Research Guides: Canadian and Indigenous Art and Culture: Biographical Information & Dictionaires

Biographies & Dictionaries & References

Biographical information on Canadian artists.

Artcyclopedia

Artists Files. 10,000 historical files. Art Department, Toronto Reference Library.

Artists Files in Provincial Centres.

Artists In Canada

An index of Canadian artists from the mid 19th century to present.

Arts in Canada [electronic resource] : The Last Fifty Years

Art Metropole's publications and events history with related ephemera, January 1971 - April 2006.

Biographical Index of Artists in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.

British Columbia Artists Database

Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts, Toronto. Canadian National Exhibition Catalogues. Canadiana Online.

Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia provides useful biographical details of many influential Canadian Artists.

Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 [electronic resource] : writings and reconsiderations

CARFAC. Canadian Artists Representation.

CCCA Canadian Art Database

The Canadian Art Database introduces and showcases the careers of Canada's leading professional artists and art writers. The Databases hosts a wide variety of materials and includes: artist biographies, exhibition records, images and embedded video.

A dictionary of Canadian artists

This Multi-volume set provides biographies and references for Canadian artists. Available in print within the library.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.

Helena Wilson's portraits of Ontario Native Artists.

Inuit Artists . Government of Canada website. Search by artists' name, name variation and community.

Inuit Artists Print Database.

Inuit Artists Profile s. From Inuit Art Quarterly

Lives and Works of the Canadian Artists. Robert Stacey

National Gallery of Art Database.

Online. Artists and cultural workers in Mississauga [electronic resource] : a neighbourhood view.

Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema.

Who's who in Ontario art.