Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, b. 1970, Canada

Craig Le Blanc is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines masculinity as a social construct, its codes, expectations, and contradictions.

Working through sculpture, installation, and language, he often draws on familiar male archetypes and iconography such as athletes, protectors, and authority figures as formal structures through which both the truths and misconceptions of masculinity can be considered.

He focuses on strength and scale to underscore the cultural weight of the masculine archetype, while revealing the uncertainty, care, and fragility behind it. Across his practice, protection and vulnerability operate side by side, questioning how cultural assumptions about size, control, and endurance are used not only to project power, but to create shelter.

Le Blanc studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA, 1997), attended L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1996, and later completed an MFA in Computational Media Design at the University of Calgary in 2010.

Over the past 25 years he has been a significant and sustained presence in Alberta’s contemporary art community. His practice has shifted in material, scale, and emphasis over time, while consistently maintaining a high level of craftsmanship and execution.

He has presented dozens of solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally and completed three major public art commissions between 2010 and 2016. He has received provincial and national recognition, and his work is held in private, corporate, and municipal collections.

Le Blanc lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta.