ABOUT
Margaux Williamson is a painter from Toronto, born in Pittsburgh.
From April to August 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto will host a solo exhibition of her most recent work, “Shoes, books, hands, building, and cars”. In March 2025, her solo exhbition “Public House” opened at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal. For January 2025, she was part of a group show “Behind the Bedroom Door” that opened at the James Cohan gallery in New York.
In 2023, she had a solo show at White Cube’s Hong Kong space. And a retrospective of her paintings concluded at the Esker Foundation in Calgary after touring other museums in Canada and originating at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2021 along with a catalouge.
She published a book of paintings “I Could See Everything” with Coach House Press in 2014, which took the form of an exhibition catalogue for a made-up museum located in the Yukon.
Her feature length no budget art video “Teenager Hamlet” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and can be found on UbuWeb. She also has written movie reviews and pamphlets and has collaborated with friends on other projects.
Her work has been covered by Frieze Magazine, Art Forum, Border Crossings, the New York Times, Canadian Art, the Globe and Mail, the Believer and others. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. Her paintings are in the collections of McMichael Canadian Art Collection, National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Bruce Bailey Collection in Canada, Bianchini Collection, Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, Tumurun Musleum in Indonesia, and Australia China Art Foundation.