Artist Talk: Océane Buxton

Galerie de l’UQAM invites you to a presentation by Océane Buxton, graduating master’s student in Visual and Media Arts. She will discuss her artistic approach as well as the research undertaken during her academic career, in an atmosphere conducive to exchange. It will also be an opportunity for the artist to reveal the processes and ideas that underlie the exhibition.

About the artist

Océane Buxton is a visual artist whose practice ranges from video and photography to sound design, textiles, digital art, and performance. Fascinated by Hollywood folklore, Quebec stardom, and urban legends circulating on the Internet, the artist observes media personalities while exploring her own way of looking at them. Originally from Quebec City and based in Montreal since 2017, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Intermedia/Cyberarts from Concordia University (2021) and pursued part of her training at the RMIT School of Art in Melbourne, Australia, in 2019. She’s been studying for a master’s degree in visual and media arts at UQAM since fall 2023. She took part in the sixth edition of the artch emerging art festival, and her work has been shown by Ada X, AXENÉO7, La Bande Vidéo, the Musée d’art de Joliette, and the Galerie Galerie web art platform. In 2021, driven by her curiosity about the entertainment industry, she took part in the culinary reality TV show Un souper presque parfait.