Sylvie Bélanger

Sylvie Bélanger (born in 1951 in Le Gardeur, Québec) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist using sound, video, photography and installation. She lives and works in Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Sylvie Bélanger
Public art commission on the platform level of Bessarion subway station in Toronto
Born1951
Le Gardeur, Québec
NationalityCanadian
EducationConcordia University, York University, Université de Montréal
Known forinstallation artist, video artist

Early life

Bélanger received an MFA from York University, a BFA from Concordia University and a Baccalauréat in Philosophy of Religion from Université de Montréal.

Work

Bélanger has exhibited her multimedia installations across Canada, USA, France, Germany, Spain, England, the Netherlands, Japan, Thailand, Philippines and China.

In 2002 Bélanger was commissioned to create public art for the Bessarion subway station in Toronto. The work is a series of friezes of hands, feet and backs of heads, which represent the users of the station. The feet images appear on the concourse level while the heads appear on the platform level. The hand images appear along the stairs between the Sheppard Avenue side entrance/exit and the concourse.

Collections
  • Gemeente Museum, The Netherlands,
  • Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo,
  • Oakville Galleries, Ontario
  • Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario
  • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Spain,
  • The Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank
  • MacDonald Stewart Art Center,
  • Woodlawn Arts Foundation, Toronto

Awards

Bélanger was the recipient of the Stauffer Prize awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts[1][2]

Bibliography
  • Bélanger, Sylvie and Lorenzo Buj. "Meditation." Reading the Gaze. C. Barber, S. Kivland and C. Leyser, (eds). London: Bookwork, 1991. 51-70.
  • C. Christie. "Sylvie Bélanger." Canadian News Makers. Toronto: Gale Canada, 1997. 48-51.
  • Allucquère R. Stone, M. Heim, D. de Kerckhove, L. Dompierre Press Enter, Between Seduction and Disbelief. Toronto: The Power Plant. 1995
  • Cheetam, Mark. Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art. Toronto: Oxford, University of Toronto, 1991. ISBN 0-19-540817-9
  • The Cutting Edge Women's Research Group, editor. Desire By Design: Body, Territories and New Technologies. 1999. 82. ISBN 1-86064-280-2
  • Grande, John K. "Intertwining: Artists, Landscape, Issues, Technology" 1998. 105 ISBN 1-55164-110-0
  • Jolicoeur, Nicole. Emettre du silence in Trans-mission. Montréal: La Centrale/Powerhouse Remue-Ménage, 1996. 68-73.
  • Marks, L.U. "Press / Enter", Artforum (Sept. 1995): 97.
  • Murray, J. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1999. 272-93.
  • Ylitalo, K. "Sylvie Bélanger." Redaktion Allegmeines Kunstlerlexikon. München-Leipzig, Germany: K.G. Saur Verlad 2008.
  • "Tu me manques" Art Forum Azamino. (vol. 3, June 2007)
  • "Sylvie Bélanger at Portside." Madame FIGARO. #342 (06/06/2007): 78.
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gollark: How should I redo the color schemes? There's a color for "random system link of some kind", "page" (eventually "nonexistent page" too), "visited external link", and "unvisited external link".
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References
  1. "The Canada Council for the Arts - Joseph S. Stauffer Prizes - Cumulative list of Winners". Archived from the original on 2008-08-31. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  2. "The Canada Council for the Arts - Joseph S. Stauffer Prizes". Archived from the original on 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
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