Samuelle Grande paints the inevitabilities of everyday experience: the highs and lows, romance and loneliness, the beautiful, the ugly, and the mundane. Grande’s practice is driven by an interest in the psychology of painting and its capacity to evoke emotion. Her work offers an alternative form of knowledge that is haptic and embodied. Rooted in considerations of body politics and the dynamics of invisibilized labour, Grande’s practice responds to the ways in which personal and collective bodies navigate social structures.

Grande was born in 1994 in Montreal, where she continues to live and work. She studied at Concordia University in Montreal, where she earned a BFA in 2019. She received an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2023. Grande has exhibited across Canada and the United States. In 2025, she held solo presentations at Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal and Toronto. The same year, she presented paintings at NADA, New York. In 2024, she completed an artist residency at the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence program (Fool's Paradise) in Scarborough, Ontario. The artist is the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants (2024, 2023),  the Canadian Federation of University Women Award (2023), and the Tony Sherman Graduate Scholarship (2021), among other awards. Grande is part of the Curated Artists Registry at White Columns, New York.