Serge V Richard is an Acadian visual artist based in New Brunswick whose practice moves between photography, sculpture, fused glass, installation, painting, and drawing. His work explores environmental and humanitarian themes through close observation, material transformation, and images that evoke fragility, memory, and the hidden complexity of the natural world.
Richard studied graphic arts at Holland College in Charlottetown and continued his fine art studies at the Université de Moncton. He began his professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator, later working in the feature film industry and with Theatre New Brunswick in Fredericton as a scenic painter and props builder. He also founded and operated h’Art Creation Studios Inc., where he focused on commercial design.
During the first fifteen years of his fine art career, Richard concentrated on figurative acrylic painting and large-scale drawing. Around 2000, his work shifted toward abstraction and a more intuitive visual language. His series Enveloppé d’une fragilité humaine / Wrapped in Human Frailty marked an important transition, revealing a more fluid approach shaped by inner experience, vulnerability, and the expressive possibilities of form.
In the years that followed, Richard increasingly turned to photography, sculpture, and mixed-media processes to extend his artistic vocabulary. His ongoing series Mini-mondes / Tiny-Worlds uses macro photography, including work translated into fused glass, to reveal intimate visual landscapes within small and often overlooked details. These works invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and encounter the tension between beauty, fragility, and ecological awareness.
Richard has exhibited regularly in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario in both solo and group exhibitions. In 2014, he participated in Imagined Dialogues at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, a major exhibition that brought together fourteen contemporary Acadian artists in an intergenerational conversation presented in connection with the World Acadian Congress in Edmundston, New Brunswick.
He has received Research, Creation and Career Development grants from artsnb, the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Alongside his studio practice, Richard is an active teacher who shares his knowledge through classes and workshops, including Genie-Arts / ArtSmarts and Une école, un artiste / One School, One Artist programs in local school districts.
Richard is a member of the Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick, ArtsLink NB, CARFAC, and CARCC.
“Mini-mondes / Tiny-Worlds”
2019-present, macro photography into fused glass