Marion Wagschal

Marion Wagschal came to Canada in 1951 from Port of Spain Trinidad. She completed her undergraduate and graduate training at Concordia University, formerly Sir George Williams College. Wagschal recently retired after a long career as a professor in the Painting and Drawing Department in the Fine Arts Faculty at Concordia University where she taught for 37 years. While teaching at Concordia she introduced the innovative seminar/studio course, “Women and Painting”.

Wagschal has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of Canada Council arts grants, an RCA member and is represented in numerous private and public collections, such as the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Plattsburgh State Art Museum, the Musée de Joliette, the Musée de Quebec, the Confederation Centre of the Arts, (Charlottetown PEI), and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, ON). Recent shows include a survey of her painting at The Burke Gallery (Plattsburg, NY) and the Anna Leon Owens Gallery at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, NS). Recent group shows include, Some Girls at the Visual Arts Center (Montreal QC), Quebec on paper at the Aird Gallery, (Toronto ON), 2nd World Congress on Violence and Human Co-Existence, sponsored by Société d”esthetique du Quebec, UQAM (Montreal, QC), the Echoic Landscape at Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal, QC) and the Berlin/Montreal Exchange. She was an invited artist at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY) and the Banff Center for the Arts’ “Women and Paint” residency (Banff, AB).

Marion Wagschal has been represented by Marlborough-Godard, Waddington Gorce, Galerie de Bellefeuille and Galerie Division. She recently exhibited her drawings and sculpture at the FOFA Gallery, Concordia University (Montreal QC).