ABOUT
Margaux Williamson is a painter from Toronto, born in Pittsburgh. Her most recent paintings were exhibited at solo show at White Cube, Hong Kong, 2023.A retrospective of her paintings opened at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2021, accompanied by a catalogue, and traveled to other museums across Canada till 2023. 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, 2011, 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, the New York Times, Canadian Art, the Globe and Mail, Vogue, the Believer and others. Her most recent work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. And her paintings are in the collections of Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, Tumurun Musleum in Indonesia, Australia China Art Foundation, Bruce Bailey Collection in Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the National Gallery of Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.