Zoya Niedermann

Zoya Niedermann, sculptor, painter, and print-maker, lives and works in Montreal and Pietrasanta.  In the traditional material of bronze she formulates sculptures that unravel into unique expressions of our connection to our surroundings.

Niedermann’s first sculptures emerged several years before her studies at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School and Concordia University in the 1970s. The theme of “The City” began with a series of welded steel sculptures which embodied influences from New York City where she worked and her first hand experience of its artistic energy in the 1980s.

In 1990 Niedermann’s solo exhibit at Musee D’art du Joliette, Quebec, included large scale bronzes, ink drawings and collage reliefs. The work evoked stunning compositions, as they explored the lone solitary figure in relation to architectural elements.

In 1993, representing Canada, the artist was awarded the Hakone Open-Air Museum Prize at the prestigious Fujisankei Biennale for her monumental bronze titled “Arch Figures”.  This piece is permanently installed in Utsukushi-ga-hara, Japan and is composed of two vertical figures like Caryatids connected with a twisted arch.  

Many of Niedermann’s exterior sculptures are exhibited permanently world-wide. She is also in private collections in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Australia, U.S.A., and Japan. In Canada her bronzes can be seen at the Industrial Life Tower in Montreal, at the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Queens University in Ontario.

Niedermann is presently represented by Landau Contemporary Art Gallery in Montreal and MPV Gallery in The Netherlands.