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Mia Bureau's bio
Mia Bureau is a multidisciplinary artist born in Montreal and based in the Eastern Townships, where she develops a practice articulated between sculpture, painting, and ephemeral fruit carving. Trained in interior design, she has pursued an autodidactic approach for more than twenty years, marked by experimentation, material sensitivity, and a refined aesthetic awareness. Her travels in Europe and Southeast Asia nourish a visual imagination where architectural structures, cultural landscapes, and traditional gestures intersect.
In 2008, she founded Sculpture Culinaire Mia Bureau, a living artistic practice in which she creates intricate sculptures from fresh produce, either in public demonstrations or in the studio. Inspired by Asian fruit-carving traditions and certain installation-based approaches, she explores the relationship between gesture, ephemerality, and the transmission of knowledge.
Since 2019, she has oriented her research toward contemporary visual arts. Inspired both by civil engineering and by the strength of mature female figures, she creates sculptures in steel, resin, and epoxy clay. Her work explores the tension between structure and sensitivity, monumentality and interiority, in inhabited forms that redefine the representation of the female body.
In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition, Transmission: Between Strength and Sensitivity, at Galerie Erga (Montreal), with a second presentation scheduled for 2026. Her work was also featured in Create! Magazine (Issue 51) in a four-page portfolio selected by three contemporary art curators.
In 2025, she received the Artistic Expression Award from the Canadian Artists Society and the Visual Arts Excellence Award from RAVIR, a Quebec-based rural arts organization. She is represented by Galerie Artêria, which showcases her work internationally, including at the Affordable Art Fair in New York.
Artist Statement
I consider myself first and foremost a sculptor: all my creations are conceived in three dimensions. My process begins with mental images and emotions rather than words. My works are material expressions of these ideas and feelings. The need to create emerged in my childhood, when I began making objects I desired but could not obtain. This impulse to produce high-quality works that I long to live with is the essential engine of my practice.
My work explores the duality between the organic—fluid and colorful—and the constructed—hard and cold. As human beings, we have the capacity to build utilitarian, mathematical structures with our intellect. At the same time, we are inhabited by desires and emotions that are subtle, complex, or even contradictory. My artistic approach seeks to convey this reality through material, in a poetic way.
I aim to enrich our living spaces with artworks that resonate emotionally while offering joy and comfort. The creation of beauty is essential to my process, and I deliberately distance myself from strictly conceptual art. The female condition is also a central theme. I question the image of femininity and the social limitations imposed on women. Through both my studio work and numerous public performances and live installations, I affirm my presence and my perspective as a woman artist.
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