Corri-Lynn Tetz
Artist Profile
Corri-Lynn Tetz (b. 1977, Calgary, Canada). Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Corri-Lynn Tetz is a painter who works in oil on canvas. Her subject is the female figure, through which she explores identity, sensation and desire. She paints from an archive of found images and her own photographs.
Her sources include fashion photography, film, pornography and photographs she takes in her studio. She paints quickly and intuitively, with unexpected colour and loosely defined forms, so that each figure moves away from its source and sits between representation and abstraction. The paintings in Art Lover (2021) showed figures painted largely in blues and greys. Her most recent series depicts women dancing. For Chrysalis (2026), 167.6 × 152.4 cm, she photographed a trained dancer performing in her studio, then painted the background in washes of oil and spray paint.
Tetz studied at Red Deer College and at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, where she received her BFA in 2003. She completed an MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2015. She was a finalist for the RBC Painting Competition in 2012. She has received fellowships from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her first institutional solo exhibition, Art Lover, was held at Contemporary Calgary in 2021. Solo exhibitions followed at Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2022), Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2023) and 12.26, Dallas (2025). Her first European solo exhibition, Tender Buttons, opened at Sim Smith, London, in 2024. In 2026 Blouin Division presented her work at The Armory Show, New York.
Her work is held in the Majudia Collection, the Senvest Collection and the Shulamit Nazarian collection.
Selected Exhibitions & CV
Education
MFA Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2015)
BFA, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada (2003)
Diploma of Art and Design, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Canada (1999)
Awards
The Hopper Prize, finalist (2025)
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Fellowship (2024)
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant (2019, 2021)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant (2019)
Salt Spring National Art Prize, finalist (2017)
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Project Fellowship (2016, 2017)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Research and Creation Grant (2016)
Brucebo Foundation, Residency Fellowship, Gotland, Sweden (2016)
Fine Arts Travel Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2013)
RBC Painting Competition, finalist (2012)
Helen Couture Award in Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2012)
Takao Tanabe Award, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada (2002)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Solo exhibition, Sim Smith, London (2026)
Bell, Book and Candle, 12.26, Dallas, USA (2025)
Tender Buttons, Sim Smith, London (2024)
Quiet Time, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA (2023)
Heaven goes on forever and ever and ever, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA (2022)
Light Wishes, Division Gallery (now Blouin Division), Montreal, Canada (2022)
Art Lover, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada (2021)
Soft Touch, Dianna Witte Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2020)
Two-Person Exhibitions
Night Shades, with Urara Tsuchiya, 12.26, Dallas, USA (2024)
The Golden Hour, with Rosalind Breen, LKAP, Winnipeg, Canada (2017)
Selected Group Exhibitions
JEM, Sim Smith, London (2025)
Bodiless Body, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2024)
Looking Like Fire, Sim Smith, London (2023)
Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York, USA (2023)
VOLUPTÉ, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada (2023)
Virgo, Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2022)
North by Northeast: Contemporary Canadian Painting, Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (2021)
En bonne compagnie, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada (2020)
Art Fairs
The Armory Show, Blouin Division, New York, USA (2026)
Dallas Art Fair, Blouin Division, Dallas, USA (2024, 2025)
Dallas Art Fair, 12.26, Dallas, USA (2021)
Art Toronto, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects and Jarvis Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2017, 2018, 2019)
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2018, 2019)
Seattle Art Fair, Back Gallery Projects, Seattle, USA (2018)
Residencies
Colstoun Arts, East Lothian, Scotland (2024)
Studio Residency, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal, Canada (2022, 2024)
NARS Foundation, New York, USA (2023)
Paulina Olowska Studio, Athens, Greece (2022)
Artist-in-Residence, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2021 to 2022)
Artist House Kadenówka, Rabka, Poland (2021)
Leighton Colony, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (2019)
Brucebo Residency, Gotland, Sweden (2016)
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA (2016)
The Universe and Other Systems, with Shary Boyle, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (2014)
Selected Collections
Majudia Collection, Montreal, Canada
Senvest Collection, Montreal, Canada
Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, USA
Equity Bank