ABOUT THE ARTIST

Barbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian photographer known for her underwater, figurative work. Her photographs have been exhibited widely in both private and public institutions, with solo exhibitions at the Canadian Embassies in both Tokyo and Washington, and inclusions in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. She has completed several large-scale commissions for notable sites, including the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre in Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital. In 2012, the acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II featured an episode devoted to Cole’s photographic practice; in 2015, she was commissioned to create the promotional artwork for the National Ballet of Canada’s production of Le Petit Prince. Cole is also the recipient of the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

A complete selection of her works can be found at barbaracole.com.