Andrea Mortson is a Canadian collage artist and painter. Her practice, in both mediums, is a careful process of worrying about the future. This involves questioning the role of images and artists in the complex relationship between individual and collective experience, the inherent hubris of passive consumption and the promotion of nostalgia and escapism for power.
Andrea Mortson’s paintings were included in Oh, Canada, Mass MoCA’s survey of contemporary Canadian art and Le Projet Peinture, Galerie de l’UQAM’s “snapshot of painting in Canada”. She is a recipient of the Marie Hélène Allain Fellowship Award and has been longlisted for both the Sobey Art Award and the RBC Investments Painting Competition. Her work is in private and corporate collections across Canada as well as the Canada Council and New Brunswick Art Banks; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, PEI; Nova Scotia Art Gallery, Halifax, NS; and Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB.