{"id":485,"date":"2026-04-20T21:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/a-propos\/biographie\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:50:45","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/about\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347 size-medium\" title=\"Cr&eacute;dits photographiques: Mathieu Manikowski \" src=\"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-1536x1514.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-640x631.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-1600x1577.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-128x126.jpg 128w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-256x252.jpg 256w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025-512x505.jpg 512w, https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Contact-Lorraine-Dagenais-2025.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cr&eacute;dits photographiques: Mathieu Manikowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lorraine Dagenais graduated from the Universit&eacute; du Qu&eacute;bec &agrave; Montr&eacute;al, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 and a Master&rsquo;s degree in Visual Arts in 1988, where she presented a paper titled The Object of Memory and\/or the Memory of the Object.<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;s silkscreens are included in the collection and digital catalogue of the Biblioth&egrave;que nationale du Qu&eacute;bec.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Her works are part of private and public collections, including Loto-Qu&eacute;bec, Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada, the collection of the Mus&eacute;e national des beaux-arts du Qu&eacute;bec, and the artist&rsquo;s book collection of the Biblioth&egrave;que nationale de France. She has also received numerous grants, including those awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu&eacute;bec and the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Born in Sainte-Rose de Laval in 1955, Lorraine Dagenais lives and works in Montreal.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Dagenais graduated from the Universit&eacute; du Qu&eacute;bec &agrave; Montr&eacute;al, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 and a Master&rsquo;s degree in Visual Arts in 1988, where she presented &#8230; <\/p>\n<div> <span class=\"clearfix\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/about\/biography\/\" class=\"more-link entry__more-link float-left\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\"> About: Biography <\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"mbm-layout":"1c","masonry_gallery_enable_secondary_view":true,"masonry_gallery_secondary_view":"lightbox","masonry_gallery_default_view":"masonry","masonry_gallery_slider_enable_slideshow":false,"masonry_gallery_slider_slideshow_delay":4,"masonry_gallery_slider_transition_effect":"slide","hide_page_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","entry--485","entry--type-page","entry--status-publish","entry--author-guillaume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485\/revisions\/508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrainedagenais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}