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Samuelle Grande’s paintings aspire to the conditions of poetry. Her practice engages with feelings, processes of thoughts and corporeality. Her paintings emerge through gesture, colour, and drawing-based procedures. Grande’s work weaves experiences and observations drawn from her daily life with images sourced from anonymous scrapbooks, cinema and Western art history. They call to mind dream sequences and memories that overlap in painterly scenarios.

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Samuelle Grande was born and raised in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal where she still resides today. She holds a MFA from the University of Guelph (2023) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Studio Arts from Concordia University (2019). She has exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Guelph; Boarding House Gallery (Guelph) and Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto and Montreal). In 2024, she was an artist-in-residence at Fool’s Paradise, the Doris McCarthy residency (Scarborough). Grande is the recipient of several awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2024, 2023), the Canadian Federation of Women Graduate Award (2023) and the Tony Sherman Graduate Scholarship (2021).