Suzanne Bergeron Canadian, 1930-1998

Suzanne Bergeron is a Canadian artist whose practice is primarily rooted in contemporary abstraction. Working mainly with painting, and occasionally drawing or installation, she develops a visual language focused on materiality, gesture, and perception. Her work is characterized by a sensitive exploration of surface, color, and rhythm, where each artwork becomes a site of experimentation and tension between control and spontaneity.

Bergeron’s work explores notions of presence, memory, and transformation. Through successive layers, textures, and chromatic variations, she expresses an intimate relationship with time and the creative process. Rather than representing reality, she seeks to evoke sensation, inviting viewers into a contemplative and introspective experience. Her approach privileges intuition and an ongoing dialogue between material and gesture.

Trained in Canada, Suzanne Bergeron has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the country as well as internationally. Her work is represented by galleries and is included in private and institutional collections. While grounded in the tradition of North American contemporary abstraction, she asserts a distinct personal voice marked by formal rigor and poetic sensitivity.

Through a practice that is both demanding and open-ended, Suzanne Bergeron proposes a form of painting that engages the body, the gaze, and emotion, reaffirming the expressive power of abstraction as a living space of research and resonance.