Francine Martin is a visual artist who works mainly in mixed media and paper collage,
assemblage, and photography. Martin’s work is visually playful, bold and bright while
exploring sometimes dark themes relating to gender, mortality, consumerism and loss,
as well as human/nature (dis)connection. Repurposing and transforming elements from
our consumerist culture, Martin uses these to create two-and three-dimensional work to
challenge the viewer’s perceptions and assumptions. Her artwork is held in private collections in
Europe, Australia, Canada & the United States. She has exhibited in solo, duo and group shows in
Canadian galleries, and was included in Cocobopro, a collaborative international collage book project
published in a limited edition boxed set by Wisconsin-based The Heavy Duty Press.
Solo exhibitions:
2022 MAWA Tiny Gallery, “Inner States”, Winnipeg, MB
2-person exhibitions:
2025 Studio at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, “Reliquaires pour objets ordinaires / Reliquaries for Ordinary Objects”, Winnipeg, MB
2019 The Edge Urban Art Gallery, "Down the Line", Winnipeg, MB
Group exhibitions:
2024 MAWA, "Play", Winnipeg, MB
2023 MAWA, "Food", Winnipeg, MB
2022 MAWA, "Micro", Winnipeg, MB
2022 Studio at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, “It Comes In Waves / Au gré des vagues”, Winnipeg, MB
2022 La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, “Oser”, Winnipeg, MB
2021 MAWA, "Portrait", Winnipeg, MB
2019 MAWA, "Roots and Tendrils", Winnipeg, MB
2018 MAWA, "Human Animal", Winnipeg, MB
2018 MAWA, “Fractured Portrayals of Motherhood”, Winnipeg, MB
Publications
2020 Cocobopro, a collaborative international collage book project by The Heavy Duty Press