Artists

Lyne Lapointe is a French-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans site-specific installation, collage, drawing, painting, and object-based works. For more than four decades, her art has engaged themes of memory, visibility and invisibility, feminism, and the relationship between human and natural worlds. She often describes her work as an “archaeology of memory,” probing the fragile boundaries between the material and the perceptual, the physical and the metaphysical.

Lapointe first gained recognition in the 1980s and early ’90s through a series of groundbreaking site-specific projects realized with critic and artist Martha Fleming. Their collaborative works, documented in Studiolo, have been recognized as landmarks in the history of feminist art, installation practice, and community activism. Since the mid-1990s, Lapointe has pursued a solo practice, creating intricately crafted collages and paintings that depict solitary, often androgynous figures—encased in handmade frames and adorned in improbable attire—that explore transformation, injury, desire, and exclusion.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the São Paulo Biennial, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), the New Museum (New York), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, among many others. In 2002, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal organized The Blind Spot, a major mid-career survey that toured Canada and France.

Lapointe’s work is held in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Brown University Art Museum (Providence), and the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge). She has received many honors, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997), the Graff Prize (1998), and multiple fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. In 2012, she was awarded the Québec Studio residency in New York.