Biography
Emelie Robertson received her BFA from the University of Guelph in 2019 and is a current MFA candidate at Western University. A chance high school trip to Temagami introduced her to the painting medium, which has become her life’s passion ever since. She is interested in the perception of nature and the expression of place – painting that simulates the emotional and optic experience of being within the forest.
In 2023, Robertson was included in the group show “How Was Your Fire” at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound and the recipient of a 2024 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
Selected Works
Emelie Robertson
Gallery Installation View
Emelie Robertson
The Bridge at Ivey Park, 2025
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Within Reach, 2025
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Convection 1, 2024
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Morning Walk on Wharncliffe, 2025
Emelie Robertson
Winter Sun Through Maples, 2025
Emelie Robertson
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An Encounter, 2025
Emelie Robertson
Spring Forest, 2025
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Spring Thaw, 2025
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Shadow Crossing, 2025
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Green Portal, 2025
Emelie Robertson
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Dark Matter, 2024
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Spring in the River Valley, 2025
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Before The Freeze Up, 2025
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Snow on the Thames, 2025
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Silver Portal, 2025
Exhibitions
July 3 - July 26 - 2025
Emelie Robertson “The Place Between A Feeling”
Upcoming July Exhibition introducing the richly layered observational landscapes by Emelie Robertson.
MoreCurriculum Vitae
BORN
1997, Geraldton, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
2026 MFA Candidate, Western University (Projected Completion)
2019 B.A(H), University of Guelph, Specialization in Studio Art, Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “The Place Between A Feeling”, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2023 “Seeing Through”, Yellowknife City Gallery, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
2023 “Rite of Passage”, Art Gallery of NWT – Mobile Gallery, Yellowknife, NT
2019 “Buffer Zone”, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “How is Your Fire?” Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2023 “Fight or Flight”, Northern Life Museum & Cultural Centre, Fort Smith, NT
2021 “The Plumbraiser”, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
2020 “Left to Your own Devices”, Silence Gallery, Guelph, ON
2019 “This Idea was Given to me by a Thousand People (Who are These People)”, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph
2018″ This is Not a Landscape” (with Ahmri Vandeborne), Zavitz Gallery, Guelph
2018 “Bon-hom-ie”, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph
2018 “JAS Top 10 Show” Boarding House Gallery, Guelph
2018 “(ir)regular (ir)rational”, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph
AWARDS
2024 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation 1st Grant
2024 Western Graduate Entrance Scholarship
2022 Concept to Realization – Emerging Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Painting Award, University of Guelph
2018 Painting Award, University of Guelph
2016 Helen Cross Memorial Scholarship, University of Waterloo
RESIDENCIES
2020 Co-Create Digital Residency, Otherwise Studio & Bumaroo, Guelph, ON
PRESS
2023 CBC North Radio – The Trailbreaker with Hilary Bird – March 28, 2023: Interview with the
Fort Smith painter Emelie Robertson about the Art Show at the Yellowknife Visitors’ Centre
2023 “Searching for light in nature and entanglement” Review by Cristiano Pareira, (translated from French to English) April 13, 2023, L’Aquilon Publishing
