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Tania Hillion
Tania Hillion is a French-Canadian artist who has been living in L’Islet, Quebec, since 2018.
A self-taught figurative painter, portraitist, and muralist, her work explores the connections between individual memory, collective heritage, and cultural markers. Since 2020, Hillion has held several solo exhibitions. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
She is a recipient of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Québec Ministry of Culture and Communications.
"Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way I look at the world around me—from the most intimate situations to the most trivial ones. I linger on the details, sometimes to the point of losing myself in them. As if every fragment I observe opened onto a universe of its own.
I extract sections of images—sometimes found, sometimes personal—that I treat as visual traces of memory. A rhythm, a contrast, a framing is enough to inspire a painting. From fragment to painting, a series gradually takes shape, as if a story were trying to emerge.
I like the idea that these images, drawn from unrelated sources, can come together to form a narrative that never really existed. I like that you can project onto them whatever you want: a memory, a fiction, a doubt."
