B I O G R A P H Y

Florence Giroux Gravel is a visual artist who received her MFA from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and studied in Studio Art at New York University (NYU Steinhardt) as well. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Iceland and France, notably at Carvalho Park, Sorbonne Art Gallery, Plural Art Fair, Papier Art Fair and Marius-Barbeau Museum. Her work is present in corporate collections including Kirkland & Ellis (Chicago), Claridge Inc. (Montreal), Ubisoft (Montreal), Institut Teccart (Brossard) and Stein Monast (Quebec City) as well as numerous private collections in Canada, the United States and France. She is the recipient of four Première Ovation grants (CALQ, Manif d’art, Ville de Québec), one in Mentoring in Public Art (2020), and three Research and Creation (2022, 2023 and 2024). She also sits on the boards of Manif d’Art, La Biennale de Québec and La Chambre Blanche. Florence belongs to the Artists File of Art and Architecture Integration Policy of Quebec (1%). Florence is based in Quebec City (Canada). 

S T A T E M E N T 

Playing with perception and movement, Florence works with the notion of space by being interested in the multiplication of points of view experienced by the viewer. The distance and the proximity to the works reveal fields of illusions and unexpected wavelengths for the eye, creating a dialogue with the environment. Her works are transformed according to the effect of light, leading to a variability of tones, nuances and densities. Working with threads for the past few years, glass and fabric add new trajectories and a new plastic language to her creation. She pursues her artistic research on visual immersions where art, architecture and the psychic are articulated. In the experience of the subtle, a transparency is revealed. Captured between the dimensions of the visible and the invisible, where rhythmic, resonance and vibration merge.