Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the collective nature of being, particularly in human relationships with the more-than-human world and the planetary realities of climate change.
Spanning photography, sculpture, installation, social practice, and sometimes writing, her work has been shown across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Tom Thomson Gallery, Art Windsor-Essex, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Peninsula Arts, CAFKA, Queens Museum, and Flux Factory, among others. She has done artist residencies with Arts House Melbourne, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, KIAC and Camargo Foundation, and Waterfront Toronto, and has received grants from Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Musagetes and the Culture and Animal Foundation. She has a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.