Marie-Hélène Nadeau

Conservator (Paintings and Polychrome Surfaces), Treatment and Collection Care – Textiles, Paintings, Polychrome Surfaces, Heritage Furniture and Wooden Objects Division

Main areas of work and/or specializations

• restoration and conservation of easel and panel paintings
• restoration and conservation of painted heritage interiors

Biography

Marie-Hélène Nadeau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University with a minor in art history. In 2015, she completed a Master of Art Conservation (Paintings) from Queen’s University.

Prior to joining the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in 2018 as an assistant conservator specializing in the treatment of paintings, she completed contracts at Library and Archives Canada as a conservator in the paintings laboratory and interned at the Centre de conservation du Québec and with A.E. Henry Conservation. In 2016, she began a postgraduate internship in the fine arts laboratory at CCI, where she worked on the structural and surface restoration treatments of modern and traditional paintings.