Fanny Mesnard earned a Master’s degree from Université d’Aix-Marseille and another from École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille-Luminy (2004), over the course of which she developed her artistic world by way of painting. She arrived in Québec in 2008 to participate in the Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium and became a multidisciplinary artist whose reflection is anchored in a drawing practice. Her back-and-forth between painting, ceramics sculpture, performance, textile creation, installation work and her occasional immersions in nature have nourished her imagination and led her to develop a personal mythology and expand her aesthetic vocabulary.<br>

Over the past fifteen years, she has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Europe. For Manif d'art 9 (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2019) and at Salle Alfred-Pellan of the Maison des arts de Laval (2021), she produced two large-scale immersive installations. Since 2018, she has also been working in public art, both solo and as part of the Demers-Mesnard duo. She has received financial support from the CALQ and the CCA on several occasions, notably to develop her research during residencies that enabled her to explore storytelling, folklore and dance as means of manifesting a sense of belonging to a territory, to root and find herself in it. Her recent works are populated by fauns, anthropomorphic characters who bear the traces of the places she has visited, and performances with children, dancers and interactive sculptures.