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| michelle bellemare | |
| Michelle Bellemare has exhibited nationally and internationally over the past decade. Her work explores how materials can embody emotional or physical vulnerability. Provoking the body’s inherent reflexes, Bellemare’s approach is relational, experiential and phenomenological. Bellemare’s sculptural works and installations have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a solo survey of her work at the Kofller Gallery, Toronto, in January 2004 and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, in September 2004. Bellemare has received numerous awards and grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Bellemare received a Chalmers Fellowship (2003) and was also shortlisted in 2004 for the K.M Hunter Arts Award. In 2005, her work Tease was exhibited in Madrid, Spain, at ARCO as part of the New Territories exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Peak Gallery. A Collaborative publication, entitled blindside, produced in by the Koffler Gallery and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery was launched in late 2005, documenting her works from 1997-2004. Michelle Bellemare lives and works in Toronto. |
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education
93-94 Ontario College of Art and Design – independent thesis
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exhibitions
07 TIAF07 Toronto International Art Fair. Metro Toronto Convention Centre 06 TIAF06 Toronto International Art Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre 05 Blind Side Exhibition and Catalogue
Launch, Peak Gallery 03 Dust, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, group exhibition 02 Lapse, Redhead Gallery, Toronto, solo exhibition 01 Commute, ARC Gallery, Chicago,USA, group exhibition 00 Unconscious Project 2, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, group exhibition 99 Approach, Archive Gallery, Toronto, group exhibition 98 Unconscious Project 1, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, Toronto, group
exhibition 97 Implode, University of Toronto at Scarborough, solo exhibition 96 Art of Darkness, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, group exhibition |
awards 2004 Nominated for the K.M. Hunter Arts Award, Ontario Arts Council 04 Toronto Arts Council, Mid-Career Visual Arts Grant 02 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artist Grant 01 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Artist Grant 00 Toronto Arts Council, Project Grant for Collectives 99 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant 98 Toronto Arts Council, Project Grant for Collectives 97 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant 96 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant 92 Nominated and awarded Ontario College of Art Medal 91 Friends of O.C.A. Scholarship – third year 89 George A. Reid Award – First year |
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selected reviews & publications
04 Fast Forward, Canadian Art, Fall Issue, 2004 03 Fast Forward, Canadian Art, Winter Issue, 2003 02 Portfolio of Recent Exhibitions, MIX Magazine, Fall Issue, 2002 01 Virginia MacDonnel, Unconscious Project, Espace Magazine, Summer
Issue, 2001 00 Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going, Globe & Mail, April 22,
2000 99 Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going, Globe & Mail, July 24, 1999 98 Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Letter From Toronto, C-Magazine, Fall 1998 97 Portfolio of Recent Exhibitions, MIX Magazine, Summer 1997 selected publications 04 Bell Farrell, Carolyn, Catalogue publication, collaborative publication,
Koffler Gallery and The Southern Alberta Art Gallery 03 Dahle, Sigrid, Dust, brochure publication, Dunlop Art Gallery,
Regina, Saskatchewan, May 2003 02 Pruesse, Kim, Lapse, brochure publication, The Red Head Gallery,
Toronto, Canada, June 2002 00 Sommerman, Elaine, Weaving the Knots, brochure publication, York
Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, September 2000 98 Gellman, Mimi, Quantrain, brochure publication, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, June 1998 |
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