Originally from Saguenay, Catherine Tremblay studied and worked in Montreal from 2004 to 2024, where she taught photography, video, and graphic design at the college level. She is now a professor of photography and media arts at UQAC.



She holds a MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM, a BFA from Concordia University, and also studied graphic design at UQAM. Since 2015, she has been the production director at the Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. She has completed several research and creative residencies in France and various regions of Quebec. Since 2005, her work has received awards and been presented in numerous exhibitions in Quebec and internationally, in France, Switzerland, Mauritania, and New York.

At once poetic and critical, her approach explores the relationships between nature and image, between perception and sensory matter. By experimenting with analogue and alternative processes, she questions the ways in which images are produced and the conditions under which they are received, all the while seeking to renew our view of living things.

Fascinated by the landscapes and beings that shape her daily life, she envisions personal and shared territories as narrative and symbolic spaces. By collecting and recomposing these fragments, she introduces shifts between the subject and its referent, questioning the materiality of the image and our aesthetic experience.

Her works become poetic spaces where time and matter offer meeting places between the real and the imaginary, the visible and the absent, where being and art coexist.