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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 between Whistler and Vancouver on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Lil’wat nations respectively, Wilburn is a professor of art at Emily Carr University and dedicated her time to painting, teaching and scuba diving.