MICHAEL THOMPSON

MICHAEL THOMPSON was born in 1954 in Montreal, Quebec. He studied Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1976 and a Graduate Degree in Fine Arts in 1978. He began exhibiting in 1978 and is now widely regarded as one of Canada’s foremost realist painters. Over the last five decades he has created a body of work which is remarkable for its clarity of vision, meticulous technique and enigmatic energy. 

His work has been exhibited widely in both private and public galleries in Canada and the United States, including large survey exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1983, the Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery in 1994 and the Art Gallery of Peel in 2007.

MICHAEL THOMPSON’s personal approach to painting has attracted much critical attention, and his work can be found in major public, corporate and private collections throughout North America including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Ontario, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Museum London, Ontario; The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vancouver Art Gallery, Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Gluskin Sheff and Associates, and Scotiabank.

MICHAEL THOMPSON lives and works in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and is represented exclusively by Mira Godard Gallery.