Anna Jane McIntyre is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice that combines printmaking, storytelling, archiving, kinetic sculpture and microactivism. Her work explores how people perceive, create and express their notions-of-self and belonging through behaviour and visual cues.
Born in England to British and British-Trinidadian parents, McIntyre moved often as a child, travelling from England to New York City to several farming towns in Saskatchewan, then various suburbs in Ontario. Equally fascinated by both the arts and the sciences, McIntyre originally intended to become a marine biologist and studied at the University of British Columbia before switching into the arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University.
McIntyre’s projects range from giant emojis, feminist-foosball-tables, community workshops, parade floats, commercial signage, forest installations, urban ecology forest-school cahiers, soundscapes, films, animations, portraiture to homages-for-the-forgotten.
“If artistic practice comes out of a need, an obsession, a habit or a ritual that drives the battle between good and evil across the fairy tale model – perhaps McIntyre has arrived, not so much at the place where answers to her queries live – but at the gates of heaven and hell that William Blake explored and trod carefully near. A location where the artist’s role is to invite possibility, reinforce the act of questioning… and perhaps ends up with some things left to ponder, and others that include and welcome the interaction of kindness between and amongst us all.” – Derek Besant, Printmaking Today, 2025
McIntyre’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the U.S.A., The Bahamas, Brazil, South Africa, Europe and the U.K.. Between 2015 to 2021, her 3200 square foot multimedia immersive installation, La forêt noire, was presented many times in the province of Québec. In 2018, McIntyre was commissioned by Small Axe Project to create Game Face (Now You Know) for the internationally touring group exhibition The Visual Life of Social Affliction: A Small Axe Project. In 2021, Game Face (Now You Know) was chosen by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) to feature in the exhibition, IV Inter-American Week for People of African Descent in the Americas 2021 in Washington, D.C. U.S.A.. Game Face (Now You Know) is currently part of a public art campaign led by Burnaby Art Gallery in British Columbia. She has participated in projects for UNESCO (publications) and the George Padmore Institute amongst others.
Recent projects include writing a large scale mural, We/Nous, at Queen’s University, a novella exploring Black British history, inspired by the George Padmore Institute archives in London, U.K. McIntyre is also participating in Faire partie du paysage, led by Emmanuelle Jacques and centre Adélard. Faire partie du paysage is a group project researching the early histories of Black people in the Eastern Townships from the 1600s and on. In 2026, McIntyre’s work will be published in the publication, Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter, by Syrus Marcus Ware and Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo, with d’bi.young anitafrika.
McIntyre’s artwork is included in the collections of the Canada Council Artbank, Global Affairs Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Burnaby Art Gallery and many others. Projects have been made possible through support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Studio 303, La Table ronde du Mois de l’histoire des Noirs and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels). She lives in Montréal.
Anna Jane McIntyre is a visual artist with a practice rooted in feminism. Her work combines philosophy, drawing, traditional and experimental printmaking, sculpture, puppetry, performance, installation, costume and micro-activism. The aesthetic of her work is an ever-changing mashup of British, Caribbean and Canadian cultural traditions.
McIntyre received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. McIntyre’s love of the nighttime spectacle, cheap glamour, the complexity of being human, lights and action has resulted in an obsession with cultural theory. Her artistic language is a constantly evolving mashup of Caribbean, British and Canadian cultural traditions.
McIntyre has been the recipient of multiple grants (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec travel grants & Vivacité Montréal 2015, Société d’État relevant du ministre de la Culture et des Communication (SODEC), Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM)). Her work has been shown in Brazil, Canada, the U.S.A., England, South Africa and is in multiple collections including that of the Canada Council Art Bank. She lives and works in Montreal.
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