Michelle
Caron-Pawlowsky
Contact: michellepawlowsky@gmail.com
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Canada who primarily works with images. Michelle is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Arts in the Photography program at Concordia University in Montreal, where she has received a number of grants to pursue art projects. She has most recently shown her work in the fourth edition of Artch, with Projet Tabloïde’s public billboard project, and as part of a large-scale architectural projection with Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. In 2021, she was an artist in residence with Art Souterrain’s Créer des Ponts and an Emerging Artist in Residence at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. She is the co-founder and co-director of Colure Collective, a group working to create exhibition and publication opportunities for emerging artists in Quebec. Colure’s first publication, In Continuum, will be released this year.
Michelle’s work draws on individual and collective histories as a point of departure. Centering on the mutable and vulnerable nature of memory, she is especially interested in long-term processes of healing, the sentimental value we ascribe to objects and collections, and an ongoing reconsideration of our relationships with nature. Using a multidisciplinary, installation-based approach that often combines photography, alternative printing processes, textiles, and natural materials, she works with layers and transparencies to consider acts of recollection and movement through time. Michelle informs her practice through research into subjects such as queer ecology, environmental studies, psychology, and witchcraft.
Education
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2016
Duo Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions
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Residencies
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Awards and Grants
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Bibliography
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Publications
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Collections
Stewart Hall Art Gallery (2022 Collection)
John Abbott College
BFA in Studio Arts, Major in Photography, Minor in Sustainability Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
DEC in Visual Arts, Certificate of Women and Gender Studies, John Abbott College, Montreal, QC
Here We Lay in a Beam of Bright Light, Our Hands Buried Deep in the Earth with Florence Pin, Espace Wednesday, Montreal, QC
Créer des Ponts with Florence Pin, Espace Wednesday, Montreal, QC
(Forthcoming) Cultivate the Creative, AZ Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, USA
The 2022 Collection, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, QC
Altar for Thismia Americana, public art installation, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, USA
Les liens futurs, Art Souterrain, Montreal, QC
Artch: Art contemporain émergent, Dorchester Square, Montreal, QC
Projet Tabloïde, public art billboard, Montreal, QC
Hereafter, architectural projection, Quartier des spectacles x CPC
Montreal, QC
Absence of Another, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC*
Le Salon Virtuel, VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC*
I Believe in Love, Le Cagibi, Montreal, QC
Dreamstate, Espace POP, Montreal, QC
Traces of Process, Glass Door Gallery, Montreal, QC
C-O-N-S-E-N-T: What It Means to Me - Bishop's University Community Art Lab, Sherbrooke, QC
Emerging Artist Residency, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota, USA
Créer des ponts, Art Souterrain, Montréal, QC
Production Grant, Artch: Art contemporain émergent
Cultural Grant, City of Beaconsfield
Third Place, Open Theme Category, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
Honorable Mention, Self Portrait Category, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
Honorable Mention, Still Life Category, 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
Special Project Funding, Concordia Council on Student Life
Community Contribution Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University
Second Place, Open Theme Category, Fine Art Photography Awards
Nominee, Portrait Category, Fine Art Photography Awards
Special Project Funding, Concordia Council on Student Life, Concordia University
Group Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University
Individual Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University
Group Special Project Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University
Erasing Hierarchies: Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky on Queer Ecology as Art, Cheng Huai, Montreal, QC
Artch expose 22 jeunes artistes, La Presse, Montreal, QC
Art Hole Magazine, Issue 12
Stonecoast Review, Issue 14
CYCLES Risograph Publication, Concordia Queer Print Club
(Forthcoming) In Continuum, Colure Collective
* Moved online due to COVID-19