Ariane Thézé

Ariane Thézé, a contemporary visual artist, earned her diploma from the École des beaux-arts d’Angers in 1981. The following year, she moved to Montreal, distinguishing herself through her exploration of body representation, and held her first exhibition in 1983 at the Dazibao gallery. In 1984, she completed a master’s degree in visual arts at UQAM, then returned to France, where she obtained a second master’s degree from the University of Paris 1 in 1986. Her early works, *Déportraitisation* (1983), probe questions of identity, desire, and memory through photographs of human skin suspended from hangers. During the 1990s, her career expanded internationally. In 2003, she earned a doctorate in practice-based arts at UQAM.