Collection: Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) was a Canadian artist and activist whose multi-faceted works explored subjects including Canadian identity, ecology, and feminism. She spent a decade in New York in the 1960s, becoming a key member of the experimental film scene, before returning to Toronto in 1971. In that same year, she became the first female artist to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. 

In 1973, Joyce Wieland created three of her iconic ‘lipstick’ prints at Open Studio. These prints saw Wieland directly pressing her mouth to the lithographic stone to visualize words and phrases in a continuation of a process that she had first explored in 1970 with her print, O Canada. She returned to Open Studio in 1984 and created two intimately scaled screenprints that reflect a shift in her work of this time toward more figure-focused subjects.

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The launch of these Joyce Wieland archive prints coincides with the National Gallery of Canada’s upcoming exhibition, PUCKER UP! THE LIPSTICK PRINTS OF JOYCE WIELAND (February 7 – October 26, 2025), in addition to the exhibition Joyce Wieland: Heart On at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art (February 8 - May 4, 2025), which will travel to the Art Gallery of Ontario in June, 2025.