Margaux Williamson

Margaux Williamson’s paintings are grounded in attentive looking, where objects, textures, and colours become points of entry for probing visual inspection. Unbound by predetermined composition, and born of a highly personal visual language, her works build progressively, shaped by memory and perception. Space is often cast in dizzying relations where multiple planes and temporalities exist within a single image. An uncanny ephemerality inhabits her spaces, as objects are seen in fading light or emerging from darkness in dense strokes that describe the intangibility of a moment. With a multifaceted practice that extends to writing and film, Williamson’s work creates rather than depict reality—offering new ways of seeing its fragility, strangeness, and shifting edges.

Margaux Williamson is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), White Cube (Hong Kong), Esker Foundation (Calgary), and Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), with a major touring retrospective presented at four locations across Canada from 2021 to 2023. Her work is collected by the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Longlati Foundation (Shanghai), the Tumurun Museum (Indonesia), and the Australia China Art Foundation. In 2006, her feature-length film Teenager Hamlet (2006) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Born in Pittsburgh, United States, 1976

Lives and works in Toronto, Canada