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Marc Seguin was born in Ottawa on March 20, 1970. He lives and works in, New York
City and Montreal, where he obtained his Bachelors of Fine Arts at Concordia
University.

His first solo exhibition in 1996 presented large size works with amazing plastic
proportions. This exhibition attracted favourable attention from critics and collectors;
his career was launched! A talented printmaker as well as a prolific painter, Marc
Seguin’s work became recognized by the curators of the Montreal Contemporary Art
Museum in 1997 since his celebrated group exhibit “De fougue et de passion”. They
then invited him to present a personal exhibition in 2000 (only 29 years old), which
consisted of a series of large paintings following the theme of medieval rose windows.
This exhibition was soon after circulated in France at the Canadian Cultural Center of
Paris during the summer of 2001 and across Canada in 2003-2004. Also in 2004, the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invited him to show his drawing series called LES
DEMONS which was critically acclaimed and Concordia University awarded him the
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. His printmaking techniques, perfectly mastered,
are executed with overflowing creativity. The artist does not hesitate to alloy general
cloisonn techniques; serigraphy passages are added to dry point engravings or
etchings; relief or decoupage often complete engravings with a mezzotint or
aquatinting. The markings are knowing yet support great sensitivity, of an intuitive
character, always near a certain representation of nature, which is priceless to the
artist.

Since 2000, the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine
Arts and the Museum of Quebec have all acquired important Marc Seguin paintings.
His prints and his paintings can be found in numerous Canadian corporate collections
and the collections of important private Canadian and American collectors. To this
date, Marc Seguin has had more than 20 personal exhibits and has participated in
many more group exhibitionsand art fairs in Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin,
Cologne, Brussels, New York and Chicago.