Lola Kingsley (b. 1999) is a Montreal-based film photographer and visual artist. Through research, material engagement, and archival exploration, her practice examines subtle transformations within subjects, places, and environments.
Working with an attentiveness to presence, her photographs trace shifts in form and state, inviting an encounter between stillness and motion, intimacy and distance, permanence and change. Details that might otherwise go unnoticed reveal themselves through these transformations, becoming works in themselves.
Her practice often extends into installation as a means of preserving and presenting these processes. In this form, the work becomes an offering as a space to re-encounter what has been observed, gathered, and rearticulated.
studio@lolakingsley.com
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EDUCATION
2024 BFA, Photography & minor Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024: “Goodbye, This is…”, Studio Giovanelli, Montreal, QC, Canada
GROUP SHOW
2025: “Untold Cowboy”, Foil Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2025: “Of Earth, Skin & Stone”, Espace 49, Paris, France
2025: “Untold Cowboy”, WIP Works, Montreal, QC, Canada
2025: “What is the Black Star?” featured in Manifesting Gardens, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2024: “COPY MACHINE MANIFESTOS: ARTISTS WHO MAKE ZINES” featured in BlackMass Publishing - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2024: “Solid Wall of Sound” by Slip Collective, The Public Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2023: “COPY MACHINE MANIFESTOS: ARTISTS WHO MAKE ZINES” featured in BlackMass Publishing , Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023: “This Can’t be it” by Maxwell Lincoln, Galerie Forza, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019: “Sounds to Look at”, Off the Hook, Montréal, QC, Canada
2018: “LES ARTS ET LA REPRÉSENTATION POSITIVE DE LA FEMME NOIRE AU QUÉBEC” par La Fondation Michaëlle Jean - Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
2025: Atunbi & Iku, FriendEditions, limited edition run of 50. Presented at Available Works Book Fair in NY.
COLLABORATIONS
2025: “Genius Loci”, Pathways Issue 4, Local Optimist
2025: “In Conversation with Lola Kingsley”, La Dérive Journal
2025: “Lou Phelps for BAARA”, GQ France April/May
2024: “Goodbye, This is... A Solo Exhibition by Lola Kingsley”, Community Service Mag
2024: “What does the Lead Editor at SSENSE do?”, Harper’s Bazaar Korea
2023: “Creative Project”, online article i-D Korea
2023: Power Issue 02, SUKO Magazine
2023: “XLIM”, online article i-D Korea
2021: The Agency Issue 03, AQUA REGIA
2020: The Now Issue 02, AQUA REGIA
2020: “Mob Talk Ep. 04” Cover Story, MOB JOURNAL
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2025: Selected Jury Member, McGill Arts Collective Exhibition
Selectec Clients: JJJJound, Arcteryx, Earth the Archive, Dime, Domrebel...
Working with an attentiveness to presence, her photographs trace shifts in form and state, inviting an encounter between stillness and motion, intimacy and distance, permanence and change. Details that might otherwise go unnoticed reveal themselves through these transformations, becoming works in themselves.
Her practice often extends into installation as a means of preserving and presenting these processes. In this form, the work becomes an offering as a space to re-encounter what has been observed, gathered, and rearticulated.
studio@lolakingsley.com
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EDUCATION
2024 BFA, Photography & minor Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024: “Goodbye, This is…”, Studio Giovanelli, Montreal, QC, Canada
GROUP SHOW
2025: “Untold Cowboy”, Foil Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2025: “Of Earth, Skin & Stone”, Espace 49, Paris, France
2025: “Untold Cowboy”, WIP Works, Montreal, QC, Canada
2025: “What is the Black Star?” featured in Manifesting Gardens, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2024: “COPY MACHINE MANIFESTOS: ARTISTS WHO MAKE ZINES” featured in BlackMass Publishing - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2024: “Solid Wall of Sound” by Slip Collective, The Public Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2023: “COPY MACHINE MANIFESTOS: ARTISTS WHO MAKE ZINES” featured in BlackMass Publishing , Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023: “This Can’t be it” by Maxwell Lincoln, Galerie Forza, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019: “Sounds to Look at”, Off the Hook, Montréal, QC, Canada
2018: “LES ARTS ET LA REPRÉSENTATION POSITIVE DE LA FEMME NOIRE AU QUÉBEC” par La Fondation Michaëlle Jean - Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
2025: Atunbi & Iku, FriendEditions, limited edition run of 50. Presented at Available Works Book Fair in NY.
COLLABORATIONS
2025: “Genius Loci”, Pathways Issue 4, Local Optimist
2025: “In Conversation with Lola Kingsley”, La Dérive Journal
2025: “Lou Phelps for BAARA”, GQ France April/May
2024: “Goodbye, This is... A Solo Exhibition by Lola Kingsley”, Community Service Mag
2024: “What does the Lead Editor at SSENSE do?”, Harper’s Bazaar Korea
2023: “Creative Project”, online article i-D Korea
2023: Power Issue 02, SUKO Magazine
2023: “XLIM”, online article i-D Korea
2021: The Agency Issue 03, AQUA REGIA
2020: The Now Issue 02, AQUA REGIA
2020: “Mob Talk Ep. 04” Cover Story, MOB JOURNAL
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2025: Selected Jury Member, McGill Arts Collective Exhibition
Selectec Clients: JJJJound, Arcteryx, Earth the Archive, Dime, Domrebel...