Élise Caron Canada

Élise Caron is a prolific Quebec artist who, through her distinctive artistic approach, is dedicated to innovative pictorial research. Her work is characterized by compositions imbued with both intuitive intent and profound reflection. Her creative process is expressed through free, flexible, patient, and meticulous gestures.
At a very young age, her interest in the arts determined the direction she would take in her studies. In 1996, her artistic approach took a new turn when she became interested in Chinese painting and calligraphy. She studied Chinese and Japanese art history in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Montreal. She perfected her brushwork by working in a private studio with a Chinese calligraphy master.
In the summer of 2003, during a master class given by Françoise Sullivan*, the latter strongly encouraged her and confirmed the relevance of her pictorial approach. This was a milestone in the evolution of Élise Caron's artistic research in abstraction.

She exhibited at the Marius-Barbeau Museum in Beauce throughout the summer of 2011. In 2013, the Mont-Saint-Hilaire Museum of Fine Arts organized the prestigious exhibition on Paul-Émile Borduas, Les années New-Yorkaises et L’Héritage de Paul-Émile Borduas (The New York Years and The Legacy of Paul-Émile Borduas), to which she was invited to participate as an heir to the movement. At the same time, the solo exhibition Caron Pureté et dépouillement (Caron Purity and Simplicity) was organized in Paul-Émile Borduas' studio at the Maison de Paul-Émile Borduas at the Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Élise Caron was a finalist in 2015 for the CALQ Award – Creator of the Year in the Laurentians (all disciplines combined), an award that recognizes an artist for their entire career and the excellence of their work.
In 2018, Caron participated in international fairs such as the Affordable Art Fair in Singapore, Sofa Expo in Chicago, and ART in San Diego. Her works are part of private and public collections, including those of the Quebec government and the Canadian government, particularly the Department of Foreign Affairs (Canadian embassies).


*Françoise Sullivan is one of the fifteen co-signatories of Refus global, published in Montreal on August 9, 1948. Paul-Émile Borduas, the author of this manifesto, challenges traditional values and rejects the immobility of Quebec society at the time. It was a movement for the democratization of art and the flourishing of individual freedom.