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SARAH STEVENSON

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1984

Solo Exhibitions
2024 In the Eye, Blouin Division, Toronto, Ontaro
2023 A Minor Catastrophe, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta/td>
2022 Une petite catastrophe, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montréal, Québec
2021 Before the Storm, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Québec (curated by Caroline Andrieux)
2020 Still Falling, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2019 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2018 Nothing Hidden, The Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
2017 Fragile, Galerie McClure, Montréal
2007 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2002 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
Hundreds and Thousands/Des centaine et des milliers, Bishop’s University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Québec
2000 Three Shapes/Trois formes, independent project, sponsored by the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
1999 Almost Invisible, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec (also 1998,1996, 1995, 1993, 1992)
1992 Plug-In Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
1991 Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
1990 Kingston Artists’ Association, Kingston, Ontario
Oboro, Montréal, Québec
Nothing Up My Sleeve, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Without Language, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
Articule, Montreal, Québec

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Contextile 2024, Contemporary textile art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal
Suspension: Holly King and Sarah Stevenson, galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
Le Temps Passe Lentement, Blouin Division, Montréal, Québec
2023 Révélations, Grande Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
2022 Sarah Stevenson & Naomi London, La Vitrine (Atelier Daigneault | Schofield) Montréal, Québec
2021 Biennale international du lin de Portneuf, Québec
2020 Inaugural Exhibition, Blouin Division, Montréal, Québec
2019 Alexander, Carl, Herzog, Stevenson, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2017 Dessins 3, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2016 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2013 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2011 25 ans, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal. Québec
i Level, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2010 Another Country, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
L’Éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000. Œuvres de la collection du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Titres IV, Musée d’art de Jolliette, Jolliette, Québec
2009 Jardins, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
Titles 5, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Bad Dog, No Biscuit, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
Titles 3, Libraire L’écume des Jours/Galerie Articule, Montréal
Titles 4, Attic Books/forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2007 Oeuvres de la collection Prêt d’œuvres d’art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
2006 Fray, Textile Museum of Canada, Koffler Centre, Toronto, Ontario,
2005 Langage plastique, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2003 Between Line and Form, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario
2002 Officina America, Villa della Rosa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologne, Italie
Le corps et ses absences, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
2001 Rendez-Vous No 3, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Artwithheart, Benifit Auction for Casey House, Toronto, Ontario
Paysages, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
Artcité, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2000 Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
London Biennale 2000, Internet and various locatons, London, England
The Very Thing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia
1999 Redefining the Still Life: Selections from the Permanent Collection/La nature morte:ouevres tirèes de la collection permanente, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1998 Between Body and Soul, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, and Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Québec
El origen de las cosas, Sala de las Custodias, Santafé de Bogotà, Colombie
1997 Von Kopf bis Fuss, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria,
Die Burgenländische Landesgalerie, Eisenstadt, Austria
L’origine des choses, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
La collection Prêt d’ouvres d’art, acquisitions 1997, Musée du Québec, Québec
Brancusi-Une fictionde l’atelier, Axe NÉO-7, Hull, Québec
1996 L’écart, centre d’art contemporain La Ferne du Buisson, France
Ginette Légaré, Lucie Robert and Sarah Stevenson, Glendon Galery, York University, North York, Ontario
1995 A Notion of Conflict-A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Table Project, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
L’origine des choses, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
1994 Perspective (Sarah Stevenson and Carlo Cesta), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
L’origine des choses, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec and the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Séduction: Jana Sterbak, Sarah Stevenson et Javier Pérez, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
From the Permanent collection, a Selection of Recent Aquisitons/Choix d’aquisitions récentes de la collection permanente, Galerie d’art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Concordia University, Montréal. Québec
1993 Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 34 Räume, Berlin, Germany
1989 Beyond Surface, Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia
1987 Artropolis, Vancouver, British Columbia

Bibliography
Catalogues
Into the Fray, text by Carolyn Bell Farrell, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, 2007
Espaces suspendus/Suspended Spaces, Hundreds and Thousands /Des centaines et des milliers, text by Makiko Hara, Art Gallery of Bishop’s,University, Lennoxville, Québec, 2002
Officina America, text by Renato Barilli, Villa della Rosa. Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologne, Italy, 2002
Almost Invisible, text by Michael Tarantino, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, 2001
The Very Thing, text by Susan Gibson Garvey and Robin Metcalfe, Dalhousie Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2000
Between Body and Soul / Entre Corps et Âme, text by Karen Antaki and David Liss, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, 1999
Von Kopf bis Fuss, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal. Editions Stemmle, 1997
L’écart, text by Daniel Dobbels, Centre d’art contemporain de La Ferme du Buisson, Noisel, France, 1996
Ginette Légaré, Lucie Robert and Sarah Stevenson, Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, City of North York, 1996
A Notion of Conflict; A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, text by Dorine Mignot, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1995, ill.p. 35
Perspective 94, text by Christine Ritchie, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994
L’origine de choses, text by Pierre Landry, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1994, ill, pp. 39, 40, 41
Prospect 93, text by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein et Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, 1993, ill. pp. 235, 236, 237
Townsend, Martha: Sarah Stevenson (interview), Mercer Union, Toronto, 1990

Selected Periodicals
Mirny, Naomi, “Sarah Stevenson’s Before the Storm explores the turbulent intimacy of stillness”, The McGill Tribune, May 20, 2021
Dunlevy, T’Cha, “Three Montreal artists reframe line between art and life in new shows: Janet Werner, Sarah Stevenson and Françoise Sullivan reimagine the world around them as the city emerges from a lockdown haze“, The Montréal Gazette, May 28, 2021
De Pencier, Hannibal, “Sarah Stevenson, Fonderie Darling, Montréal”, esse.ca, Montréal, July 14, 2021
Delgado, Jérôme, “Sarah Stevenson poursuivra sa réflexion sur l’apesanteur,” Le Devoir, Montréal le 22 mars, 2008
Milroy, Sarah “The Best of Canadian Sculpture”, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Novermber 3, 2001 p. V7
Lammerich, Yvonne, “Why does Terror seem so intimate?”, Etc, No 54, eté, 2001 pp.48-52
Gopnik, Blake:”Remaking the World in our Image”, Globe and Mail, Toronto, February 9, 2000, p.R10
Workman, Sharon;”Sculpture’s The Thing”, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 16, 2000
Marikakis, Nicolas; ”Le corps réinventé”, Voir, Montréal, 19 au 25 novembre 1998, p.75
Liss, David; “Peculiar, perceptive, promising : Vitality in works by Stevenson, Goodwin, Ocampo and Fisher”, The Gazette. Montréal, Saturday, February 25, 1995, p. H6
Cummins, Louis; “La fin des complicités”, Parachute, No 77, janv., fév., mars 1995, pp.27-32
MacKay, Gillian; “Perspective 94: Carlo Cesta and Sarah Stevenson”, Canadian Art, Winter 1994, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 78
Cron, Marie-Michèle:”Les choses de la vie”, Le Devoir, Montréal, les samedi et dimanche 30 octobre 1994 p.D 11
Bradley, Jessica; Sarah Stevenson, Canadian Art, Vol. 10. no 4, Winter 1993 p. 69
Gillmor, Alison; “Art explores cruel constrictions”, Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, October 17, 1992, p. 36
Gravel, Claire;”Oboro: Sarah Stevenson”, Le Devoir, avril 1990

Collections
Claridge Collection
Collection de la Caisse de dépôt du Québec
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Crédit Lyonnais Canada, Montréal
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
La collection prêt d’ oeuvres d’art du Musée du Québec, Québec
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Various private collections

Awards
Prix Les Femmeuses Pratt & Whitney Canada and Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2008

Public Works
Vortex, Arena Pat Burns, Stanstead, Québec, 2011