Rosalie Gamache (b. 1993) is a Montreal based artist. Her recent production of oil paintings, notably her Corps recouverts series, revisits the historical codes of the nude from a contemporary queer perspective. Drawing on both the technical and iconographic traditions of painting, her artworks represent bodies covered with a thick layer of fluid matter. Along with evoking their own medium in a self-referential manner, in line with an earlier series entitled Peintures blanches, these works blur the reading of bodily forms and sexual markers, opening a space for critical reflection on identity.

The artist graduated from Université Laval in 2018 with a BFA, which she completed with an exchange semester at the École des beaux-arts de Marseille in 2017. Before her university education, she developed unique expertise in historical materials and techniques of drawing and painting with a professional practice of portraiture and a year at the Florence Classical Art Academy in Italy. 

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Throughout her career, she has presented several solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Europe, showcasing her work at venues such as the Frauenmuseum in Bonn, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Maison de la culture Mercier, the Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or, and the Florence Biennale. She received grants from Première ovation (2015, 2019), the City of Quebec (2021), the Canada Council for the Arts (2021), and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2023). With Duran Mashaal, she participated in the latest editions of the Papier/Plural and Art Toronto fairs, and presented her work in New York as part of the 2024 edition of Future Fair. In the fall of 2023, she unveiled a solo exhibition of her Corps recouverts series at Duran Mashaal (Now Duran Contemporain) Gallery.