Manuel Mathieu
Manuel Mathieu (born in 1986 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, and olfactory art. His work explores themes such as historical violence, erasure, and cultural approaches to physicality, nature, and spiritual heritage. Manuel Mathieu’s interests are partly shaped by his childhood in Haiti and by his experience of immigrating to Montreal at the age of 19. Moving fluidly between these contexts and drawing on numerous historical influences and traditions, he seeks meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of appearance.
Through a distinctive abstract visual language, he creates immersive, phenomenological works in which amorphous forms transform and dissolve, giving rise to emotional and psychological landscapes. Rather than “creating,” he approaches art as a process of discovery, allowing the work to retain its autonomy and function as a space of collective consciousness. His practice aims to evoke invisible and often unrepresentable energies (intimate, chaotic, and spiritual) that shape human experience. Drawing from a wide range of subjects, Manuel Mathieu’s practice combines his sensitivity with his formal artistic training.
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Manuel Mathieu graduated from a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College (University of London) and has exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries around the world. His works are part of several public collections, including the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Longlati Foundation (Shanghai), the Rubell Family Collection (Miami), and the Rennie Collection (Vancouver).
PHI (Montreal) dedicated a major solo exhibition to him in October 2025; other solo exhibitions include MOCA North Miami and De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea, UK) in 2024, K11 Art Foundation (Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang) in 2023, the Longlati Foundation in 2022, as well as The Power Plant (Toronto) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2020. His work is included in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, presented both at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and at the Arsenale, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
He is represented internationally by four galleries : Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (Montreal, Canada), Pilar Corrias Gallery (London, UK), HdM Gallery (Beijing, China), and Galerie Poggi (Paris, France).
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“Shamans in ancient times used scents to travel, to protect, and to inspire dreams as well. I think artists are the shamans of today.”
Manuel Mathieu
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