Karine Guyon

Extraterrestrial

Oil, beeswax, pigment on canvas

"I have been exploring, for over a decade now, the relationship between color, light, lines and form, with universal space and psychic space. I believe painting is a secret language and that all of my life’s records are being intuitively downloaded, by my hand, unto the surface of the canvas.

Material plays a primary role in my decision making: I scrape, scratch, cut, glue and
sometimes I tear. I often use unconventional materials such as ultraviolet, mirror and
metallic pigments, glitters, recycled and cut off pieces of past paintings as well as fabric.
Previously, I have experimented with ultraviolet light installation as well as analog and
digital interactive installations.

I don’t aim at perfection, rather my desire is to express the intangible whether it be from inside or outside of me. "

– Karine Guyon

About the artist

Karine Guyon

Karine Guyon is a self-taught artist who has lived and worked in major Canadian cities such as Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa as well as in Barcelona, Spain. She is currently based in Montreal. She has exhibited her work at Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver, LES Gallery; Vancouver, Chatham-Kent Gallery; Ontario, Propeller Gallery; Toronto, The Science and Technology Museum of Ottawa; Ontario, The Hamption Gallery; Montreal, Galerie POPOP Gallery; Montreal., I Like Your Work; New York, and Deanna Evans Project; New York.

In 2022-2023, fifteen of her paintings were purchased by Turveta Holdings; Dubai. Her paintings can also be found in other corporate collections such as the Porter Housing Society and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work can also be found in private collections in Canada, Europe, and New Zealand.

In 2015, Guyon received the Emerging Artist Grant awarded by the Ontario Arts Council. From 2019-2022 she was awarded several Operating Art Grants from the Montreal Council for the Art and the City of Montreal. Guyon has received several private art grants for her collaborative analog and digital installation titled ‘‘Kaleidoscopy.’’