Luanne Martineau

Martineau was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She earned a fine art diploma from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 1993, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of British Columbia in 1995. She was previously an associate curator at the Art Gallery of Calgary, and later a professor of theory and curatorial studies at the University of Victoria.[1] She is now based in Montreal, where she is an associate professor of painting and drawing at Concordia University.[2]

Martineau has been exhibiting across Canada and internationally since the mid-1990s. Her work blurs the boundaries between craft and fine art, combining labour-intensive female handwork with questions about the politics of the body, style and ideology. Her "drulptures" are three-dimensional felt assemblages that are not literal interpretations of the human form, but which have bodily shapes and grotesque fleshy resemblances.[3][4] In 2010–2012, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal organized a touring exhibition of Martineau's work.[5] This exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue that included essays by Lesley Johnstone, Dan Adler, and Shirley Madill.[6]

In 2007, Martineau with the winner of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation's VIVA Award for the Visual Arts.[7] In 2005 she was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award, and in 2009 she was shortlisted.[8]

Martineau's work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax,[9] the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,[10] the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,[11] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts,[12] amongst others.

• Displacement, Vancouver Art Gallery (2019)[13]
• Women's Work: Anne Low, Luanne Martineau, Olga Abeleva, L’INCONNUE, Montreal (2019)[14]
• COMPRESSION: Elama Herzog + Luanne Martineau, Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2018)[15]
• Fait Main / Hand Made, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City (2018)[16]
• Beyond the Edges: Art & Geometry, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2017–18)[17]
• The Green of Her, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (2016)[18]
• All Membranes are Porous, Kamloops Art Gallery (2016)[19]
• Luanne Martineau (solo), Art Gallery of Windsor (2012)[20]
• Luanne Martineau (solo), Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University, St. Catherine's Ontario (2011)[21]
• Luanne Martineau (solo), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Québec (2010)[22]
• How Soon is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery (2009)[23]
• Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2006–07)[24]
• Bed Sitter (solo), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2004)[25]