Cynthia Hammond

Cynthia is a professor and visual artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, the unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory known as Québec, Canada. She has taught art and architectural history at Concordia University since 2006. Cynthia has been making art about women, animals, and natural and urban landscapes for over 30 years. Her work attends to relationships between human and more-than-human entities, particularly living landscapes. She is particularly interested in gardens designed, cultivated, or preserved by women. In addition to visual art, she has produced numerous collaborative and community-based art projects, often linked to gardens, urban landscapes, and oral history. Her approach is to immerse herself deeply in a specific site, balancing solitary encounters with its flora, fauna, climate, and acoustic ecology with a desire to learn from and engage with the human communities for whom the garden matters most. Cynthia’s work is enriched by the voices of those who care for the gardens she paints. Cynthia’s art has been exhibited in Canada, England, the US, Australia, and France. She held a major exhibition in February-March 2026 at La Napoule Art Foundation, France, titled « Kingdoms within Kingdoms: The Gardens of Marie Clews ».