About the Artist

Geneviève LeDuc is a self-taught multidisciplinary feminist artist currently living in Ottawa, Canada—a place she has called home on and off throughout her life, interwoven with extended periods of living and travelling in Asia, Europe, and Central America. These experiences have deeply shaped her understanding of how systems of power, gender, and cultural memory intersect across geographies.

Her practice is driven by a commitment to female empowerment. Through her artwork, LeDuc seeks to inspire women, those who identify as women, and girls to claim space—within their own lives and within the social, political, and cultural systems that govern them. Her work spans painting, photography, murals, and emerging installation practices, with a consistent focus on women as creators, resistors and agents of transformation.

LeDuc identifies explicitly as a feminist artist. Her work moves fluidly between contemporary political realities and spiritual lineages, exploring feminine energy as both a lived experience and a radical force. Whether working in public space or intimate settings, her art resists erasure and invites collective reflection on what it means to exist freely, visibly, and unapologetically.

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Why Portals

Portals function as both structure and metaphor in LeDuc’s work. They represent thresholds—between seen and unseen, silence and voice, containment and expansion. A portal marks a moment of crossing: from who we are told to be into who we remember ourselves to be.

By organizing her work through portals on this website, LeDuc resists linear narratives and instead embraces cyclical, intuitive movement. Viewers are invited to enter the work where they feel called, mirroring the lived experience of transformation rather than imposing hierarchy or chronology. The portal becomes an act of permission—to pause, to enter, to change.

Why These Energies

The energies that run through LeDuc’s work—sovereignty, sacredness, wildness, shadow, and creation—are not abstract concepts. They are lived states that women have historically been taught to suppress, fragment, or externalize.

Her work draws from ancestral feminine knowledge, embodied spirituality, land-based practices, and political rage, holding them together without hierarchy. These energies coexist because they must: softness does not exist without fire; creation does not exist without destruction; beauty does not exist without grief. By honoring these forces side by side, LeDuc challenges reductive representations of femininity and reclaims complexity as power.

Why Art and Advocacy

For LeDuc, art and advocacy are inseparable. Art is not a retreat from the world—it is a method of engaging it more honestly. Her practice challenges patriarchal systems that devalue care, embodiment, and collective responsibility, while also imagining what more equitable and eco-conscious futures could look like.

Through protest art, public murals, land-based installations, and documentary photography, LeDuc positions art as both witness and intervention. Her work affirms that making visible what has been marginalized—rage, tenderness, feminine power—is itself a political act. To create, in this context, is to refuse silence.

Technical CV

Profile

  • Self-taught multidisciplinary feminist artist

  • Media: acrylic painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, mural work

  • Themes: female agency, feminine energy, art as advocacy

  • Based in Ottawa, Ontario; practice informed by time in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

  • Bilingual English / French; fluent in Spanish; experienced public speaker (300+ live and online audiences)

Exhibitions & Installations

2025

  • Portal to the Wild Feminine, Collective land art installation, Wick Farm, Somerset, United Kingdom

  • Panama

  • Feminine Resistance, Good Eats Café (group exhibition with Conscious Canvas Collective), Ottawa, Canada

  • Selected works at the Conscious Canvas Gallery, Perth, Ontario

2024

  • Thank God It’s Fall (group), Ottawa Bike Café, Ottawa, Canada

  • Bloom, Women’s Art Association of Montreal, BOA Gallery, Montreal, Canada

  • She is the Universe: Exploring Feminine Forces, Good Eats Café (solo), Ottawa, Canada

  • Mixed Media (group), Ottawa Bike Café, Ottawa, Canada

  • Is This a Protest? (group), The Artisan Village at the Falls, Smiths Falls, Ontario

  • Las Guardianas: Women Holding Space (solo mural), Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Just Imagine (group), Ottawa West Art Association Gallery, Stittsville, Ontario

  • On Your Mark, Get Set, GO! (group), The Bay Café, Constance Bay, Ontario

2023

  • Stereotype Smash (group), King City Museum, King City, Ontario

  • Explorations (group), Ottawa West Art Association Gallery

  • Feminine Energy (solo), Greenboro Library, Ottawa

  • Slice of Life (group), Plant Bath Community Centre, Ottawa

  • Ho, Ho, Ho (group), Splash Gallery, Manotick Public Library

  • Cool Changes (group), The Bay Café, Constance Bay

  • Gatherings (group), Ottawa West Art Association Gallery

  • Colours of the Season (group), Ottawa West Art Association Gallery

  • Palette Knife Painting (group), Ottawa School of Art

Murals & Residencies

  • Mural Artist Residency, Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024)

  • Mural, ByWard Market, Ottawa, Canada (2024)

Artist Talks

  • “How Salem Continues to Echo,” The Artisan Village at the Falls, Smiths Falls (2024)

  • “Journey to the Divine Feminine,” Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires (2024)

  • “Expansion,” Stereotype Smash, King City Museum (2023)

  • “Working from Source: The Power of Women,” Project Intra (2023)

  • “Life Review,” Project Intra (2022)

Art Associations

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