Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin
Born1965
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationConcordia University
Known forDrawing
WebsiteSophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin (born 1965) is a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal. Jodoin is known chiefly for her figurative, drawing-based practice in traditional media as well as collage, video, and altered found objects.[1]

Education

Jodoin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.[2]

Work

Jodoin has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009,[3] sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.[4] In Jodoin's drawing, the lack of objective figures gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception that contains didactic intent is Yesterday and Tomorrow, which consists of a series of drawings.[5] Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walking through a corridor.

John A. Parks described Jodoin's work as having "a rich and sensual language of mark and gesture to build images suggestive of horror and violence in a fashion that is curiously affecting."[6] In 2015, Jodoin described her works as linked to "the monstous," and that it had shifted from "themes of pain, violence, mortality or innocence despoiled" to "a sense of disquiet."[7]

In 2017, Jodoin was awarded the Prix Louis-Comtois by the Association des galeries d'art contemporain.[2][8][9]

Solo exhibitions

  • d’un seul souff, Artexte, Montréal, Québec 2023[10][11]
  • Room(s) to move: je, tu, elle, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Québec 2018[9][12]
  • une certaine instabilité émotionnelle, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2015[12][13][14]
  • Volta NY Fair, New York, NY 2012[15]
  • close your eyes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia 2012[1][16][17][18]
  • Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 2012[19]
  • Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence, Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Landry 2011[20]
  • I felt a cleaving in my mind, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Susannah Wesley 2011[21]
  • You have to kill a whole to get a little, Oboro, Montréal, Québec 2011[3][22]
  • Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Invited Artist, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario 2010[23][24]
  • The Cherished Ones, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2010[25]
  • De peine et de misère, Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 2010[3]
  • Nous sommes en manque, National Center for the Arts - French Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario. Invited by director Wajdi Mouawad 2009[26]
  • Sophie Jodoin: Head-Games: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2009[27][28][29]
  • Vigils, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2009[30]
  • Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec. Curated by Danielle Lord 2009[31]
  • Sophie Jodoin: Head-Games: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Connexion Gallery, organised by UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 2008[32][33][34]
  • Regiment, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec; travelled to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C. 2007[28][35][36][37]
  • Regiment, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2007
  • Diary of K.: a journal of drawings (part II), Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2005[38][39]
  • Diary of K.: a journal of drawings (part I), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005[28][38][40]
  • Drawing Shadows; portraits of my mother, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2004[28][41][42]
  • Figures Undressing, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003
  • Sophie Jodoin, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2000[5][43]
  • Architectures, Centre d’exposition des Gouverneurs, Sorel, Québec 1997
  • Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, Québec 1996
  • Portraits, Observatoire 4, Montréal, Québec 1995[44]
  • Portraits, Galerie d'Art d'Outremont 1995[45]
  • Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994
  • Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 1992

References

  1. ^ a b Laurence, Robin (3 July 2012). "Sophie Jodoin's drawings are charged with the spectres of trauma". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b Gruwel, Marieke (23 November 2017). "Two winners, five Concordia finalists for Prix Pierre-Ayot and Prix Louis-Comtois". Concordia University. Archived from the original on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Campbell, James D. (Spring 2011). "Sophie Jodoin". Magenta Magazine. Vol. 2, no. 2. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014.
  4. ^ Kosilova, Darya (21 March 2012). "Sophie Jodoin". The Lab Magazine. No. 5. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b De Facendis, Dario (2000). Sophie Jodoin (Exhibition catalogs) (in French and English). Translated by Jill Corner. Westmount, Québec: Galerie de Bellefeuille. ISBN 2922173127. OCLC 46616035.
  6. ^ Parks, John A. (Spring 2009). "Depicting Troubling Events Artistically". American Artist: Drawing. 6 (20): 28–37. ISSN 1941-8140 – via Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson).
  7. ^ Jodoin, Sophie (March–May 2015). "The Disquieting Strangeness of Being Human". Border Crossings. 34 (1): 83–87. ProQuest 1667167740.
  8. ^ "2017 Awards for excellence in visual arts - Celia Perrin Sidarous receives the Prix Pierre-Ayot and Sophie Jodoin, the Prix Louis-Comtois". Canada Newswire. 7 December 2017. Archived from the original on 19 September 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  9. ^ a b Dubois, Anne-Marie (Fall 2018). "Je est une autre Room(s) to move : je, tu, elle de Sophie Jodoin" [I is another Room(s) to move: I, you, she by Sophie Jodoin]. Esse (in French). 94: 80–83. ISSN 0831-859X. ProQuest 2413214387. Archived from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  10. ^ Lamarche, Bernard (Winter 2024). "Sophie Jodoin: d'un seul souffle" [Sophie Jodoin: in one breath]. Esse (in French). 110: 90–91. ISSN 0831-859X. ProQuest 2921221187. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  11. ^ Boutin, Sarah (24 October 2023). "Jeudi vendredi il pleut : dialogues à partir de l'exposition d'un seul souffle de Sophie Jodoin" [Thursday, Friday, It's Raining: Dialogues from Sophie Jodoin's Exhibition of a Single Breath]. Vie des Arts (in French). No. 272. ISSN 1923-3183. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  12. ^ a b Clément, Éric (20 July 2018). "Sophie Jodoin: raffinement et profondeur" [Sophie Jodoin: refinement and depth]. La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
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  16. ^ "Artist draws human condition in black & white". The Review. Richmond, B.C. 21 June 2012. p. 1. ISSN 1490-5027. ProQuest 1021740866.
  17. ^ Piper, Julia (28 June 2012). "The E-list". The Province. pp. C6. ProQuest 1022740105.
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  20. ^ Landry, Marie-Claude (2011). "Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence". Musée d'art de joliette. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  21. ^ "Formal Intimacies". Border Crossings. 32 (4): 18. December 2013 – February 2014. ProQuest 1548424982. Archived from the original on 2 March 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
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  26. ^ "Wajdi Mouawad reçoit Sophie Jodoin et Diana Thorneycroft". National Arts Centre (Podcast description and link to podcast). 21 September 2010. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
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  29. ^ Campbell, James D (September 2010). "jake moore". Border Crossings. 29 (3) (published September–November 2010): 148. Archived from the original on 5 May 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025. ...Sophie Jodoin' s inaugural exhibition at Battat Contemporary in Montreal last year, where her exotic headgear locked me claustrophobically inside with darkness all about.
  30. ^ "Sophie Jodoin - "Vigils" - 2009". Newzones Gallery. 27 March 2020. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
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