The artist holding a collage-style mask with architectural elements.
Abstract art of two figures with drawn faces on a desolate landscape background.
mixed media portrait of a man/woman with a layered, textured appearance
Abstract mixed media artwork featuring portraits of two women with stylized facial features. The faces incorporate colorful patterns and designs, with a prominent use of red, blue, black, and pink hues. The background is a collage of various textures
A mixed-media artwork combining a woman's face with mechanical and geometric elements, featuring blue, black, and white hues, with parts of her face resembling clock gears and abstract patterns.
Mixed media artwork featuring a composite of a human face with two eyes, a large eagle head, and various collage elements, including a patterned face with red polka dots, painted brush strokes in black, blue, and beige, and torn paper patterns.
Artwork with a stylized face, intricate patterns, and architectural elements.

Artist Statement

My work begins with fragments: discarded images, torn pages, rough sketches, layers of paint built up only to be covered or scraped away. Collaged into this are images of architecture, ruins, fallout, nature, and art history. Faces and figures emerge, dissolve, reappear. Lines cut across surfaces, crossing out as much as they define. Underneath it all, I'm trying to map a psychological landscape we share — the sediment of history, the weight of dread that doesn't quite lift, and the exhaustion of pretending to be fine in a world that grows stranger by the day.

Bio

Ian Gamache grew up in rural Manitoba, spending his early years exploring abandoned barns, garbage dumps, train tracks, and crumbling factories: experiences that gave him an eye for the peeling paint, rough lines, and the silence of unused spaces. He also spent time hiding in libraries, working through art history books and developing an early familiarity with painters and various past artistic movements.

Gamache began painting seriously in 1999 and moved to Montréal, where he received a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Gamache has since held solo exhibitions in Montréal and France, and has participated in group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

Curriculum vitae

Artist holding mask

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Galerie Dentaire, Montréal, 2014
Arcuterie, Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 2014
Galerie Dentaire, Montréal, 2012


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Galerie MËL, Miniature, Montréal, 2026
Mutoïde, Expo collective, Montréal, 2025
Galerie Tommy Zen, L’Atelier, Montréal, 2018
MTL en Arts, Montréal, 2018
Stephen Romano Gallery, Destinesia, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
Key Gallery and Tallulah Studio, Interference, Milan, Italy, 2016
Orange 5, Les Visceraux, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, 2015
Angus-Hughes Gallery, Nuance Outcasts, London, UK, 2014
Climate Gallery, Die Zeit of Drawing, Long Island City, NY, 2009
Nolias Gallery, Postcards from Dystopia, London, UK, 2009
NOWhere Limited, Thawed Out, Colorado, 2009
Bain Saint-Michel, Les derniers jours d'un bien, Montréal, 2002
Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Out of Order, Montréal, 2001