Lacey Jane Wilburn

Lacey Jane Wilburn (b. 1988, Edmonton, Alberta) is a contemporary artist most notable for her figurative and architectural paintings that oscillate between gesture and reality. Wilburn studied Fine Art at the University of Grant MacEwan in Edmonton in 2009, received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Concordia University in Montreal in 2016 after studying abroad at the l’Ecole d'Enseignement Supérieur d'art de Bordeaux in France, and most recently she obtained her Masters of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2022. ​​She has participated in over 40 exhibitions since 2009, received a University Women’s Club of Vancouver Scholarship in 2022 and 2021, and won the Yves Gaucher Prize in Studio Arts in 2016, the D. L. Stevenson Colour Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 2014, the Francis Henderson Klingle Scholarship for Fine Art in 2009, The Barbara and John Poole Family Endowed Fund for the Arts in 2009, and the Jason Lang Scholarship for Excellence in 2007. In 2010, she formed the urban art duo LALA [Lacey And Layla Art] who have developed over 140 public mural interventions across Canada, France, Honduras, Uganda and Iceland, and have received over $150,000 in grants from federal and municipal funding. Based now ...

2020-2022- MFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
2015-2016- Erasmus, L’Ecole d'Enseignement Supérieur d'art de Bordeaux, France
2013-2015-BFA, Concordia University, Montreal
2007-2009- Fine Art Diploma, University of Grant MacEwan, Edmonton

Solo Exhibitions
2024: Early Days, BBAM! Gallery, Montreal, QC
2023: Pretending to Sleep, BLAH, West Vancouver, BC
2022: Shelter in Place, Revelstoke Art Gallery, Revelstoke, BC
2022: Shelter in Place, Michael Wright Art Gallery, Poco, BC
2020: Fugitive Moments, BBAM! Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018: Before the Sound, BBAM! Gallery, Montreal, QC

Duo Exhibitions
2016: Pillars of the Community, City Hall, Edmonton, AB
2015: Saucy, BBAM! Gallery, Montreal, QC
2013: Hot Sluts and Poutine, BBAM! Gallery, Montreal, QC