Kim Ondaatje - Canadian Artists

Kim Ondaatje (née Betty Jane Kimbark, October 2, 1928) was a Canadian painter, photographer, and documentary filmmaker as well.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ondaatje and she studied at the Ontario College of Art and McGill University. She further completed a M.A. in Canadian Literature at Queen’s University, as on a teaching fellowship. Until 1964, Ondaatje then served as a part-time lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University and at the Sherbrooke University. In the early 1960s she returned back to the visual arts again and by 1965 she was into painting full time. In 1967, with fellow Canadian artists Jack Chambers and other friend Tony Urquhart, she founded Canadian Artists Representation (CAR) that today is the Canadian Artists Representation/Frontes des Artistes Canadians (CARFAC). CAR was the first artist group in the world to set up a fee structure for public museum and gallery exhibitions of modern artists.
Her paintings and films are now part of various collections in galleries across Canada with the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto and other Confederation Centre Art Gallery, in Prince Edward Island.
She was married to the Canadian poet D.G. Jones, and then married the poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje. She also has six children.







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