Suzelle Levasseur

Suzelle Levasseur, born in 1953 in Trois-Rivières, is a Canadian painter and draughtsperson.

Biography A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1976, she became known in the Montreal art scene through an exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in the late 1980s.

Career Suzelle Levasseur’s pictorial art focuses on the human figure and its environment. In her works from the 1980s, the figure is often distorted or fragmented, before gradually integrating into more fluid surfaces where distinctions between form and background blend together. This evolution is accompanied by a more expressionist approach to her pictorial work. In 1998, she worked as an exhibition curator, organizing at the Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay an exhibition bringing together several artists around this format, including Judith Berry, Pierre Blanchette, Kittie Bruneau and Marcelle Ferron.

Alongside painting, Levasseur developed a drawing practice. Some series, centered on motifs of eyes and tears , address themes related to emotion and perception.