Episode 245

Photo Credit: Gesi Schilling: Fountainhead Artist Residency

Ep.245 Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her Interdisciplinary autoethnographic practice reflects her lived experience. Through personal stories, she interrogates the intersections between the mind, the body, and space to understand how these experiences relate to a broader cultural context.

Natia Lemay has exhibited widely throughout North America. The artist was selected for the 2024 Fountainhead residency in Miami and the 2022 Royal Drawing School Residency in Dumfries, Scotland. She was awarded the National Trust Prize at Expo Chicago 2024, with her work acquired by High Museum in Atlanta in addition to being collected by the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art and The Montclair Museum of Art. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design in 2021 with a minor in Social Sciences and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2023.

Artist https://www.natialemay.com/

Whitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/her-first-nyc-solo-show/5792

Fountainhead Arts https://www.fountainheadarts.org/fhtv/artists/natia-lemay

Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/natia-lemay-the-act-of-being-seen/

Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/artists/natia_lemay/1335#biography

Galerie Nicolas Robert https://www.gallerynicolasrobert.com/natia-lemay

Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/851029/miami-fountainhead-residency-2024-selected-artists/

Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/wilding-cran-gallery/artworks/natia-lemay/these-strange-girls-will-radiate-in-our-darkness/

Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/natia-lemay/

New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/natia-lemay

All images courtesy of the Artist’s studio.

Cowboys Cry 2025
Oil on Canvas
62in x 51in