Margaux Williamson was born in Pittsburgh and lives in Toronto. She has had solo exhibitions at the Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in Toronto, at the Marvelli Gallery in New York and at Fette’s Gallery in Los Angeles. She took a break from exhibiting paintings in 2008 to allow for a time of independent study. In 2009, she was artist in residence in Dawson City, Yukon. Her video project Teenager Hamlet was shown as a installation for the Toronto International Film Festival and a movie version for DVD was released in Canada in the fall of 2010 and in the U.S. in 2011. In 2010 she started writing about movies on Movie Is My Favourite Word and shortly after created the cultural review site Back to the World with the critics Carl Wilson and Chris Randle. Her work has been featured by The National Post, Toronto’s Eye Weekly, The New York Times, The Artfag, Canadian Art Magazine, among others. She was the art director and a curator for the Toronto lecture series Trampoline Hall for five years, has created graphics and videos for the band Tomboyfriend, and works with the writer Sheila Heti on various projects including The Production Front. Currently, she is working on a new series of paintings and in 2012, she will be artist in residence at The Art Gallery of Ontario where she will be starting a new movie project .