Nathalie Thibault is a visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, and poetic writing. Her approach is rooted in a performative process, and her abstract works are developed from supports with often irregular shapes as well as elements drawn from her working environment. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Université Laval (2005). Over the past twenty years, she has exhibited her work across several Canadian provinces and in the United States. Her works are included in various public and private collections in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
In 2009, she was a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition and was also nominated for the Prix d’excellence des arts et de la culture de Québec in the “Emerging Artist” category, as well as for the international competition 100 Painters of Tomorrow. In September 2017, she participated in the exhibition Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Nathalie Thibault lives and works in Quebec City, where she founded the collective Filles du désordre in 2025 with artist Isabelle Lapierre.
EDUCATION
2022 — Breath and Voice Workshop with Danielle Carpentier, Culture Capitale-Nationale, Quebec City
2005 — M.F.A. in Visual Arts, Université Laval, Quebec City
2002 — B.F.A. in Visual Arts, Université Laval, Quebec City
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2025 — Material Girls (with Isabelle Lapierre), Espace Parenthèses, Cégep Ste-Foy, Quebec City
2023 — Tracés angulaires et formes cintrées, Galerie a, Quebec City
2020 — Les distracteurs de couleurs, online exhibition, Galerie a, Quebec City
2018 — Parades et Ripostes, Galerie a, Quebec City
2018 — Études pour coups fumants, Centre Elgar, Verdun (Montreal)
2013 — L’emploi du temps, LE Gallery, Toronto
2011 — Mes prétextes, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
2005 — Errances affectives, L’Œil de Poisson, Quebec City
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023 — Brutalisme Parallèle, curated by Péio Eliceiry, L’Œil de Poisson and VU, Quebec City
2021 — Untitled, Gray Contemporary, Houston, Texas, USA
2017 — Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, curated by Bruce Grenville and David MacWilliam, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 — L’Étincelle du Phénix, jeune peinture canadienne, curated by Robert Enright, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
2009 — RBC Canadian Painting Competition exhibitions, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; TIAF, Toronto; Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
LITERARY EVENTS
2026 — Guest poet, Vendredis de poésie, Maison de la littérature, Quebec City
2025 — Feux follets journal, poem 'La tempête', University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
2024 — Festival d’Octobre (Le mois des mots), 'Gymnastique d’un soir', Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
2021 — 60 poèmes par heure / Ces lieux qui nous habitent, TAP project, Quebec
2020 — Allô-Poème MTL / Dial-a-Poem MTL, Montreal
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2013 — Semi-finalist, 100 Painters of Tomorrow
2009 — Semi-finalist, RBC Canadian Painting Competition
2008 — Loto-Québec grant
2006 — Finalist, Quebec City Arts and Culture Excellence Awards
COLLECTIONS
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Scotiabank Collection
Desjardins Collection
Private collections in Canada, USA, UK
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