Dominique Blain

Dominique Blain (born June 22, 1957) is a Canadian artist living and working in Montreal. Her work incorporates photography, installation and sculpture. She explores political themes in her art such as war, racism and slavery.

Early life

Blain was born in Montreal and studied art at Concordia University. She relocated to Los Angeles during the late 1980s but came back to Quebec in 1992.[1] In 1996, she graduated from the New York Film Academy.[2]

Exhibitons

Her work has been shown in venues such as the Portland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Musée de l’Europe in Brussels and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Major retrospectives of her work were held: in several cities in Great Britain in 1997-98 by the Arnolfini centre in Bristol; in Quebec City, San Francisco and Rome by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 1998; and in Montreal, Regina and Calgary by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2004.[3][4] She participated in the Biennale of Sydney in 1992.[1]

Public art

Blain has created and installed public art at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, at the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, at the Jardins de Métis in Grand-Métis and at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal.[4]

Awards

Blain received the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas in 2014[1] and the Les Elles de l’Art Award in 2009.[2]

Collections

Her art is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[5] the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,[6] the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[7] and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.[2]

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References
  1. "Blain, Dominique". Les Prix du Québec (in French).
  2. "Dominique Blain". Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal.
  3. "Dominique Blain". Fondation Daniel Langois.
  4. "Dominique Blain". Art Public Montréal.
  5. "No Man's Land". www.gallery.ca.
  6. "I'm Sorry But It's Hard to Imagine".
  7. "Blain, Dominique - Collections - MNBAQ - Collections - MNBAQ". collections.mnbaq.org.
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