Colette Hébert represents one of contemporary art's most remarkable renaissance stories. After achieving commercial success as a painter through the 1980s and 1990s, she made an extraordinary pivot to become a world champion tango dancer, winning the 2003 IDO USA Tango Championship and reaching the finals at the 2005 World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires.

Her 2020 return to painting after nearly two decades has produced what she describes as her most authentic work. Working by pouring incompatible materials—oil, acrylic, gold leaf, and ink—onto recycled aluminum, she creates what she terms "new figuration," works that balance between representation and abstraction.

Trained by Hungarian master Laszlo Leslie Schalk, Hébert's foundation in classical technique now merges with her embodied understanding of movement from dance. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, galleries in Provincetown, New York, and Miami, and are held in international private collections.