Education
2023 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Painting/Printmaking
2021 BFA, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Drawing and Painting, Minor in Social Sciences
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Just Short of Contact, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
2025 What the Edge Knows, CIBC Square, Toronto, ON, Canada
Soft Tissue, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal QC, Canada
2024 Manqué Melancholia, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada
2023 Nineteen Eighty-Five, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
PAINT YOUR LIFE!, curated by Ryan Steadman, Leo Koenig Inc., Andes, NY
Love Letter, curated by Hannah Traore, Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY
Queer Asynchronies, curated by Adrian Hall, United Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
Spring and All, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada
Skin of Sight, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2025
The Intuitionist, with Xavier Daniels, curated by Charles Moore, 21c Museum Hotel Durham, Durham, NC
2024
Uninterrupted Resilience, Diane von Furstenberg Flagship and Gallery, New York, NY
Pulperfect: An Action of Continued Relevance, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Years: Anniversary Show, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
2023
a signal urgent but breaking:, Perrotin, New York, NY
Ahorita, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
This Too Shall Pass, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Thesis Group Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022
Circularity of (Un)knowing, Mayten’s Gallery
a prologue to somewhere: 2nd-Year MFA Fall Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
As Black as the Rainbow, Phillips, New York, NY
The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Brought It Home: A Continuum, Afro-American Cultural Center, New Haven, CT
Black Futures, George Brown Waterfront Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021
Action Required, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
GradEx 106, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Art Fairs
2026
Plural Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, QC, Canada
Felix Art Fair, Yossi Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025
Art Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada
UNTITLED Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
UNTITLED Art, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Miami Beach, FL
The Armory Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2024
EXPO Chicago, solo presentation, Wilding Cran, Chicago, IL
Art Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Armory Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Dallas Art Fair, Yossi Milo Gallery, Dallas, TX
Felix Art Fair, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
2023
ADAA: The Art Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Art Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Armory Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Art Toronto, The Next Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
UNTITLED Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
The Armory Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
RBC Art Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Wedge Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada
GreyChurch Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Awards and Grants
2025 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant
2024 Northern Trust Purchase Prize, EXPO Chicago
2021 David W. Bain Award
2020 OCAD University Diversity and Equity Excellence Award
Christopher Pratt & Mary West Pratt Bursary
Residencies
2024 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2022 The Royal Drawing School, Dumfries, Scotland
Selected Press
2026
David Ebony, “PAINT YOUR LIFE!,” Upstate Diary, June 2026
“Natia Lemay’s Darkened Interiors Debut in Los Angeles,” ArtDaily, February 2026
2025
Adam Lauder, “Natia Lemay: What the Edge Knows,” Esse
Byron Armstrong, “Natia Lemay and Xavier Daniels’ ‘The Intuitionist’ at 21c Museum Hotel Durham,” Whitehot Magazine, July 2025
2024
Charles Moore, “Natia Lemay: The Art of Being Seen,” Juxtapoz
Victor Sandoval, “Natia Lemay,” Portray Magazine
2023
Blake Gopnik, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries,” The New York Times
Byron Armstrong, “Nineteen Eighty-Five: Natia Lemay Goes Beneath the Surface in Her First NYC Solo Show,” Whitehot