Michelle
Caron-
Pawlowsky
Projects
About/CV
Biter Gallery
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal who primarily works with installation and images. Michelle has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal and has presented their work in Canada, the United States, Italy, and Scotland, exhibiting with Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), DARE-DARE (Montreal), the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), Museo Spazzio Pubblico (Bologna), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), Livart (Montreal), Saltspace Gallery (Glasgow), and Artch (Montreal). They have completed artist residencies at the Glasgow School of Art, Art Souterrain (Montreal), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), and Atelier Silex (Trois-Rivières). Their work has been supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC). They are the co-curator of Biter, an apartment gallery in Montreal.
Artist Statement (EN)
My work explores how ritual, storytelling, transformation, and celebration can mark and make sense of personal and collective experiences of loss. I work across installation, image-making, sound, sculpture, performance, and poetics, and my practice favours speculative and participatory approaches that often call upon the alchemical possibilities of collaboration with others. I am particularly interested in the material and transformational potential of images and often experiment with the meanings that emerge when images are recontextualised through sculptural media. In recent projects, I have engaged with themes of grief in its myriad forms, ranging from the death of a loved one to ecological grief. This manifests in such ways as exploring mourning rituals through the lens of professional wrestling, crafting altars and talismans for extinct and endangered plant species, or composing collaborative summoning songs from abstract scores derived from patterns in the natural world.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky est une artiste multidisciplinaire de Tiohtià:ke/Montréal qui travaille principalement avec des installations et des images. Michelle a une maîtrise en arts visuels de l'Université Concordia (Montréal) et a exposé son travail au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Italie et en Écosse. Son travail a été présenté dans le cadre de Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), avec DARE-DARE (Montréal), à la Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen (Montréal), au Museo Spazzio Pubblico (Bologne), au Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), au Livart (Montréal), et à Artch (Montréal). Elle a participé à des résidences d'artistes au Glasgow School of Art, avec Art Souterrain (Montréal), au Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota) et à l'Atelier Silex (Trois-Rivières). Son travail a bénéficié du soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) et des Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC). Michelle est co-commissaires de Biter, une galerie dans un appartement à Montréal.
Démarche artistique (FR)
Mon travail explore la manière dont le rituel, la narration, la transformation et la célébration peuvent marquer et donner un sens aux expériences personnelles et collectives de la perte. Je travaille à la croisée de l’installation, de la création d’images, du son, de la sculpture, de la performance et de la poétique, et ma pratique privilégie des approches spéculatives et participatives qui font souvent appel aux possibilités alchimiques de la collaboration avec les autres. Je m’intéresse particulièrement au potentiel matériel et transformationnel des images et j’expérimente souvent les significations qui émergent lorsque celles-ci sont recontextualisées à travers des supports sculpturaux. Dans mes projets récents, j’ai abordé les thèmes du deuil sous ses multiples formes, allant du décès d’un être cher au deuil écologique. Cela se manifeste notamment par l’exploration des rituels de deuil à travers le prisme de la lutte professionnelle, la création d’autels et de talismans pour des espèces végétales éteintes ou menacées, ou encore la composition de chants d’invocation collaboratifs à partir de partitions abstraites inspirées de motifs issus du monde naturel.
Education
2026 | MFA in Studio Arts, Photography, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2024-25 | MFA exchange, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2022 | BFA in Studio Arts, Major in Photography, Minor in Sustainability Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2026 | Sweat it Out with Abi Hodson, Bâtiment 7, Montréal, Canada
2026 | Finishing Holds, DARE DARE (programmation poésies publiques), Montréal, Canada
2026 | Se tenir proche with Claudia Goulet-Blais, Alliance Française Vancouver, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2025 | Summoning (Auld Wives Lifts) with Romy Zaman (GLSSWRT), SaltSpace Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2023 | Pour se tailler une place, exposition sur panneaux extérieurs Maison de la Culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles, Place du Village-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Here We Lay in a Beam of Bright Light, Our Hands Buried Deep in the Earth with Florence Pin, Espace Wednesday, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Créer des Ponts with Florence Pin, Espace Wednesday, Montréal, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 | Maureen X, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada
2025 | Ignition 20, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre and Nicole Burisch, Montréal, Canada
2025 | Radiophrenia, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 | Troubled Grounds, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 | Maureen IX, Ateliers Belleville, Montréal, Canada
2023 | Daydreams, MFA Exhibition, University of Montana (Online)
2023 | Imagining Public Space with/for Her, Museo Spazio Pubblico, curated by Carolina Anderson, Beatrice Ricci and Luisa Bravo, Bologna, Italy
2023 | The Art Volt Collection, Le Livart, Montréal, Canada
2023 | Ici et là, exposition Espace Sensible commissariée par Carolane Lambert, coordonnée par Atelier Silex et Artch, Île Saint-Quentin, Trois Rivières, Canada
2022-23 | The 2023 Collection, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Canada
2022 | In Continuum, Colure Collective, Ada X, Montréal, Canada
2022 | Object Talk, Atelier Retailles, Art Matters Festival, Montréal, Canada
2022 | The Cake Stand Biennale, David W. Mullins Library, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
2022 | Things We Know, Things We Don't, Art Matters Festival, GalerieERGA, Montréal, QC
2022 | Mélange, AZ Gallery, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
2022 | The 2022 Collection, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Canada
2021 | Altar for Thismia Americana, public art installation, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, USA
2021 | Les liens futurs, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Artch: Art contemporain émergent, Dorchester Square, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Projet Tabloïde, public art billboard, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Hereafter, architectural projection, Quartier des spectacles x CPC, Montréal, Canada
2020 | Absence of Another, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada (online due to COVID-19)
2020 | Le Salon Virtuel, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada (online due to COVID-19)
2018 | Dreamstate, Espace POP, Montréal, Canada
2018 | Traces of Process, Glass Door Gallery, Montréal, Canada
Residencies
2027 | (forthcoming) Artist Residency (with GLSSWRT), Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
2025 | Artist Residency (with GLSSWRT), Glasgow School of Art MFA Programme, Glasgow, Scotland
2023 | Artiste en résidence, Atelier Silex, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Emerging Artist Residency, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, USA
2021 | Créer des ponts, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada
Selected Awards and Grants
2026 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Circulation d'oeuvres hors Québec
2026 | Concordia Conference and Exposition Grant, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
2025 | Concordia Conference and Exposition Grant, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
2025 | Québec Mobility Bursary for Independent Research Project, Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur (MEES)
2024 | Bourse LOJIQ (Les Offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec), Québec, Canada
2024 | Concordia Mobility Bursary, Concordia University, Québec, Canada
2023 | Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Master’s Research Scholarship, Québec, Canada
2023 | Concordia Fine Arts Scholarship, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2022 | Individual Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Production Grant, Artch: Art contemporain émergent, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Cultural Grant, City of Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield, Canada
2021 | Third Place, Open Theme Category, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
2021 | Special Project Funding, Concordia Council on Student Life, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Community Contribution Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2020 | Second Place, Open Theme Category, Fine Art Photography Awards
2020 | Special Project Funding, Concordia Council on Student Life, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2019 | Group Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2018 | Individual Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Artist talks
2026 | Artist presentation about Pour se tailler une place photography series with Organisme Respire, Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, Longueuil, Canada
2023 | Artist talk mediated by Artch and Atelier Silex, Atelier Silex, Trois-Rivières, Canada
Selected Bibliography and Media
2026 | “A Day in the Life” with: Artist Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Montreal Guardian, Montréal, Canada
2026 | Radio Canada ICI PREMIÈRE (Radio Interview/entretien radio), Vancouver, Canada
2026 | Capture Photography Festival 2026 Catalogue, Vancouver, Canada
2025 | Do Rocks Remember Lava?, publication curated by Leo Hajducki, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 | Aménager les espaces publics pour les personnes qui n’y sont pas, PAYSAGES n.19, Québec, Canada
2023 | Imagining Public Space with/for Her, Mastering Public Space, Bologna, Italy
2023 | Ici et là: art visuel émergent à l’île Saint-Quentin, Le Nouvelliste, Trois-Rivières, Canada
2022 | Nature Installations: A Sense of Self, artist interview in Luxiders Print Issue 8, Berlin, Germany
2022 | Object Talk, Art Matters, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Erasing Hierarchies: Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky on Queer Ecology as Art, Cheng Huai, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Artch expose 22 jeunes artistes, La Presse, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Art Hole Magazine, Issue 12, London, UK
2021 | Stonecoast Review, Issue 14, Maine, USA
2021 | Mariposa Magazine, Issue 2, USA
2020 | Yiara Online, Vol. 09, Montréal, Canada
2018 | L'Organe N. 13: Ensemble, Montréal, Canada
2016 | Shabby Doll House (1) (2), USA
2016 | BAD NUDES 1.1, Montréal, Canada
Writing
2025 | Finishing Holds (poem), Ahoy Literary Magazine Issue 2, Montréal, Canada
2023 | On Hold (poem), Yolk Literary Journal Vol. 3.1, Montréal, Canada
Publications
2022 | In Continuum, Colure Collective, Montréal, Canada
Collections
The Art Volt Collection (2023-2026)
Stewart Hall Art Gallery (2022, 2023 Collections)
John Abbott College
Curatorial
2026 | My God is a Jacket, co-curated with Ezra J. Teboul, Biter Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2026 | Crush, co-curated with Ezra J. Teboul, Biter Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2022 | In Continuum, group exhibition, Colure Collective, Ada X, Montréal, Canada
2021 | Hereafter, architectural projection featuring 50+ artists, Quartier des spectacles x CPC, Montréal, Canada