Biography

Discover the world of CYNTHIA COULOMBE BÉGIN

Dive into the fascinating journey of an artist who transforms emotions into colors and stories into canvases.

Artist with dual North American nationality born in Miami in 1984

A dual-national North American artist born in Miami in 1984, CCB grew up in Quebec where she obtained a bachelor's degree in visual arts in 2006 from Laval University.

The artist uses her various artistic trainings taught by her parents from a young age to develop her own language. Dance and martial arts, in particular, help her develop her personality and aesthetics related to the body, which she uses in her pictorial practice. CCB began her professional artistic career after graduating from university at the Marius Barbeau Museum with a first solo, Traces Corporelles, in 2006.

She has accumulated her experience with exhibitions in various galleries and private companies, prizes and collective events in Quebec and internationally.

Inspired by the body and experience of humanity

CCB's creative approach involves reconstructing the organism fragment by fragment with great sensitivity that offers a reflection on our identity and our existence.

Referring to the body and its evolution, she develops her pictorial research marked by her interest in portraiture in which the eyes and the mouth predominate.

Through his works, the artist presents us with his thoughts on the soul and matter, consciousness and the universe.

“My creative approach focuses on the metamorphic interpretation of our inner identity in the face of our projected image.”

"I am inspired by the fragmented body envelope that I mark with a spontaneous gesture of vibrant colors. The experience of painting leads me to look differently, to self-discovery, to the point of astonishment.

A movement from the outside to the inside is emerging, the feeling of a quest for invisible energy, a marriage of body and mind. I explore the limits of figuration imbued with textures and effects of movement.

The notion of spectacle, the quest for identity, the body exposed in an explosive universe reflects my desire to stage all the beauty and vulnerability of our existence in a single image. I think of my painting as a staging. The representation of the external being towards its interior addresses the dualities of the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial. In a spirit of freedom, I travel through the being, the universe and its infinity.

When painting becomes a spectacle

The pictorial work of this young artist has, over time, been influenced by the performing arts for its contrasts and exuberance.

In his works we find an interest in the human, especially the portrait highlighting the mouths or eyes which are displayed behind a quantity of vibrant material worked with a spatula.

A variety of techniques evolve and change through experimentation. Realistic brushwork, spatula abstractions, and spray painting form a happy blend of contemporary art inspired by street art.

Cynthia Coulombe Bégin's images are imbued with symbolism and eroticism.

Photo Shoot!

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In the Street

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In the workshop

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