Rosalie Gamache is an artist born in 1993 who lives and works in Montreal. Her work in oil, notably her recent Peintures blanches series, revisits in a contemporary light the historical codes of portraiture and still life. It provides a reflection on the painting medium through both the material process, which revives forgotten techniques, and the subject represented, which offers a vivid metaphor for painting.
The artist graduated from Université Laval in 2018 with a BFA, which she completed with an exchange semester at the École supérieure d’art et de design de Marseille-Méditerranée in 2017. Before her university education, she developed expertise in historical materials and techniques of drawing and painting with a professional practice of portraiture and a year at the Florence Classical Art Academy in Italy.
Since the beginning of her career, she has presented several solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Europe, including at the Frauenmuseum in Bonn, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Maison de la culture Mercier, the Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or and the Florence Biennale. She has received grants from Première ovation (2015, 2019), the City of Quebec (2021) and the Canada Council for the Arts (2021). With Duran Mashaal, she participated in the 2022 editions of the Papier and Art Toronto fairs.