Nicole Aline Legault
Artist // Image Gatherer // Illustrator // Photo Retouching //
Bio
Nicole Aline Legault is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, Quebec. She has worked in print, film, and music. Raised on the east coast of Canada, her work often examines our need to reconnect with the natural world and has been deeply inspired by the ocean, the environment, dreams of whales.
Education
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University – BFA – fine art / drawing
Permanent Collections
Grey Whale
Grey Whale – Watercolour on paper 2022 – Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
Press
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Solo Exibit – WinterWorks – Centaur Theatre – Montreal, QC
2024
Group Exhibit – Friends Making Secret Art – Aux Angles Ronds / Espace Créatif – Montreal, QC
2023
Group Exhibit – Pressure Point with Veronica Brovall – Annabelle’s Home – Reykjavík, Iceland
Group Exhibit – North American Aurora – Bjarmanes – Skagaströnd, Iceland
2015 – 2016
Group Exhibition – Lonely Whale Foundation – Art Basel – Miami, FL (digital art show)
Solo Exhibit – The Fountain – Toronto, ON
Solo Exhibit – Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC
Group Exhibition / Fundraiser / for Girls Art League – OCAD – Toronto, ON
2010 – 2011
Solo Exhibit – Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC
Group Exhibition – immersive artwork / installations to accompany music from The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin – in collaboration with Artist Bloc and Apple Crisp Festival – Kingston, ON
2009
Group Exhibition – immersive artwork / installations to accompany music from The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin – in collaboration with Artist Bloc and Pop Montreal Music Festival – Montreal, QC
Group Exhibition Art’d – curated by Studio Gallery and Pink Mafia – Toronto, ON
Studio Nine – Group Exhibition – Toronto, ON
2007 – 2008
Fountain Contemporary Gallery – Group Show – Toronto, ON
Gallery Deluxe Gallery – collaboration with Melody Hovey – Halifax, NS
Mackenzie Art Gallery – emerging artist group exhibition – Moncton, NB
Seeds Gallery (window) – Halifax, NS
Bis Aufs Messer – collaboration with Melody Hovey – Berlin, Germany
My Hero Gallery – co-curator & artist – group exhibit for Pop Montreal Music Festival – Montreal, QC
Selected Art+Work
2024
Animated Music Video – Rocky Hills – Jessica Rhaye
2023 – 2024
Artist in Residence at NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd Iceland – November & December 2023
2007 – present
Ongoing portrait project titled look i drew you!
2014 – present
Annual projects launched through Kickstarter to create limited edition calendars and prints of new series’ of artwork. These projects are created in the last quarter of the year and have been successfully funded for the last 10 years.
2015 – present
Freelance Photo Retoucher at SSENSE
2011 – 2022
Album Artwork / Animations / collaborative art direction for Storm by Christina Martin
Album Art / Layout / Design – self titled by Big Share
look i drew you! portraits for Conflict Creates & Longos
Illustrations for Lululemon in collaboration with Etsy
Illustrations for Moment Factory – Madonna Like A Prayer tour
Illustrations for Chloes – a novella by Dean Garlick
Congas decorated with reflective broken CD’s for Arcade Fire Reflektor tour
Illustrations for Moment Factory – Céline Dion Lullaby for Vegas
Monthly look i drew you! portraits for EnRoute magazine Out of Office section
Seventy look i drew you! portraits for US Foods head office
Decorations / hand drawn posters for Arcade Fire secret show as The Reflektors – Montreal
Watercolour paintings for Impossible to Hold album artwork by Christina Martin
Live charcoal drawing for auction – World Wildlife Fund
Various Private commissions
2009 – 2010
Album artwork for Avant EP / The Lost Tapes DVD for Buck 65
Drawings for animated music video Tobias Grey by Postdata
Drawings for animated music video Disclaimer by The Dears
Drawings for backgrounds for music video Arlington by Ridley Bent
Drawings for animation – short film/trailer to promote album The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin
Drawings for music video Compromise by Shad
Drawings for Buck65 documentary The Lost Tapes
Drawings for animated music video Angel Street by Lucie Idlout
Palimpsest Magazine curator and collaborator
2007 – 2008
Drawings for Projected Animations and Set Design for Buck65’s 2008 tour
Drawings for Global TV Documentary The Real Fight Club
Drawings for animated music video Shutterbuggin by Buck65
Drawings for animated music video The Flood Pt 1 by The Acorn
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