Arthur Lismer, C.C. (June 27, 1885 – March 23, 1969) was a Canadian painter and also a member of the Group of Seven.

He was born in Sheffield, England; he emigrated from England to Canada during 1911. He settled in the Toronto, Ontario and took a job with new Grip - a commercial design company. The collaboration of four artists working at the Grip gradually evolved into as the “Group of Seven”, easily the most well-known art movement in the Canadian painting history. Another artist was also associated with the group is Tom Thomson (though technically he died before this group formed), who also worked with the cadre at Grip.

Arthur Lismer’s style was mainly influenced by his pre-Canadian experience (primarily in Antwerp) where he found the Barbizon and post-impressionist movements a cheif inspiration.

Collaborating with the group of artists who would, during 1919, and became the Group of Seven, Lismer exhibits the characteristic organic style, and own spiritual connection with the landscape that could embody that group’s work.

In 1967 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Ozias Leduc (October 8, 1864 - June 16, 1955) was one of Quebec’s early painters. He was born in the city Saint-Hilaire de Rouville. Leduc produced many portraits, still lives and also landscapes, plus religious works. He is best known for his work decorating the Notre-Dame-de-la-Presentation church along with Shawinigan South, a project which took him thirteen years to complete. Leduc lived a very lonely life at his home town and was dubbed “the sage of St-Hilaire”. He died in the Saint-Hyacinthe in 1955.

Leduc was chiefly self-taught. Around 1880, he worked with the Luigi Cappello, an Italian painter, on the church decorations. Around 1881, he was employed at the Carli, a manufacturer of statues in the Montreal. Around 1883, he also worked with Adolphe Rho; adorn another church, this time in the Yamachiche, Quebec. After that, he then started working on his own on church decorations. Leduc made a short trip to Paris and London during 1897 along with Suzor-Coté, where he was influenced by some impressionists.

Leduc also received an honorary doctorate from the University de Montréal during 1938. His legacy includes teaching Paul-Émile Borduas.

William Kurelek (March 3, 1927 – November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer.

He was born near Whitford, Alberta during 1927. His family lost the entire farm during the Great Depression and then moved to Stonewall, Manitoba. He already had an early interest in art which was not motivated by his hard-working parents. He then studied at the Ontario College of Art and at the Instituto Allende in Mexico.

In 1952, he was hospitalized in England for depression and other emotional problems. Originally Ukrainian Orthodox, Kurelek converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1957 and later painted a number of series 160 paintings on the Passion of Christ.

He returned to Toronto and also produced a series of classic children’s books including his own artwork:

•A Prairie Boy’s Winter (1973) ISBN 0-88776-102-X
•Lumberjack (1974) ISBN 0-88776-378-2
•A Prairie Boy’s Summer (1975) ISBN 0-88776-116-X
•A Northern Nativity (1976) ISBN 0-88776-099-6
•In 1976, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He died in Toronto in 1977.

Cornelius Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 8, 1872) is possibly the most popular Canadian painter of the 19th century. Krieghoff is most well-liked work for his paintings of Canadian landscapes and Canadian life outdoors, especially in the winter. He painted a number of variants of his most famous subject matter (e.g. Running the Toll).

Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, but moved to New York during 1836. In 1840 he moved to Canada, where his wife Emily was from. In 1871 Krieghoff moved to Chicago, died within the year at the age of 56. He is buried in the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

His work includes:

•French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards (1848 ), lithograph with watercolor on wove paper
•The Sleigh Race on the St-Lawrence at Quebec (1852), oil on canvas
•Montmorency Falls (1853), oil on canvas
•The Habitant Farm (1856)
•Self-portrait (1855), oil on canvas
•Bilking the Toll (1860), oil on canvas

Germaine Koh (born 1967) is a Malaysian born globally active Canadian artist. At the age of two she immigrated to Canada.

She is an abstract artist working out of Vancouver, B.C., self-described as having “no fixed address” whose art included usage of everyday objects and familiar concepts into her work. Her work is known to the world and she has been shown at many galleries, plus the Art Gallery of Alberta in 2004, Frankfurter Kunstverein during 2003, and Bloomberg SPACE during 2003 and in many other renowned galleries across globe.

Her work could be characterized by public communication and also everyday concepts. For example, one of her latest works “Call” is a very old telephone in a public space. When the phone is picked up it arbitrarily dials a number of a participant, which had agreed to have conversations with strangers at any time of the day.

There isn’t a typical “Germaine Koh” piece - she utilizes many other different materials for every piece she creates, yet each piece encompasses a real ideology, perhaps best said by Koh herself in a Rhizome.org Interview.

Christopher Kier (born Toronto 1959) is an encaustic painter who graduated from the Ontario College of Art in the year 1987. He is represented by the New zones Gallery of the Contemporary Art in a Calgary, Alberta. Encaustic painting, also known as “hot wax painting,” involves using heated beeswax to that colored pigments is added. The liquid/paste is after applied to a surface — generally prepared wood, though canvas and with other materials are often used.

His works have been obtained by corporate collections such as those of Air Canada, Westin and Nordstrom.

Aart Kemink (1914-2006) (variant name Arie Kemink) was a Dutch-Canadian painter, born May 30th, 1914 in the city Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In the late 1940s, he shared his studio with the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and, during early 1950s, became a member of the Federation of Professional Artists. Before immigrating to Canada in 1958, he then worked with compatriot artist Karel Appel, well known for his involvement in the Danish-Belgian-Dutch CORBA movement - see COBRA (avant-garde movement). In 1957, Kemink participated in the major exhibition of artists working for the theatre and circus at the Amsterdam’s Fodor Museum.

While Kemink held his own among Amsterdam and the Rotterdam’s artistic elite (a disparate group, which included artists such as Piet Mondrian, Anton Rooskens, Corneille, and even Eugène Brands). His reticence had to adopt a style or affiliate with a movement shielded his work from his influence of banal and ephemeral trends in Modern and Post-Modern Dutch painting. Upon his arrival in Canada, he settled in Manitoba, and then finally in Toronto, Ontario. Kemink’s works are distributed throughout Canada and the United States by Maurice Amar, curator of Toronto’s eminent Laurier Gallery.

Kemink’s work is largely abstract and tangentially influenced by the oeuvre of Marc Chagall and Willem de Kooning. Much of his work of the Forties and Fifties was affected by World War II and the deleterious effects of the Nazi presence in Holland. During the war, Kemink fought for the Dutch resistance.

Lena (Elena) Karpinsky (1961 - ) is a Canadian artist.

Lena Karpinsky was born in Moscow, Russia. She is the granddaughter of Professor Ilya Klyachko (Piano faculty, Moscow Conservatory).

Lena Karpinsky lived from 1991 to 2000 in Israel. Since 2000, she had lived and worked in a Toronto, Ontario, Canada suburb.

Lena’s preferred subjects are music and flowers. Most of her compositions are abstract; some can also be described as naïve art.

Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations roots; he is based now in Vancouver. Jungen was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia on April 29, 1970. He graduated his degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1992.

 Jungen’s art draws upon the tradition of “found art,” took up by such twentieth-century artists as Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Instead of presenting objects “as-is,” nevertheless, Jungen often reworks them without fully hiding their original meaning or purpose. For instance, Jungen’s series Prototypes of New Understanding consists of indigenous masks assembled from parts of Nike Air Jordan shoes and also hand-sewn. Jungen writes: “It was attractive to see how by just manipulating the Air Jordan shoes you could suggest specific cultural traditions whilst simultaneously amplifying the process of cultural corruption and assimilation. The Nike mask sculptures seemed to eloquent a paradoxical relationship between a industrial artefact and an ‘authentic’ native artifact.”

Edwin Holgate (born in the Allandale, Ontario on August 19, 1892; died in Montreal, Quebec on May 21, 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and also engraver. Holgate played a chief role in Montreal’s art society, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, where he both studied and trained. He was known above all as a portraitist and for a number of female nudes in outside settings, which he painted during the 1930s.

Holgate studied at the Art Association of Montreal during William Brymner (who also taught A. Y. Jackson) times and later Maurice Cullen. In 1912 he studied in Paris. He was traveling Ukraine during the outset of World War I, and was forced to cross Asia to return to Canada. He returned to France with the group Canadian Army.

Holgate’s first presentation was detained at the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. He taught timber engraving at the Montreal’s École des Beaux-Arts from 1928 to 1934.

The National Gallery of Canada held a display of his work in 1975. The Montreal Museum of Fine Art prearranged another retrospective in 2005.