Stephen Lack
1946– · Canadian painter, also an actor and screenwriter
Stephen Lack (born 1946 in Montreal) is a Canadian painter whose work focuses on American scenes: urban, cultural and landscape subjects. His style has been described as Neo-Expressionist. Although he is best known as an actor and screenwriter, painting is his primary medium.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at McGill University in 1967, then a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the Universidad de Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1969. He also produces drawings and sculpture, but painting remains his main practice.
His work has earned awards and residencies. He was an artist in residence at Limoges, Banff, Dearborn (Michigan) and at American colleges, and he received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2018 a book on his drawings appeared, with an essay by Virgil Hammock that compares his view of conflict to the work of Goya and Callot.
On screen he appeared in Scanners (1981) and Dead Ringers (1988). He co-wrote The Rubber Gun with Allan Moyle, earning two Genie Award nominations. He lives and works in New York City.