The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Canadian literature, music, cinema and culture. For more specific information on the arts in Canada, see Canadian art.
Individuals
A
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, installation art Kirsten Abrahamson (born 1960), ceramist Una Stella Abrahamson (1922–1999), artist, writer KC Adams (born 1971), multimedia artist Kim Adams (born 1951), sculptor Marilla Adams (1864–1966), painter Michael Adamson (born 1971), painter Catherine Addai, Ghanaian-Canadian fashion designer Marc Adornato (born 1977), painting, sculpting, performance and new media Latcholassie Akesuk (1919–2000), sculptor Manasie Akpaliapik (born 1955), sculptor Amelia Alcock-White (born 1981), painter Eric Aldwinckle (1909–1980), designer David T. Alexander (born 1947), painter Lady Eveline Marie Alexander (1821–1906), painter M.J. Alexander (born 1961), artist Vikky Alexander (born 1959), artist Wilhelmina Alexander (1871–1961), painter John Martin Alfsen (1902–1971), printmaker Ralph Allen (1926–2019), artist, painter and printmaker Edmund Alleyn (1931–2004), painter Jocelyne Alloucherie (born 1947), sculptor Helen Andersen (1919–1995), painter Lois Andison, installation artist Stephen Andrews (born 1956), artist Julie Andreyev (born 1962), multidisciplinary artist Evelyn Andrus (1909–1972), photographer Jaime Angelopoulos, sculptor Sara Angelucci (born 1962), photographer, video artist Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901), painter Kay Angliss (1923–2004), printmaker, watercolour and fibre artist Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq (1916–2003), textile artist Jennifer Angus (born 1961), installation artist Irene Kataq Angutitok (1914–1971), sculptor Margaret Uyauperq Aniksak (1907–1993), sculptor Parastoo Anoushahpour (born 1986), moving image artist Danielle April (born 1949), painter, printmaker Raymonde April (born 1953), photographer Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk (1898–1954), sculptor Joi Arcand (born 1982), photographer Louis Archambault (1915–2003), sculptor, ceramicist Robert Archambeau (1933–2022), ceramist Roy Arden (born 1957), sculptor Kate Armstrong, artist, writer, curator Shelagh Armstrong (born 1961), painter Germaine Arnaktauyok (born 1946), printmaker, painter Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2003), artist and printmaker Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970), new media artist Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961), drawing Asinnajaq (born 1991), film & video artist Barbara Astman (born 1950), photography and new media William Edwin Atkinson (1862–1926), painter Melissa Auf der Maur (born 1972), photographer Ghazaleh Avarzamani (born 1980), artist
B
Walter James Baber (1855–1924), painter Frédéric Back (1924–2013), painter, animator Lida Baday (born 1957), fashion designer Buseje Bailey, video, multimedia artist Unity Bainbridge (1916–2017), painter Anna P. Baker (1928–1985), painter Joan Balzar (1928–2016), painter Anna Banana (1940–2024), performance artist Marian Penner Bancroft (born 1947), photographer Casey Bannerman (born 1987), basketball artist Frances Bannerman (1855–1944), painter, poet Marian Bantjes (born 1963), graphic designer, artist, illustrator, typographer, writer Bruce Barber (born 1950), multimedia installation artist J. M. Barnsley (1861–1929), painter Annie Gardner Barr (1864–1921), artist Ed Bartram (1938–2019), printmaker, painter Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker Robert Bateman (born 1930), painter, naturalist Patricia Martin Bates (born 1927), printmaker Jay Battle (born 1966), sculptor Lorna Bauer (born 1980), multi-media artist Fanny Wright Bayfield (1813/14–1891), botanical illustrator Nicole Bazuin, photographer and filmmaker Helen D. Beals (1897–1991), painter Anong Beam, Indigenous painter Carl Beam (1943–2005), painter, printmaker Jackson Beardy (1944–1984), painter Kate Beaton (born 1983), comics artist J. W. Beatty (1869–1941), painter Henri Beau (1863–1949), painter Micheline Beauchemin (1929–2009), textile artist Claire Beaulieu (born 1955), multi-media artist Marie-Hélène Beaulieu (born 1979), glass artist Betty Beaumont (born 1946), environmental artist Tammy Beauvais, Indigenous fashion designer Sarah Beck, sculptor Charles Beil (1894–1976), sculptor Sylvie Bélanger (1951–2020), installation artist Christi Belcourt (born 1966), painter Léon Bellefleur (1910–2007), painter Rebecca Belmore (born 1960), performance artist, installation artist Louis Belzile (1929–2019), painter Lorraine Bénic (born 1937), painter, sculptor Tom Benner (1950–2022), sculptor, installation artist Douglas Bentham (born 1947), sculptor William Berczy (1744–1813), painter Cecilia Berkovic, mixed-media artist Rachel Berman (1946–2014), painter, illustrator Judith Berry (born 1961), painter George Théodore Berthon (1806–1892), painter Derek Michael Besant (born 1950), printmaker, painter Edith Hallett Bethune (1890–1970), photographer Nia Faith Betty (born 2001), fashion designer Scott Beveridge (born 1964), video artist Aggie Beynon, metalsmith David Bierk (1944–2002), painter Olive Biller (1879–1957), painter, illustrator B. C. Binning (1909–1976), painter Yulia Biriukova (1897–1972), painter Mary E. Black (1895–1988), textile artist, writer Persimmon Blackbridge (born 1951), multi-disciplinary performance artist David Blackwood (1941–2022), printmaker Valérie Blass (born 1967), sculptor David Blatherwick (born 1960), painter, video artist Susanna Blunt (born 1955), painter Molly Lamb Bobak (1920–2014), painter, printmaker Catherine Bolduc (born 1970), drawing, sculpture, installation, public art David Bolduc (1945–2010), painter Eleanor Bond (born 1948), multi-media artist, art educator Marion Bond (1922–1965), painter Theodosia Bond (1915–2009), photography Jordi Bonet (1932–1979), sculptor, muralist Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960), painter Sam Borenstein (1908–1969), painter Mary Borgstrom (1916–2019), ceramic artist Diane Borsato (born 1973), multi-disciplinary artist Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945), painter, textile artist Céline Boucher (born 1945), painter, sculptor Diana Boulay (born 1946), sculptor Robert Bourdeau (born 1931), photographer Marie-Claude Bouthillier (born 1960), artist Deanna Bowen (born 1969), multi-disciplinary artist Fiona Bowie, multi-disciplinary artist John Boxtel (1930–2022), sculpture, woodcarving John Boyle (born 1941), painter Shary Boyle (born 1972), sculpture, painting, drawing, performance Barry Bradfield (born 1981), cartoonist Sheree Bradford-Lea, cartoonist Alexandra Bradshaw (1871–1938), painter Eva Theresa Bradshaw (1871–1938), painter Claude Breeze (born 1938), painter Roland Brener (1942–2006), sculptor Rita Briansky (1925–2025), painter and printmaker Sandra Bromley, sculptor AA Bronson (born 1946), mixed-media artist Reva Brooks (1913–2004), photographer Vera Brosgol (born 1984), cartoonist Lorna Brown (born 1958), artist, curator, writer J. Archibald Browne (1862–1948), painter William Brymner (1855–1925), painter Karin Bubaš (born 1976), painter, photographer David Buchan (1950–1994), performance artist, designer Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber (1947–2015), textile artist Krista Buecking (born 1982), sculptor, installation artist Tishynah Buffalo, Indigenous fashion designer Cecil Tremayne Buller (1886–1973), printmaker Angela Bulloch (born 1966), installation, audio artist Nina Bunjevac (born 1973), cartoonist Martin Bureau, multimedia artist Della Burford (born 1946), painter, writer Kay Burns, performance & interdisciplinary artist Cathy Bursey-Sabourin (born 1957), designer Dennis Burton (1933–2013), painter Ralph Wallace Burton (1905–1983), painter Edward Burtynsky (born 1955), photographer Cathy Busby (born 1958), print artist Jack Bush (1909–1977), painter Sheila Butler (born 1938), painter Jane Buyers (born 1948), sculptor
C
Geneviève Cadieux (born 1955), photographer Sveva Caetani (1917–1994), painter Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923–2005), painter, printmaker Dorothy Caldwell (born 1948), fibre artist Elaine Cameron-Weir (born 1985), visual artist Dale Campbell (born 1954), sculptor Valerie Campbell-Harding (1932–2006), textile artist Nicole Camphaug, Inuk fashion designer Janet Cardiff (born 1957), installation artist Lance Cardinal, Cree artist and children's art educator James Carl (born 1960), sculptor Florence Carlyle (1864–1923), painter Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945), painter J. R. Carpenter (born 1972), hypermedia artist, writer Emily Carr (1871–1945), painter Ian Carr-Harris (born 1941), installation artist Heather Carroll (born 1956), multi-disciplinary artist Barbara Caruso (1937–2009), painter Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016), comic artist, illustrator Gino Cavicchioli (born 1957), sculptor, artist Mabel Cawthra (1871–1943), painter Christiane Chabot (born 1950), artist Cynthia Chalk (1913–2018), nature photography Frederick Challener (1869–1959), muralist, painter, teacher Jack Chambers (1931–1978), artist and filmmaker Ruth Chambers (born 1960), installation artist Horace Champagne (born 1937), pastelist Millicent Mary Chaplin (1790–1858), painter Robert Chaplin (born 1968), artist, publisher Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014), painter Lyne Charlebois, photographer, director Judy Chartrand (born 1959), mixed media artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944–1977), printmaker, painter Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985), painter and medical artist Svetlana Chmakova (born 1979), comic artist Olivia Chow (born 1957), sculptor, politician Raymond Chow (born 1941), painter Yucho Chow (1876–1949), photographer Delores Churchill (born 1929), Haida weaver June Clark (born 1941), photographer, sculptor Paraskeva Clark (1898–1986), painter Ann Clarke (born 1944), abstract painter Dana Claxton (born 1959), filmmaker, photographer, performance artist Alberta Cleland (1876–1960), painter F. S. Coburn (1871–1960), painter, illustrator, photographer Wendy Coburn (1963–2015), sculptor Daniel Cockburn (born 1976), filmmaker and performance artist Lynne Cohen (1944–2014), photographer Keith Cole, performance artist Martha Cole (born 1946), textile artist, writer Susan Collett (born 1961), printmaker, ceramist Katherine Collins (born 1947), cartoonist, writer, composer Nicole Collins, painter, performance artist, sound and video artist Petra Collins (born 1992), photographer, designer Nora Collyer (1898–1979), painter Stéphanie Colvey (born 1949), photographer Alex Colville (1920–2013), painter Stephanie Comilang (born 1980), artist and filmmaker Edith Grace Coombs (1890–1986), painter Emily Coonan (1885–1971), painter Christian Corbet (born 1966), painter, sculptor Corno (1952–2016), painter Sonia Cornwall (1919–2006), painter Stanley Cosgrove (1911–2002), painter, draughtsperson and muralist Bruno Cote (1940–2010), painter Graham Coughtry (1931–1999), painter Douglas Coupland (born 1961), sculptural installationRCA Academicians elected 2007 Michèle Cournoyer (born 1943), animator E.B. Cox (1914–2003), sculptor Linda Craddock (born 1952), painter Kate Craig (1947–2002), video and performance artist Josephine Crease (1864–1947), painter Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922), painter, botanical illustrator Susan Reynolds Crease (1855–1947), painter and women's rights activist Marlene Creates (born 1952), artist William Nicoll Cresswell (1818–1888), painter Arthur Crisp (1881–1974), designer, illustrator, muralist Roewan Crowe, multi-disciplinary artist, activist, educator Jill Culiner (born 1945), photographer Maurice Cullen (1866–1934), painter Donigan Cumming (born 1947), multimedia artist Jane Catherine Cummins (1841–1893), painter Greg Curnoe (1936–1992), painter, musician