Marc-Olivier Hamelin

Marc-Olivier Hamelin is a visual artist and writer from Rouyn-Noranda. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2015) and a Master’s degree in Museology and Artistic Practices from the Université du Québec en Outaouais (2019), where he focused on multiple voices in creative contexts. His work begins with dialogue and raises issues related to self-narration and the production of discourse. His projects — in which he weaves his voice with those of artists, writers, and peers — take shape as installations, performances, photographs, and texts.

His recent solo exhibitions include L’Écart (2023, 2018); Galerie UQO (2018); Musée d’art de Rouyn-Noranda (2016). His recent group exhibitions include L’Imagier (2025); Galerie Durham (2024); Musée d’art de Rouyn-Noranda (2024, 2019); Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or (2021); Galerie UQO (2017); L’Écart (2016, 2015). His performance work has been presented at the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda (2024, 2016) and at Le Lieu (2023). Recent residencies include Musée d’art de Rouyn-Noranda (2024); Centre de création O Vertigo (2024); Est-Nord-Est (2023); Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or (2023); AXENÉO7 (2022); Homesession (2022); and L’Écart (2018).

His current artistic research (2022—) focuses on the legacy left by the late 20th-century AIDS crisis on his personal and artistic life, as well as on LGBTQ+ communities. Through exploring the history and repercussions of the AIDS crisis on queer conditions, he seeks to disrupt the vision of what is spoken, remembered, and transformed, in a contradictory gesture of love and violence. In 2026, he will present his newest exhibition project, “Both of us were dreamers, young love in the sun”, in Montreal, Sudbury, and Amos.