Vincent Larouche (b. 1995, Montreal) is a Canadian painter who lives and works in Montreal. He received a BFA in painting with high distinction from Concordia University in 2019. Working in oil, he populates his paintings with characters drawn from the pop and media culture of the last twenty years, from science-fiction films, video games, manga, cyberpunk and heavy-metal culture, staging humanoid and mutant figures in situations that are at once joyful and disturbing. Describing his approach as a kind of fan fiction, he reworks imagery from online and other sources to examine the social impact of technology and its relationship to regimes of violence. His solo exhibitions include "Ocelle" at Fonderie Darling in Montreal (2020), "Café de Flore" at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn (2021) and "FATHERS" and "Cold Room" at M. LeBlanc in Chicago. He has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.
