Artistic Training

• Sculpture, Roger Langevin, University UQAR -2011-12
• Molding Workshop Atelier 213 - 2012
• Clay sculpture workshop, Atelier Joël Prévost, 2009
•  Workshop stone carving Atelier SKULPT, 2009
•  Art History and Creative Writing, University Laval - 1984-85
• Gemmology class, Cegep Félix-Antoine Garneau 1984
• Arts, Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon 1978-1979
• Drawing classes at the Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec - 1978-1979

Public Art

• “The Water Keeper”, City of Tonghe, Heilongjiang, China. 2017 - Granite
• “Adolescence”, City of Boisbriand, Canada. 2017 - Limestone
• “Shamane” City of Port d’Envaux, France. 2016-  Limestone
• “Goddess of the Sun”, Ayia Napa International Park, Cyprus. 2016 - Limestone
• “Kanawato”, City of Duhamel, Canada, 2015. Limestone
• " Aylya, Goddess of Conciousness", City of Lac-Mégantic, QC, Canada 2015 - Limestone
•  “Maris Stella”, City of St-Jacques-de-Montcalm, Québec, Canada 2015 - Limestone
• “Getting to the tops!”, City of St-Georges-de-Beauce” Québec, Canada  2015- Limestone
• “The Wind”, City of Jimo, China  2015 - Granite
• " The Wizard", City of Lac-Mégantic, QC, Canada 2014 - Limestone
• "Aphrodite", Puntarenas, Costa Rica 2013 - Limestone
• “The Guardian of the Water", Fire Station, City of Boisbriand, Qc 2012 - Serpentine

Award

• Exceptional Citizen Award, Leadership Canada 150, given by Melanie Joly, Minister, Heritage Canada, Parliament of Canada. Nov. 2017
• Recipient of the Jury Award, Symposium TRACES, Champboisé, Sept. 2014
• Recipient of the « Honor Award » Salon SNBA 2011, National Fine Arts Society in Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Other

• General Manager, Monumental Sculptures Symposium URBANITÉ, August 2017
• President, Chairman of the Board, Quebec Council of Sculpture - 2016 to today
• Elected Member, Society of Canadian Artists
• Core Member, ISSA (International Scupture Symposium Alliance) based in Beijing, 2015 to today
• Director, Canada, AIESM *** 2015 to today
• Member, RAAV ***
• Chief of the Canadian delegation - SNBA Salon 2011 - Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
• Jury member, Jimo International Stone Symposium, Jimo, China, May 2016
• Jury member, Art Competition, Railway Museum, St-Constant 2012

Sculpture Symposiums

• Madinaty International Sculpture Symposium, Cairo, Egypt, 1^st November-1^st December  2017
• Tonghe International Sculpture Symposium, Tonghe, China, 9^th-24^th September 2017
• Monumental Sculpture Symposium URBANITÉ, City of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, 3rd -17 ^th August 2017

• Monumental Sculpture Symposium Les Lapidiales, Charente-Maritime, France,1st June- 20th July 2016
• Monumental Sculpture Symposium, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 20^th April- May 8^th 2016
• Monumental Sculpture Symposium Marcheur d’Étoiles, Lac-Mégantic, Canada, 12^th-26^th  Sept. 2015
• Duhamel Art Symposium In Situ, Duhamel, QC, Canada,  29^th August-6^th September 2015
• St-Jacques Monumental Sculpture Symposium, St-Jacques-de-Montcalm, QC, Canada, 31^st July- 14^th August 2015
• Beauce-Art., Monumental Sculpture Symposium, St-Georges-de-Beauce, QC, Canada,  3rd-23^rd June 2015
• 1^st Zhishang Sculpture Symposium, Jimo, China, 20^th-29^th April 2015
• Monumental Sculpture Symposium Marcheur d’Étoiles, Lac-Mégantic, Canada,  14^th-28^th  Sept. 2014
• Festival du Bois Flotté, Ste-Anne des Monts, Canada,  6^th - 10^th August 2014

• Costa Rica International Sculpture on Marble Symposium, Canada, 17^th Sept-6^th Oct 2013
• Symposium of sculpture, City of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, 11 ^th -26 ^th August 2012

Exhibitions

• Divers-Cité, Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec MMAQ, Montréal, 21^st March-22^nd April 2018
• The Belt and the Road, Qingdao, China, 15th September- 15 October 2017 - catalog
• The Fourth Silk Road International Art Exhibition, Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Art, Shaanxi, China, 5^th-21st September 2017
• ISSA Beijing Station, Beijing, China, 28^th September 2017
• Heilongjiang International Sculpture Invitation Exhibition, Harbin, China, 15^th-16^th September 2017
• Tonghe International Sculpture Invitation Exhibition, Harbin, China, 19^th-20^th September 2017
• Laprairie Public Library, Solo, La Prairie, QC, Canada. 5th September-28^th October 2017
• Humanité, Oasis de l’île, St-Eustache, QC, Canada. 3^rd-20^th  August 2017 - catalog
• Nature et Création, Côtes d’Ardoise Vineyard, QC, Canada.   14th July-15th October 2017
• L’Art au Vignoble, Côte de Vaudreuil Vineyard, QC, Canada. 2nd August - 30th October 2017
• Printemps de la sculpture, Place des citoyens, Ste-Adèle, QC, Canada.  19^th-21^th May 2017
• Salon des métiers d’art, Place Bonaventure, Montréal, QC, Canada.  8th-18th December 2016
• «Stone and me», Espace Mashagalusha, Ontario street, Montreal, QC, Canada. 25th-27th November 2016
• SCVLPTVRE, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, QC, Canada. 18^th- 20^th  November 2016
• Symposium TRACES, Champboisé, l’Ange-Gardien, 8^th- 11^th September 2016
• Sensibility, Galerie Fontaine, 533 Buckingham av, Buckingham QC, Canada.  - 14th Sept.-7th Nov. 2016.
• Women in art, Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street  New York, NY, USA. 1^st-31^rd March 2016
• «Je sculpte donc je..», Espace Mushagalusa, 533 Ontario est, Montreal, QC, Canada. 19^th-29^th Nov. 2015
• Castlegar Sculpture  Walk, Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada. 9^th May – 30t^h April 2016
• Nature et Création, Côtes d’Ardoise Vineyard, QC, Canada. 14th July-15th October 2016
• L’Art au Vignoble, Côte de Vaudreuil Vineyard, QC, Canada. 2nd August - 30th October 2016
• Fantasia, Centre d’art de Ste-Rose, Ste-Rose, QC, Canada.   11th-21st August 2016
• Renée-Blain Gallery,  Solo exhibit, Brossard, QC, QC, Canada. 8^th March- 1^st April 2015
• Women in art, Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street  New York, NY, USA. 1^st-31^rd March 2015
• Salon Méga-Arts, Palais des Congrès de Gatineau, QC, Canada. 27^th-30^th November 2014
• SCVLPTVRE, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, QC, Canada. 10^th-12^th October 2014
• « Équilibre », Campus Longueuil, Sherbrooke University, QC, Canada.  19th- 30th Sept 2014- catalog
• Symposium TRACES, Champboisé, 3^rd-7^th September2014
• « Ensemble » Maison Antoine-Lacombe, St-Charles Borromée, QC, Canada.  31^st August- 15^th September 2014
• Place à la sculpture, Maison des Arts, Saint-Faustin, QC, Canada. 30^th August- 9^th November 2014
• Art at the Vineyard, Côte de Vaudreuil Vineyard, QC, Canada. 2^nd August-28^th September 2014
• « Nature et création », sculptures monumentales, Jardin des Côtes d’Ardoise, 14^th July- 14^th October 2014
• Concours annuel, Maison des Arts, Saint-Faustin, QC, Canada. 8^th June au 14^th August 2014
• Show de Bola, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 14^th June- 14^th July 2014
• « Concours annuel »,   Maison des Arts, Saint-Faustin, QC, Canada. 15^th June-24^th August 2014
• Salon Arts et Passion de Ste-Julie,  L’érablière Le Rossignol, Ste-Julie. QC, Canada. 23^rd- 25^th May 2014
•  «Dada», Maison des Arts, Saint-Faustin, QC, Canada.  6 ^th April-8^th June 2014
• Le Rendez-Vous, Espace Galerie, 4844, rue St-Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada. 26^th March--April 1^st 2014
• "Women in Art ",  Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street  New York, NY, USA.1^st-31^rd March 2014
• Salon des Arts, Gatineau, QC, Canada. 6^th-8^th December 2013,
• Salon des Arts, St-Jérôme, QC, Canada. 8^th-10^th November 2013
• "Appartenance", Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville, QC, Canada. 19th Sept.-26 Oct. 2013
• "Place à la sculpture", Maison des arts, Saint-Faustin, QC, Canada.  10^th August-15^th Sept. 2013
• "Nature and Creations", Côtes d’Ardoise Vineyard, Dunham, QC, Canada.  13^th July-15^th Oct. 2013
• " Archétypes", Solo, Maison Trestler, 85 chemin de la Commune, Vaudreuil, QC, Canada. 13th June - 9th Sept. 2013
• Colloque sur les relations internationales des villes du Québec, ENAP, Montréal, QC, Canada. April 11^th, 2013
• " De poussières et de roc", Maison Ogilvy, Montreal, QC, Canada. du 20 ^th -26 ^th th March 2013 - catalog
• Art Expo New York, Ward-Nasse Gallery, booth 289-291, Pier 92, New York, USA. 21^st-24 ^th March 2013
• "Women in Art ",  Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street  New York, NY, USA.1^st-31^rd March 2013
• "Entre Nous", Maison Trestler, Vaudreuil, QC, Canada. 10 ^th Jan-19 ^th Feb 2013
• Inauguration of the Guardian of Water, Fire Station, Boisbriand, QC, Canada. December 5 ^th, 2012
• Farandole of arts, Ste-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, QC, Canada., 24 ^th-26 ^th August 2012
• SIDIM Design Show, Space Gallery, Place Bonaventure, Montreal, QC, Canada. 24 to 26 May 2012
• Competition (juror) Railway Museum, St-Constant, QC, Canada. 25 ^th-27 ^th May 2012
• "Passions" Bain Mathieu, Bain Mathieu Montreal, QC, Canada. 14 ^th- 21 April 2011- catalog
• "Women in Art" Ward Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street, New York, NY, USA, 1^st-31^st March, 2012
• "Transmutation", The 514 Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada., 2^nd- 28^th February 2012 - catalog
• "Canada meets Europe" Miss & Art Gallery, Paris, France. 1^st-31^st  December 2011- catalog
• "Salon SNBA 2011," Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France. 8^th -12^th  December 2011 - catalog
• "Convergence" Tudor Hall, La Maison Ogilvy, Montréal, QC, Canada. 28^th – 31^st  October 2011- catalog
• "Quebec 2011", Bonsecours Market, Montreal, QC, Canada. 12^th -16^th  October 2011 - catalog
• "Artists of the World" Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. 18^th -24^th  July 2011 - catalog
• Montreal International Festival of Arts, FIMA, rue Ste-Catherine, Montreal QC, Canada. l, 29^th June- 3^rd July 2011
• "Expo Com2art" Brenart Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. 26^th  May – 22^nd  June 2011
• "Color Form Blast" Ward Nasse Gallery,, 178 Prince Street, New York, NY, USA, 1^st -31^st May 2011
• "Prints and furrows," Bain Mathieu Montreal,  QC, Canada., 29^th April – 1^st May 2011 - catalog
• "Art feminine" Miss & Art Gallery, 14 rue St Anastasius, Paris, France,  1^st-30^th  April 2011
• "7 women exhibiting," Fontaine Art Gallery, Gatineau, QC, Canada. 17^th March- 20^th April 2011
• "Women in Art" Ward Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street New York, NY, USA, 1^st -31^st March 2011
• "Canada presents its small format," Miss & Art Gallery, Paris, France. 3^rd- 30^th  December 2010
• "Salon SNBA 2010" Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France. 16^th -19^th December 2010 - catalog
• The Art Fair of St Jerome, St-Jérôme, QC, Canada. 5^th -7^th  November 2010
• "Tributes" Espace Création Dominique Payette, St-Lambert, QC, Canada., 10^th -12^th  September 2010
• The Sculptural of St-Sauveur, St-Sauveur, Quebec,   9^th -12^th  September 2010
• La Farandole des arts, Ste-Marguerite du Lac Masson, QC, Canada.  19th-22^nd  August 2010
• 'Whispers', M Gallery, Old Montreal,  QC, Canada. 27^th July-2^nd  August 2, 2010
• Visual Arts Festival Atlantic (FAVA), Caraquet, NB, Canada. 19^th -25^th  July 2010
• "The Song of the Stone", Montreal, Bain Mathieu, QC, Canada. 8^th -11^th  April 2010
• "History of Stone" Beaulne Museum, Coaticook, QC, Canada., January to March 2010

Press review and electronic medias

• La Pierre sous toutes ses formes. Le Reflet. 5^th September 2017
• Boisbriand ajoute 8 nouvelles sculptures à sa collection publique. Desjardins Claude. Nord Info. 24th August 2017.
• Un deuxième symposium de sculptures pour Boisbriand. Nord-Info. 27th July 2017
•                Lécuyer Marie-Pier, Une opportunité de faire rayonner le CAVMA. *** Le Bulletin. 15th February 2017.
•                Un nouveau résident prend ses aises dans le quartier. S.C.  Le Flambeau de l’Est. S.C. 18th October 2016.
• Vanasse, Mario.  TRACES. Ici-Première-radio. Radio-Canada Outaouais. Radio Interview. 10^th September 2016.
• Sabourin Benoît. Sur les traces de l’art brut.  Le Droit. 7^th September 2016.
• Poulin Louis-Charles.  Traces invite la population à son 3e symposium. Le Bulletin. 5^th September2016.
• Lefrançois-Forget Elizabeth. Leroux : Heureuse comme un enfant dans un carré de sable!  Journal des Voisins Mag. September 2016.
• Durif, Anne-Lise.  Des pierres pour des siècles, Mag Sud Ouest, France, 20^th August 2016. p. 21-22
• Séguin, Élizabeth.  Un nouveau site pour le symposium Traces. Bulletin de Buckingham, 20^th August 2016.              
• Semenac, Suzan. Make a day of it in picture-pretty Dunham. The Montreal Gazette. 30^th July 2016. (photo)
• Vrillaud, Jean-Jacques. Au plus près de la réalité amérindienne. Sud-Ouest- France. 8^th July 2016.
• Vrillaud, Jean-Jacques. Place aux Amérindiens.  Sud-Ouest- France. 25^th June 2016.
• Vrillaud, Jean-Jacques. Gérard Quéheillalt ouvre la saison aux Lapidiales. Sud-Ouest- France. 23^rd May 2016.
• Georges Pérusse. Ma TV poste 609 HD. TRACES, symposium d’arts visuels.  3rd- 17th November 2015. 43 diffusions.
• Kahy, Georges.  Des sculptures en mémoire du Grand Dérangement. Magazine Touristica International. éd #82, October 2015. p. 98-99
• Ronald Martel. 16 nouvelles oeuvres en héritage à Lac-Mégantic. La Tribune. 28^th September 2015.
• Collard, Claudia La sculpture dans tous ses états..  L’écho de Frontenac. 29^th September 2015
• Paquette, Marie-Charlotte. L'art peuple les bois à Duhamel. La Petite Nation. 28^th August 2015.
• Paquette, Marie-Charlotte. Un Symposium in situ qui laisse sa marque. La Petite Nation. 28^th August 2015.
• Dubé, Gilles. Clôture du symposium de sculptures : revivez l’experience! *** 15 ^th  August 2015.  .
• Dubé, Gilles.  Ouverture officielle du symposium de sculptures de St-Jacques. *** 3rd  August 2015
• Joubert, Jean. Superbe ouverture du Symposium de sculptures. L’Express de Montcalm. 3 ^rd August 2015.
• Trépanier, Julio. Getting to the tops. The sculpture of Marie-Josée Leroux. *** 22 July 2015.
• Trépanier, Julio. International de sculpture s’amorce à Saint-Georges *** 3rd June 2015.
• Turcotte, Olivier. Beauce-Art : Le deuxième Symposium de sculpture est lancé. L’Éclaireur Progrès. 3 juin 2015.
• Kahy, Georges.  Lerou invitée à sculpter en Chine. Touristica International Magazine. Édition #76, June 2015. p. 66
• Blouin, Mélissa. Un projet monumental à Saint-Jacques. L’Express de Montcalm, 17^th April 2015.
• Dubé Gilles. Symposium à ne pas manquer du 31 juillet au 14 août 2015. *** 16^th April 2015. 
• Kahy, Georges.  Les Marcheurs d’étoiles. Touristica International, ed #71,  December. 2014. p. 48 - 53
• Kahy, Georges.  Salon Scvlptvre. Touristica International, ed #70, Nov. 2014, p. 76 - 79  
• Clément, Éric.  SCVLPTVRE : sculpture takes back its place. La Presse.  October 10th, 2014.
• Marie-Hélène Chartrand. ÉVÉNEMENT SCVLPTVRE : Le 2e art à l'honneur. Le 24 heures WE. 10 octobre 2014.
• Nadeau, Jacynthe. Sculpture Symposium: "I ​​feel privileged to be here." La Tribune. September 23^rd, 2014
• Collard, Claudia.  Monumental sculptures building.  L’Écho de Frontenac. September 18^th, 2014
• Delany, Marie-Laurence. Lac-Megantic : sculptors from across Quebec pay tribute to victims. Radio-Canada TV, Estrie. September 16^th, 2014
• Nadeau, Jacynthe. Fifteen sculptors of Quebec lead to Lac-Mégantic. La Tribune. September 12th, 2014.
•  Aylya. Sculpture Magazine *** Gallery 9/14. Vol.33. No 7. p. 60. Sept 2014.
• Sabourin, Benoît. The Site Champboisé will host a new symposium. Le Droit. August 21^st, 2014. 
• Richard, Marie-Josée. Day driftwood: a record number of visitors. *** August 21^th 2014
• Fortier, Dominique. The Driftwood drew crowds. Le Riverain. 13 août 2014.
• Esseghir, Amine. A neighborhood artist will perform a work for Mégantic. Courrier d’Ahuntsic. August 7^th,2014
• Martel, Marie-Ève. Nature and creation, an artistic world in a vineyard. La Voix de l’Est. July 14th 2014.
• Programão do RJTV reúne dicas de teatro e exposição em clima de Copa, *** Brazil, June 14^th 2014
• The Pearl. Sculpture Magazine *** Gallery 6/14. Vol.33. No 5. p. 57. June 2014.
• Artistas plat¡scos de diversos paises expressam olhares inusitados sobre futebol. Globo TV, Brésil. May 16^th 2014
• Afrodita, Sculpture Magazine , International Sculpture Center, Gallery 1-2/14, Vol. 33, No1, p. 62. January 2014
• Prévost, Henri. The sculpture featured at the 6th Art Fair. L’Écho du Nord, October 31^st, 2013.
• Ste-Marie, Mathieu. Sculptors at the Salon des Arts., Journal Le Nord, November 1^st, 2013
• *** Meet an artist : Marie-Josée Leroux, October 25^th, 2013
• Spirit of diversity. Opinion. La Prensa Libre. Puntarenas, Costa Rica. October 12^th, 2013.
• Essegir, Amine. Ahuntsic recognizes its artists..  Courrier d’Ahuntsic. Sept. 27^th, 2013.
• Zavala, Francia. Group of artists from different countries working to bring art to Puntarenas. Teletica, Costa Rica. Sept. 28^th, 2013
• Mainville, Claudine. A unique public art circuit in Boisbriand. Le Courrier de Ste-Thérèse. August 15^th,  2013. 
• Côté, Reine. Boisbriand, an open-air museum.Le Nord-Info. August 15^th,  2013. P. 25.
• Martel, Marie-Ève. A Monumental Summer at Dunham. La Voix de l’Est, July 15^th 2013.
• Eliot Aimie. Embody the unconscious. Traces Magazine, June 21^st 2013. P.8       
• Sechât. Sculpture Magazine *** Gallery 7/13. Vol.32. No 6. p. 57.
• The Guardian of the Water. Sculpture Magazine *** Gallery 6/13. Vol.32. No 5. p. 57.
• Côté, Reine. The Guardian of the Water thrones in Boisbriand. Journal Northeast Info., December 7^th 2012
• Brouillette, Daniel. From sixteen tons of stone emerges the Guardian of the Water. Journal Le Courrier. Transcontinental, December 6^th, 2012
• Meunier , Anouk ,TVA-TV, Salut-Bonjour,  The Guardian of Water, October 22^nd, 2012