Madeleine Lamont

Madeleine Lamont received her BFA from York University in Toronto and a diploma in Commercial Art and Design from Algonquin College in Ottawa. She has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Lamont has completed several significant public commissions, including projects for Art on Public Lands, the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, and the Koffler Gallery in Toronto. In 2016, her work was acquired by the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs for permanent installation in the new NATO Chancery Building in Brussels, Belgium.

Her work has been widely published in leading art and design publications, including Canadian House & Home, Style at Home, C Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, and has appeared in film and television productions for HBO, Cityline, and Steven and Chris. Early in her career, Lamont co-founded and curated several influential artist collectives, including Farrago and The House Project Collective, which was featured in the documentary series Artists of the ’90s, examining collective art practices in Toronto during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Lamont’s work has been written about and reviewed by prominent Canadian art writers and critics, including Daniel Baird, Gary Michael Dault (The Globe and Mail), Claire Christie, Sylvie Fortin, and Toronto Star critic Peter Goddard. Goddard described her paintings as “great romantic gestures… [with] an aim to piece together an organic beauty in a fleeting psychological moment, done sumptuously,” while Baird characterized her large canvases as “luxuriant and expressive” and her smaller works as “pristine and lyrical.” Her paintings have also been featured by celebrated Canadian designer Brian Gluckstein in the Princess Margaret Hospital Lottery Grand Prize Showhome.

Lamont has presented more than 25 solo exhibitions in public and private galleries and has participated in numerous group and collective exhibitions. Her work is held in collections across Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She is a founding member of several artist-run initiatives, including Farrago, The Red Head Gallery, and The House Project, and founded Lamont Stewart Art Projects in 2016, now operating as Lamont Art Projects.