Michaela Lucio

Canadian artist, Curator and Arts Administrator.

Join me at the Artist Project from May 8-11, 2025 at Booth 640!

I will be debuting my latest body of work I just called to say I love you.

Are you in love with my work, but want a special painting to celebrate your own loved ones and memories?

For the first time I will be offer special custom commissions with a bonus of a discount in celebration of Mother’s Day. For more information about commissions please connect with me.

Tales of a Needle Worker won Best in Show at Woodstock Gallery Visual Elements 66

From Left to right: Jurors Darryn Doull, Lindsay Liboiron and Terry Graff join Best in Show recipient Michaela Lucio (me!) with her series, Tales of a Needleworker, 2024. Photo Credit: Stephan Cam, Woodstock Art Gallery Read Article

Ethereal. Dreamy. Whimsical.

Michaela explores the residue of histories contained in family photographs and infuses intergenerational relationships with memory and imagination.

See Latest Work

The Velvet Room, 2023 — Included in the Jackson’s Art Prize 2024 Longlist View Here

15,345 artworks where submitted to this prestigious competition - The Velvet Room in the top 2.7%

Here In the Garden You Are Growing On Me, 2024 won first place at the Leamington Art Centre’s WFCU Credit Union Painting Competition and Exhibit (2024)

Michaela Lucio

Michaela Lucio is a Canadian artist, curator, and arts administrator.  In her art practice, Lucio explores the residue of histories contained in family photographs and infuses intergenerational relationships with memory and imagination. She lives in Chatham-Kent, Ontario and is the Assistant Curator of the Thames Art Gallery. Lucio holds a Specialist Honours Bachelor of Art from the University of Toronto Mississauga, an Advanced Diploma in Art and Art History from Sheridan College, and earned a Silver Metal Award upon graduating. She has exhibited her art at galleries across Ontario, including The Living Art Centre (Mississauga), The First Canadian Place (Toronto), Gallery 1313 (Toronto), and Glenhryst Art Gallery (Brantford). In 2022, she won first place at the WFCU Credit Union Painting Competition and Exhibition (Leamington Art Centre).