marie-france cournoyer

Marie-France Cournoyer holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has been the recipient of multiple research and creation grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She regularly exhibits solo in Quebec, particularly in Montreal, and takes part in group exhibitions internationally, including in Brooklyn, New York and in Chicago.

Her artistic practice is intimate and poetic, centered around textiles, small relics, threads, ribbons, and jewelry. These objects are arranged as narrative fragments exploring themes of loss, absence, and personal memory. Fabric becomes a metaphor for identity, transition, or disguise, bridging the everyday with symbolic and poetic meaning.

Her work engages with tensions between stability and collapse, dream and nightmare, drift and assertion, crafting a visual world that is delicate, symbolic, and emotionally resonant.