About Us
Welcome—this is the official home of Frances Foster, a Montreal artist and art activist whose practice blends visual storytelling with social awareness. Frances’ work has been recognized and collected, including placements in the Senvest Collection and the Colart Collection, and presented in a range of creative contexts—from gallery exhibitions to public-facing projects.
Frances Foster
Creative Artist
Frances Foster was born in Montreal and first studied art at Dawson College. She later studied fine-art at Simon Fraser University and Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia where she received honors in painting and drawing and won the Inveresk scholarship for drawing in 1988. Returning to her native Montreal, she received a bachelor’s degree in fine-art at Concordia University in 1990.
A passionate and accomplished artist, her large and small-scale paintings, drawings evoke surreal and mythical realities, addressing the environment and human nature. She has participatedin numerous group exhibitions and solo efforts over the years and in the 1990's, Frances helped runa non-profit arts organization. More recently, her art action has helped spearhead the fight to reclaim a destroyed urban green space in her neighbourhood known as "Gorilla Park."
Her works can be found in the corporate collections of Avmor, Colart and Senvest, as well as numerous private collections across Canada and the United States. She lives and works in her studio in an industrial building situated in the heart of Montreal’s old garment district known as Marconi-Alexandra.
