Martin Golland’s paintings present a fictional meeting point between a built environment and the natural world, resulting in imaginary architectural spaces. His work is created from a broad range of painting techniques that respond to the contradicting history of representational painting. Subjects such as screens, frames, mirrors, windows, and curtains are influenced by the physical properties of paint itself. Using these subjects gives the artist a way to question the act of looking. This blurs the transition between imagination and reality, the bizarre and reverie.

Martin Golland was born in Montpellier (France) in 1975. Golland received his MFA in 2006 from the University of Guelph (Canada). He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Imaging Disaster at the Museum London (Canada), The Archivist’s Etagère at Birch Contemporary in Toronto (2012), DARK TOWN at the Felix Ringel Galerie (Germany); What is said and what is meant at the MacDonald Stewart Art Center in Guelph (Canada); Human Nature at the Carleton University Art Gallery (Canada). He has received the prestigious Honorable Mention Prize at the 11th Annual RBC Painting Competition and exhibited in various museums and galleries across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant Toronto, the Musée d’Art contemporain de Montréal, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Publications include the 2012 catalog Lush Life: The Painting World of Martin Golland with an essay by critic James D. Campbell.

REPRESENTED

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Birch Libralato, Toronto, QC (Canada)
Galerie Michel Guimont, Québec, QC (Canada)

COLLECTIONS

National Bank of Canada (Canada)
Music Sales Corporation, New York, NY (United States of America)
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Gowlings, Toronto, ON (Canada)
The Canadiana Fund Crown Collection, Ottawa, ON (Canada)
Private collections in Canada, Unites States and Germany

EDUCATION

2004- 2006
MFA University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (Canada)

1994-1998
BFA Concordia University, Montreal, QC (Canada)