Lyndon Simmons

Artist statement:

Lyndon Simmons is a Canadian portrait painter and storyteller whose work explores the intersections of belief, identity, and belonging in a digitally mediated world. Unafraid to reveal vulnerability and contradiction, his paintings seek to understand how people construct meaning and connection within systems that both invite and exclude.

Combining traditional oil painting with digital processes, Lyndon creates portraits that bridge the sacred and the contemporary — figures that hover between revelation and concealment, the divine and the algorithmic. His current project, Access Pending, examines how access, approval, and identity are negotiated through digital and social structures, and what it means to wait at the threshold of acceptance.

Residencies at the Ottawa School of Art and the New York Academy of Art have been pivotal in shaping his practice, allowing him to deepen his exploration of figurative realism, psychological depth, and digital distortion. Through empathy and narrative, Lyndon’s work invites viewers to reflect on the barriers that shape belonging — and to rediscover what remains profoundly human on the other side of the screen.

Instagram: @lyndonsimmonsartist