About the Artist

Madeleine Lamont received her BFA Degree from York University, Toronto,

Canada and Commercial Art and Design diploma from Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada. 

She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries both Nationally and Internationally and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council. She has received public commissions from the Art On Public Lands, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and the Koffler Gallery in Toronto.  Most recently her work was purchased in 2016 by the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs to be installed in the New Nato Chancery Building in Brussels Belgium.

Her work has been published in prestigious art and design publications such as Canadian House and Home, Style at Home and Cmagazine and the Globe and Mail   Her work has been showcased in film and television on HBO, Cityline and Steven and Chris.  Early in her career she co-founded and curated several artist collectives including Farrago and The House Project Collective which was profiled in a  documentary series, Artist of the 90's, a look at the collective art movement in Toronto during the 1990 and early 2000’s.  

Her work has been written about and reviewed by many influential art writers and critics in Canada, including Daniel Baird, Gary Micheal Dault  of The Globe and Mail, Claire Christy, Silvie Fortain and Toronto Star's Peter Goddard. Canadian Celebrity designer Brian Gluckstein featured her paintings in the Princess Margret Hospital Lottery Grand Prize ShowHome. 

Goddard described Lamont's paintings as "great romantic gestures... Her aim to piece together an organic beauty in a fleeting psychological moment is done so sumptuously".  Baird described her large canvases as "luxuriant and expressive" and her miniatures as "pristine and lyrical." 

Lamont is currently represented by Lamont Art Projects, Art Interiors in Toronto and The Christine Klassen Gallery in Calgary  

Her work is in collections throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.  Lamont has been a founding member of several art collectives such as Farrago, The Red Head Gallery, The House Project. She founded Lamont Stewart Art Projects in 2016 now Lamont Art Projects, and has participated in several art fairs in Canada and the USA,  including The Affordable Art Fair NYC , Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. 

To date, Madeleine Lamont had had over 25 solo exhibitions in Private and public Galleries and numerous group and collective exhibitions