Marie-Chrystine Landry was born in Sainte Hélène-de-Kamouraska, in 1956. Critics very quickly noticed her vertical constructions of houses on piles, towers, bridges and imaginary industrial buildings.

All kinds of "temporary spaces" that make reference to water in various ways, whether it is the river of her childhood or the navigational waterways that she has found in Montreal where she has worked for the past fifteen years.

In 1989, she wrotes: "All this evocation of water is only an incitement or representation of what lies beyond appearances; it is perhaps, above all, an incitement to navigate between the signs, a drifting that allows one to go from one shore to another, to the one that is imaginated."

She is very familiar with the Lachine Canal neighhourhood having lived here at the end of the 1980s. She has also observed the sometimes insensitive changes taking place and has even found raw materials here for her upcoming architectural works.

Marie-Chrystine Landry has also created several works for the "1%", and this past summer she was invited to create a contemporary garden at the International Garden Festival in Grand Metis.