ABOUT
Margaux Williamson is a painter from Toronto, born in Pittsburgh.
FOR PAINTINGS, she has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Esker Foundation, among others. Recent solo gallery exhibitions have taken place at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal and with White Cube gallery in Hong Kong.
Two painting catalogues have been published, most recently “Margaux Williamson, Interiors” in 2021, for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, edited by Sarah Milroy with texts from Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti and Jessica Bradley. The first one “I Could See Everything” was published by the legendary Coach House Press in 2014. It took the form of an exhibition catalogue for a made-up museum located in the Yukon, curated by Ann Marie Peña, with texts from Mark Greif, Chris Kraus, Leanne Shapton and David Balzer.
FOR WRITING, Margaux’s “art notes” are important part of her work and were included in both catalogues above. The notes she kept alongside the painting series she’s been working on for ten years “House Painter” started to turn into a book (in progress). An excerpt was published in Ursula magazine in 2025, summer issue.
She wrote four “How To” pamphlets, commissioned by anthologies, museums and art festivals.
She has also has written movie reviews for a cultural review site she founded alongside critics Carl Wilson and Chris Randle where they wrote “Untimely Reviews”.
FOR VIDEO, her feature length no budget art video “Teenager Hamlet” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and can be found on UbuWeb. She has also received acclaim for shorter videos including the 2008 video “Dancing to the end of Poverty” which was made out of Youtube videos of teenagers dancing in their basements and can also be found on UbuWeb.
HER WORK has been covered by Frieze Magazine, Art Forum, Border Crossings, Ocula, Momus, CBC, the New York Times, C Magazine, Canadian Art, the Globe and Mail, the Believer and others.
She has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council.
And has work in collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Agnes Ethrington Museum, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, Tumurun Museum in Indonesia, and Australia China Art Foundation, The Royal Bank of Canada Collection, Toronto Dominion Bank Collection, Sam Haywood Collection, Bruce Bailey Collection, Bianchini Collection.