Lundy’s paintings unfold like vivid stage plays—densely populated, emotionally charged, and rich with narrative tension. Moving beyond autobiography, her polyphonic scenes embrace the full spectrum of human experience: the epic and the everyday, the ecstatic and the fraught. Beginning with what she calls a “mind-made structure,” her works evolve from detailed drawings into gestural, improvisational brushwork—shifting between realism and expressionism, between revelation and concealment.
Lundy draws on her upbringing on Salt Spring Island, Canada. Her memories as a teenager and athlete infuse scenes of parties, classrooms, and sports arenas with the intensity of adolescence—moments where identity wavers and sensation takes over. Through shifting perspectives and reflective surfaces, she pulls the viewer into the heart of the action, implicating them in the act of seeing and being seen. Her work is steeped in references: poetry, music, film, current events, and art history—from Early Netherlandish painting to the raw figuration of Beckmann and Dix, where distortion reflects inner turmoil. At its core, Lundy’s practice is a meditation on embodiment—how it feels to inhabit a body, and how emotion lives through it. Her figures, caught in states of surrender or abandon, become vessels for chaos, risk, and ecstasy. Her paintings don’t just depict life—they inhabit its urgency, its beauty, and its disquiet.
She received her BFA from Mount Allison University, Sackville, and completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art, where she concentrated on painting and was awarded the Leipzig International Art Programme Residency and the Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship. A three-time Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant recipient, Lundy has exhibited internationally, with solo shows in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States. Her work is in the public collections of Dallas Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami and Sydney Modern Project, New South Wales, Hall Art Foundation, Centre of International Contemporary Art Vancouver and Contemporary Art Foundation, Japan
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Whitecube, London; Super Dakota, Brussels; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Fredericks and Freiser, New York; The Flag Art Foundation, New York; Sotheby’s, New York; Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg; Dallas Art Museum, Dallas; Sydney Modern Project/Art Gallery of New South Whales, Sydney among others.
Danica Lundy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
