Biography

Micheline Couture lives in Montreal and at Havre-aux-Maisons in Les Îles-de-la Madeleine. She has a diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (School of Fine Arts of Montreal) and a master’s degree from Concordia University. She won scholarships to participate in workshops at Les ateliers Desjoberts in Paris and the Fiber Art Center in Berkeley.

She has teached at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where she worked at the foundation of the master’s degree in the Fine Arts Department and created fiber printing workshops and computer teaching courses.

In 1997, she has teached the silkscreen printing technique to artists of the Taller Grabador at Holguin, Cuba. From 1988 to 2001, she ran the Galerie d’art Point Sud at Havre-aux-Maisons in Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine where exhibitions by Carole Piéalue, Jean-Luc Turbide, Adrienne Luce, André Lapointe, Marlène Devost, Jean-François Cyr, etc. took place.

Besides her participation at the Biennales de la tapisserie de Montréal in 1981, she worked actively within the Conseil des arts textiles du Québec where she assumed the presidency during two years. She took part in many Revue Numéro, exhibited with the artists from the CATQ, at the Galerie de l’UQAM, the Galerie du Centre in Saint-Lambert, at the Galerie d’art Point Sud in Havre-aux-Maisons, the Biennale d’art miniature of Ville-Marie, the Biennale du Lin in Normandy, France, the Galerie R3 of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and the Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal. She took part in «PENSER BILDUNG», a travelling exhibition since 2002 across the Province of Quebec.