christiane léaud

Africa, Europe, and the Americas have all shaped the life journey of Christiane Léaud, an artist currently living and working in Montreal.

Her first artistic creations were batiks on silk (wall panels and scarves), produced during a two-year stay in New York City. A former literature teacher (French and Latin) at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, she published a series of educational booklets titled À l’œuvre ! Un regard sur la littérature, focusing on literary analysis for high school students (grades 7–11). In parallel, several of her poems were published in the literary magazine Liberté.

In 2018, Christiane Léaud released Lunaisons, a poetic suite accompanied by ink illustrations by Rita Ezrati. She also presented a collage exhibition titled Relier ce qui est disjoint at Atelier-Galerie Alain Piroir (Montreal). In 2021, she published Futur Antérieur, an artist’s book combining poetry and reproductions of collages, the originals forming an independent exhibition. Finally, Robert et moi (Fall 2020) was a major solo exhibition, featuring over forty collages — including a dozen large-format pieces — at the intersection of visual art and literature.