Lindsey Lind is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, performer, and musician based in Vancouver, BC. She began her visual work in 1998 as a graphic artist while taking art classes on the side and has recently pivoted to full-time fine art painting. She now works primarily in watercolour, acrylic, and digital formats.
Her practice is shaped by her queer identity as a transgender woman, as well as themes of mental health and internalized trauma. Growing up with undiagnosed gender dysphoria, anxiety, and neurodivergence, Lindsey found safety and sanctuary in architecture, pets and close human friendships—that became both a refuge and a mask to protect.
Using herself as a case study, she explores how people express identity through the spaces they inhabit: their homes, the walls they present outward, and the neighbourhoods they shape. As urban density increases and single-family homes become less accessible, the ways we define home, choose pets, and express identity through ourselves and places are rapidly evolving.
Her work gravitates toward expressionistic realism, painting with light and blending accuracy with distortion. Through colour, perspective, and temperature, she seeks not just visual likeness but an emotionally resonant truth. People, places, and pets are at the heart of her project PortraitArts.