Biography

Catherine Bolduc is a Quebec-born visual artist who lives and works in Montreal. Her work has been presented in many exhibitions, both locally and abroad. In 2007-2008, she was at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and in 2010 at the Studio du Québec in Tokyo. Winner of the Powerhouse Award in 2013, she has also received numerous grants from the CAC and CALQ. In addition to having completed nearly a dozen public art projects, her works are included in major private and public collections.

Artistic Statement

In her artistic practice, Catherine Bolduc takes an interest in the way the psyche interprets the real by projecting its desires on it, and by transgressing it through idealization and fantasizing. The outside world is here viewed as a subjective mental construction in which memory, whether individual or collective, influences perception and where fiction and reality merge. Drawing both on the autobiographical and autofictional, Bolduc’s explorations share elements of the travel story or childhood recollections as well as of dreamscapes or hypnotic wanderings. Presented as large-scale installations or as interventions on paper, these works alternate between the domestic and the cosmic, the sublime and the apocalyptic, in which magic shows another reverse side. By way of her themes, the motifs and materials used (decorative, kitsch, cosmetic), and a self-assumed reclaiming of affect (emotion and the romanticism), Bolduc takes a feminist stance in her practice.

Special thanks to Chiguer art contemporain.