Philip Delisle is a painter and writer whose work investigates shifting relationships between image, process, and perception. Through layered, self-referential structures—such as paintings within paintings or doubled works on canvas and plexiglass—he explores how meaning is constructed, revised, and destabilized through repetition, material contrast, and spatial ambiguity.
Delisle holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo and an MFA from NSCAD University. He completed a PhD in Visual Arts at York University, where his dissertation--“Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson, and Jung”—examined image-making as a dynamic interplay of intuition, embodiment, and philosophy.
He teaches studio art at the university level, with a focus on contemporary painting, drawing, and the relationship between creative practice and inner life. His work has been exhibited nationally, and he continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice that bridges traditional painting, digital culture, psychoanalytic theory, and embodied experience.
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Delisle holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo and an MFA from NSCAD University. He completed a PhD in Visual Arts at York University, where his dissertation--“Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson, and Jung”—examined image-making as a dynamic interplay of intuition, embodiment, and philosophy.
He teaches studio art at the university level, with a focus on contemporary painting, drawing, and the relationship between creative practice and inner life. His work has been exhibited nationally, and he continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice that bridges traditional painting, digital culture, psychoanalytic theory, and embodied experience.
contact: [email protected]