Cécile Ronc

Cécile Ronc is a painter living and working in Montreal. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her pictorial work investigates what she calls géonirisme—the exploration of the relationship between the sensory qualities of nature and the resonances they evoke in us. She is interested in the ecology of perception and in how painting can contribute to a culture of the living, seeking to see the world “for itself.” Her solo exhibitions, including Le luxuriant désert noir (Galerie d’art d’Outremont), Le pays où l’on n’arrive jamais (Galerie McClure), and Paysages sans têtes (Association Premier Regard, Paris), reflect her ongoing inquiry into the links between painting, landscape, and memory.