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Original Artwork with Certification
$1,240.00
Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Creation: 2023
Dimensions: 24 × 36 in
Pop ArtPortraitsMixed MediaWood Panels
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Julie-Mila Bouffard Biography

Julie-Mila Bouffard
Born in 1986 in Baie-Comeau, Mila is a Canadian painter whose practice bridges studio rigor and urban energy. She studied visual arts at Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup from 2003 to 2006, completed a Bachelor’s in Visual and Media Arts at Université Laval in 2010, and earned a graduate diploma in college teaching in 2012.
Her work celebrates women in their complexity, courage, and contradictions. The paintings fuse pop and street influences with contemporary expressionism and graffiti vocabulary. Vivid color, graphic structure, and gestural marks create a language where raw energy meets sensuality, and where agency, desire, and freedom are stated with clarity.
Animal figures often act as symbolic mirrors of instinct and resilience. The lion, a recurring subject, becomes a vehicle for inner intensity, reimagined through saturated palettes that balance exuberance and control. Music is central to her process. She paints to its rhythm and translates emotion into movement so that each canvas speaks first through feeling and only then through reflection.
Her work has appeared internationally, including in the book State of the Art, Artist’s Book from Aberta Gallery in Portugal and in the Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2014 in London. Her paintings are held in private collections in Canada. For American collectors, her work is presented on Belanger - The Collections.
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