JULIE DESMARAIS - visual artist - painter [email protected]

JULIE DESMARAIS - visual artist - painter
[email protected] - www.juliedesmarais.com
REPRESENTATION
D'Este Gallery - Montreal | www.galeriedeste.com
1329, Greene Avenue, Montreal, (Qc), H3Z 2A5
(514) 846-1515 | [email protected]
EDUCTION AND WORKSHOPS
Bachelor in Fine Arts and Art History | University of Montreal
Diploma of Collegial Studies in Arts and Communications | College Jean-de-Brebeuf
Workshop | Marouflage - with artiste Adeline Rognon
Workshop | Intensive performance art - with artiste Sylvie Tourangeau
Workshop | Chinese painting class
1995-99
1993-95
2012
2004
2003
AWARDS AND GRANTS
SODEC | Grant - Visual Art program
Award and Grant : Best of painting - Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 52nd edition
Grant from the City of Montréal - Artist studio
Traveling Grant - Artist living outside Ontario - The Artist Project - Toronto
Award for Young artist originally from the Laurentians - Visual Arts - Museum of contemporary art of the Laurentians
Grant for Visual Art - Museum of contemporary art of the Laurentians and partners
2014
2013
2009-10-11-12-13
2009
2003
2003
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
RAAVQ – Regroupement des Artistes en Arts Visuels du Quebec – professional member
La Chaufferie – Center for experimentation and diffusion for Visual artists and Multimedia artists – member et board member
Cooperative Lezarts – Cooperative of residency for professional artist in Visual Art and Multimedia – member and board member
Les Ateliers Creatifs - Chat des Artistes – Studio for artists in Montreal – member
Ministry of Culture and Communications - Artists Bank – Architectural Art Integration
Canadian Art Collective - Group of Canadian artists interested in Canadian landscape painting
PERMANENT EXHIBITION - Public space
Grande forêt-petite forêt (2004) oil painting with encaustic of 244cm x 244cm - Collection Polaris Realty Corp - Hall,
Access to Central Station - 800, Rene-Levesque West, Montreal, Qc, Canada
PUBLIC ART
Rassemblement - Outdoor collective monumental Installation - Centre de diffusion La Chaufferie
2012
PERFORMANCE ART
5 ȼ for a kiss - Red Light, Performance art collective presentation - Centre de diffusion La Chaufferie
2004
SOLO EXHIBITION
(À venir) Courant - D’Este Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paysage en mémoire (catalog) - D’Este Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Promenade à penser (catalog) - D’Este Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Grande Forêt - petite forêt (catalog) - Museum of Contemporary Art of the Laurentians, St-Jerome, Quebec, Canada
2014
2013
2011
2004
FAIRS
LOVE ART FAIR - with Canadian Art Collective - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Boston International Fine Art Show - with Canadian Art Collective - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto International Art Fair - with D'Este Gallery - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Artist Project - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014
2013
2006-07-08-10-13
2010-12
2009-10-12
GROUP EXHIBITION (selected)
Parle-moi d’amour (catalog) - Exposition/encan - Les Impatients Gallery, Montreal, Quebec Canada
Best of Awards Winners – Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (catalog) - First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Oeuvres récentes - D'Este Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nature au pluriel - Foundation Museums Nature Montreal - Curator : Robert Dufour
Paysages - Galerie Rouge.Art Contemporain, Cowansville, Quebec, Canada
Le Choix des Artistes (catalog) - Jean-Pierre Valentin Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Petits Formats Contemporains - Jean-Pierre Valentin Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Expo-Encan de la Fondation (catalog) - Museum of Contemporary Art of the Laurentians, St-Jerome, Quebec, Canada
Les Femmeuses (catalog) - Pratt et Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Bouillon de Lezarts, Couleur Caméleon - Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Exposition Enchantée (catalog) - Écomusée du Fier Monde, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Salle Comble - Art Mûr Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Curator : Rheal Olivier Lantier et François St-Jacques
Champ Libre (catalog) - Museum of Contemporary Art of the Laurentians, St-Jerome, Qc, Canada - Curator : Andrée Matte
2014
2014
2013
2010
2008
2005-06-07-08
2005-06-07
2005-07
2004-06
2004
2002-05
2002
2002
OTHER EXPERIENCES ET ENGAGMENTS IN THE ART COMMUNITY
Studio space - Chat des Artistes / Ateliers Créatifs – 2205, rue Parthenais, suite 207, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Member and inhabitant of the Cooperative d’habitation Lezarts – 33 apartments and studio space for professional visual and multimedia artists :
. active member of this newly built and newly developed project that started in 2000 until present,
. board member from 2002-2004 and director from 2009-2011 and 2013 until present,
⋅ organization and coordination of juries responsible for the selection of all the artists that will become future members of the cooperative,
⋅ initiating a residency program at Lezarts for International Artists in collaboration with the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) and
coordinator of the first 4 years of operation,
⋅ Meetings and interviews about the Cooperative Lezarts with the press and journalists from : La Presse, Le Devoir, Le Nouvel Observateur, La Gazette,
Radio-Canada, CBC, Radio Ville-Marie, etc.,
. coordinator and board member of «La Chaufferie» : a center for art experimentations and exhibition for professional visual and multimedia artists.
Active member of «La Chaufferie», a center for art experimentations and exhibition for professional visual and multimedia artists:
. coordinator and participant at La Virée des Ateliers, 6 edition in 2013, with members of Lezarts cooperative and La Chaufferie
. conception and coordinator of the monumental public outdoor art piece called Rassemblement for the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Lezarts
Cooperative and La Chaufferie, with the financial support of the City of Montreal and the collaboration of Architect Firm Rayside Labossière,
⋅ Participant in many open studio public events since 2002-2013,
⋅ Participant in an itinerant exhibition of art made by women, in collaboration with Les Femmeuses and Pratt and Whitney Canada, and with the
collaboration of Chamber of Commerce of Montréal, in 2005,
⋅ participant in a collective and interactive short film exploring the theme of neighborhood, directed by a group of artists from the cooperative Lezarts,
⋅ participant in the collective performance art program « The Red Light : with : 5 ¢ for a kiss », exploring the idea of intimacy, in 2004,
⋅ exhibitor in different collective art exhibitions with other members of the cooperative Lezarts and La Chaufferie.
Other experiences:
⋅ commission work for private collection of Avmor Group (catalog),
⋅ donating work and participating in many auctions and fundraisers for different public and private institutions such as : Parle-moi d'amour (Les
Impatients), Ort Montréal, Écomusée du Fier Monde, Musée d’Art Contemporain des Laurentides, Les Femmeuses de Pratt et Whitney Canada, etc.,
⋅ Jury member for art and artists selection for : Association des artistes de Ville LaSalle, Centre des Loisirs Jean-Claude Malépart, Cooperative
d’habitation Lezarts, etc.
⋅ creation of a monumental public art painting for «Nuit Blanche sur Tableau Noir», 2001.
⋅ conception of murals and décors for cinema, television, theater, etc.
⋅ commission work for private clientele.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES AND LECTURE
Conference : Painting with encaustic - Association des Artistes de LaSalle, Qc
Teaching : Introduction to painting with encaustic - Ecole des Beaux-arts Rosa Bonheur, Qc
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Polaris Immobilier Corporation
Fednav Corporation
La Collection Loto Québec
ÉcoMusée du Fier Monde
Groupe Avmor Ltd
Marché Louise Ménard
Centre Mont-Royal
Hotel Gault
EPV Enr
Dermolab Pharma Ltee
Ort Montreal
Jacty Design Inc
Phillip Mitchell Design Inc
Lifetime Construction Inc
REPRESENTATION
D'Este Gallery - Montreal | www.galeriedeste.com
1329, Greene Avenue, Montreal, (Qc), H3Z 2A5
(514) 846-1515 | [email protected]
2003
2002-04
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
« On the walls : Art you need to see this week », par Kristen Theodore, 14 Mai 2013.
Cult #MTL/Culture/Art&Design. http://cultmontreal.com/2013/05/on-the-walls-art-you-need-to-see-this-week-2/
« Plus d'une centaine d'artistes de Montréal ouvrent les portes de leur atelier au grand public », reportage de Pasquale Harrison-Julien, ICI Radio-Canada, diffusé le 1
mai 2013, section arts et divertissements, nouvelles et plateforme web.
« The Artist Project - Des Québécois friands de Toronto », article avec photo, par Nourhane Bouznif, L'express, semaine du 6 au 12 mars, L'hebdo des francophones
du Grand Toronto.
« Le Plateau s'érode : les artistes migrent », Article avec photo de Julie Desmarais en période de travail dans son atelier d’artiste, signé par Martin Croteau, La Presse,
Montréal, 10 février 2010.
« Artists make their mark at Artist Project », Article portant sur l’exposition The Artist Project-Toronto 2009, signé par Patricia D’Cunha, 680 NewsRadio, édition sur
site internet, Toronto, 13 mars 2009.
« La place Nathan Phillips s’improvise en galerie d’art », article avec photo sur une exposition au centre ville de Toronto – Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2008, signé
par Jean-Virgile Themens, Le Métropolitain, Toronto, 9 juillet 2008.
« La solution coopérative », article avec photo sur l’exposition de groupe Bouillon de Lezarts – Couleur Caméléon à la Maison de la Culture Frontenac, signé Jérôme
Delgado, section arts et spectacles, La Presse, Montréal, 21 mars 2004, p. 5.
« Bouillon de Lezarts concocté par les artistes du coin », article paru dans le Ville-Marie, 14 mars 04, p. 4.
« Lezarts : la créativité coopérative », reportage en ligne avec photo sur l’exposition de groupe Bouillon de Lezarts – Couleur Caméléon, Maison de la Culture
Frontenac, signé Claude Couillard, Guide Culturel de Radio-Canada – Exposition, 1e mars 2004, http://radio-canada.ca/culture/modele-documentprint.asp?section=exposition&idFilm=&idSpectacle=&idGroupe=&idEntite=1573&prov=fiche
« Promenade à penser au Musée d’Art Contemporain des Laurentides », article avec photos par Annie Dupont, Le Journal de Prévost, 19 février 2004, vol. 4, no. 4, p.
22.
« Les artistes et la cité », article sur la coopérative Lezarts avec photo de mon atelier, rédigé par Jean de Julio-Paquin, revue Vie des Arts, no. 193, pp. 46-48.
« Association des Artistes de LaSalle », article, section arts et spectacles, Le Messager LaSalle, 21 sept. 2003, p. 23.
« Deux jeunes artistes primés à Saint-Jérôme », article avec photo signé J.P.D., Journal Le Nord, 30 avril 2003, p. 21.
« Logements sur mesure, une utopie devenue réalité », article avec photos, collaboration spéciale de Danielle Turgeon, cahier mon toit, La Presse, Montréal, samedi
5 octobre 2002, p. J3.
« Champ libre à l’art contemporain », article paru dans La voix des Mille-Îles, 21 août 2002, p. 33.
« Des artistes envahissent le Vieux-Palais et le parc Labelle », article avec photos sur l’exposition Champ Libre, Musée d’Art Contemporain des Laurentides, par
Suzanne Chenier, section Loisirs et Culture, L’Echo du Nord, 10 juillet 2002, p. 36.