Marie-Michelle Deschamps

Alphabet
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and sterling silver thread
23 x 30.5 cm. (9 x 12 in.)
Magnolias
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and fine silver thread
35.5 x 26.5 cm. (14 x 10.5 in.)
Sans-titre
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet
23 x 30.5 cm. (9 x 12 in.)
Checklist
2019
Vitreous enamel on copper foil, painted steel
65 x 91.5 cm. (25.5 x 36 in.)
Occasional work
2019
Vitreous enamel on roofing copper, stainless steel
91 x 128 x 8 cm. (36 x 50 x 2.5 in.)
Company #2
2017
Powder coated steel, vitreous enamel on steel
198 x 101.5 x 5 cm. (78 x 40 x 2 in.)
Company #4
2022
Powder-coated steel, cast sterling silver, patinated cast bronze
I See / You Mean
2022
Steel table patinated bronze, sterling silver
53 x 43 x 43 cm. (20.8 x 17 x 17 in.)
Swan #1
2019
Vitreous enamel on hammered roofing copper
51 x 51 x 25.5 cm. (20 x 20 x 10 in.)
15h37
2018
Watercolour, engraved UV glass, enameled steel, stainless steel
113 x 75.5 cm. (44.5 x 30 in.)
Something Close
2019
Vitreous enamel on copper foil, painted steel
91.5 x 64.8 cm. (36 x 25.5 in.)
Untitled
2022
Vitreous enamel on copper
30.4 x 22.8 cm. (12 x 9 in.)
Je relis tes lignes (with Éléonore False), 2018
Exhibition view
Centre d'art Diagonale, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet
Neap Notes, 2022
Exhibition view
She BAM!, Leipzig (Germany)
Photo: dotgain.info
And still no rain
2019
Exhibition view
Franz Kaka, Toronto (Canada)
Company #3
2022
Powdercoated steel
225 x 98 cm. (88.5 x 38.5 in.)
Parasols #3
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and fine silver thread
30.5 x 23 cm. (12 x 9 in.)
Untitled
2019
Glass bottles, jewellery enamel on pipe fitting, copper, rhababershörle
Variable dimensions
Material Tells, 2019
Exhibition view
Oakville Galleries, Oakville (Canada)
Photo: Laura Findlay
Oasis
2021
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
L * (with Bryan-K. Lamonde)
2016
Exhibition view
Darling Foundry, Montreal (Canada)

Alphabet
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and sterling silver thread
23 x 30.5 cm. (9 x 12 in.)

Magnolias
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and fine silver thread
35.5 x 26.5 cm. (14 x 10.5 in.)

Sans-titre
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet
23 x 30.5 cm. (9 x 12 in.)

Checklist
2019
Vitreous enamel on copper foil, painted steel
65 x 91.5 cm. (25.5 x 36 in.)

Occasional work
2019
Vitreous enamel on roofing copper, stainless steel
91 x 128 x 8 cm. (36 x 50 x 2.5 in.)

Company #2
2017
Powder coated steel, vitreous enamel on steel
198 x 101.5 x 5 cm. (78 x 40 x 2 in.)

Company #4
2022
Powder-coated steel, cast sterling silver, patinated cast bronze

I See / You Mean
2022
Steel table patinated bronze, sterling silver
53 x 43 x 43 cm. (20.8 x 17 x 17 in.)

Swan #1
2019
Vitreous enamel on hammered roofing copper
51 x 51 x 25.5 cm. (20 x 20 x 10 in.)

15h37
2018
Watercolour, engraved UV glass, enameled steel, stainless steel
113 x 75.5 cm. (44.5 x 30 in.)

Something Close
2019
Vitreous enamel on copper foil, painted steel
91.5 x 64.8 cm. (36 x 25.5 in.)

Untitled
2022
Vitreous enamel on copper
30.4 x 22.8 cm. (12 x 9 in.)

Je relis tes lignes (with Éléonore False), 2018
Exhibition view
Centre d'art Diagonale, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet

Neap Notes, 2022
Exhibition view
She BAM!, Leipzig (Germany)
Photo: dotgain.info

And still no rain
2019
Exhibition view
Franz Kaka, Toronto (Canada)

Company #3
2022
Powdercoated steel
225 x 98 cm. (88.5 x 38.5 in.)

Parasols #3
2021
Porcelain enamel on copper sheet and fine silver thread
30.5 x 23 cm. (12 x 9 in.)

Untitled
2019
Glass bottles, jewellery enamel on pipe fitting, copper, rhababershörle
Variable dimensions

Material Tells, 2019
Exhibition view
Oakville Galleries, Oakville (Canada)
Photo: Laura Findlay

Oasis
2021
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)

L * (with Bryan-K. Lamonde)
2016
Exhibition view
Darling Foundry, Montreal (Canada)

Biography

Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ work focuses on language as an inhabitable space– a veritable structure and place where aesthetic forms reside. Her practice is rooted within conversation, collaboration, and translation, underscoring the transformative place of language within the formal dialect of architecture. Deschamps explores issues of meaning and analysis, deconstructing and reinventing language to question the relationship between words and things, and to depict language as an experience and a reservoir of aesthetics.

Marie-Michelle Deschamps is based in Montreal, Canada, and holds an MFA in visual art from the Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow, Scotland). She has presented her work in solo exhibitions at Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Ausstellungraum Klingenthal (Basel), She BAM! (Leipzig), and Galerie de l’UQO (Gatineau), as well as in group exhibitions at Arsenal Contemporary (New York), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal), Oakville Galleries (Oakville), Occidental Temporary (Paris), and MUDAM – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (Luxembourg City), among others. Deschamps’ work is part of the permanent collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Voorlinden Museum (Wassenaar), the Lafayette Foundation (Paris), the Glasgow School of the Arts Libraries (Glasgow), the Enamel Arts Foundation (Los Angeles), and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (Montreal).

Born in Montreal, QC, 1980

Lives and works in Montreal, QC