Dionne Simpson

Simpson was born in Jamaica in 1972.^[1] She emigrated to Canada with her family as an infant.^[2] Simpson studied at the Cooper Union in the late nineties and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2000.^[3]

Simpson's work features a West African textile technique that involves pulling thread through canvas.^[3] Within the spaces the thread pulling creates she adds pigments to further embellish the canvas.^[1]

In 2004, Simpson was the first national winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.^[3][1] She won the award for her piece Urban e_Scape 13.^[4]