Jacques Clément is a Montreal-based visual artist whose career spans more than four decades. Trained at UQAM, the Université de Montréal, and Concordia University, he works in soft pastel, painting, and mixed media. His work has been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and 80 group exhibitions across Canada, France, and the United States. A recipient of numerous awards and grants from the CALQ and the Canada Council for the Arts, he has also shared his expertise as an educator for more than twenty years.
Clément’s practice explores human presence through gesture, medium, and light. Moving between precision and instinct, figure and erasure, he creates work that captures the energy of the moment, the vibration of the line, and the density of silence. Soft pastel, painting, and mixed media allow him to navigate a space where the figure is both constructed and deconstructed in a single movement.
He is deeply interested in the tension between the visible and the invisible: what emerges, what fades, and what endures. The body, the landscape, and interior space become creative terrain, offering a way to make the intangible felt.
His approach blends technical experimentation with profound emotion, making the two inseparable. Each work is an attempt to capture the ephemeral and inhabit time through colour and matter.
