PAST exhibitionS:
FULL Circle
solo exhibition - Westland Gallery - 2025
In 2025, I was invited to return for a month-long artist residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland — this time in mid-winter. It was incredible to be able to experience this time of year, with snow against dark sculptural rocks, frozen waterfalls and crashing seas.
Influenced by the stark and dramatic landscape along the East Coast Trail, I created a series of gestural paintings on canvas, using a minimalist palette, evoking the feeling of large charcoal drawings.I was driven to capture the monumental and overwhelming qualities of this transcendent place.
In addition to this winter series, “Full Circle” also included more colour-filled works from a spring and fall series of works, both from Newfoundland and other favourite locations in Canada.
Landmarks
solo exhibition - Westland Gallery - 2024
The works in this collection represent a wide range of my work over the past 3 years. Inspired by landscapes in Newfoundland and Ontario, ‘Landmarks' include my painterly large-scale landscape abstractions, as well as smaller observational pieces: drawings, watercolours and plein air oil sketches.
The exhibition also includes pieces from my recent large oil sketches on canvas collection — airy and gestural works, minimalist, yet full of expression and movement.
As always in my work, this exhibition explores an ongoing artistic dialogue between drawing and painting — with gestural "mark-making” and a passion for Canadian landscapes the guiding force.
The exhibition also includes pieces from my recent large oil sketches on canvas collection — airy and gestural works, minimalist, yet full of expression and movement.
As always in my work, this exhibition explores an ongoing artistic dialogue between drawing and painting — with gestural "mark-making” and a passion for Canadian landscapes the guiding force.
TERRA NOVA
Solo exhibition - Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto - 2023
PHOTO BY NIKKI BAXENDALE - LISA JOHNSON AT POUCH COVE
Earth Marks + Waterlines
3 PERSON SHOW - James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland - 2022
WITH KARA MCINTOSH & HOLLY FRIESEN
Seasons of Change
solo show - Soul Gallery, winnipeg, MB - 2022
TERROIR
2 PERSON SHOW - LONSDALE GALLERY, TORONTO - 2022
WITH JIM REID
2 PERSON SHOW - LONSDALE GALLERY, TORONTO - 2022
WITH JIM REID
Installation, first floor view of TERROIR with Jim Reid, Lonsdale Gallery
PLAYSCAPES
2 PERSON - WESTLAND GALLERY, LONDON - 2021
WITH BROOKE JOHNSON
Lisa Johnson at Westland Gallery, November 2021
For a Video tour of the Playscape show, please click here: https://youtu.be/Hzf2tmxDB2g
THE ROAD SO FAR
SOLO SHOW - LONSDALE GALLERY, TORONTO - 2021
SOLO SHOW - LONSDALE GALLERY, TORONTO - 2021
Westland Gallery - Plein Air Group Exhibition - June 2021
Ontario Society of Artists' Annual Juried Show: John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2019
UPwithART , Museum of London 2019
Westland Gallery, "Space Between" 2019
Propeller Gallery, "Unearthed Tales" with Joseph Muscat, Keijo Tapanainen and Holly Wheatcroft, 2018
Westland Gallery "Common Ground" with Donna Andreychuk and Diane McClure Fall, 2018
Propeller Gallery "UP CLOSE/ far away " April, 2018
with Anastessia Bettas and Jane Theodore
Viewpoints - Westland Gallery, London, ON June 2017
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Two person show with Margarethe Vanderpass
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Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg, MB - "Landmarks" 2017
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Two - person show with Neil Peter Dyck
      GROUP SHOWS:
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- BON ECHO ART EXHIBITION, July 27, 28, 29
- ARTA Gallery, Toronto, Group Show, January 2018
- Connections - Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre - March 2018
- Art Meets Design, Juried Show, Vaughan City Hall "On the Slate" Until Feb. 26, 2018
Previous Exhibitions
Earthscapes - Paintings by Lisa Johnson, Vaughan City Hall, Spring 2016
Selected works, "Metamorphosis Series" Catalogue
Art Toronto, Toronto International Art Fair (With Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg) October 2015
Mazinaw - (Solo)
Project Gallery, Toronto, Fall 2015
Project Gallery, Toronto, Fall 2015
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Duo--Erin Loree & Lisa Johnson
Project Gallery Studio Space, November 2015.
A sense of place
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PROJECT GALLERY Spring 2015
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January, 2015
PROJECT GALLERY TORONTO
JAN. 8 - 28, 2015 Featuring artworks by a dynamic roster of emerging, mid-career, and established artists from the galleries own growing roster and inventory, as well as artworks from the collections of the gallery’s directors and their close associates. |
Featuring Artworks by:
Piotr Adas Chris Austin Romas Astrauskas Alex Cameron Kevin Columbus Kim Dorland Jessica Eaton Kineko Ivic Lisa Johnson Alex McLeod Loraine Mohar Dan Murphy Rupert Nuttle James Olley Charles Pachter Rachel Stec Aiko Suzuki Jen Weber |
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Westland Gallery, London 2014
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propeller Gallery, Toronto 2014
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solo show - project gallery toronto
Lisa Johnson’s solo exhibition ‘Metamorphosis’ is an evolution of enquiries into space and movement within the context of landscape painting. Johnson is fascinated with art
history, drawing upon the techniques of past masters from Rubens and de Kooning to Soutine and Tom Thompson. Through her ethereal and sculpted pigment Johnson depicts vast landscapes where figures seem to poetically emerge. Drawing inspiration from on location studies to develop large studio works, her paintings weave geographic, corporeal, and abstract sensibilities through layers of atmospheric grounds and gestural mark making. Her work speaks to the passage of time over an evolving landscape painted with spirit and musicality. |
Many thanks to Brooke Johnson who produced this video documentation of the show opening.
More photos from the opening:
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Bon Echo Art exhibition - July 2014
"Painter Captures the Magic and Power of Bon Echo" Read more
Music & Art collaboration at King's Concert Series
This one night collaboration of music and art took place on Jan. 31st, 2014.
Kings Concert Series, Oakville, ON
Beethoven, Brahms & Ravel
Hibiki Kobayashi, Violin, Monique de Margerie, Piano, Andras Weber, Cello
With paintings by Lisa Johnson
Some photos of the event, below. Photographer: Roy Wabash
Kings Concert Series, Oakville, ON
Beethoven, Brahms & Ravel
Hibiki Kobayashi, Violin, Monique de Margerie, Piano, Andras Weber, Cello
With paintings by Lisa Johnson
Some photos of the event, below. Photographer: Roy Wabash
Andras Weber, Cello
Monique de Margerie, Piano "The Soloist" oil on canvas, by Lisa Johnson in background |
Beethoven's Archduke Trio
performed by Hibiki Kobayashi, Monique de Margerie and Andras Weber |
Hibiki Kobayashi, Violin
performing a piece by Ravel with Monique de Margerie on piano. Paintings by Lisa Johnson |
Kings Concert Series
Beethoven, Brahms & Ravel
Hibiki Kobayashi, Violin, Monique de Margerie, Piano, Andras Weber, Cello
With paintings by Lisa Johnson
Please view CV for previous exhibitions from 1996 to 2013