Lyse Lemieux, Bio

b. 1956, Ottawa, Canada

SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 Wil Aballe Art Projects, AM STRAM GRAM, Vancouver, CA

2023 (May 6-June 6) Loftyart Gallery, Lyse Lemieux 交織 Interwoven , Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Lalani Jennings Contemporary, On Balance, Guelph, Ontario

2022 (Sept 17 -Nov 13) Art Gallery at Evergreen, So dawn goes down to day, Coquitlam, BC, CA, Curator; Katherine Dennis

2021 Burnaby Art Gallery,Solo exhibition, Trespaser/Intrus, Curators: Ellen Van Eijnsbergen, Jennifer Cane

2021 Wil Aballe Art Projects, Enceinte, Curator: Wil Aballe

2020 SFU Gallery, No Fixed Abode, Solo exhibition, Curator: Melanie O"Brian

2019 ART TORONTO, WAAP Booth S3, Virtual studio tour

2019 Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP), Painted Drawings, Vancouver, Curator: Wil Aballe

2018 The Contemporary Art Gallery, Off-Sites, Full Frontal, Curator; Kimberly Phillips

2016 Richmond Art Gallery, A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do, Curator: Nan Capogna

2015 Republic Gallery, Black Is The Size Of My New Skirt, Curator:Pantea Haghighi

2015 Katzman Contemporary,Toronto, In-Between-In-Between: Lyse Lemieux & Merryl McMaster, Curator; Marianne Katzman

2014 Republic Gallery, Shaped Drawings: Something Wrong About The Mouth

2012 Republic Gallery, Vancouver, Lyse Lemieux: New Work

2010 Becker Galleries, Lyse Lemieux: DRAWING, Curator: Michelle Becker

2009 Chernoff Fine Art, Vancouver, Soldiers and Vesperers

2005 Musée Marsil, St.Lambert, QC, Skinslips / Peau de Jupon, Curator: Suzanne Chabot

2004 Sylviane Poirier Art Contemporain,Montréal, Mignonnette, Curator: Sylviane Poirier

2004 Art & Soul Gallery, Vancouver, Mignonnette

1991 Women In Focus Gallery,Vancouver, Dolce Armature, Curator Zainub Verjee

1990 Charles H. Scott Gallery,Vancouver, A Fleur De Peau/Second Skin, Curator: Greg Bellerby

1987 La Commune di Perugia, Perugia,Italy, Dolci Armature; Michèle Delisle/Lyse Lemieux, Curator: Gilbert Reid

1985 SFU Gallery, Lyse Lemieux, Simon Fraser University,Burnaby, BC, Curator: James Felter

1982 361 Water Street Studio, Vancouver, Chez les Soeurs Blanches, installation

1980 Surrey Art Gallery, Working in two spaces: Share Corsaut/Lyse Lemieux, Curator: Rosa Ho

1979 Circle Art Gallery,Vancouver, Lyse Lemieux

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 (June 25-July 23) Lalani Jennings Gallery, Constellations, Guelph, Ont. CA

2021 Kamloops Art Gallery, Holding a line in your hand, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Colleen Heslin, Russna Kaur, Lyse Lemieux, Rajni Pereira, Curator: Charo Neville

2019 Terminal Art Contemporary,Some Kind Of Behaviour; Robin Arseneault, Allison Hrabluik, Lyse Lemieux, Curator; Paul Jackson

2019 Burnaby Art Gallery, Women’s Work: New Acquisitions 2019, Curator Ellen van Eijsberger

2019-18 Vancouver Art Gallery, The Metamorphosis, Vancouver. Curators; Bruce Grenville, Emmy Lee Wall and Tarah Hogue

2018 Gordon Smith Gallery, 13 ways to summon ghosts, Curator: Kimberly Phillips

2017 Trépanier-Baer Gallery, Now Playing , Curator: Yves Trépanier

2017 Plaza Projects,Richmond, The Eternal Return of the New, Curators: Pongsakorn Yananissorn, Steven Tong

2016-17 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Curators; Daina Augaitis, Jesse McKee, Vancouver

2016-17 West Vancouver Museum, A Decade Of Collecting, Curator: Darrin Morrison

2016-17 Griffin Art Projects,North-Vancouver, Kitchen Midden, Curators: Anne Lowe, Ashes Whithyman

2016 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Aujourd’hui Encore, Curators; Yves Trépanier, Luanne Martineau

2015 Oakville Galleries, Out of Line, Curators; Matthew Highland, Jon Davies

2014 AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre at UBC, Beside Yourself, Curator; Marina Roy

2012 Republic Gallery, Vancouver, Gallery Artists, Curator: Pantea Haghighi

2012 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver,Cut & Paste, Curators: Andy Sylvester, Sophie Brodovitch

2011 West Vancouver Museum, The Gordon and Marion Smith Collection, Curator; Darrin Morrison

2010 Becker Gallery, Bradley Corman, Lyse Lemieux and Robert McNealy; Gallery Artists, Vancouver

2004 Grand Forks Art Gallery, Alberta

1997 Artropolis '97, Browser, Vancouver

1995 Surrey Art Gallery, Held In Trust, Surrey

1989 Women In Focus Gallery,Vancouver, Past Artists–Current Work

1988 Burnaby Art Gallery, BAG IT

1987 Centro Culturale Canadese, Rome, Italy Sul Confine/Borderline, Curator: Gilbert Reid

1985 Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Five Young Artists, Curator: Diane Farris

1984 Surrey Art Gallery, Seattle/Vancouver, Curator; Jane Young

1984 The Warehouse Show, Curators; Helga Pakasaar, Jill Pollock

1983 The October Show, Vancouver, Curators: Helga Pakasaar, Todd Davis, Daina Augaitis, Robert Linsley, Josie Kane, Mary Gingerich

1978 Surrey Art Gallery, An exhibition of works in transparent media, Curator: Rosa Ho, Surrey

ART FAIRS

2023 ART TORONTO 23, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Toronto, CA

2023 ART TAIPEI 23, Taipei, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 ART TAIPEI 22, Taipei, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 NADA’22 : New York, Wil Aballe Art Project, View Solo booth here , New York

2021 ART TORONTO POP-UP, Wil Aballe Art Projects at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, CA

2020 ART TORONTO, Wil Aballe Art Projects, POP-UP, Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto, CA

2017 PAPIER17: Montréal, Trépanier-Baer Gallery, Calgary

2014 PAPIER14: Republic Gallery, Montréal 2013 PAPIER13: Republic Gallery, Montréal

COLLABORATIONS

2016 Richmond Art Gallery, "Response to an exhibition; Two new works by choreographer/dancer Ziyan Kwan, Dumb Instrument Dance.

2005 Vancouver International Dance Festival. “À Fleur De Peau: The Skin Project“, Marguerite Witvoet, Barbara Bourget, Lyse Lemieux

AWARDS

2020-21 BC Arts Council, Project Development grant

2018 BC Arts Council, Project Assistance Grant 2017 BC Arts Council, Early career development Grant. Mentorship: Heather Kai Smith

2017 VIVA AWARD for Outstanding achievement in the Visual Arts, Shadbolt Foundation

2017 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant

2017 BC Arts Council, Early Career development Grant. Mentorship: Kara Hansen Ditte

2016 BC Arts Council, Project Assistance Grant

2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant

2006-08 Canada Council for the Arts, Inter-Arts Production Grant

2002-2010 Part-time member, Canadian Artist and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal CAPPRT

1982 Canada Council for the Arts, B Grant

1981 Canada Council for the Arts, B Grant

PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida

Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA

Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, CA

Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby,CA

Air Canada Collection, Montréal, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 GALLERIES WEST, Kamloops Art Gallery; Holding a Line in your hand (July)

2021 GALLERIES WEST, Burnaby Art Gallery; Lyse Lemieux: Trespassers / Intrus (June)

2020 BORDER CROSSINGS, Issue 154, Lyse Lemieux, No Fixed Abode by Robin Laurence (June)

2020 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Drink in the diversity at spring exhibits, Critics picks, Robin Laurence (February 27 March)

2019 ART TORONTO, WAAP SOLO BOOTH S3, Toronto, Studio tour & Interview by Art Toronto here (October)

2019 ART FORUM INTERNATIONAL, Painted Drawings at Wil Aballe Art projects

2019 Canadian Art magazine, Art Toronto :Undoing Painting: Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Amanda Boulos, Lyse Lemieux

2019 CANADIAN ART, Reviews; LYSE LEMIEUX by Joni Low, Wil Aballe Art Projects (Fall)

2019 RADIO-CANADA, Culture et Confiture avec Mireille Langlois, Interview (20 Juillet)

2019 AKIMBLOG, Justina Bohach, Lyse Lemieux at Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, June-July 2019

2019 GALLERIES WEST, Lyse Lemieux:Painted Drawings (June) 2019 GALLERIES WEST, Lyse Lemieux:Painted Drawings by Beverly Cramp (July 12)

2019 RADIO CANADA, Interview, Phare Ouest, host Marie Villeneuve (13 juin)

2019 RADIO-CANADA, Interview, Boulevard du Pacifique, Jacques Dufresnes (7 juin) 2018 PREVIEW, Michael Turner, Lyse Lemieux: FULL FRONTAL (March 25)

2018 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts, Exhibition catalogue & Essay, The Gordon Smith Gallery, Kimberly Phillips

2018 FRIEZE Magazine

2017 VOICES:artists on art/VOIX:artistes sur l’art, Yvonne Lammerich & Ian Carr-Harris, TFT Works,

2017 CANADIAN ART, Vancouver Report; From one body to another by Lucien Durey, October 25, 2017

2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Full Frontal Off Site Exhibition and Sit For Still Life by Robin Laurence (Dec.5)

2017 EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY, Visual Art Forums, Lyse Lemieux, October, 2017

2016 EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY, Visual Art Forums, Lyse Lemieux, October, 2016

2016 THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Marsha Lederman, Coastal Disturbance, (December 2)

2016 ACCESS GALLERY, In Conversation; Lyse Lemieux with Amélie Brisson-Darveau

2016 VANCOUVER SUN, Lyse Lemieux turns black felt into leaning bodies, by Kevin Griffin (June 8)

2016 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Robin Laurence, Ambivalent Pleasures sparks delight in dark times )Dec. 7)

2016 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Lyse Lemieux; A Girls Gotta Do What A Girls Gotta Do, by Robin Laurence (May 12)

2016 LA SOURCE, Les Corps Feutrés de Lyse Lemieux, by Michèle Smolkin, (19 avril)

2016 LA SOURCE, Fille fait ce que fille doit: Dans l'entrelacs de la feutrine, by Anaïs Elboujdaïni (19 avril)

2015 VANCOUVER SUN, Lyse Lemieux Uses Scissors to Draw in Black Felt, by Kevin Griffin (Nov.12)

2015 AKIMBLOG, Lyse Lemieux at Katzman Contemporary, by Terrence Dick

2014 TWO COATS OF PAINT, New York Blog, Vancouver Report: Lyse Lemieux, by Dion Kliner (February)

2014 BORDER CROSSINGS, Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery, by Marina Roy, March, 2014

2012 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Robin Laurence, Lyse Lemieux; New Work, November, 2012

2012 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Equinox Gallery; Cut and Paste, by Robin Laurence, August 2012

2009 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Soldiers and Vesperers, Robin Laurence, April 15, 2009

2006 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, (Images essay) Vancouver, Canada, June, 2006

2006 FIBERARTS, (Images essay), January/February, 2006

2006 PRESS REPUBLIC.COM, Steve Howell, Exploring our second skin, January/February, 2006

2005 THE GAZETTE, Steve Howell, Exploring our second skin, December, 2005

2005 LA PRESSE, Peau de Jupon, Décembre, 2005

2004 NOT JUST ANY DRESS; Narratives of Memory, Body and Identity, Sandra Weber & Claudia Mitchell

2004 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Lemieux weaves ideas into artful dresses, by Robin Laurence, March 4, 2004

2004 THE WEST ENDER, Mary Francis Hill, Sculpted dresses about identity, March, 2004

1991 VANCOUVER SUN, Ann Rosenberg, Second Skin /A fleur de peau , December, 1991

1991 VANCOUVER SUN, Second Skin /A fleur de peau , Ann Rosenberg, December, 1991

1989 THE PROVINCE, Art Perry, Second Skin/ À Fleur de peau, 1989

1988 THE VANCOUVER COURIER, Jill Pollack, Artwork felt deep inside, December, 1988

1987 CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, Lyse Lemieux et Michèle DeLisle, Catalogue essay; G.Reid, 1987

1987 LA NAZIONE, Per conoscere da vicino l’arte del Canada, Perugia, Italy, July 10,1987

1987 LA NAZIONE, Mostra ai Priori, Perugia, Italy, July, 1987

1987 CORRIERE DELL UMBRIA, Perugia, Italy, July 1987

1985 SFU Gallery Catalogue, essay; James Felter, 1985

1985 VANGUARD, Mark Harris, Lyse Lemieux at SFU Gallery, April 1985

1985 ISSUE Magazine, Billy Little, Men making dances and dancing, February, 1985

1985 VANCOUVER MAGAZINE, Anne Templeman-Kluit, Desperately seeking illusion, July, 1985

1984 THE WAREHOUSE SHOW, Catalogue essay; Helga Pakassar & Jill Pollack, 1984

1984 VANGUARD, Mark Harris, Vancouver /Seattle Sculpture, March, 1984

1982 VANGUARD, Andrea Kunard, Lyse Lemieux Open Studio, September, 1982

1980 CBC RADIO, Russell Keziere, The Arts Report, January, 1980

1979 VANGUARD, Judith Sandiford, Transparent Media, January, 1979

1978 SURREY ART GALLERY, Works in transparent media, Catalogue essay, Rosa Ho, 1978

1978 SURREY ART GALLERY, Vancouver/Seattle Sculpture, Essay; Jane Young 1978 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Andrew Scott, Transparent Thrills, November, 1978

NEWS

2023 Le Téléjournal de la C.-B, Calendrier Culturel avec Lyne Barnabé ( @23:00 min.)

2023 RADIO CANADA INFO, Lyse Lemieux, le besoin intrinsèque de créer réalisé par Pierre Beaudoin

2023 Richmond Art Gallery Artist Salon Hosted by Kathy Tycholis, Education & Public Programs Coordinator

2022 Radio-Canada, Rentrée Culturelle: Reportage Lyne Barnabé

2022 Evergreen Art Gallery, Lyse Lemieux So Dawn goes down to day, Opens September 17 , 5-7pm

2022 NADA 2022 Art Fair, New York, WAAP, solo Booth

2022 BORDER CROSSINGS, Holding a Line in your Hand by Gary Pearson

2022 EXILE QUARTERLY, Surface and Substance:Abstraction and Representation The Art of Lyse Lemieux by Gilbert Reid

2022 SCOUT Magazine, Exhibitions and Public Art to See Right Now by Kristin Lim

2022 CBC-RADIO-CANADA, Des Personnages plus grands que nature

2021 The Daily Hive, Humanoid figures added to new downtown tower by Kenneth Chan

2021 PERSONNAGES, Essay by Filmmaker and Visual artist Allison Hrabluik. Brochure by Grosvenor Americas for the City Of Vancouver’s Public Art Program

2021 Burnaby Art Gallery, Hard cover publication, essays by Robin Laurence and Jennifer Cane; Lyse Lemieux; Trespassers/Intrus (ISBN 9781927364406)

2021 The Art Newspaper, Hadani Ditmars, Art and architecture merge on Vancouver’s towers

2020 PRESS RELEASE, Family: Five Figures For A Triangle

2020 CITY OF VANCOUVER, Public Artwork registry, Five Figures For A Triangle

2020 BORDER CROSSINGS, Lyse Lemieux by Robin Laurence

2020 CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, In Response; Lyse Lemieux, Quiet Pandemonium

2020 GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Spring Arts Preview by Robin Laurence

2020 THE PEAK, Gallery’s latest exhibition… by Kim Regala

2019 GALLERIES WEST, Lyse Lemieux -Painted Drawings at Wil Aballe Art Projects (June)

2019 ONLINE STUDIO TOUR, ART TORONTO, Virtual Studio Tour

2019 CANADIAN ART magazine, ART TORONTO PANEL, Undoing Painting: Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Amanda Boulos and Lyse Lemieux

2019 CANADIAN ART magazine, Joni Low, Undoing Painting