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STEVEN LAURIE

Photographer Steven Laurie’s practice focuses on contemporary suburban life.   Laurie’s banal yet thoughtful images reveal common tropes of neighbourly aesthetics and the subtle imprints of ordinary human behaviour. While people are largely absent, his work instead documents the traces, patterns, and remnants of consumer culture and consumption.

Integrating his art practice into daily routines and routes, Laurie’s photographs function as visual essays, tracking paths of travel and the passage of time, often showing While his compositions adhere to formal traditions of photography, the photographs are taken spontaneously, compulsively or repetitively- born from idleness or a sustained fascination with documenting a particular subject or scene for months, or even years.

Laurie studied art at OCAD University and Western University, where he earned his MFA. His early work explored and challenged concepts of masculine identity through sculptural pieces activated by performance. Echoes of these concerns continue to resonate in his photography.

Laurie has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. His work has been exhibited at Scotiabank’s CONTACT Festival, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Northern Contemporary in Toronto, and the No Name Biennial in Hamilton, among others.

Micak Gallery offers a selection of Laurie’s artworks, with additional pieces available from the artist’s extensive archive of images. Prints are editioned, produced with archival ink, and available with or without custom framing. Some prints are available in two size options.

© Micak Contemporary Art Gallery 2025

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