Linda Martinello (Canadian, b. 1980, Toronto) is a visual artist whose work delves into the interconnections between history, memory, and the natural world, using layered and gestural approaches to reinterpret landscape. She currently lives and works in Caledon, Ontario, and teaches in the Drawing and Painting program in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University in Toronto. 

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Martinello holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and an Honours BA from the University of Toronto. Her work is included in numerous prominent private, public, and corporate collections, including BMO Financial Group, TD Bank, RBC Art Collection, CIBC Art Collection, and Telus. In 2022, she was one of ten Canadian artists selected to participate in the La Napoule Art Foundation Artist Residency in the South of France. The body of work produced during this residency was the focus of her 2024 solo exhibition Time and Terrain: Along the Côte d’Azur at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.

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In 2025, Martinello was awarded the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Program Endowment in support of her participation in the Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta. Her public art commission Waterways (2022), a suite of four large-scale panels permanently installed in the TD Tower lobby in downtown Toronto, was commissioned by Cadillac Fairview and draws on the layered cultural and ecological histories of Toronto’s waterfront.

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Martinello is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.

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