PAINTING 2024 is an online exhibition featuring a playlist and a downloadable PDF publication, informed by curator Rosalie Lam‘s deep knowledge of contemporary painting and architecture.

This online project, performs as a broad-based survey of contemporary painting highlighting works by 64 contemporary Canadian and International artists inclusive of John Abrams, Maria Bida Albulet, Victoria Alexander, Maria Antoniv, Karl Apple, Stephen X. Arthur, Phil Atwood, Reginald Balanga, Leslie Bertin, Raffaele Caterini, Nancy R Chalut, Jong-un Choi, Stephenson Cortney, Aleatha Cox, Cherie Daly, Pauline De Four, Rick Degendorfer, Michael Denesyk, Virginia Dixon, Edward Donald, Marina Doukas, Sherry Dube, Marlene Etherington, Marie Finkelstein, Saremifar Firouzeh, Isabel Fryszberg, Rita Hisar, Jill Hobson, Julia Hrivnak, Sanghoon Kang, Edith Kernerman, Celeste Kim, Arnie Lipsey, Lucio Michaela, Barbara McLeod, Carolanne MacLean, Claudia McKnight, Alexandra McLaughlin, Cindy J. Miller,Cong-Hoai Nguyen, Tatianna ODonnell, Suzanne Olivier, Jangmee Park, George Popper, Eugene Radewych, Chantal-Andrée Samson, Irina Schestakowich, Mary Seymour, Wendy Skog, Audrey Smith, Mark Sterling, Torrin Storr, Kate Taylor, Gwen Tooth, Bob Omar Tunnoch, Brian Turner, Alexx Varga, Ken Vincent, Steven Volpe, Gerda Wekerle, Holly Winters and Marcia Zamble.

JUROR’S BIOGRAPHY

Rosalie Lam was born in Vietnam, in the ethnically Chinese city of Cholon. There, she received eight years of training in classical French painting. She moved to Canada, graduated with a degree in Architecture from McGill University, and has been involved in numerous community art groups. She studied for two years at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and for two years at the Sangeet Shyamala Centre in New Delhi. She has exhibited her work in Canada, China and India.

Currently, Lam sits on the Executive Committee of the Ontario Society of Artists. She is known for her recent series of works, exhibited under the title, Cholon, Not Forgotten, which draws from her childhood memories. Created over the past decade, Lam’s sensitive and poetic oil paintings and colour pencil sketches depict a pre-war Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City); intricately weaving together image fragments of family, food, city life, spirituality, and war as much as for organizing a Drawing Club at the Withrow Public School. When the pandemic forced school lockdowns, Lam used Dropbox to share her drawing files with the school for children to draw at home.