Valentine Alma
Valentine Alma
Honoring bodies, spirits, and community through art, ritual & colors.
BIOGRAPHY
Chat des Artistes
2205 Parthenais
Tiohtia:ke, Montréal, QC , Canada
Valentine Alma was born in Paris and raised in Montreal / Tiohtia:ké. She earned a BFA with Honours in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University in 2017 and spent the following years recovering from burnout, learning Tarot and developing her portraiture skills by filling dozens of sketchbooks.
In 2021, she set up her studio at Le Chat des Artistes, where she still works. In 2022, she earned a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which allowed her to create Play Bodies; a massive oil-painted interactive installation around the queer collective body.
She is deeply involved in community work and teaching, and sits as the elected artist for the Comité du Quartier Culturel des Faubourgs. Her work was featured in several shows in Québec and Ontario. She is currently working on facilitating a collective mural with the support of the city.
All artworks Property of Valentine Alma @All Right Reserved 2026
Photo Credits: Carlos Mao, Catherine Simard, Océane Leclair & Alex Tran
STATEMENT
Bridging art and magic, my work embodies an animist vision of the world, revealing the sacred nature within. Aliveness is highlighted in saturated strokes, bringing to the surface the invisible currents that connect all beings. Memories, ancestors, dreams, emotions; exposed through the intuitive language of colours.
Bodies are shown as vessels for the mysteries of life and death, extending a healing invitation to connect to our own body and thus, to the ecosystem we are part of.
I work primarily with oil painting, colour crayons and Tarot to create multiformat paintings briming with life. At all scales, they radiate joy and colour through organic form, overflowing freely.
I also love to play with zines, ceramics, beading and installation to create objects of beauty and wonder, so that art can be a part of every day life, something to physically interact with.
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