Corriveau draws inspiration from the interconnectedness of human experiences to question existence, exploring fragility, ephemerality, perception, and illusion. Informed by a profound exploration of materiality and light, her still life reflects her interest in consumption's role in shaping cultural identities. Using cheap or disposable objects with colored lighting to reveal optical phenomena, Corriveau portrays obsolescence as sublime and transforms the banal into the sacred with iridescent qualities reminiscent of the digital realm. Through selection, assemblage, photography, and representation in drawing and painting, she conveys a tension between artifice and classical mimetic ideals. Her 'makeup-like' soft pastel techniques are radically feminine while her hyperrealist approach transcends mere replication into a conceptual process, unfolding into spatial explorations and sculptural dimensions.
Maude Corriveau (b. 1986) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. She obtained her Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2020. Corriveau’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as prestigious art fairs and auctions across Canada and the United States. She has received grants from the Conseil des arts du Québec (2024), the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2023), the Canada Council for the Arts (2021) and the Yvonne L. Bombardier Graduate Scholarship (2019). Her pieces adorn private and corporate collections, including those of BMO Bank of Montreal, Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec and Ubisoft, among others. Corriveau is represented by the Nicolas Robert Gallery.
