Based in Brossard, Canada, François Desnoyers (1961 -) is a contemporary artist whose practice embraces both painting and digital art. Best known for enigmatic scenes and ambiguous landscapes, his expressionist style of figuration reveals a world gripped by uncertainty and apprehension. Desnoyers focuses on isolation and incommunicability by withholding and distorting part of the information, favoring an intuitive and emotional narrative rather than a straightforward compilation of facts, thus stating that some aspects of reality, like our understanding of others, will always remain out of reach, filled with gaps and left to the inner workings of personal desire and imagination.

One of his earlier series, Memories, was showcased in his first important solo exhibitions in Montreal, at Lieu Ouest gallery (2000) and at la Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (2001). Since 2015, a desire to create a series in line with the current and growing climate crisis brought Desnoyers to explore the landscape genre with a non-conventional approach to surface, thus stretching the boundaries of the genre, replacing canvas with old rags, used bed sheets and other discarded industrial fabric to signal degradation, precarity as well as to create an aesthetic based on the representation of filth, thus introducing a special harmony of purpose between the material and the subject matter.

Desnoyers has garnered recognition through various solo and group shows in Canada and abroad. In 2007, he took part in the 21^st exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the Chapelle Saint-Benoit d’Argenton-sur-Creuse (France). In 2006, he participated in numerous group shows: the New Art Barcelona exhibit (Spain), the 25^th exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the municipal museum of Ourense (Spain) and the Montreal Festival of Japanese & Canadian Current Art (Canada). He also attended some art fairs in the US: at New Art Miami in 2004 and in 2003 at the Affordable Art Fair in New York.

His work is part of various private, corporate and public collections, such as the Lavalin corporate collection which is now owned by the Montreal Museum of contemporary art.