My pictorial and installation works are centred on the movement and instability of things. They bear within them the traces of an investigation motivated by a real obsession with painting and its boundless potentialities.

In evoking the shifting forces of nature as well as the virtual flows and other circulatory spaces structuring the real, my practice takes its inspiration from the world's chaotic turbulence and the multiple realties overlapping within it. All this is transposed into a hybrid visual language made up of various pictorial, graphic and sculptural processes. Through this metaphor of time's passing and the world's complexity, I focus on space “as a receptacle” of a wide range of plastic arts experiences. Miscellaneous elements are piled up here through accumulation, like so many temporal traces and fragments with many possible connections. It is through a taking up of the “relational” potential of this experimentations reservoir that I then construct the syntax of my works, which become out-and-out pictorial ecosystems.

Jean-Sébastien Denis is a visual artist who was born in Sherbrooke in 1970 and now lives and works in Montréal. Over the last two decades, he participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Montréal, Toronto and the USA. Since 2002, he is represented by Galerie Simon Blais, and he is the recipient of grants from the CCA and CALQ. His works are part of public collections (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Loto-Québec, Hydro-Québec) and corporate collections (Banque Nationale du Canada, Groupe Transcontinental)

As part of the integration of arts with architecture program, he has created public artworks. His noteworthy productions are Ascension (2012) for UQO in Saint-Jérôme, Prisme in 2014 for CUSM, and more recently 6 works in Quebec school establishments. From 2021 to 2024, he will create the entire set of works on bus stations (kiosks) as part of the project SRB-Pie IX by ARTM in Montréal and Laval (14 km).