Samuelle Grande
Samuelle Grande’s paintings aspire to the conditions of poetry. She paints the inevitabilities of everyday experience: the highs and lows, romance and loneliness, the beautiful, the ugly, and the mundane. Driven by painting’s ability to evoke emotion, she overlaps personal narratives with imagined landscapes and symbols in works rendered alla prima. Figures urge themselves toward abstraction but invariably leave a trace of their presence. Guided by haptic sensitivity, her paintings call to mind dream sequences and memories that overlap in painterly scenarios.
Samuelle Grande was born in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal, where she continues to live and work. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph (2023) and a BFA (Honours) in Studio Arts from Concordia University (2019). Grande has exhibited across Canada and the United States, including at the NADA NYC (2025), Art Gallery of Guelph (2023), and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Toronto and Montreal. In 2024, she completed an artist residency at Fool’s Paradise, the Doris McCarthy residency in Scarborough, ON. She is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2024, 2023). She has received numerous other awards, including the Canadian Federation of University Women Award (2023), Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship (2022), and the Tony Sherman Graduate Scholarship (2021). Her practice has also received support from the Canada Council for the Arts. She is part of the Curated Artists Registry at White Columns, New York.
Recent exhibitions
Extra-Ordinary
From November 27 2025 to January 10, 2026
Free Play
From April 9 to May 17, 2025
Chapitre III - Group exhibition
From April 4 to May 25, 2024
Acts of Will - Group exhibition
From January 10 to February 11, 2024
Folie à deux
From May 30 to July 6, 2024
