Margaret Mousseau

Margaret Mousseau was born in 1955 and was raised in Northwest Rhode Island. After high school she studied to be an x-ray technician and worked in a hospital for over 20 years. She has no formal artistic education or experience and she did not begin drawing until 2016 when she was in her early sixties. She raised two sons and now lives in Vermont, where she works on her drawings from her apartment.

The physical and mental hardships she suffered from childhood and throughout adulthood often manifest as subjects in her work. Drawing has become a way to work though some of this hardship and the profound affects it has had on her life. Many of the works are comical and whimsically address current events and her daily routine. Others are extensions of a dream world where characters float, merge, morph and copulate while surrounded by signs and symbols. To date she has drawn around 300 works that can be grouped under biographical, spiritual/psychedelic, portraits and cutouts.

Margaret’s work is now housed in the collections of Bennington Museum, and the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Serbia.

2023 Why We Linger, Darbyshire, London
2022 Raw Intuitive, Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art, Serbia
2022 To all the Kings who have no Crowns, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
2021 Love Mom, Stellar Highway, New York
2020 Outsider Art Fair (with Jennifer Lauren Gallery), Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2019 In Other Worlds, One Mile Gallery, New York