Born in Maniwaki (Québec), Etienne Gélinas pursued college education in “visual and media arts” at the Collège de l’Outaouais in Gatineau, followed by a Bachelor’s degree in art and design from the UQO (BA) in 2006, and later graduated with a master’s degree in project management (MPM) from the UQO in 2012, and also a Master in visual art (MA) at the UQO in 2015. He has staged numerous solo exhibitions, including at AxeNeo7, at the Art-Image and Espace Odysée galleries of the Maison de la Culture de Gatineau, at the D’Avignon Gallery in Montréal, at the St-Laurent+Hill Gallery in Ottawa, at the Galerie Montcalm of the Maison du Citoyen de Gatineau, at the Thompson Landry Gallery in Toronto, at the Lanlande & Doyle Gallery of the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa, at The CACPC of Chelsea as well at the Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or.