Biography

Lorraine Dagenais graduated from the Université du Québec à Montréal, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts in 1988, where she presented a paper titled The Object of Memory and/or the Memory of the Object.

The early years of her career were marked by printmaking. In 1981, she held her first solo exhibition at Galerie Graff in Montreal. All of Lorraine Dagenais’s silkscreens are included in the collection and digital catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.

Around 1985, she began a sustained exploration of painting. She experimented with a more contemporary expression of pictoriality by breaking away from the flatness of the image, combining it with assemblage and fragmentation, and eventually moving toward a sculptural approach to the work, which led to mural installation.

Since then, her work has been presented both in Quebec and abroad, notably in France, where she has been invited several times as an artist in residence.

Her works are part of private and public collections, including Loto-Québec, Pratt & Whitney Canada, the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the artist’s book collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She has also received numerous grants, including those awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Born in Sainte-Rose de Laval in 1955, Lorraine Dagenais lives and works in Montreal.