Michael Adamson (b. 1971, Toronto, Canada) is a celebrated Canadian painter known for vibrant compositions that blur the line between abstraction and landscape. His signature use of grids, discs of pigment, and horizon lines creates dynamic, layered works described by The Globe and Mail as “paintings that hover so tantalizingly between abstraction and landscape that you end up unwilling to settle for any single reading.”

Adamson studied at Carleton and Ryerson before graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997. A formative year at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany exposed him to the influence of Gerhard Richter and European modernism—an impact that remains central to his work. Since the late 1990s, he has exhibited internationally, including at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Gardiner Museum, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and Thompson’s Galleries in London.

His work is held in prominent public, private, and corporate collections such as the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, and Holt Renfrew. With a career marked by constant evolution and a bold painterly voice, Michael Adamson’s early paintings offer collectors a rare opportunity to own the foundational works that shaped his bold, evolving artistic vision.

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