Laurent Le Bel-Roux
Laurent Le Bel-Roux’s practice is grounded in an intuitive approach to painting. Through abstraction, he explores the shifting relationship between body and mind, considering how perception and interpretation continuously shape one another. At the core lies the idea of interference—our subjective lens through which we filter reality. In sedimented layers of acrylic, pastel, and paper, Le Bel-Roux paints scenes that shift and slide from icon to abstraction, and recognizable forms slip away with closer looking. The use of camouflage and mesh-like patterns in his paintings embodies the tension between illusion and certainty, and invites a recomposition of what is concealed with what is revealed. Each painting emerges as an autonomous system where intention and improvisation coexist, and where both constraints and chance become catalysts for creation.
Le Bel-Roux holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2025) and a BA in Arts visuels et médiatiques from UQÀM (2021). His work has been presented in several solo and group exhibitions, including at Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas, Texas, 2025), the Visual Arts Center (Austin, Texas, 2025), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montreal, 2023, 2025), Occurrence (2023), SKOL (2023), Galerie Duran|Mashaal (2023), and Cache Studio (2023). During his studies, he was awarded the Graduate Continuing Fellowship from UT Austin (2024–25) as well as the Fond de la Faculté des arts from UQÀM (2019). His work is part of collections including Scotiabank, the City of Laval, and Montreal.
Recent Exhibitions
A Fax from the South
From September 13 to October 25, 2025
The Room is Listening
From September 9 to October 14, 2023
