Biography
Emelie Robertson, born in 1997, received her BFA from the University of Guelph in 2019 and her MFA at Western University in 2026. 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.
The Place Between a Feeling in July 2025 was Robertson’s first solo exhibition with the Michael Gibson Gallery. 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. Originally from Geraldton in Northwestern Ontario, Robertson is of French and Scottish ancestry.
Selected Works
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Eight Makes Infinity, 2026
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Mind Over Matter, 2026
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Water #1, 2026
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River Tree, 2025
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Something in the Water, 2025
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On the Edge, 2026
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Exit Strategy, 2026
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Snow on the Thames, 2025
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Red line, yellow line, blue line, spring, 2026
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Reaching, fluttering, fumbling, 2026
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Spring Forest, 2025
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Green Portal, 2025
Exhibitions
September 19 - October 31 - 2026
Emelie Robertson “Phase Dance”
Emelie Robertson's new works on paper reference the landscape, both as a literal place as well as a perception of a place through memory.
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October 23 - October 26 - 2025
Art Toronto 2025
Join us for Art Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre October 23 - 26, 2025
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BORN
1997, Geraldton, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
2026 Masters of Fine Art, Western University, London, ON
2019 BA(H), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Specialization in Studio Art, Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 “Recent Works”, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2026 “Sightlines”, Artlab Gallery, Western University, London, ON
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
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