99. PIERRE
DORION
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Office, 2014, oil on linen, 182,88 x 137,16cm.
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Granada II, 2014, oil on linen, 33 x 63,5cm.
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Ouverture V, 2014, oil on linen, 182,88 x 137,16 cm.
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1959 in Ottawa, Canada
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Montreal
Studies:
1981
BFA, University of Ottawa, Canada
Themes and
style:
Principally
narrative and characterized by the cohabitation of a multiplicity of genres and
motives, Pierre Dorion's paintings gravitate towards the questions raised by
the impact of mechanical imaging on the pictorial practice. Most of his
paintings draw from snap shots with which he documents situations encountered
during his wanderings, mainly in the urban chaos. Anonymous photos found on the
street also occasionally inspire his subject matter. His curious compositions
alternate ceaselessly between abstraction and figuration.
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
1984
Appart
Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Yarlow-Salzman
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1985
49th
Parallel, New York
1986
Jack
Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Jack
Shainman Gallery, New York
1988
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, March 19–April 16, 1988.
1990
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, February 17–March 17, 1990.
Oakville
Galleries: Centennial Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Reliquaire,
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1992
Galleria
Sprovieri, Rome
Galerie
René Blouin, Montreal
1994
Auto-portraits:
1990–1994, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, October
20–November 27,
1994.
Jack
Shainman Gallery, New York
1995–1996
Pierre
Dorion, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, January 11–February 19, 1995.
Traveled to: Mackenzie
Art
Gallery, Regina; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Musée Regional de
Rimouski, Quebec; London
Regional
Art and Historical Museums, Ontario. (Catalogue; texts by José Lebrero Stals
and Catherine
Crowston)
1995
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, March 18–April 22, 1995.
1996
Pierre
Dorion: Histoires d’images, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, June 1–August 3,
1996.
1998
Pierre
Dorion: Temperance, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, January 10–February 14,
1998.
1999
Pierre
Dorion: Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, September–October 9,
1999.
Pierre
Dorion: Chambres avec vues, Les Dauphins sur le Parc, Montreal, May 5–30, 1999.
2000
100
Images, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
2002
I Must
Have Been Blind, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, April 19–May 18, 2002.
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, November 16–December 21, 2002.
2002–2004
Rétrospective
de l’oeuvre de Pierre Dorion, organized and circulated by Galerie d’Art du
Centre Culturel de
l’Université
de Sherbrooke, Quebec, December 13, 2002–March 2, 2003. Traveled to: Art
Gallery of Greater
Victoria,
British Columbia, May 1–June 1, 2003; Galerie Leonard and Bina Ellen, Montreal,
October 30–
December
14, 2003; Pulperie de Chicoutimi, January 10–March 21, 2004. Curated by Laurier
Lacroix.
2004
Art
Gallery of Sherbrooke University, Quebec
Pierre
Dorion, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto
2006
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, May 13–June 24, 2006.
2007
Pierre
Dorion: Cabin Fever, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, October 11–November 10,
2007.
2008
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, September 13–October 25, 2008.
2009
Pierre
Dorion: Abstractions, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, January 24–February 28,
2009.
2010
Pierre
Dorion: Peinture et Photographie, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, March 3–May
30, 2010.
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, April 10–May 16, 2010.
2011
Pierre
Dorion: Distraction, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 17–April 16, 2011.
Pierre
Dorion: Recent Paintings, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, September 15–October 15,
2011.
2012–2013
Pierre
Dorion, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. October 4, 2012–January 3, 2013.
Curated by Mark
Lanctôt.
Traveling to: Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 15–May 5, 2013
and other
venues,
to be announced. (Catalogue; text by Mark Lanctôt, David Deitcher and Steven
Horne)
2013
Pierre
Dorion, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, March 15–May 12, 2013.
2014
Diaz
Contemporary, Toronto, March 27–April 26, 2014.
Pierre
Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada, May 10–June 21, 2014
Selected Group Exhibitions
1981
Galerie
de la faculté des arts-visuels, University of Ottawa
1983
Peintures
- Installations en cours, restaurant la Paryse, Montréal, December 12–18, 1983.
Taking
off, Plexus, New York; peinture environnementale with Myriam Laplante and
Claude Simard
Peintures-Paintings,
3889 Clark, Montréal; with Claude Simard
1984
Montreal-Tout-Terrain,
Montreal, Canada
Le
T-Shirt, Galerie Yahouda-Meir, Montreal, Canada
Galerie
AXE-NEO-7, Hull, Québec; installation en collaboration avec Sylvie Bouchard
1985
The
Allegorical Image in Recent Canadian Painting, Agnes Etherington Art Center,
Kingston, Canada
49th
Parallel, New York, NY
Aurora
Borealis, Place du Parc, Montreal, Canada
Peinture–Quebec:
A New Generation, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
The
Power of the Cross, Studio 620, Toronto, Canada
50
Oboro, Galerie Oboro, Montréal
1986
Invitational
Exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Oeuvres
Excentrees, Galerie René Blouin
1987
International
Art Exhibition, The Art Barn, Washington, D.C.
1988
Quebec
'88, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1988-1990
Les
temps chauds, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; Frac Midi-Pyrenees (1989),
Toulouse; Musée des
beaux-arts
de Mons, Belgium (1990)
1990
Galerie
René Blouin, Montreal
1991
Anninovanta,
Gallerie d'arte moderna, Bologna, Italy
En
hommage a un cadeau d Eva Hesse a Sol LeWitt, AXE-NEO-7, Hull
Galerie
Dresdnere, Toronto
Les
medias, la guerre et le `nouvel ordre mondrial, Centre international d'art
contemporain de Montreal
Le
Plaisir de la Raison, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1992
Diagonales
Montreal, Centre international d'art contemporain de Montreal
La
collection: tableau inaugural, Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal
1992–1993
Pierre
Dorion, Sarah Stevenson, December 12, 1992–February 6, 1993.
1993
Pierre
Dorion, Charles Gagnon, Will Gorlitz, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada,
March 31–May 8, 1993.
Avvistamenti,
Schola dei Mureri de San Samuele, Venice
De la
perspective....dans l'art contemporain, Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Palais,
Saint-Jerome, Canada
Look at
the Window, Museum Het Kruithuis, Citadellaan, Hertogenbosch, Pays-Bas
Reflecting
Paradise/Reflets du Paradis, Expo ’93, Taejon, Korea (exposition for the
University of Lethbridge
Art
Gallery)
1994
Blash
Art Benefit, TZ'Art & Co Gallery, New York (Benefit for X-Art Foundation
& Blast, New York)
Le lieu
de l'être, Musée du Québec, Québec
1995
Art
Without Borders, Ecole du Versant, Larouche, Quebec
Dons
1989–1994, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal
Fag-o-Sites,
Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois
Human/Nature,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1996
Juego de
Ojos - Visiones de la Ciudad, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain, Galeria
Palma Dotze,
Vilafranca
del Penedes, Barcelona, Spain
1997
Blaast,
Eglise Saint-Pierre Apotre, Montreal, Canada
Five
Years of Collecting: A Seclection of New Acquisitions, Leonard & Bina Ellen
Art Gallery, Montreal,
Canada
La
Coccection d’oeuvres d’art de la Banque Nationale, Domaine Cataraqui, Quebec
La Collection
Pret d’oeuvres d’art, Acquisitions 1997, Musée du Quebec
1998
Temps
composes: La Donation Maurice Forget, Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec
1999
Les
Peintures, Galerie René Blouin et Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montreal
Redefining
the Still Life / La nature morte: nouveau regard, oeuvres tirées de la
collection
permanente, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal
2000
Robert
Bordo/Pierre Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, August 19–September 23,
2000.
La
Cathedrale Engloutie, Galerie René Blouin et Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Quebec
Rêver en
couleurs, traveling exhibition organized by Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
and presented in the
municipalities
of Montreal
Simultaneous,
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Un quart
de siècle de collection d’art à Concordia, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art
Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal
2001
Starry
Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 10–27, 2001.
Growth
& Risk, Centre International d’Art Contemporain / Québec-New York 2001
Artcité.
Quand Montréal devient Musée, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Paysages,
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
Des
finitions urbaines, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
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2002
Untitled,
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Les
enjeux de la représentation, Musée du Québec, Québec
2003
Montréal,
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto
Regards
sur les Prix Pierre-Ayot et Louis-Comtois, Maison de la culture
Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
Are you
talking to me? conversation(s), Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montréal; et Galerie d’art
de l’Université de
Moncton,
Moncton, NB
2004
A Charge
to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Regards
sur les Prix Pierre-Ayot et Louis-Comtois, Maison de la Culture Frontenac,
Montréal; en 2005,
l’exposition
circule dans 4 Maisons de la Culture de l’île de Montréal
Surface
sensible, Centre d’exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec
Regarder,
observer, surveiller, Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, Québec (commissaire Nicole
Gingras)
Où,
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
High
Points: Canadian Contemporary Art. Ten Years of Acquisitions, Musée des
beaux-arts de Montréal,
Montréal
2005
Sorry,
Ciel, Larouche, Canada
2006
Habitat,
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
The
Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Musée
national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
2007
Gris:
Nicolas Baier, Marie-Claire Blais, Geneviève Cadieux, Patrick Coutu, Pierre
Dorion, Betty Goodwin,
Pascal
Grandmaison, Geoffrey James, François Lacasse, Richard Rhodes, Francine Savard,
Galerie René
Blouin,
Montréal, July 7–August 18, 2007.
Acquérir
pour grandir, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Libre
échange. Collection d’œuvres d’art de l’UQAM, Galerie de l’UQAM
2008
Close
Up: Nicolas Baier, Marie-Claire Blais, Geneviève Cadieux, Patrick Coutu, Pierre
Dorion, Betty
Goodwin,
Pascal Grandmaison, Geoffrey James, François Lacasse, Richard Rhodes, Francine
Savard,
Galerie
René Blouin, Montréal, July 26–September 6, 2008.
Idées de
Paysage / Paysages D’idée 2, Musée D’art Contemporain de Montréal
Stinger
Editions: Master Printer/Artist Collaborations. Collaboration
artiste/maître-imprimeur, FOFA Gallery,
Université
Concordia, Montréal
2009
Jardins:
Nicolas Baier, Marie-Claire Blais, Anthony Burnham, Geneviève Cadieux, Patrick
Coutu, Pierre
Dorion,
Psacal Grandmaison, Geoffrey James, Chris Kline, Daniel Langevin, Francine
Savard, Sarah
Stevenson,
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, June 13–July 18, 2009 and July 25–September 5,
2009.
As much
as possible given the time and space allotted, Galerie Leonard & Bina
Ellen, Université Concordia,
Montreal.
Conteneurs
et contenus, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montréal
The
Denatured Human: Contemporary Art from Glen Bloom’s Collection, Carleton
University Art Gallery,
Ottawa
As much
as possible given time and space allowed, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery,
Concordia University,
Montréal
2010–2011
Chimère/Shimmer,
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, November 11, 2010–April 3, 2011.
2010
Let the
Light Be / Que la lumière soit, présenté dans Écran 2010 / Screen 2010,
Vancouver, Winter 2010.
2011
25 ans :
Exposition de groupe, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada, August 27–October
1, 2011.
Lieux,
Musée régional de Rimouski, Quebec, June 18–September 11, 2011.
Stephen
Andrews, Pierre Dorion and Dara Gellman, Diaz Contemporary, July 14–August 13,
2011.
With the
Void, Diaz contemporary, Toronto
Lieux,
Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimouski
L.A.
Pedestrians, Art Platform, Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles
Entre
les fissures (représenter la quatrième dimension), OBORO, Montréal
2011–2012
Cabinet
d'images, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, October 27, 2011–April 29,
2012.
2013
Exposition
de groupe, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
Le
Projet Peinture, Galerie de L’UQAM, Montréal
Corner-Thru,
Choi-Lager Gallery, Cologne
Sur
l’écran gris de nos nuits blanches. Oeuvres de la collection, Musée
départemental d’art contemporain
de
Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Autour
de l’abstraction II, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
Miroirs,
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
2014
1 + 1 =
1, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Mise En
Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY, August – December 2014.
2015
Regard
sur l’art contemporain, Salle de Diffusion de Parc-Extension, Montréal, Québec,
April 23 – June
14,
2015.
6th
Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China, September 24 – October 16,
2015.
In his own words:
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Banque d'oeuvres d'art, Conseil des arts
du Canada, Ottawa
Banque Toronto Dominion, Montréal
Chase Manhattan Bank
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du Québec, Québec
Heenan Blaikie, Montréal
Hydro Québec, Montréal
London Life, London
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,
Montréal
Musée des Augustines, Hôtel-Dieu de
Québec, Québec
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,
Québec
Northern Télécom, Montréal
Northern Telecom, Toronto
Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimous
McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Ottawa
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto
Power Corporation, Montréal
Radio Shack, Houston, U.S.A.
Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto
The University Club, Montréal
Ville de Montréal, Montréal
Wajax, Montréal
Collections privées–Canada et aux
Etats-Unis
Representative
Galleries:
Jack Shainman
René Blouin
Díaz Contemporary
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more Information:
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