Christopher Webb is an Italian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the tension between inheritance and erasure, exploring how migration, commerce, memory, and identity are carried across generations. Rooted in personal history, his practice navigates assimilation, displacement, and the quiet transformation of culture through want, necessity, and survival.

Working primarily in oil painting while extending fluidly into installation and sound, Webb constructs immersive environments where memory is not only represented, but physically and sensorially encountered. Drawing from archival material, oral histories, and lived experience, his restrained visual language transforms landscapes, vessels in transit, fragments of handwritten text, and domestic spaces into carriers of absence, longing, and inherited  narratives. His work ultimately questions what is preserved and what is lost, considering the invisible weight of names, the silences embedded within family histories, and the shifting terrain between belonging and estrangement.

Webb is a self-taught visual artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the most recent recipient of the Arts Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award (2026) and the No Title Gallery Venezia Prize for Painting (2024), and will present a solo exhibition at CREA – Cantieri del Contemporaneo Venezia in 2026.

He has received numerous grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia. His work has been exhibited in both Canada and Europe, including Contained (Dalhousie University School of Architecture, Halifax, 2024), Dys(U)topia (Venice, Italy, 2024), Dominus Vobiscum (Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax, 2022), and Air Land 4.0: Nature, Technology, Energy (Torino, Italy, 2022).

Webb’s work is held in public and institutional collections including the Vatican Museums within the Holy See, the Comune di Valenzano (Bari, Italy), the Nova Scotia Art Bank, Province House (Nova Scotia), and Saint Mary’s University. He has also participated in artist residencies in both Canada and Europe, including ARCAC (Canada) and Quasi Quadro (Italy).

Webb frequently guest lectures at universities and art colleges and is also the co-founder and director of PAVIA Gallery where he curates exhibitions and directs an Artist-in-Residence program involving national and international artists.