Mathieu Beauséjour

Mathieu Beauséjour is a self-taught artist who has created installations, interventions, and images since the mid-1990s. Through a position of resistance and détournement, he subverts the materials and concepts of power, alienation, and oppression. Beauséjour’s practice casts an ironic and nostalgic look on political and artistic avant-garde movements through cultural emblems like money, hymns, and manifestos. to examine the current state of the world. His context-based work responds directly to the spaces they occupy, whether it be a gallery, a site of intervention, a printed page, or a period of action.

Mathieu Beauséjour lives and works in Montreal. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), the Darling Foundry (Montreal), and Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), among others. In 2014, a retrospective of his work was presented at the Rimouski Regional Museum, and a catalog titled The Revolt of the Imagination was co-published with the Expression Center of Saint-Hyacinthe. Notable group exhibitions include Manif d’art 7 – The Quebec City Biennial, and the Québec Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Beauséjour’s work is held in numerous permanent collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Haupt Collection (Berlin), among others. Beauséjour won the Giverny Capital Prize in 2010 and was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award (2008) and the Prix Louis-Comtois (2012, 2016).

Born 1970, in Montreal, CA

Lives and works in Montreal, CA