Nancy Friedland is a Canadian artist investigating narrative, landscape, and darkness in her work. Working with her own photographs as source material, and sometimes found snapshots, she investigates the surprises that occur in the flawed translation from one medium to the next. In the past five years she has been exploring these preoccupations through paint. In her own words: "Darkness allows the mind to wander, but it is given shape by light. I paint to delineate the edges of that darkness, to carve out little patches of light, bursts of joy and moonlight, that help give shape to the night.".
After studying photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Friedland completed her MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a Sir Edmund Walker Scholar. She has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, and has exhibited across Canada and internationally at galleries including Smoke the Moon, Lyceum Gallery, Circuit Gallery, United Contemporary, and Samara Contemporary, to name a few. Friedland lives and works in Toronto.