Michel T. Desroches

Over many years and different kinds of artistic practice and training, Michel T. Desroches has gradually developed an aesthetic project that goes back and forth between representation and abstraction and demonstrates both a mastery of academic renderings and the use of spontaneous gestures. His current work, created on canvas or wood using graphite and acrylic paint, is marked by black strokes and constructed from multiple superimpositions and back-and-forth gestures. These pieces are situated between the processes of constructing and deconstructing images.

Zones of emotional interpretation, faces, figures, and silhouettes of faces are the artist’s main subjects. Fragmented or splintered, these appear and disappear in his compositions between motifs, textures, combinations of luminosity, and colour vibrations to suggest an inexhaustible number of possibilities. For Desroches, the task is thus to construct and order fragments and elements to co-exist in equilibrium within a whole. The result is an art stamped with energy, spontaneity, and humanity, through which Michel T. Desroches conveys and expresses himself.

Biography:

Trained at the School of Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Michel T. Desroches is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily uses painting and drawing as means of expression. Since 2019, he has also been exploring sculpture, which influences his pictorial creations and vice versa, developing a distinct signature marked by a nervous and intuitive line. With over 30 years of artistic practice, Desroches has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions. His works are held in several private collections and have been presented at numerous contemporary art fairs in recent years, in North America, Europe, and Asia. Michel Desroches was born in Montreal in 1970. He currently lives and works in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2024: Artist Residency at Palazzo Venezia, Napoli (Naples, Italy) - Lo sguardo degli dei

2012: Atelier Circulaire, Montréal - Lithography on stone

2007: Université du Québec à Montréal - Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts

ARTIST'S APPROACH

Over many years of practice and various training, Michel T. Desroches has gradually developed an aesthetic exploration oscillating between representation and abstraction. This demonstrates both a mastery of academic renderings and the affirmation of a spontaneous gesture. His current productions, made on canvas or wood, with graphite and acrylic paint, are punctuated by black lines and constructed through multiple layers and gestural back-and-forths. They assert themselves between the process ofconstruction and deconstruction of images. Faces, figures, or silhouettes of faces are his main subjects, serving as zones of emotional reading. Fragmented or exploded, they appear and disappear within the compositions of his works, amidst the motifs, textures, combinations of luminosity, and color vibrations, evoking an inexhaustible number of possibilities. For the artist, this involves constructing and arranging fragments and elements so that they coexist in equilibrium within a whole. The result is an art imbued with energy, spontaneity, and humanity through which Michel T. Desroches expresses and transmits.

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025: Sémionaute / Centre culturel Vanier / Châteauguay / (Canada)
2025: Pôle culturel de Chambly / Chambly (Canada)
2024: Physionomie Maison Epiphany Domaine Trinity (Canada)
2024: Art public / Val-d'Or (Canada)
2024: Solo exhibition at Palazzo Venezia Napoli / Naples (Italy)
2024: Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire
2022: Galerie du Vieux-St-Jean / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2022: Trace Theatre des Deux Rives / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu
2021: WSFA Art Gallery / Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California (USA)
2019: Yellowstone Art Museum / Billings, Montana (USA)
2019: Galerie Vieux-St-Jean / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2019: Galerie Tommy Zen / Montreal (Canada)
2018: WSFA Art Gallery / Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, California (USA)
2017: Las Olas Gallery / Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA)
2016: Galerie Vieux-St-Jean / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2015: Galerie MX / Montreal (Canada)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025: Musée des Beaux Arts de Mont St Hilaire (Canada)
2025: Galerie Mèl / Montreal (Canada)
2025: Fondation Jordi Bonet Manoir Rouville-Campbell (Canada)
2025: Club St Denis / Montreal (Canada)
2023: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mont St-Hilaire (Canada)
2021: WSFA Art Gallery / Rodeo Drive Bl, Beverly Hills (USA)
2020: WSFA Art Gallery / Santa Monica Bl, Beverly Hills (USA)
2019: V.I.P Gallery / Bien Hoa (Vietnam)
2017: Caroussel du Louvre / Paris, France (Europe)
2017: Las Olas Gallery / Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA)
2017: Art Session, Galerie Portfolio / Montréal (Canada)
2017: Art Session, Galerie Belgo / Montréal (Canada)
2017: WSFA Art Gallery / Beverly Hills, California (USA)
2016: Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges / Montréal (Canada)
2015: Galerie Vieux-St-Jean / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2015: Galerie MX / Montréal (Canada)
2010: Maison de la culture Frontenac / Montréal (Canada)

ART FAIRS

2022: Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary (USA)
2021: Art Context Miami (USA)
2019: Shanghai Art Plus (China)
2019: New York Art (USA)
2019: Palm Springs Art, California (USA)
2019: Los Angeles Art, California (USA)
2018: Shanghai Art (China)
2018: Los Angeles Art, California (USA)
2018: Marbella Art (Spain)
2017: Shanghai Art (China)
2017: Red Dot Miami, Florida (USA)
2017: Marbella Art (Spain)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2020: Silver Medal: Abstract Painting / MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA, International Art Professionals Awards (IAPA)
2017: Canadian Delegation (S.N.B.A.), Caroussel du Louvre / Paris, France (Europe)

PRIVATE & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Palazzo Venezia Napolie / Naples (Italy)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Mont St-Hilaire (Canada)
Masterpiece Publishing / California (USA)
Yellowstone Art Museum / Montana (USA)
Collectors in Shanghai, Vietnam (Asia)
Paris, London (Europe)
Washington DC / Arizona, Texas (USA)
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, San Francisco California (USA)
Montreal, Toronto (Canada)

FUNDRAISERS

2025: Fondation Jordi Bonet Mont-Saint-Hilaire (Canada)
2024: Institut du cancer Montréal / Montréal (Canada)
2021: Fondation Emergence / Montréal (Canada)
2020: Fondation Emergence / Montréal (Canada)
2019: VN Hopes Fundraising and auction / California (USA)
2019: Hope for Tomorrow Fundraising and auction / Washington DC (USA)
2019: Project Vietnam Fundraising and auction / California (USA)
2019: Maison Chance / California (USA)
2019: Alpabem Santé Mentale / Montréal (USA)
2018: VN Hopes Fundraising and auction / California (USA)

PRESS REVIEWS

2024: Corriere del mezzogiorno Napoli / Naples (Italy)
2022: La Presse / Montreal (Canada)
2022: Le Canada Français / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2021: Le Devoir Dans L'oeil de Jacques Nadeau. (Canada)
2021: Oeuvre du mois L'Action Nationale. (Canada)
2021: Art Confidential Magazine / Beverly Hills, California (USA)
2021: Le Canada Français / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2020: Revue Mitra l'art & littérature / Montréal (USA)
2019: La Presse / Montréal (Canada)
2019: Le Courrier du Haut-Richelieu / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu
2019: Le Canada Français / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Canada)
2019: Magazine / Art & Antique (USA)

STATEMENT:

Over many years and different kinds of artistic practice and training, I have gradually developed an aesthetic project which goes back and forth between representation and abstraction and demonstrates both my command of academic renderings and my use of spontaneous gestures. My current work, created on canvas or wood using graphite and acrylic paint, is marked by black strokes and constructed from multiple superimpositions and back-and-forth gestures. These pieces are situated between the processes of constructing and deconstructing images.

Zones of emotional interpretation, faces, figures, and silhouettes of faces are my main subjects. Fragmented or splintered, these appear and disappear in my compositions between motifs, textures, combinations of luminosity, and colour vibrations to suggest an inexhaustible number of possibilities. Thus, I see the task as constructing and ordering fragments and elements to co-exist in equilibrium within a whole. The result is an art stamped with energy, spontaneity, and humanity, through which I express myself and convey my ideas.

Michel T. Desroches

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Exhibitions