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BIO
François Desnoyers was born in 1961 in Brossard, Canada, where he lives and works today. contemporary artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, and digital art, he paints with used objects he finds around the house, such as old kitchen rags, bed sheets, closet doors, curtains, bones and soya sauce, as well as canvas and wood, using oil, acrylic, ink, wax, stapled pieces of wood or metal wire. Best known for enigmatic and ambiguous scenes consistently marked by mystery, uncertainty, and apprehension, his expressionist style of figuration reveals a world of isolation alternating from self-exploration to the depiction of imaginary dystopic landscapes. His subject matter includes tortured landscapes that evoke a vanishing future: nature during the eventual collapse of organized society due to global warming and human contradictions, as well as mysterious interior scenes that stress the effects of solitude on the imagination. In “Stations” (2025–2026), painted on bed sheets, landscapes portray stages, functioning much like a photographic report, recounting what our landscapes will go through in the future. “Points de fuite” or “Vanishing Points” (2021–2024), is mostly painted on canvas and shows bits and pieces of human structures within an unstable nature. “Rag Lands” (2023–2024) expresses landscapes through used kitchen rags, pieces of clothing and industrial textiles recuperated from home. “Gestations” (2007–2025) portrays interior scenes and the confusion humans go through while trying to structure the present and plan the future. Desnoyers holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from the Université de Montréal, both in Montreal. His solo exhibitions include La maison de la culture Villebon in Beloeil, Hall des arts de la ville de Brossard, La maison de la culture Côte-des-neiges, and Lieu-Ouest gallery in Montreal, as well as five at Gora gallery in Montreal. His work is held in the Lavalin collection of the Montreal museum of contemporary art. |
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Born in 1961 in Brossard, Canada Education and training
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Concordia university, Montreal, Canada Solo Exhibitions
2026 Un monde en pièces détachées, Maison de la culture Villebon (curated by Anne-Catherine Caron), Beloeil, Canada Group Exhibitions
2024 ArtExpo Paris 2024, Agnes Nord gallery (curated by Patricia Zenklusen), Paris, France Art Fairs 2003 The Affordable Art Fair, New York 2003, The Affordable Art Fair, presented by CAPSQ, booth Pier 92, New York, United States Collections The Lavalin collection of the Montreal museum of contemporary art, Montreal, Canada Bibliography 2026 Agathe Anglionin, “Ce qui nous reste hors de portée”. 2026. |