Colin Canary (b. Halifax, NS) holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University and a BFA from NSCAD. His work has been exhibited at Concordia MFA Gallery, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Art Mûr, and Karsh Masson. He currently lives and works in Montréal, QC.

These works were exhibited in the 2016 exhibition, Ab Next, at the The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, curated by Linda Jansma and Simone Wharton

The exhibition statement reads:

 ab Next serves to check in on the continuum of abstraction in Canadian art through emerging voices from across the country. The work in this exhibition by artists Colin Canary, Kelsey Galbraith, Gillian King, Caroline Mousseau and Sarah Pupo is part of a resurgence in painting in Canada by artists who have embraced painting unapologetically.

Artist and critic, Pete Smith writes that this new generation of painters, “Rather than having the intellectual pressure of defending their medium with every brushstroke, they could entirely focus their energies on the equally difficult task of making a good painting.  Indeed, these artists are in a position that is not oppositional to, for example: representational painting, Pop art, or Post-modernism, but rather can concentrate on their individual practices and how they fit into current artistic/political/social/formal/environmental issues.