Marion Landry's art practice is grounded in a phenomenological approach, which prioritizes the embodied experience of painting. She creates site-adjusted installations that utilize light, temperature, and traditional painting techniques to immerse viewers in a sensory experience. Landry's geometrical compositions draw inspiration from iconic optical strategies, such as chromatic vibrations, hard-edged forms, and geometrical composition, positioning her work in dialogue with, but not limited to, the tenets of Modernist abstraction. These echoes aim to explore and question the possibilities of abstraction in contemporary art.
Landry's training in Design and career as a 3D Architecture Visualization Specialist inform the way she observes, organizes, and translates the pictorial plane. She obtained her BFA (2016) and an MFA (2023) from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and has participated in exhibitions across Canada and internationally since 1999. In 2022 and 2023, she was awarded the University Women's Club of Vancouver Scholarship as well as the ECU x Griffin Residency Awards (July-Aug 2023).
Originally from Montreal and a Francophone, Landry currently lives and creates her work on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations in Vancouver, BC.