Marc Seguin

Marc Séguin (b. 1970, Ottawa, Canada) is a Canadian painter, filmmaker, and writer. Touching on themes of the politically backward, the environmentally compromised, and the socially divided, his work reveals deeper truths about humanity’s nature through images that are not only thought-provoking but beautifully elegiac. Using his color blindness to powerful effect, Marc Séguin works primarily with charcoal, producing monochromatic, photorealistic drawings on canvas, overlaid with sparingly, pointedly applied oil paint and mixed materials like ash, feathers, and tar.

Since 2000, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec have all acquired major works by Marc Séguin. His prints and paintings can be found in numerous Canadian corporate collections and major private Canadian and American collectors. Marc Séguin has held more than 20 solo shows and participated in many more group exhibitions and art fairs worldwide, including Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Cologne, New York, Miami, Chicago, Brussels, and Namur.

Marc Séguin has also published 5 critically acclaimed fiction novels – La foi du braconnier, Hollywood, Nord Alice, Les Repentirs et Jenny Sauro – translated in English and German. Stealing Alice is his first feature film. His documentary The State of the Farm was released in September 2017.

Read more about Marc Seguin in HaberDash: Marc Séguin: Mastering Darkness on Canvas and in Prose