Lot 323
FRANCE TRUDEL (1953 - )
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Purchased directly from the artist
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FRANCE TRUDEL (1953 - )
“I seek to combine various forms of artistic expression so as to transmute and refashion my life's experiences. I believe that my search is guiding me towards ways of conveying, more deeply and faithfully, what cannot be expressed with mere colours and shapes.”
- France Trudel -
France Trudel was born in 1953 in St- Hubert, Quebec, and at the age of 19, joined the theatre group, la Veillée, that travelled across Quebec, Vermont and Europe. A self-taught artist, she has worked in various media, including painting, drawing, printing, and book binding, selling her work at the Salon des Métiers d’arts du Québec. She eventually studied lithography at the Atelier Graff in Montreal in 1981, and moved to Toronto in 1982, where she attended the Ontario College of Art. Trudel graduated in 1986, winning the prestigious W.O. Forsythe scholarship. She was selected to participate at the Symposium de Baie St-Paul, and returned to live in Montreal.
Trudel has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada, Mexico and France, including the Salon de Laperriere in Normandy and Salon Bechu in Paris. Her work is found in several corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States and France. Trudel lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections
Alliance Mutuelle, QC
Centre d’Art de Baie-St-Paul,QC
Claridge Collection, Montréal, QC
Collection C. Hastings Collection, New York, NY
Collection Gestion Symmaf Ltée, Montréal
l’Ordre du Mérite de la Municipalité de St-Bruno-de-Montrable, Quebec
Loto-Québec, Montréal
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Rental, QC
Musée des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Newland Collection, New York, NY
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2009 Loto-Québec Collection, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,, Québec
2006 Salon Béchu, Paris, France (solo)
Marché d’art Laperrière, Norrmandy, France
2005-06 Galerie Berensen, Montréal,
Thomas Moore Institute, Montréal, QC
Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, QC
2004-05 Galerie Art-Mûr, Montréal, QC
Galerie Marie Asselin, Kamouraska, QC
2003 Museo de las Artes de Guadalajara,, Guadalajara, Mexico
Maison de la culture Eulalie-Durocher, St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, QC
Galerie les Modernes, Montréal, QC (solo)
Musée Marius-Barbeau, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, QC
Galerie Clarence Gagnon, Montréal, QC
Galerie Philippe, Rosemère, QC
2002 Galerie d’art Les Modernes, Montréal
2000-01 Galerie Philippe, Rosemère, QC
Galerie Clarence Gagnon, Montreal, QC
Summer Exhibition, Galerie Clarence Gagnon, Baie-St-Paul, QC
1999 Galerie Arcadia, Toronto, ON (solo)
1996-98 Galerie Arcadia, Toronto, ON
O’Side, Montréal, QC (solo)
Galerie Michel Bigué, St- Sauveur, QC
Imagine Art, Montréal, QC
1995 Rétrospective, Restaurant Commensal, Montréal, QC
1991-94 Galerie Westmount, Westmount, QC (solo)
Galerie L’Actuelle, Lévis, QC
Galerie d’Art de la Baie, Baie-St-Paul, QC
Galerie d’Art de la Gare, Saint-Lambert, QC
1989-90 Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Toronto, ON (solo)
Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Montréal, QC (solo)
1988 Vieux-Presbytère de St-Bruno, St-Bruno-de Montarville
1987 Galerie Alliance, Montréal, QC (solo)
1986 Symposium de la Jeune peinture au Canada, Baie-St-Paul
Open House, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON
1984-85 Gallery 76, Toronto, ON
Selected Awards and Grants
2003 Prix du Musée Marius-Barbeau, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, QC
2001 Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, 3rd Place
1988 St-Bruno-de-Montrable, Order of Merit for Painting
1986 W.O.Forsyth scholarship for painting, Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1985 David L. Stevenson & Son Award for drawing and painting, Ontario College of Art, Toronto