Oscar Cahén

The next Artist You Need To Know is Oscar Cahén (1916 – 1956). Cahén (sometimes spelled Oscar Cahen) was a Canadian painter and illustrator and is an interesting study in contradictions within an artist’s practice. He is, on the one hand, well known for being a...

Kenojuak Ashevak

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Kenojuak Ashevak (1927 – 2013). Kenojuak Ashevak | ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ | Qinnuajuaq Aasivak was a Canadian Inuk artist. Recognized as one of the most significant modern Inuit artists she was also among the leaders of a generation of Arctic...

Tony Urquhart

The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...

Jack Shadbolt

The next Artist You Need To Know is Jack Shadbolt (1909 – 1998). Shadbolt was a painter who was one of the most significant Canadian artists of the post World War II era : he was important both for his abstracted and expressionistic works but also as a teacher....

Mimi Parent

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Mimi Parent (1924 – 2005). Parent was a Canadian artist who spent the majority of her life and career in Paris, France : she officially became a member of the Surrealist group of artists in 1959, exhibiting frequently with them but...