Camille Charbonneau
Canada, Visual Art
Camille Carbonneau (b. 1993, Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation/Gatineau, CA) lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, CA. Charbonneau’s practice reworks sacred Mormon objects, images, and architectures from their upbringing by processing cotton pulp, wax, recycled clothes, or other humble materials. Their large scale installations consider limits, whether physical or social, as something which defines. By recontextualizing sacred Mormon objects outside of their prescribed spaces, Charbonneau uses transgression as a productive act, engaging with topics such as the weird, horror, dirt, failure, and the positionality of queerness.
Born queer into a Mormon family on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation/Gatineau, Charbonneau moved to Montréal in 2010 to pursue studies in fine arts at CÉGEP Marie-Victorin, where they were awarded the Bourse Arts Plastiques. They completed a BFA in Painting & Drawing at Concordia University in 2020, graduating with distinction, and obtained an MFA in the same program in 2025. During their graduate studies, they were awarded the Shirley Reed Graduate Scholarship and the Tom Hopkins Memorial Graduate Award on several occasions.
Carbonneau’s work has been exhibited in Québec, Ontario, the United States, and Belgium. Recent exhibitions include presentations at Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery (2019), the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (2022), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (2023), the Church History Museum (2025), Fonderie Darling (2026), Stems Gallery (2026), and Centre Clark (2027). Their work has also been featured in publications such as Vice MTL (2018), Le Soleil (2024), and Guerlain (2025).
“I am looking forward to connecting with LDS artists from a broad spectrum of orthodoxy and practice. I am interested in the infinitely nuanced relationships that people can have with a similar experience and mostly in the effect that their exchange can influence.”