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Marc Séguin
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Marc Séguin
Autoportrait 2009
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Marc Séguin
Autoportrait 2009
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Marc Séguin
Bitches #2 2007
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Marc Séguin
Le bon silence (the good silence) 2002
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Marc Séguin
Self Portrait 2008
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Marc Séguin
Void 3 2006
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Biography |
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Marc Séguin was born in Ottawa on March 20, 1970. He lives and works in Montréal, where he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University. His first solo exhibition in 1996 presented large works with amazing visual effects. This exhibition attracted favourable attention from critics and collectors; thus his career was launched! A talented printmaker as well as a prolific painter, Marc Séguin was recognized by the curators of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1997 through his work in the now-famous group exhibit De fougue et de passion. They then invited him to hold a personal exhibition in 2000 (at only 29 years of age), which consisted of a series of large paintings on the theme of medieval rose windows. This exhibition was then held in France at the Canadian Cultural Centre of Paris during the summer of 2001 and toured Canada in 2003-2004. |
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His printmaking techniques, perfectly mastered, are executed with overflowing creativity. The artist does not hesitate to alloy general cloisonné techniques; serigraphy passages are added to dry point engravings or etchings; relief or decoupage often completes engravings with a mezzotint or aquatinting. The markings are clever yet made with great sensitivity with intuitive character, always a near certain representation of nature, which is priceless to the artist. |
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Since 2000, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec have all acquired major works by Marc Séguin. His prints and his paintings can be found in numerous Canadian corporate collections and the collections of major private Canadian and American collectors. To this date, Marc Séguin has held more than 20 personal exhibits and has participated in many more group exhibitions and art fairs around the world, including Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Cologne, New York, Chicago, Brussels and Namur. |
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