About

Bio

Born in 1996 in Saguenay, Quebec, Lucas Lajoie is a contemporary artist based in Montreal. He holds a degree in visual arts from the University of Sherbrooke. A former semi-professional athlete, his physical and disciplined background informs a practice grounded in movement, endurance, and process. His work is further shaped by an early immersion in art through his mother, herself an artist.

In 2023, Lajoie presented his first exhibition, Moment Mirage, developed during an artist residency in Paris awarded by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ). His most recent exhibition, Libre, was presented at Foil Gallery in Montreal in January 2026 and sold out.

He is currently developing a body of work that explores the intersection of art and sport, notably through a series of long-distance cycling projects in which a canvas, attached to his bicycle, evolves through contact with landscape, encounters, and physical exertion.

Process

Lucas Lajoie works through movement and contact. Each project begins outside the studio, where travel and context set the conditions of the work.

In several projects, he travels with a canvas fixed to his bicycle, exposing it to the conditions of the route. Weather, friction, and encounters leave direct traces on the surface. These elements are not secondary. They structure the work from the outset.

In the studio, he works from this material. The canvas is handled without protection. It is stepped on, dragged, and reworked over time. Paint is applied, displaced, and reactivated through repeated physical engagement. There is no fixed image to resolve.

His background in sport informs this method. Endurance, repetition, and fatigue are part of the process. The work is built through action, with the image emerging from contact between body, surface, and situation.