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Pascale Jean
I am a French-Canadian artist currently living and working in Montreal. My artistic practice is articulated around oil painting, while also remaining greatly influenced by poetry and photography. Holding BFA from Emily Carr University of arts + Design, (Vancouver, CA, 2021), I utilize my art as a tool to explore my own human experience, highlighting elements directly drawn from lived moments that are as unique as they are universal, represented on my canvases by the deformed bodies of colorful humanoids.
My practice explores the intersection of artistic language, iconography, the singularity of lived experiences, and social commentary. Through my work, I question the duality between norms, social expectations, and authenticity, while inviting the viewer to bring their own sensitivity and emotionality forward to dialogue with the work.
My practice is characterized by the clash of a playful colorful palette with dark, often disturbing figures. I am interested in finding the balance between two extremes, such as the ugly and the beautiful, nature and the digital, vulnerability and invincibility.
I incorporate into my work a rich tableau of personal experiences and social reflections, nourished by the paradoxical beauty of human nature itself, and iconographic elements directly inspired by art history. Weaving in my own philosophical questionings, my life observations, and my family heritage, I create a complex tapestry of lived experiences on my canvas. Also adding a critical and humorous touch to my work, my oil paintings explore femininity, living spaces, and the human experience as a whole without shame or the notion of taboo, highlighting vulnerability and discomfort.
In 2020, I joined the studio of painter Tim Eitel during my stay at L'École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, in France. I am the recipient of various grants and prizes, including two LOJIQ grants for my projects in 2024.
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2021 Baccalaureate – Visual Arts – Emily Carr University of Arts + Design - Vancouver, Canada
2020 Exchange Program (spring) – Fine Arts – École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts - Paris, France
2018 DEC – Visual Arts – Cégep de Jonquière - Jonquière, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Casa Lü El Sur - Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Studio Kura Gallery – Women, Mukade, and Little Deaths - Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
2022 La Galerie d’Art du Cégep de Jonquière – Critique sur l’Anthropocène – Jonquière, Canada
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Good Sport Gallery – Soft Bodies, Hard Gaze - London, Canada
2018 Francophone Cultural Center – Nouveaux Regards – Vancouver, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected exhibitions)
2025 Aussenwelt – Collective show – Montreal, Canada
2024 Aussenwelt – Exposition Collective – Montreal, Canada
2024 Sunday Village – 5th Edition – Montreal, Canada
2024 Aussenwelt – Exposition Collective d'Art Visuel et Sonore – Montreal, Canada
2021 Ho Tam Press – New and Noteworthy – Vancouver, Canada
2021 The Elbow Gallery + Online - The Show – Vancouver, Canada
2019 Rennie Hall – SAS – Vancouver, Canada
2019 Private Exhibition – 4Ft Under – Vancouver, Canada
2018 La Galerie d’Art du Cégep de Jonquière – Hue Manos – Jonquière, Canada
2017 Centre National d'exposition – Symposium National d’art Multidisciplinaire - Jonquière, Canada
2017 Jonquière CEGEP Art Gallery – Le livre dans tous ses états – Jonquière, Canada
RESIDENCIES
2025 El Sur Mexico - Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Aussenwelt - Montreal, Canada
2024 Studio Kura - Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 LOJIQ Action Culturelle et Artistique
2023 LOJIQ Action Culturelle et Artistique
2020 Friends of Emily Carr
2020 John M. Koerner Memorial Award
2020 One World International Scholarship
2019 Brissenden Scholarship
MEDIAS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 ISSUE 3 - Abstract State (November 2024 Publication, New York, USA)
2024 Summer '24 - Verdant Journal (October 2024 Publication) - www.verdantjournal.ca/pascale-jean Wednesday October 2nd, 2024 (Toronto, CA)
2024 RIVERA AMIN, Lakshmi for Hyperallergic - Thursday August 8th, 2024 (New York, USA)
2024 Nr.23 – Suboart Magazine (May 2024 Publication) - p.124-125
2023 NICHOLE BROOKS, Kelsey for My Friend Frankie – “Feature Pascale Jean” Friday September 1st , 2023 (Montreal, CA)
2021 The Lonely Hour – Woo Publications (Some Time(s) April Publication) - p.44-45
2021 RANDALL, Meghan for Woo Publication – “Faces of Emily Carr” Tuesday March 2nd, 2021
2020 Midnight Snack - Woo Publications (Space(s) December Publication) - p.24
2019 One Could Have Been Enough - Woo Publications (Extra December Publication) - p.5
2019 Embouteillage - Woo Publications (Leak April Publication) - p.6
2018 Life Line - Woo Publications (Unbound December Publication) - p. 18-19
2018 DUSFRENE, Jacques for Ici Radio-Canada – Boulevard du Pacifique – “Exposition Regard au Centre Culturel Francophone” Wednesday November 7th, 2018 (Vancouver, CA)
IMPLICATIONS AND COLLABORATIVE WORKS
2024 Artch & Céline Bureau – Art Critique – Montreal, Canada
2024 Aussenwelt.co – Art Battle Artist – Montreal, Canada
2024 Studio Kura – Artist Speaker – Itoshima, Japan
2022 Cégep de Jonquière – Artist Speaker – Jonquière, Canada
2021 Cégep de Jonquière – Artist Speaker – Jonquière, Canada
2020 Eitel Studio – Confinement Solidaire - Online charity auction – Paris, France
2018 Action-Reaction Festival – Volunteer at Performance art festival – Jonquière, Canada
2017 Nomad Creative Studio – Artist Assistant – Jonquière, Canada – For the 36th edition of the day against violence towards women