Dominique Normand, artist from the Laurentians has been producing contemporary art since 2001, which celebrates Canada’s native culture.
Born in a family of artists in Lac Beauport, Quebec, Dominique Normand worked for seventeen year in postproduction as a graphic designer and animator. She created movie openings, ads, packaging for broadcast, and special FX.
From this period comes her interest in native culture and the desire to integrate it in her art. From 2001, she embraces life as a nomad, a painter. More and more she travels north of the 45th parallel and captures, in painting and in film, her unique vision of the people, the landscapes and traditional activities she is witnessing. Her talent as a communicator allows her to share her passion and vision in a powerful way. Her strong visceral bond with the Native Culture has led her to inquire and research through her roots on her father’s side. The region of Montmagny was a frequent passage for the Nomadic Malicet Natives of Eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. In 2012, she finds out she is Metis of Micmac, Algonquin and Maliseet descent.
Her paintings are fragments of her story and the worlds she visits in a passionate manner.
Travel after travel, her discoveries and experiences lead to her transformation as a painter of the Spirit of the North. In Northern Quebec, Dominique is immersed in Cree traditions, everyday activities such as tool making, medicinal plants, bush living, tanning, crafts, cooking, sewing. She celebrates the beauty of Canadian Wilderness.
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EXPOSITIONS ET ÉVÉNEMENTS
2013 -
Galerie 806
Mont Tremblant
June 2014
11 Nations
St-Marc sur Richelieu
October February 2013
Collective Show
Maison Ogilvy, Montreal
Dec. 2012
Earth Stories – Duo Expo with Holly Friesen , Mont Tremblant Village, Quebec
Dec. 2012
Earth Stories – Duo Expo with Holly Friesen , Mont Tremblant Village, Quebec
July 2012
Galerie Klus’kap
Moncton, NB
July 2012
Rendez Vous Ononthio, Montmagny
Special guest, solo show
March 2012
Broadway Gallery, New York – Collective Show Artists from Abroad
Mai 2011
Solo Exhibition – Manifestart Event, Ville de Saint Adolphe d’Howard
December 2011
Duo exhibition with Sculptor Luis Paniagua – Saint Adolphe d’Howard
2007-2008-2009-2010
Grand Lodge Barn – Summer collective show , Les Artistes de Mont Tremblant
August 2010
Equestra, Blainville equestrian Parc – Horse painters collective show, Blainville, QC
JUNE 2010-09-17
EARTH CALLING – PAINTINGS AND PRIMITIVE ART. St-Adolphe d’Howard, QC
Spring - summer 2009
Galerie Les Règles de L’Art, St-Sauveur des Monts, QC
May - september 2009
Galerie du Chapiteau – St-Sauveur, QC
April 2009
LandArt – Terre Laurentienne- Expo solo small formats, 3 months daily paintings,
Studio Quatre , Morin Heights
Studio Quatre , Morin Heights
Mars 2009
Exposition Collective EROS – Les Artistes de Mont Tremblant, Maison de la Culture St-Faustin
2007-2008-2009-2010
Grand Lodge Barn – Summer collective show, Les Artistes de Mont Tremblant
January 2008-present
Galerie Soutana & Jardin d’Hiver, Mont Tremblant – Permanet exhibition
May 2008
Expo Forum CEOSPACE- Westin Hotel EXPO, Los Angeles, CA
Aout 2007
Art Symposium du Domaine ST-Bernard – Mont Tremblant, QC
May 2008
Expo Forum CEOSPACE – Westin Hotel EXPO, Los Angeles, CA
November 2008
Galerie Richelieu – Montréal, QC – 32 large format horse paintings
August 2002-2007
Route des Arts du Grand Argenteuil – Circuit de visite d’ateliers d’artistes
July 2007
Expo Duo, Brush and Chisel – Studio Quatre, Morin Heights, QC
Décember 2006
Exposition solo, Christmas – Studio Quatre, atelier d’artistes
Morin Heights, QC
July 2005- November 2006 – Permanent Exhibition, Place de la Gare, Tremblant, QC
April 2004
Matierra Solo Exhibition – Maison du Village, Val David, Qc
Décember 2005- déc 2006
Entre Ciel et Terre – Expo trio, Studio Artbeat, Mont Tremblant, Qc
September 2002
Duo Show with Print Artist Fiona Durvie, Galerie 1040, Montreal
STUDIES
Collégial (DEC) Arts appliqués
Graphic design and photography
1978-1982
Collège de Ste-Foy, QC
LEARNING
May 2008
Ceospace Forum – study program of Entrepreneur business skill training.
October 2009
WEB design Dreamweaver – Hermes Maheu
Febuary 2008
Art and Mythology – Jeanne Corbeil, QC
Fall 2003 – 2007
Academic drawing – Jeanne Corbeil
March 2004
Creative painting With live model – Ateliers Jacques Clément
November 2000
Collography – Louise Bloom, Atelier de l’Île, Val David,QC
October 2000
Artistic career managment – Blanche Morin, Sylvie Rochette
REWARDS
ART SYMPOSIUM DU DOMAINE ST-BERNARD
Oeuvre Gagnante
PREMIER PRIX – CHOIX DU JURY
HYBRIDE TECHNOLOGIES
ITS international monitor awards
Opening animation Série TV “Biographies”, finalist for best computer generated design
STUDIO ANDRÉ PERRY
Amalgamated Industries, “Emu TV” – First prize generic and advertising- 2e international computer animation competition “Images du Futur”.
POSTPRODUCTIONS BUZZ
Super Écran, “Canal Famille” – Concept and signature
Silver BPME Awards 1989 Prize, San Francisco
Silver BPME Awards 1989 Prize, San Francisco
Press
2019
HOTA Arts Center, Brisbane, Australia
South Stradbroke Artist Camp Collective exhibition
Following Aboriginal Artist Camp in May
Canada Arts Council, Ajagemo Gallery
Canada C3 Collective exhibition
2018
Galerie Art et Style, Baie St Paul, Québec
Murwillumbah Art Trail, Murwillumbah, Australia
Rendez Vous Arts Métissés – Espace Culturel Ashukan, Montreal, QC
Boutique du Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal, QC
Expo collective artistes de la Galerie Art et Style
Bureau chef Montreal
2017
Galerie La Guilde
Montreal, Quebec
Symposium Art Contemporain Rivière Eternité, Saguenay, QC
Rendez Vous des Arts Métissés (2014-2018)
Espace Culturel Ashukan, Montreal, QC
2014
OCT
MACLEANS magazine
OCT
Magazinart
MAI
GéoPleinAir
AVR
Magazinart
AVR
Artsy Shark Webzine
AVR
Accès
JAN
Info du Nord Mont Tremblant
FEV
Accès
FEV
Flèche Mag
FEV
Tremblant Express
2013
AVR
Montreal Serai Magazine
JUL
NYArts Magazine
2011
JUN
MainStreet
JUL
Journal Accès Laurentides
AVR
Traces Magazine
AVR
MainStreet
MAY
Info du Nord Ste-Agathe
AVR
Accès Laurentides
AVR
Tremblant Express
2010
OCT
Point de Vue Laurentides
AUG
Info Blainville – Equestra
AUG
Info Blainville – Equestra
2009
NOV
Flèche Mag Laurentides
MAY
Traces Magazine
APR
The Vankleek Hill Review
AVR
Traces Magazine Print and Web
MAR
MainStreet Magazine
2008
SEP
Mindmanager User Newsletter
2007
DEC
Point de Vue Laurentides
NOV
La Presse
NOV
Art & Culture Laurentides Webzine
SEP
Journal des Pays d’en Haut
JAN
Laurentian Sun
2006
SEP
Info Mont-Tremblant
JUL
Tremblant Express
APR
MainStreet Magazine
SEP
MainStreet Magazine
MAY
Journal Point de Vue
AVR
Journal de Montréal
AVR
Journal LaVallée, Laurentides
MAY
Journal Information du Nord
MAY
Journal Accès Laurentides
AVR
Mainstreet Magazine, Laurentians
DEC
Journal Point de Vue
2002
AUG
Echo du Nord Magazine
MAY
The Gazette
2001
SEP
Journal Voir, Montréal
HIGHLIGHTS
DOMINIQUE NORMAND – Contemporary art that celebrates Canada’s Indigenous culture
Traveled over 60,000 km in the past 10 years by car, truck, camping, most of the time, solo.
Learn to hunt, trap, fish, canoe, live in the forest, make tools, tanning, embroidery and beading, preparing meat.
The painter has produced more than 500 paintings since 2001
- 95 of these works born from the North of the 45th and Terre Autochtone collection since 2008.
- 52 Paintings of horses
- 95 Portraits
- 20 Animal paintings
- 225 Landscapes
- 45 Landscapes of James Bay, Cree tradition and culture
- 67 Works in encaustic, camaïeux and engravings
- Over 250 charcoal sketches
- 5 Murals
- 5 short films and 2 documentaries
- Taught more than 55 artistic workshops since 2005
- Has participated in over 35 exhibitions since 2001