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Pascale Jean
Born in Saguenay, now based in Montreal, I am an artist whose practice unfolds through painting, sculpture and installation, seeking to dissect and explore alienation, malaise, and life interrogations by distilling its escaping playfulness. My practice led me to participate in numerous group exhibitions throughout Canada. My work has been presented in duo exhibitions, notably at Good Sport Gallery (London, Ontario), as well as in solo exhibitions in in Mexico (Casa Lü Sur, Mexico City), and Japan (Studio Kura Gallery, Itoshima). My work has been showcased in group settings at l'École Supérieure des Beaux arts de Paris (Paris, France), and at the Foire Parallèle art fair (Montreal, Canada).
My projects have allowed me to collaborate with innovative entities such as Aussenwelt, Jano Lapin gallery and the Sous la Fibre podcast. My work was shown in award-winning publications such as Hyperallergic, Woo Publications, and Suboart Magazine, and has been supported by LOJIQ, as well as by the Brissenden and Friends of Emily Carr grants.
Through my practice, I explore the territory of psychological discomfort, expressed primarily through oil painting, but also through sculpture and installation. Within my work, I create immersive environments where the viewer is invited to live offbeat sensory experiences through a playful facade. By using a purposeful naive visual language, I addresses themes related to anxiety, unease, and alienation, all within a deliberately inviting aesthetic. In my artistic approach, I pursue continuous research on play as a space of personal transformation, where discomfort becomes a terrain of psychic reconstruction. Play manifests itself concretely through my creation of intermediate spaces, where art becomes a place of mediation between intimate experience and the outside world. Hypersaturated colors, references to childhood, and bodily distortions become tools to deconstruct perceptual norms, inviting viewers to switch between attraction and discomfort. My portraits freeze my characters in intimate, often disturbing moments, and function as "anxiety translators," transforming intimate psychological experiences into shared aesthetic experiences. The immersive environment thus created engages the viewer in a game of perceptions where discomfort becomes a terrain of aesthetic exploration, leading them to question their own relationships with disturbing emotions through an experience that is both seductive and destabilizing.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Casa Lü 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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Art fair – Foire Parallèle – Montreal, Canada
2025 Aussenwelt – Collective show – Montreal, Canada
2024 Aussenwelt – Exposition Collective – 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
EDUCATION
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
RESIDENCIES
2025 Jano Lapin Gallery - Montreal, Canada
2025 Casa Lü Sur - 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
2019 Brissenden Scholarship
MEDIAS & PRESS
2025 BEHA, Claire-Marie, for Sous La Fibre, “ Être artiste sur les réseaux sociaux : comment concilier création et promotion? ” Friday, January 31st, 2025
2024 ISSUE 3 - Abstract State (November 2024 Publication, New York, USA)
2024 Summer '24 - Verdant Journal (October 2024 Publication) 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)
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
2017 Nomad Creative Studio For the 36th edition of the day against violence towards women – Artist Assistant – Jonquière, Canada