Our next Artist You Need To Know is Genieve Figgis. Figgis (who was born in 1972) is an Irish artist who graduated in 2006 from the Gorey School of Art in Wexford (BFA) and earned a BA (hons) and an MFA (2012) from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin,...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Molly Lamb Bobak (1920 – 2014). Lamb Bobak was a Canadian writer, printmaker, teacher and painter. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada’s war effort, and in...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Susanna Heller (1956 – 2021). Susanna Heller was born in New York, NY but lived in Montreal from the age of 7. She earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977. This was during the heady days of the...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1988). A painter, mixed media artist and filmmaker, Wieland began her career in Toronto in the 1950s before relocating to New York City in 1962. This spurred her to begin working with new materials (in...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dana Schutz. Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is known for her expressive and gestural paintings that often take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a starting point, for...
