Valérie Lamontagne
Born:
August 20, 1968
6557, rue Clark Languages: English, French
Montreal, (Québec)
H2S 3E8
Tel/Fax: 514.274.8587
valerie@mobilegaze.com
EDUCATION
1997-2001 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Masters of Fine Arts, Painting department. Graduated
spring 2001.
1989-1993 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Bachelors of Fine Arts, major in art history and studio
art. Graduated Spring 1993.
1987-1988 North Carolina School of the Arts,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Major in dramatic arts.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2003 (upcoming) Balthus Revisited
- exhibition / performance
Artspace, Peterborough, ON.
(upcoming) Snow Flake -
exhibition / performance
Neutral Ground, Regina, SK.
2002 (upcoming) Snow Flake
- exhibition / performance
Forest City Gallery,
London ON.
2001 Snow Flake -
exhibition/performance
Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB.
2000 The Advice Bunny -
exhibition/performance
Plein Sud, Longeuil, QC.
The Advice Bunny -
exhibition/performance
Hamilton Artists Inc.,
Hamilton, ON.
1999 The Advice Bunny -
performance
Helen Pitt Gallery,
Vancouver, BC.
The Advice Bunny Comes to Town -
exhibition/performance
Bourget Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
1998 Flutter -
exhibition
Bourget Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2002 (upcoming) Big Social
Game - exhibition/performance
2002 Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane,
Turin, Italy.
2001 Treatment Centre -
installation / performance
VAV Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Les Ateliers s’exposent -
exhibition
Maison de la culture, Plateau-Mont-Royal,
Montréal, QC.
Roller Girls - performance in
the context of Oasis exhibition
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montréal, QC.
Organized by Instant Coffee.
Mermaid of the Future -
performance in the context of Visualeyez Performance Festival.
Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta.
Snow Flake Queen -
performance in the context of Circus Deviations
La Torre de los Vientos,
Mexico City, Mexico.
Organized by Ramble Artist Collective,
Montréal, QC.
Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts 25 th
Anniversary - exhibition
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery,
Concordia University, Montréal, QC.
2000 Encore! -
exhibition
B-312 Gallery, Montréal,
QC.
Sense Nurse - performance in
the context of Vital Signs exhibition
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery,
Concordia University, Montréal, QC.
Curated by Display Cult:
Jim Drobnick, Jennifer Fisher, Colette Tougas.•Valérie
Lamontagne – CV – page 2
GROUP EXHIBITIONS cont.
1999 Compulsion -
exhibition
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montréal, QC.
Curated by John Massier.
48 Rooms, 48 Hours -
exhibition
In-situ exhibition in
an abandoned Montréal building.
Organized by Ingrid Bachmann.
1998 Événement
bénéfice exhibition
Optica Gallery, Montréal,
QC.
A Day in the Park -
performance
May Day Productions,
New York, NY.
Curated by Anton Vidokle and Regine Basha.
Dolls Group Show
Articule Gallery,
Montréal, QC.
1997 La cigale et la fourmi
- exhibition
Optica Gallery, Montréal,
QC.
Group Show
Galerie Samuel Lallouz,
Montréal, QC.
1996 Craft by Artists -
exhibition
Articule Gallery,
Montréal, QC.
Benefit Exhibition
Galerie Clark, Montréal,
QC.
1995 Galerie Nomad -
exhibition
Presented in the context of Les ateliers s'exposent,
Montréal, QC.
Curated by David Liss.
CURATORIAL
2002 (upcoming) Net.art exhibition.
Musée du Québec,
Québec, QC.
(upcoming) Matter & Memory
MobileGaze, Montréal,
QC.
Net.art exhibition -> http://www.mobilegaze.com
2001 Location / Dislocation
New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, NY.
Québec Net.art exhibition -> http://www.emplacement.qc.ca
1997 À prendre et
à laisser
Oboro Gallery, Montréal,
QC.
Solo exhibition by Irit Batsry, an American/Israeli
video artist.
Hybrid Cultures: works from Mexico City and Montréal
Oboro Gallery, Montréal,
QC.
Group exhibition uniting the works of Mexican and
Montréal artists.
1996 Compact Abundance
Articule Gallery,
Montréal, QC.
Duo exhibition by Kelly Mark and Shelly Low.
Je vous connais
Galerie Samuel Lallouz,
Montréal, QC.
Solo exhibition by Karilee Fuglem.
1995 The Space Between II
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montréal, QC.
Group exhibition with works by Annie Martin, Marie-Josée
Lafortune, Eric Roberts.
COLLECTIONS
Concordia University
Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art
du Musée du Québec
Galerie Samuel Lallouz•Valérie
Lamontagne – CV – page 3
CATALOGUES
2002 (upcoming) - Artist –
Exhibition Catalogue, Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane, Turin, Italy.
(upcoming) - Artist/Curator
- Circus Deviations, Ramble Artist Collective.
2001 Artist – Toxic
Beauty, Essay by Christine Sowiak, Truck Gallery,
Calgary.
2000 Artist - The Advice
Bunny, Essay by Sylvie Gilbert, Plein Sud Gallery,
Montréal.
Contributor - Ctrl+Shift Art - Ctrl+Shift Gender,
Axis Foundation for Art and Gender, Netherlands.
Contributor - Textura - 25 th
anniversary publication, La Centrale Gallery,
Montréal.
Contributor - Natalie Bujold,
Stride Gallery, Calgary.
1999 Artist - Compulsion,
Essay by John Massier, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal.
1996 Curator - Compact Abundance, Articule Gallery,
Montréal.
1995 Curator - The Space
Between II, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montréal.
GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2002 Le Conseil des Arts
et des lettres du Québec: Travel Grant
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec:
Curatorial Grant (MobileGaze)
2001 Le Conseil des Arts
et des lettres du Québec: Travel Grant (Ramble Artist Collective)
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec:
Artist Production Grant
The Canada Council for the Arts:
Dissemination Grant (MobileGaze)
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec:
Curatorial Grant (MobileGaze)
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec:
Curatorial Grant Location/Dislocation.
2000 Concordia University,
Mills Purchase Prize
The Canada Council for the Arts:
Curatorial Travel Grant
The Canada Council for the Arts:
Dissemination Grant (Ramble Artist Collective)
1999 The Canada Council for
the Arts: Artist Production Grant
Concordia University, Joyce
Melville Memorial Scholarship
1997 Le Conseil des arts
et des lettres du Québec: Artist Production Grant
1995 Le Conseil des arts
et des lettres du Québec: Artist Production Grant
ARTIST MEDIA COVERAGE
Electronic Media:
Ciac Electonic Magazine, Feature on the Advice
Bunny, Issue No.10.
Print:
Parachute, Anthony Kiendl, 004, October-November-December
2001: Review of Snow Flake Queen.
This Magazine, Skidmore, March-April 2001: Article
on The Advice Bunny.
Lola Magazine, Ivan Jurakic, Ask the Advice Bunny,
Winter 2000-2001: Interview with The Advice Bunny.
La Presse, Jennifer Couëlle, Lapin inquisiteur,
December 9, 2000: Review of The Advice Bunny.
Hour, Dayna McLeod, Couch Critic: When Bunny Knows
Best, November 30, 2000: Review of The Advice Bunny.
The Mirror, The Bunny Is In,
November 30, 2000: Mention of The Advice Bunny.
Le Devoir, November 21, 2000: Preview of The Advice
Bunny.
Voir, Nicolas Mavrikakis, Dépendance artistique,
August 19, 1999: Review of Compulsion.
Le Devoir, Bernard Lamarche, Plaisirs d'été,
July 4, 1999: Review of Compulsion.
The Mirror, Keith Marchand, Art Therapy,
July 1, 1999: Review of Compulsion.
Canadian Art, Fast Forward,
Summer 1999: Mention of Compulsion.
Ici, Lyne Crevier, Signer l'homme,
July 29, 1999: Review of Compulsion.
Le Devoir, July 2, 1999: Preview of Compulsion.
Elle Québec, Jennifer Couëlle, De l'inattendu
(Elle aime sortir), August 1999: Preview
of Compulsion.
Montréal Campus, Marie Hélène
Poitras, Un Zoo le Jour, March 24, 1999: Article on The
Advice Bunny.
La Presse, Saskia Ouaknine, Sept Portraits de Femmes,
March 16, 1999: Profile.
Hour, John Zeppetelli, The Art of Juggling,
August 27, 1998: Profile.
Television:
Much Music, Much West, January 9, 2000: Special on
The Advice Bunny.
CBC TV, City Beat, Patricia Rodriguez, August 18,
1999: Review of Compulsion.
Radio:
Radio Canada, Michel Marmen, December 10, 2000: Interview
with The Advice Bunny.•Valérie
Lamontagne – CV – page 4
PUBLICATIONS
2001 MobileGaze.3, Interview
with Marek Walczak & Martin Wattenberg.
MobileGaze.3, Interview with Kathy Brew from
Thundergulch.
MobileGaze.3, Review of Périphérique
project by Nicole Gingras for the Groupe Intervention Vidéo.
MobileGaze.3, Video interview with net.artist Nikki
Forrest.
MobileGaze.3, Video interview with net.artist Nancy
Tobin.
MobileGaze.3, Video interview with net.artist Andra
McCartney.
Parachute, Review Data Dynamics net.art
exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art. Issue No.004.
Parachute, Review of Yoko Ono’s Yes exhibition,
Japan Society in New York. Issue No.003.
MobileGaze.2, Interview with Sylvie Parent curator
of the net.art section of the Biennale de Montréal.
MobileGaze.2, Review of the Biennale de Montréal
(2000).
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Anne
Baker.
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Melinda
Rackham.
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Gregory
Chatonsky.
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Igor
Stomajer.
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Olia
Lialina.
MobileGaze.2, Video interview with net.artist Daniel
Dion.
Rhizome, Review of Yael Kanarek’s World of
Awe 1.0 net.art site.
Archée, Review of ISEA 2000,
February 2001 Issue.
2000 MobileGaze.1, Interview
with net.artist Isabel Chang.
MobileGaze.1, Interview with net.artist Laiwan.
MobileGaze.1, Interview with Turbulence director
Helen Thorington.
MobileGaze.1, Interview with sound art collective
[The User].
MobileGaze.1, Interview with net.activist Minerva
Cuevas.
Archée, Interview with French Web artist Gregory
Chatonsky, November 2000 Issue.
Archée, Review of the Dia Center’s
Web Art projects, October 2000 Issue.
Archée, Interview with Vancouver Web artist
Laiwan,
March 2000 Issue.
1999 Ciac Electronic Magazine,
Review of Cartographies conference at ISEA.
Issue No.9.
Archée, Interview with Gerfried Stocker,
November 1999 Issue.
Ciac Electronic Magazine, Dossier Women and the
Web. Issue No.8.
Ciac Electronic Magazine, Interview with Alicia
Felberbaum. Issue No.8.
Parachute, Interview with the author/architect Douglas
Cooper. Issue No. 96.
Mix Magazine, Article on Web art and Studio XX.
Spring 1999 Issue.
Parachute, Review of Studio XX's Maid in Cyberspace,
the 2nd Annual International Festival of Web Art by Women.
Issue No.94.
1998 Mix Magazine, Article on
the CounterPoses performance exhibition at Oboro Gallery. Fall 1998
Issue.
Parachute, Review of the Optica exhibition Sur
l'expérience de la ville. Issue No.90.
Etc. Montréal, Review of Margaret Lawther's
exhibition Méduse Négociée at
Galerie Lilian Rodriguez. Issue No.42.
1997 Mix Magazine, essay in
Dispositions section entitled: Heroine Addiction.
Winter 1997 Issue.
Parachute, Review of Alan Dunning's installation,
Rapture - Scattered Bodies, at Optica Gallery. Issue No.86.
Etc. Montréal, Article on the Baie-Saint-Paul
Painting Symposium. Issue No.36.
1996 Parachute, Review of Louise
Wilson and Janet Cardiff's exhibition at Optica Gallery. Issue No.82.
Etc. Montréal, Review of Ghislaine Charest's
exhibition at Samuel Lallouz Gallery. Issue No.34.
Parachute, Review of the exhibition catalogue Indian
Princesses and Cowgirls, Stereotypes from the Frontier by
Marilyn
Burgess and Gail Valaskakis with a Bookwork by Rebecca
Belmore. Issue No.81.
1995 Parachute, Review of Lynn
Hershman's exhibition, Virtually Yours, at the National
Gallery of Canada. Issue No.80.
Etc. Montréal, Review of Lynn Hughes' exhibition
at Oboro Gallery. Issue No.32.
C Magazine, Review of the group exhibition, Résider,
an in-situ installation by Annie Martin, Karilee Fuglem, Andrea
Szilasi and Carmen Ruschiensky in a Montréal
apartment. Issue No.47.
Etc. Montréal, Review of Chantal Dupont's video
installation at La Centrale Gallery. Issue No.31.
C Magazine, Review of Loly Darcel's exhibition at
the Studio Cormier in Montréal. Issue No.45.
Parachute, Review of Helen Chadwick's exhibition at
the Serpentine Gallery in London. Issue No.77.
1994 Parachute, Review of Annie
Martin and Freda Guttman's exhibition at Articule Gallery. Issue No.76.•Valérie Lamontagne – CV – page
5
TALKS / CONFERENCES
2002 (upcoming) New Media Talk
– E-Lounge @ The Atlantic Cultural Space,
Muncton, New Brunswick
2001 New Media Talk - Vie
des Arts Magazine, 45 th Anniversary
Conference on Art and New Media.
New Media / Artist Talk - Alberta College of Art
and Design.
2000 New Media Talk - Neutral
Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Women Doing the Web:
http:///www.mobilegaze.com/women.
1999 New Media Talk - ISEA
- Cartographies Conference.
Curatorial Talk - Saidye Bronfman Centre for the
Arts - Talk on Medrie MacPhee's work.
Artist Talk - Studio XX -
Presentation of The Advice Bunny Web Site.
1997 Curatorial Talk - Saidye
Bronfman Centre for the Arts - Talk on L'histoire à l'oeuvre
curated by Chantal Boulanger.
1996 Curatorial Talk - 6ième
Événement de création vidéo interuniversitaire
-
Table ronde sur le thème de la vidéo domestique
et la vidéo d'art with
Emmanuel Galland, Cathy Sisler and Joanne Lalonde.
EMPLOYMENT
2000- MobileGaze on-line
magazine and media arts project, Montréal, QC.
Co-director/founder of www.mobilegaze.com
2001-2002 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Instructor – Theory & Practice of Design
Art.
2001-2002 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Visiting Artist Coordinator in the Masters of Fine
Arts Program.
1998-2002 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Instructor - The Performing and Visual Arts in Canada.
1999-2000 Studio XX,
Montréal, QC.
Programming Coordinator – Curate third edition
of Maid in Cyberspace Festival of Women's Web Art and
coordinate monthly series of Femmes Branchées
evenings.
1999-2000 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Instructor - Drawing 200.
1999 Centre International d'art contemporain de
Montréal, Montréal, QC.
Contributing Editor - Research and write for the CIAC's
Electronic Magazine
1998-1999 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Teacher Assistantship - Assist Lorraine Oades in teaching
Visual Language as Content.
1997-1998 Concordia University,
Montréal, QC.
Teacher Assistantship – Assist John Zeppetelli
with visiting artists for MFA department.
1997 Champ Libre,
Montréal, QC.
Catalogue Editor - Coordinator and writer/translator
for the Troisième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art
Électronique which
took place in Montréal, September 23 to 29.
1996-1997 Parachute Magazine,
Montréal
Documentation Researcher - Organize publication exchanges
and index catalogue and book library.
1996 Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark,
Montréal, QC.
Assistant Coordinator - Liaison with artists, supervise
installation of exhibitions, promote exhibitions,
organize vernissages.
1995 Champ Libre,
Montréal, QC.
Catalogue Editor - Coordinator and writer/translator
for the Deuxième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art
Électronique ,
Montréal, September 19-25.
1995 La Centrale Gallery,
Montréal, QC.
Resource Developer - Create a computer-accessible
information bank for female artists.
1993-1994 Oboro Gallery,
Montréal, QC.
Assistant Coordinator - Liaison with artists, supervise
installation of exhibitions, promote exhibitions,
organize vernissages.
1993-1994 Hour magazine,
Montréal, QC.
Art Critic - Review art exhibitions taking place in
Montréal.
ASSOCIATIONS / COLLECTIVES
2000- Co-founder of MobileGaze
– on-line media arts.
2000-2001 Member of Ramble
Artist Collective.
1995-1996 President of the
Board of Administration - Articule Gallery.
1995-1996 Special Projects
Committee Member - Articule Gallery.
1994 Selection Committee Member - Oboro Gallery.
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