Michaela Lucio

Michaela Lucio is a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

  In her art practice, Lucio engages with identity and narrative; she explores the residue of histories contained in family photographs and infuses intergenerational relationships with memory and imagination. Her work often dives into the lived experiences of womanhood, utilizing mediums such as watercolour, embroidery, and fibre arts, mediums steeped with associations with femininity and feminism.

  Lucio began her role as Assistant Curator of the Thames Art Gallery in 2019. she holds a Specialist Honours Bachelor of Art from the University of Toronto and an Advanced Diploma in Art and Art History from Sheridan College, where she was awarded the prestigious Silver Metal Award upon graduating.

  She has exhibited her art in juried exhibitions at galleries across Southwestern Ontario, including The Living Art Centre (Mississauga), The First Canadian Place (Toronto), Gallery 1313 (Toronto), and Glenhryst Art Gallery (Brantford). In 2022 and 2024, she won first place at the WFCU Credit Union Painting Competition and Exhibition (Leamington Art Centre). In 2024, her work was included in Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist (Jackson Art Supplies), and she won Best in Show in Visual Elements 66 (Woodstock). For more information, please visit her website.

"Tales of a Needle Worker," 2024

Recent work by Michaela

"The Closer I Get," Monotype, 29 cm x 35 cm, 2017

“A Choir of Histories," Waxed watercolor on mylar mounted on canvas with hand embroidery. 12" x 12"

"Here In the Garden You Are Growing On Me," Waxed Watercolour on Frosted Mylar Mounted to Canvas, 40” x 30”, 2024

"The Velvet Room," Watercolour on Frosted Mylar on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12", 2023

"Collage 9," Mixed Media Photo Collage, 2016

"The Distance Between Us," Monotype, 28 cm x 35 cm, 2017

"Mottled Toile," Watercolour on Frosted Mylar, 38 ¾” x 39 ¾", 2019

“You Tie Me in Knots," Waxed watercolor on mylar mounted on canvas with hand embroidery. 12" x 12"

"Collage 3," Mixed Media Photo Collage, 2016

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