“I have a passion for color; I love the light of silk, the warmth of wool and the voluptuous splendor of textiles. I am not trying to represent the forest, pure joy or fear; but I want my tapestries to be the forest, pure joy or fear. »

— Micheline Beauchemin, 1960

A textile artist integrating art with architecture, Micheline Beauchemin is famous, among other things, for her monumental tapestries and stage curtains. A poet of matter, the artist explores various materials: wool, cotton, silk, silver and lead threads, acrylic filaments, pearls, glass, optical fiber... Inspired both by nature and the different peoples that Where she meets, Micheline Beauchemin seeks in each of her works to weave light, to transfigure reality.

Micheline Beauchemin's works have been exhibited from Paris to Tokyo. Several of them are part of collections (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and National Gallery of Canada) or adorn public buildings in Canada (Place des Arts in Montreal, National Arts Center in Ottawa) and in the world (United States, Japan, Europe). Numerous awards (Saidye Bronfman Prize, Paul-Émile-Borduas Prize and Governor General's Prize, in particular) and distinctions (Officer of the Order of Canada and Knight of the National Order of Quebec) crown his career.

Micheline Beauchemin was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, working alongside many other renowned artists such as the painter Marcelle Ferron.

Micheline Beauchemin studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, alongside Alfred Pellan and Jean Benoît, then, in Paris, at the School of Fine Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Ossip Zadkine.