Tristram Lansdowne situates his watercolor paintings of modern villas at the fulcrum point between aspects of an architecture that attracts us but does not welcome us. Working with aplomb under a most elegant surface he manipulates perspective and how an image unfolds to access spatial ambiguity, discontinuity, and the uncanny.Tristram Lansdowne is a Canadian artist whose watercolors, sculptures, installation and prints focus on themes related to landscape and architecture. Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art & Design with a BFA in 2007 he has exhibited across Canada and the U.S. Recent exhibitions include Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada at the Mendel, Provisional Futures at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Empire of Dreams at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Contained at the Boston Centre for the Arts, and Half Master at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn. He was a semi-finalist in the 2011 RBC Painting Competition and in 2013 his work was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada.

Tristram Lansdowne - About Face 

watercolour on paper, 2016, 27.5” x 39.5 ” 

Tristram Lansdowne - String Theory

watercolour on paper, 2014, 14”x21.25"

Tristram Lansdowne - Blinkers

watercolour on paper, 2014, 14” x 21.25 ”

2016 - The Living Room - WIL KUCEY GALLERY, Toronto

2016 - RISD MFA GRAD SHOW Nancy Margolis Gallery NYC

2014 -  Provisional Futures - Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, ON

2014 - Contractions - LE Gallery Toronto

2012 - Fata Morgana - LE Gallery Toronto

2010 - Refuge - Joshua Liner Gallery NYC

2010 - Archimancy – LE Gallery, Toronto

2009 -  Entropical Paradise – LE Gallery, Toronto

2008 - Structural Integrity – LE Gallery, Toronto

2007 - Beautiful Decay – Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 - Terraformers – Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent                              University, England (upcoming)

2016 -  Imagined Futures – Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire QC

2015 -  Half Master – Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn

2015 -  UFO Hunters – Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence RI

2015 -  Fever Dream –  Gelman Gallery, Providence RI

2014 -  Order of Operations – Breeze Block Gallery, Portland OR

2014 -  Contemporary Drawings From the Drawing from the                               Collection of the National Gallery of Canada
              Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

2012-14 Ecotopia – Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Southern Alberta                Art Gallery

2012 - Space/Form – Breeze Block Gallery, Portland OR

2012 - Death and the City – LE Gallery, Toronto

2012 - 60 Painters – Humber College School of Arts and Media,                        Etobicoke ON

2011 - RBC Painting Competition Finalist Exhibition – Art Gallery of                 Alberta; Art Gallery of Hamilton; The Power Plant

2011 - Hanged & Drawn – LE Gallery, Toronto

2011 - Contained – Boston Centre for the Arts

2010 - Empire of Dreams: Phenomenology of The Built                                      Environment – Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,                        Toronto

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