Naomi London

Visual Arts

Naomi London has given her audiences big plush letters that lean over each other and spell out the word “hope,” knitted sweaters that wrap around heads and trees or sport enormously long arms and adorned walls with polka dots. The Montreal visual artist, according to critic Anna Maria Carlevaris, “engages the viewer’s imagination in play, wonder and sensual delight.” She has exhibited in Canada, the US, Europe, and Japan and has been involved in numerous group shows. Her work can be found in public and private collections, including Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts and Musée d’art contemporain. She graduated with a MFA from UCLA and a BFA from Concordia University, and now teaches in the Fine Arts Department at Dawson College. She was lured back to Montreal by several things, including family, the opportunity to live in two languages and in what she sees as a liberal Quebec culture. (PF)