Manuel Mathieu

Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian-Canadian artist whose interdisciplinary practice examines the entanglements between historical violence, erasure, cultural memory, and spiritual inheritance. Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation, he creates images that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, generating a charged field where the spiritual and the subconscious appear as forms of revelation.
Mathieu grew up in Haiti, where political instability and social turbulence left a deep imprint on his early life experience. He later continued his studies in Canada and completed his MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London. A near-fatal accident and subsequent coma also became an important threshold in his practice, embedding a heightened sense of physical fragility and existential sensitivity into his work. His paintings, therefore, operate as both a psychic re-engagement with Haiti and a re-mapping of personal trauma.
Through swirling color fields, fluid paint bodies, and fractured imagery, Mathieu proposes a mode of perception that moves beyond territorial belonging. His work refuses singular narratives of place or identity, and instead reveals the layered, unstable, and co-existing cultural imaginaries that shape contemporary global subjectivity.