Manuel Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist, working with painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature, and spiritual legacy. Mathieu’s interests are partially informed by his upbringing in Haiti, and his experience emigrating to Montréal at the age of nineteen. Freely operating in between and borrowing from numerous historical influences and traditions, Mathieu aims to find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. Mathieu has developed a distinctive abstract visual language, used to create phenomenological encounters that confront our didactic traditions. Amorphous forms vacillate and dissolve into one another, creating boundless landscapes traversable through desire. Through his quest for meaning, transparency and openness he undertakes a process of discovering his work, as opposed to creating it; by doing so the work holds its autonomy and can be assimilated into a space of collective consciousness. The vibrational effect of his work elicits physical and emotional frequencies that offer alternative methods for navigating the world.

Pilar Corrias

Montréal

Montreux

Sobey Art Award

Galerie Hugues Charbonneau

London

Los Angeles

Matthew Brown

Chicago

Kavi Gupta

Beijing

Hdm Gallery

Tiwani Contemporary

Fellbach

Fellbach Triennial

Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Song Art Museum

Miami

Perez Art Museum

Le François

Fondation Clement

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Artv Studio

Paris

Grand Palais

Washington

Art Museum of The Americas

Sackville

Owens Art Gallery

Shanghai

Longlati Foundation

Toronto

The Power Plant

ICA London

Manuel Mathieu

Stuttgart

Akademie Schloss Solitude

Goldsmiths, University Of London

Constellation

The temptation

The weight

White Gaze

Wet Mammy

Where Should We Begin

Figuration or the Psychology of Creating Content

Somatic

Transfiguration

Apparition 3

Study on a head 2

Frontier

Roklor

Bauman

Study on an apparition