Lorna Bauer
Lorna Bauer utilizes photography and sculpture to examine human’s relationships to their surroundings. Bauer’s projects are characterized as site-related, leading to a final result that has responded to a specific place and context, and speaks to a material and visual investigation into ideas and experiences generated from ecologies of lived environments.
Lorna Bauer has been featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad: the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, (Athens). She has been artist-in-residence at Despina (Rio de Janeiro), The Récollets (Paris), the Quebec-New York Residency, Banff Centre and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and most recently in 2022 Dufftown, Scotland, as part of the prestigious Glenfiddich Artist in Residence program. Her works are present in public and private collections, notably the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Most recently Bauer was awarded the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for contemporary Canadian photography (2019) and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award representing Quebec. She is currently the Artist in Residence at Concordia University in Studio Arts. The artist lives and works between Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) and Mooers, New York (Clinton County).