Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky

Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Canada, who primarily works with images. Michelle graduated in 2022 with a BFA in Studio Arts in the Photography program at Concordia University in Montreal, where she has received a number of grants to pursue art projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada and the United States. She has most recently shown her work in the fourth edition of Artch, with Projet Tabloïde’s public billboard project, and as part of a large-scale architectural projection with Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. In 2021, Michelle was an artist in residence with Art Souterrain’s Créer des Ponts and an Emerging Artist in Residence at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. In addition, she is the co-founder and co-director of Colure Collective, a group working to create exhibition and publication opportunities for emerging artists in Quebec. Colure’s first publication, In Continuum, was released this year. ​ Michelle’s work draws on individual and collective histories as a point of departure. Centering on the mutable and vulnerable nature of memory, she is especially interested in long-term processes of healing, the sentimental value we ascribe to objects and collections, and an ongoing reconsideration of our relationships with nature. Using a multidisciplinary, installation-based approach that often combines photography, alternative printing processes, textiles, and natural materials, she works with layers and transparencies to consider acts of recollection and movement through time. Her recent work has been experimenting with pushing the boundaries of photographic presentation through sculptural, image-based installations. In addition, Michelle informs her practice through research into queer ecology, environmental studies, and psychological memory studies.