Karine Payette

Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike large-scale works made from recycled and found objects. Fascinated by the instrinsic connections between identity and habitat, she reflects on the notions of comfort and conflict in our ever-changing world.

Payette’s work has been the focus of several solo exhibitions across Quebec. She has participated in more than twenty collectives in Canada and France. In 2016, her work was shown in a solo exhibition in Germany at Art Mûr Leipzig. Since 2015, Payette has directed three projects integrating art and architecture for Montreal schools. Her work is in several private collections, as well as the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Loan Collection at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.