Lesia brings 15 years of experience in art practice to her work in landscape architecture and urban design, often drawing on her arts-based method of inquiry to inform her design work at larger scales. As a landscape professional, her interest in water guides her approach to shaping topography, where she employs atmospheric elements to compose physical space. Working from the intimate space of a garden to the larger scale of ecological planning, her narrative approach to landscape architecture utilizes a strong commitment to materials to integrate natural systems with human experience. In each of her works, Lesia seeks to create sensitive and resonant spaces that evoke inherent connections with the environment through time and memory.
Lesia worked with leading landscape architecture practices in Seattle, Zürich, and Vancouver before returning to Hamilton to establish Tropos. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Halls Island. Recently, Lesia is the recipient of a Research and Creation grant and a Concept to Realization grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for her work on the urban forest.
Lesia earned a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Fine Art from the Design School at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated with a combined BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania with honors, where she received her education in painting and sculpture. As an undergraduate in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, Lesia's studies focused on art history, comparative literature, and film.
Lesia is currently completing her PDP (Professional Development Program) with the OALA in Ontario. She lives and works in Hamilton, Canada.
Lesia Mokrycke
Lesia is the founder of Tropos, a design-driven, interdisciplinary studio, where she established the Urban Forest Lab. Her work looks at generating innovative, nature-based solutions and processes for reimagining city building and urban design problems. She is recognized as a contemporary voice for landscape architecture in Canada and is known for her creative, conceptual, and contemplative approach to art and design. Her research explores intersections of climate, ecology, and human experience to define new approaches to conserving urban forests.
Hamilton, Canada
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Awards
Christopher Lyon Memorial Award for the Arts
Albert F. Schenck-Henry Gillette Woodman Award
Scheidt Travel Scholarship
Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize
Sylvia G. Wexler Memorial Award
Rambourger Prize
MLA, MFA

MLA, MFA, BFA
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Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization
Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation
Christopher Lyon Memorial Award for the Arts
Albert F. Schenck-Henry Gillette Woodman Award
Scheidt Travel Scholarship
Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize
Sylvia G. Wexler Memorial Award
Rambourger Prize
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