Lacey Jane Wilburn (b. 1988, Edmonton, Alberta) is a contemporary artist most notable for her figurative and architectural paintings that oscillate between gesture and reality.
Wilburn studied Fine Art at the University of Grant MacEwan in Edmonton in 2009, received her Bachelors of Fine Art with Great Distinction from Concordia University in Montreal in 2016, including a semester abroad at the l’Ecole d'Enseignement Supérieur d'art de Bordeaux in France, and in 2022, graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Master’s in Fine Art. She has participated in over 45 exhibitions since 2009, received 2 University Women’s Club of Vancouver Scholarships, won the Yves Gaucher Prize in Studio Arts in 2016, the D. L. Stevenson Colour Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 2014, the Francis Henderson Klingle Scholarship for Fine Art in 2009, The Barbara and John Poole Family Endowed Fund for the Arts in 2009, the Jason Lang Scholarship for Excellence in 2007, and ws the honourable mention for the Opus Award in 2022. In 2010, she formed the urban art duo LALA [Lacey And Layla Art] who have developed over 140 public mural interventions across Canada, France, Honduras, Uganda and Iceland, and have received over $150,000 in grants from federal and municipal funding.
Wilburn now lives in Whistler, BC, on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Squamish and Lil’wat nations, working on her upcoming painting series with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and teaching Fine Art part-time at Emily Carr University.