at the University of Victoria in the early 1980's. At Victoria, he worked primarily with Rola ...

(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 Group of Seven * Emily Carr (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 Cynthia Chalk (née Jennings; December 9, 1913 – April 5, 2018) was a Canadian photographer. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Chalk was a life member and fellow of the Montreal Camera Club; she co-edited the club's newsletter ''Cameragram'' and ...

(1913–2018), nature photography * Frederick Challener (1869–1959), muralist, painter, teacher * Jack Chambers (1931–1978), artist and filmmaker * Horace Champagne (born 1937), master pastelist * Robert Chaplin (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 (1944–1977), printmaker, painter *

F. S. Coburn F. S. Coburn D.C.L. (March18, 1871 May26, 1960), also known as Frederick Simpson Coburn, was a Canadian painter, illustrator and a photographer of note.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online onl ...

(1871–1960), painter, illustrator, photographer *

Stanley Cosgrove Stanley Cosgrove (December23, 1911 April28, 2002) was a Canadian painter, draughtsperson and muralist.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Ga ...

(1911–2002), painter, draughtsperson and muralist * Graham Coughtry (1931–1999), painter *

Yucho Chow Yucho Chow (1876–1949) was a professional photographer who was Vancouver's first Chinese photographer and its most prolific. He ran a studio in Chinatown from 1906 to 1949. Life and career Yucho Chow was born on 3 June 1876, in Hoy Ping (now ca ...

(1876–1949), photographer *

(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 Nicole Collins is a contemporary Canadian artist whose work, which takes the form of painting, performance, video, and sound, explores the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on visceral materials. She currently teaches at OCAD Universit ...

, 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 (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 Sonia Evelyn Drew Cornwall (née Cowan, 1919 – 2006) was a Canadian painter and rancher. She is in the ''British Columbia Cowboy Hall of Fame''. Biography Cornwall was born in Kamloops in 1919, the daughter of Charles and Vivian Cowan. Cornwa ...

(1919–2006), painter *

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(1940–2010), painter * Douglas Coupland (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 Josephine Crease (August 7, 1864 – December 24, 1947) was a Canadian artist. Life She was the daughter of Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease and Lady Sarah Lindley Crease. She was born in New Westminster and moved to Victoria with her family i ...

(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 Donigan Cumming (born 1947) is an American-born Canadian multimedia artist who uses photography, video, drawing, sound, and text in experimental documentary films, collages, installations, and books based in Montreal, Quebec. Since 1983, Cumming's ...

(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 (1940–2007), painter * Charles Daudelin (1920–2001), sculptor, painter * Olea Marion Davis (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 (born 1960), video artist * Forshaw Day (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 (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 (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 Ann MacIntosh Duff (14 July 1925 – 3 December 2022) was a Canadian artist known for her watercolor paintings. Biography MacIntosh Duff was born in Toronto on 14 July 1925, the daughter of John MacIntosh and Constance Hamilton Duff. The pai ...

(born 1925), painter * Walter R. Duff (1879–1967), painter, designer *

Caroline Dukes Caroline Dukes (May 19, 1929 – June 8, 2003) was a painter and installation artist, born in Hungary but moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967. Today, she is considered a Manitoba artist. Career Dukes was born in Ujpest, Hungary and apprenticed ...

(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 (born 1986), sound artist, composer, painter *

Aganetha Dyck Aganetha Dyck (born September 12, 1937) is a Canadian sculptor residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dyck is best known for her work with live honeybees, that build honeycomb on objects that she introduces to honeybee hives. In 2007 Dyck was awarded bo ...

(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 Susan Edgerley (born 1960) is a Canadian artist known for her installation and sculptural works in glass and mixed media. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Saidye Bronfman Award, part of the Canadian Governor General's Awards in Visual and Me ...

(born 1960), glass artist * Arthur Elliot (1809–1892), watercolourist *

Emily Louise Orr Elliott Emily Louise Orr Elliott (July 22, 1867 – February 27, 1952) was a Canadian artist and fashion illustrator. She was born Emily Louise Orr in Montreal and studied at the Ontario School of Art in Toronto, the Art Students League of New Yor ...

(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 (1905–1995), painter *

Lucassie Etungat Lucassie Etungat (April 15, 1951–missing since June 29, 2016) is an Inuit sculptor. Early life Etungat was born on April 15, 1951, in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Career His work is held at several museums, including the University of Michigan ...

(1951–c. 2016), sculptor * Evergon (born 1946), photographer and photo-collage * Paterson Ewen (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 (1887–1986), painter, writer *

Lilias Farley Lilias Marianne Ar de Soif Farley (May 2, 1907 – August 2, 1989) was a Canadian painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist in realism and abstraction. In 1967, she was awarded the Centennial Medal for Service to the Nation in the Arts. She was an ...

(1907–1989), painter * Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967), installation artist *

Caroline Farncomb Caroline Farncomb (January12, 1859 November13, 1951)Letter from Catharine B. McEwen, August 17, 1998, Caroline Farncomb Artist's file, National Gallery Library and Archives, Ottawa was a Canadian painter. She lived in London, Ontario where she ...

(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 *

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 Peter Flinsch (April 22, 1920 – March 30, 2010) was a German Canadian artist, who worked as a set designer and art director for television programming produced by Radio-Canada the French language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...

(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 (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 Statira Elizabeth Frame (15 September 1858 – 29 November 1935) was a Canadian painter, known for her innovative use of color. Biography Statira Elizabeth Wells was born in 1858 in Granby, Canada East. She moved to Vancouver after her mar ...

(1870–1935), painter

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* Louise Landry Gadbois (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 Desi ...

(1934-2003), multidisciplinary artist *

Yechel Gagnon Yechel Gagnon (born 1973) is a Canadian mixed media artist. She is known for her signature style of carved plywood bas reliefs. She creates large scale public art projects and exhibits nationally and internationally. Born in Montreal, Quebec, ...

(born 1973), mixed media artist * Marianna Gartner (born 1963), painter * Pierre Gauvreau (1922–2011), painter, writer *

Wyn Geleynse Wyn Geleynse (born 1947) is a pioneer film and video projection artist whose career spans a period of over 40 years. Career Wyn Geleynse was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and he and his parents emigrated from Rotterdam to London, Ontario, ...

(born 1947), pioneer film and video projection artist *

Carlo Gentile Carlo Gentile (1835–1893), known professionally in his lifetime as Charles Gentile, was a 19th-century Italian-American photographer. After travelling the world, he settled in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia for a few yea ...

(1835–1893), photographer * Robert Genn 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 (1929–2005), sculptor, painter * Henry George Glyde (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 (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 (1923–2008), printmaker, sculptor, painter *

Paul Goranson Paul Goranson (April 27, 1911August 3, 2002) was an official Canadian war artist with the Royal Canadian Air Force and was noted for the exactness of his pictures and the fearless way he worked under fire during World War II. He painted both the ...

(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 (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 Suzanne Guité (1926 – February 6, 1981) was a Canadian artist who lived in Percé, Quebec. Early life She was born in New Richmond and studied sculpture at the Institute of Design in Chicago with László Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Arch ...

(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 (born 1945), painter, printmaker, installation artist *

Fred Hagan Frederick Hagan (May21, 1918 September6, 2003) was a Canadian lithographer, painter and art instructor. Early life and career Fred Hagan was born in Toronto in the area known as “Cabbagetown”. When he was 13 years old, his father died, leav ...

(1918–2003), lithographer, painter, art instructor * John Hall (Canadian artist) (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 (artist), (born 1950), painter *

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 (1885–1970), painter *

Douglas Haynes Douglas Hector Haynes (January 1, 1936 – February 10, 2016) was a Canadian abstract artist and teacher. Early life Haynes was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan."Groundbreaking artist Douglas Haynes left enormous mark in Edmonton," Ed ...

(1936–2016), painter *

J. C. Heywood John Carl Heywood (June 6, 1941 – December 1, 2022) was a Canadian master printmaker, painter, fibre artist and teacher of printmaking whose work has been shown across North America and Europe. Life and career J. C. Heywood was born on June ...

(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 (1911–1978), painter * Barbara Roe Hicklin (1918–2010), painter * Gilah Yelin Hirsch (born 1944), multi-disciplinary artist *

William G. Hobbs William George Reginald Hobbs (16 May 1927 – 29 September 2012) was an Alderney-born Canadian artist. Early life His family moved around considerably due to his father's career in the British Army. The family eventually settled in his fathers ...

(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 (1892–1977), painter * Elsie Holloway (1882–1971), photographer *

Robert Holmes (artist) Robert Holmes (1861 – May 1930), was a Canadian naturalist painter.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des be ...

(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 Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins (April22, 1894 April1991), born in Fort Gilkicker, Hampshire, England, was a painter and writer in British Columbia. Career Elisabeth Hopkins, a cousin of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the granddaughter of the painter F ...

(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 Robin Hopper (23 April 1939 – 6 April 2017) was a Canadian ceramist, potter, teacher, author, garden designer and arts activist. Personal background He was born in England in 1939, and died April 6, 2017, in Victoria, British Columbia. He train ...

(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 (born 1947), First Nations artist * Yvonne McKague Housser (1897–1996), painter, teacher *

Barbara Howard Barbara Howard may refer to: * Barbara Howard, Countess of Suffolk (1622–1681), English courtier * Barbara Howard (athlete) (1920–2017), Canadian sprinter * Barbara Howard (artist) (1926–2002), Canadian painter, wood engraver, draughtsperson, ...

(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 Natalka Husar (born 1951) is an American-born Canadian painter. She is known for work that draws on aspects of Ukrainian culture and history, the émigré experience, and her feminist concerns. Early life and education Natalka Husar’s Ukraini ...

((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 (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 Sybil Henley Jacobson, (b. July 21, 1881 in London, England, d. November 4, 1953 near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was a Canadian painter. Her oil and watercolor paintings of prairie landscapes, portraits, and still life are in a traditio ...

(1881–1953), British-born Canadian painter *

Donald Jarvis Don Jarvis (1923–2001) was a Canadian abstract painter. Career Born in Vancouver in 1923, Don Jarvis took up drawing at an early age. An aspiring cartoonist as a teenager, Jarvis enrolled at the Vancouver School of Art in 1941 and was encou ...

(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) (1888–1949), painter, member of the Group of Seven * John Young Johnstone (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 Anique Jordan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, writer, curator and entrepreneur known for her work in photography, sculpture, and performance. Her artwork challenges historical narratives, reinterpreting the past in order to develop a vis ...

, 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 (born 1924), sculptor * Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002), photographer *

Herzl Kashetsky Herzl Kashetsky LL. D. (born 1950) is a realist painter, known for his commemorative work in paintings dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. The main body of his art has been figurative, and embedded in the representational. Career Born in 1950 ...

(born 1950), painter * Ali Kazimi (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 (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 Alicia Killaly (also called Alice Killaly; 1836–1908) was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Upper Canada in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher Hatton ...

(1836–1908), painter *

Holly King (artist) Holly King (born 1957) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, known for her photographs of constructed landscapes. She views landscape as a product of the imagination. Career For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged imag ...

(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 Deborah Koenker (born 1949) is an interdisciplinary artist. Her installation art explores social and feminist themes using a wide range of media. She is interested in a number of issues, such as social justice. She is also a writer and curator. ...

, (born 1949), interdisciplinary artist * John Koerner, (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 (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 (born 1946), actor, painter *

Sylvie Laliberté Sylvie Laliberté (born 1959) is a Canadian artist. She works in a variety of areas, including video art, performance art and music. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Gallery of Ca ...

(born 1959), performance artist, video artist, musician *

Michel Lambeth Michel Lambeth (April 21, 1923April 09, 1977) was a Canadian photographer. He made an in-depth photographic study of Toronto during the 1950s and was one of the country's leading photo-journalists during the 1960s. Biography Thomas Henry Lambe ...

(1923–1977), photographer *

Cal Lane Cal Lane (born 1968) is a Canadian sculptor, known for creating delicate, lacy sculptures out of industrial steel products. Early life and education Lane was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1968 and raised on Vancouver Island, where she trained a ...

(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 Christine Laptuta (born 1951) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Portland Art Museum The Portland ...

(born 1951), photographer * Jules Lasalle (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 Gary Lee-Nova (June 26, 1943), born Gary Nairn, is a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker. Biography In his early art career, Lee-Nova spent 15 months in England as a student at Coventry College (1961–1962) and was introdu ...

(born 1943), painter, printmaker, sculptor, filmmaker *

Elizabeth Lefort Elizabeth Lefort (1914–2005) was a Canadian tapestry artist, known for replicating photographs including portraits. Biography Elizabeth Lefort was born in 1914 in Point Cross, Nova Scotia. In 1926 at the age of 12 she left school to begin her ...

(1914–2005), tapestry artist * Joseph Légaré (1795–1855), painter *

Enid Legros-Wise Enid Legros-Wise (born 1943) is a Canadian ceramic artist working mainly in porcelain. Early life She was born in 1943 in Gaspé, Quebec. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, from 1961 to 1964 and then at the Institut des Art ...

(born 1943), ceramist *

Jean Paul Lemieux Jean Paul Lemieux, (1904 - 1990) was one of the foremost twentieth century painters in Canada. He worked in several different styles, as represented by his five artistic periods. Biography He was born in Quebec City, where he also died. He wa ...

(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 social ...

(1941–1998), painter *

Beatrice Lennie Edith Beatrice Catharine Lennie (June 16, 1905 – June 1, 1987) was a Canadians, Canadian painter and sculptor. She is primarily known for her public sculptures in Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, many of which remain in Vancou ...

(1905–1987), sculptor * Rita Letendre (1928–2021), abstract painter * Laura L. Letinsky (born 1962), photographer * Mark Lewis (born 1958), installation and film artist * Maud Lewis (1903–1970), painter *

Robert Henry Lindsay Robert Henry Lindsay (April 23, 1868 – March 19, 1938) was a Canadian painter. Personal life Lindsay was born at Prescott, Ontario on April 23, 1868. His father, George Lindsay, relocated his family to Brockville, Ontario while Robert was a y ...

(1868–1938), painter *

Robert Linsley Robert Linsley (1952–2017) was a Canadian artist, writer and professor known for his abstract paintings. Early life and education Linsley was born in 1952 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received a BFA degree in 1982 and a MFA degree in 1988 from the ...

(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 (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 (born 1962), painter *

James Lumbers James Lumbers (born 1929) is a Canadian artist. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, he now lives on Georgian Bay, in Ontario. He is known for his wilderness landscapes, nostalgic images of Canada's past, and portraits, including his heritage Moment ...

(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 Group of Seven * Thoreau MacDonald (1901–1989), illustrator, graphic and book designer, artist * Jock Macdonald (1897–1960), member of Painters Eleven * John MacGregor (artist) (1942-2019), painter, printmaker, sculptor * Landon Mackenzie (born 1954), painter *

Sarah Jean Munro Maclean Sarah Jean Munro Maclean (1873 – 1952), was a Canadian painter known for her landscapes and portraits. Biography Sarah Jean Munro was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1873. She first studied art in Boston, Massachusetts, then in England at Hea ...

(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 (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 Jen Mann (born 1987) is a Canadian artist known for large scale hyperrealistic portraiture. Mann graduated from OCAD University in 2009 with a BFA in printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on pape ...

(born 1987), portrait artist * Kavavaow Mannomee (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 Arthur N. Martin (August 31, 1889 – 1961) was a Canadian painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the ...

(1889–1961), painter *

Bernice Fenwick Martin Bernice Fenwick Martin (July 7, 1902 – 1999) was a Canadian painter and printmaker known for her landscapes. Biography Bernice Fenwick Martin was born July 7, 1902, in Shelburne, Ontario. She began her art studies at Toronto Technical Schools. ...

(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 (1838–1934), landscape painter * Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw (1958–2006), media artist * Hannah Maynard (1834–1918), photographer * Richard Maynard (1832–1907), photographer * Doris McCarthy (1910–2010), painter, printmaker * Ryan McCourt (born 1975), sculptor, designer *

Gregory A McCullough Gregory may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gregory (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Gregory (surname), a surname Places Australia *Gregory, Queensland, a town in the Shire of ...

(born 1960), painter,artist *

Clark McDougall Clark McDougall (November21, 1921 August 17, 1980) was a Canadian painter known for his black enamel style. Career Clark McDougall was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and lived and died in the house where he was born at 56 Inkerman Street. When he w ...

(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 (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 *

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 Laura Millard (born 1961) is a Canadian contemporary artist. She uses for her installations drawings and videos records of the marks left on the earth obtained from drones, such as traces of the tracks of skates and snowmobiles on ice in northe ...

(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 Esmaa Mohamoud, also known as "E," (born 25 November 1992) is an African-Canadian sculptor and installation artist who grew up in London, Ontario, and currently practices in Toronto, Ontario. Her work has been shown at the Royal Ontario Museum, Mc ...

(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 Elizabeth Louise De Montigny-Giguère (April 28, 1878 – 1969) was a civil servant, sculptor and painter in Quebec. She was born Elizabeth Louise De Montigny in La Prairie and studied drawing and painting with Les Sœurs du Bon-Pasteur in Mo ...

(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 Ronald Benjamin Moppett (born March 12, 1945) is a Canadian painter. He is known primarily for abstract paintings and for works in which he combines paint and collage, along with non-traditional materials. Moppett is based in Calgary, Alberta. ...

(born 1945), painter * Kathleen Morris (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 (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 (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 (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 Paula Murray (born 1958) is a Canadian ceramic artist from Ottawa, Ontario and currently based at Meech Lake, Quebec. Murray is best known for her thin porcelain sculptures with fibreglass overlay and fine crackling effects, inspired by natu ...

(born 1958), ceramist * Robert Murray (born 1936), sculptor

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Mina Napartuk Mina Napartuk (1913 – 2001) is a Canadian Inuit artist known for her fabric and fur crafts, as well as her management of the women’s craftshop in Kuujjuarapik. Biography Napartuk was born in 1913 in Kuujjuarapik, Quebec. She trained in t ...

(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 in Edinburgh. New ...

(1890–1967), painter * Lilias Torrance Newton (1896–1980), painter * Jack Nichols (1921–2009), painter *

Grace Nickel Grace Nickel (born 1956) is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education. Early life Grace Nickel was born in 1956 in Altona, Manitoba, Canada. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Manitoba in 1980 ...

(born 1956), ceramist *

Adamie Niviaxie Adamie Niviaxie (1925–?) was an Inuk sculptor. Early life and education He was born in 1925. He lived in Inukjuak, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. His father was a wood worker who built boats in Kuujjuarapik. Career His sculptures are primarily a ...

(1925–?), sculptor *

Louise Noguchi Louise Noguchi (born 1958) is a Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist who uses video, photography, sculpture, and installation to examine notion of identity, perception and reality. Early career Louise Noguchi was born in Toronto, and recei ...

(born 1958), multidisciplinary visual artist *

Arnold Nogy Arnold Nogy is a Canadian nature, animal, and wildlife artist. He is also known for his creation of a significant number of designs for Canadian coinage. Numismatic commissions Nogy has had several commissions granted by the Royal Canadian Mint. , ...

, painter *

Alice Nolin Alice Nolin (1896 – 1967) was a Canadian artist and educator. She was born in Sorel, Quebec. Nolin studied painting with William Brymner and continued her studies at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, studying with , and Alfred Laliber ...

(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 (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 Sheokjuk Oqutaq (1920–1982, Kinngait) was an Inuit sculptor. Early life He was born in 1920. In the 1950s, he started carving with James Houston. Career His carvings mostly depicted animals, including loons, narwhal The narwhal, al ...

(1920–1982), sculptor * Nina May Owens (1869–1959), painter

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* Charles Pachter (born 1942), artist, filmmaker, social commentator *

George Paginton George Paginton (December24, 1901December06, 1988) was a landscape painter. Life and career George Paginton was born in England, and in 1904, was designated a ward of the state and sent to an orphanage. In 1912, he was sent to Canada, to Linds ...

(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 (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 Freda Pemberton-Smith (April 7, 1902 – February 8, 1991) was a Canadian landscapist and portraitist. Her work has been shown in exhibitions from British Columbia to Newfoundland and is found in private, public and corporate collections at home ...

(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 Rajni Perera (born 1985) is a painter and sculptor, known for exploring how power works through the imagery of science fiction. She sees in science fiction a way of combating oppression which she combines with her ideas of revolution and social r ...

(born 1985), painter, sculptor *

Sheouak Petaulassie Sheouak Parr Petaulassie (1918 or 1923–1961) was an Inuk printmaker. She was also known as Sheouak, Sheowa Sheouak, Sheowak Sheouak, and Sheoak Sheouak. Early life She grew up in the Kinngait (Cape Dorset) area. Career James Houston chose ...

(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 Leopold Plotek (born 1948), combines abstraction and figuration in large format paintings which take as their starting point his memories, his experience of architecture, objects and art (he mentions Picabia, Cubism and other sources as importan ...

(born 1948), painter *

Eegyvudluk Pootoogook Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931-2000) was an Inuk printmaker and sculptor. He was married to the artist Napachie Pootoogook. Early life and education He was born in 1931, to graphic artist and carver Joseph (Eegyvudluk) Pootagook (1887–1958) and g ...

(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 (born 1935), painter * 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 George Raab (born 1948) is a Canadian printmaker who has gained an international reputation for his wilderness landscape photo-based etchings and aquatints. Career Raab spent his early years in Toronto and discovered printmaking as a student at ...

(born 1948), printmaker *

Nina Raginsky Nina Raginsky , (born April 14, 1941) is a Canadian photographer who received the honour of the Order of Canada in 1984. Life and work Born in Montreal, Quebec, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1962. ...

(born 1941), photographer * William Raphael (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 Walter Redinger (January06, 1940June17, 2014) was a Canadian sculptor, best known for large-cast fiberglass works that resemble fleshy shapes. He was one of the earliest sculptors in Canada to use fiberglass. Career Redinger grew up on a tobac ...

(1940–2014,) sculptor *

Gladys Reeves Gladys Reeves (1890–1974), was an Edmonton, Alberta photographer, establishing a photographic studio in 1920 and staying in business until 1950. Biography Gladys Reeves was born in 1890 in Somerset, England. She and her family emigrated to E ...

(1890–1974), photographer *

Don Reichert Don Karl Reichert (11 January 1932 – 8 September 2013) was a Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he was also notable as a photographer and digital media artist. Career Donald Reichert was ...

(1932–2013), painter, multimedia artist * Bill Reid (1920–1998), sculptor * George Agnew Reid (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, ...

(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 Reinhard Reitzenstein (born 1949) is an environmental sculptor. He creates works through which he investigates ways to unite and interconnect nature, culture, science, and technology. He works in different media and areas, sometimes with the hel ...

(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 (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 (1904–1974), painter * Albert H. Robinson (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 (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 (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 John Wentworth Russell (1879 1959) was a Canadian painter with a wide range of subjects and media – portraits (child subjects were a specialty of his), landscapes, still life, and the nude as well as illustrations for magazines, such as ''Vogu ...

(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 Benita Sanders (born April 6, 1935) is a Canadian printmaker, painter and pastelist. Career Sanders was born in Betchworth, Surrey. Her mother emigrated to Canada with her in 1940. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts des Beaux Arts, Paris ...

(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 Regina Seiden (4 July 1897- 11 January 1991), also known as Regina Seiden Goldberg was a Jewish Canadian painter who was an early member of the Beaver Hall Group. She was primarily interested in painting figurative work and portraits. Biography S ...

(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 Peter Clapham Sheppard (October 21, 1879 – April 24, 1964), also known as P. C. Sheppard (as he signed his work) and as Peter C. Sheppard, was a Canadian painter, known for his figurative work and for his city and landscape scenes. Career Pe ...

(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 Edward Scrope Shrapnel (1845–1920) was an English-born Canadian artist. After an earlier period spent in Quebec, his family settled in Orillia, Ontario. Having learned the basic art of drawing in the military, Shrapnel became adept in wate ...

(1845-1920), painter *

Ron Shuebrook Ron Shuebrook (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian abstract artist living in Guelph, Ontario. He is a prominent teacher and administrator, as well as a writer. Career Shuebrook studied at Kutztown State College, Pennsylvania, USA, where h ...

(born 1943), abstract painter, administrator * Joe Shuster (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 (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 (born 1929), painter, filmmaker, musician *

Nicolas Sollogoub Nicolas Sollogoub (10 November 1925 – 11 July 2014) was a Franco-Canadian artist and master glassmaker. He is best known for his large-scale stained glass installations, including ''La vie à Montréal au XIXe siècle'', a composition of ...

(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 (artist), David Spriggs (born 1978), sculptor, installation artist * Gerald Squires (1937–2015), painter, printmaker, sculptor * Helen Stadelbauer (1910–2006), painter * Arlene Stamp (born 1938), two-dimensional artist and designer * Owen Staples (1866–1949), painter, etcher, political cartoonist * Barbara Steinman (born 1950), video and installation artist * Godfrey Stephens (born 1939), painter, sculptor, boat builder * Ginny Stikeman (born 1941), filmmaker * Reva Stone (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 (born 1926), painter * Ewa Tarsia, painter, printmaker * Jamasie Teevee (1910–1985), printmaker * Ningeokuluk Teevee (born 1963), illustrator * Nalenik Temela (1939–2003), sculptor * Mashel Teitelbaum (1921–1985), painter * Louis Temporale (1909–1994), sculptor * David Thauberger (born 1948), painter * Genevieve Thauvette (born 1985), photographer * George Campbell Tinning (1910–1996), painter, graphic designer, muralist, illustrator * Jeff Thomas (photographer), Jeff Thomas (born 1956), photo-based storyteller * Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012), painter * Tom Thomson (1877–1917), painter * Gentile Tondino (1923–2001), painter * Serge Tousignant (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 (1890–1966), printmaker and carver

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

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* Armand Vaillancourt (born 1929), performance art, sculptor, painter * John Vanderpant (1884–1939), photographer, gallery owner, author * Frederick Varley (1881–1969), painter * Bill Vazan (born 1933), land art, sculptor, photographer, painter * Claude Vermette (1930–2006), painter, ceramist * Frederick Arthur Verner (1836–1928), painter * Arthur Villeneuve (1910–1990), painter * Ola Volo, 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 (1858–1938), painter * Jeff Wall (born 1946), photographer * Esther Warkov (artist) (born 1941), painter, draughtsman * Lowrie Warrener (1900–1983), painter * Margaret Watkins (1884–1969), photographer * Homer Watson (1855–1936), painter * Gordon Webber (artist) (1909–1965), multi-media pioneer of modernism, teacher * Esther Wertheimer (1926–2016), sculptor, educator * W. P. Weston (1879–1967), painter, teacher * Phil R. White (born 1963), sculptor * Tim Whiten (born 1941), sculptor, performance and installation artist * Peter and Catharine Whyte (1905–1966, 1906–1979), painters * Joyce Wieland (1930–1998), painter * Robert Wiens (born 1953), painter, sculptor * Peter Wilkins (born 1968), multimedia artist * Yvonne Williams (1901–1997), stained glass artist * Curtis Williamson (1867–1944), painter * Jeff Willmore (born 1954), painter, performance artist * Robert Willms (born 1969) * Joan Willsher-Martel (1925–2017), painter * York Wilson (1907–1984), painter, muralist * Rita Winkler (artist), Rita Winkler (born 1987), artist * Susan Wood (visual artist), Susan Wood (1954–2018), artist * Anna Wong (artist), Anna Wong (1930–2013), printmaker * Hilda Woolnough (1934–2007), printmaker, painter, draughtsman * Kamila Wozniakowska (born 1956), painter * Andrew Wright (artist), Andrew Wright (born 1971), multimedia artist * Mary E. Wrinch (1877–1969), painter, printmaker * Dana Wyse (born 1965), installation artist

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* Gu Xiong (artist), Gu Xiong (born 1953), multidisciplinary artist

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* Xiaojing Yan (born 1978), sculptor, installation artist * Walter Yarwood (1917–1996), abstract painter and a founding member of Painters Eleven * Cecil Youngfox (1942–1987)

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* Jarko Zavi (1907–1987), ceramist * Joy Zemel Long (1922–2018), painter * Robert Zend (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 (born 1941), painter

Groups

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