Lorna Bauer (b. 1980, Toronto) utilizes photography and sculpture to examine humans’ relationships with their surroundings. Her projects are site-related, resulting in works that respond to specific places and contexts, and engage in material and visual investigations of ideas and experiences generated by the ecologies of lived environments.
Born in Toronto, Bauer lives and works in Montreal. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, notably at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery (Athens), and Arsenal Contemporary (New York). She has participated in artist residencies at Despina (Rio de Janeiro), Les Récollets (Paris), the Quebec–New York Residency, Banff Centre (Banff, Alberta), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida).
Bauer’s work is held in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She is the recipient of the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for contemporary Canadian photography (2019), was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award representing Quebec (2021), and received the Gattuso Prize (2024). In spring 2025, Bauer presented her first European solo exhibition, Lotte, at a Kunstverein in Dresden.