About Genevieve Castree

Geneviève Castrée was born in Québec in 1981. She started inventing and drawing characters at the age of two. She did not learn it in school. At the end of High School, she took her diploma and disappeared. Impatient and lazy, Geneviève did not study "art". She made books and had exhibitions in countries such as Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Castrée added music and performance to her work from time to time. She made records and played concerts under the names Ô PAON and Woelv.

Geneviève Castrée lived in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States with her husband, musician Phil Elverum. In 2015, she gave birth to a daughter, Agathe, and was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer just a few months later. She died in 2016.