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Lyne Lapointe (b.1957 Montreal, QC, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist whose influence has been felt in artistic, feminist, and queer circles, as well as in the field of installation art and pictorial practices involving collage techniques with extraordinary craftsmanship. Driven by what she terms “an archaeology of memory,” her artistic practice involves what has always fascinated her: female desire, popular and historical sources, nature, animal and human imagery, and, by extension, the precarious nature of the visible and invisible, at the limits of the material and the perceptible.

For over forty years, the artist has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Europe. She has distinguished herself in prestigious settings such as the São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum in New York, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, which organized a major survey exhibition that toured across Canada and abroad, to La Rochelle in France. Other prominent institutions have acquired her work throughout her career, including the Brown University Art Museum in Providence, the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

A documentary feature film, entitled Lyne Lapointe: The Spirit of Matter, premiered at the 2024 International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA) in Montreal and Québec City, and later screened in New York at the 2025 NYC Independent Film Festival.

Selected Works

This image depicts an artwork by Lyne Lapointe titled "Lady Gaga." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 41" x 24" x 5" [HxWxD] (104.14 x 60.96 x 12.7 cm). Its medium is Ink on paper, linen, mica, shell fish and frame by the artist.
Lyne Lapointe
“Lady Gaga,” 2025
This image depicts an artwork by Lyne Lapointe titled "The Gardener." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 61 ¹⁄₂" x 84" x 2 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (156.21 x 213.36 x 6.35 cm). Its medium is Ink on papier d’Arménie, linen, antique tapestry, embroidery thread, wooden branch and little lead weight.
Lyne Lapointe
“The Gardener,” 2025

Exhibitions

1957
Born in Montreal, Québec, Canada
Lives and works in Mansonville, Québec
1978
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Spotlight: Lyne Lapointe," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Lyne Lapointe: Becoming Animal," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2022
"Lyne Lapointe: La femme enceinte," Curated by Sylvie Lacerte, Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC, Canada
2021
"Lyne Lapointe: De la soie aux poils de porc-épic / From Silk to Porcupine Quills," Curated by Lesley Johnstone and Stéphane La Rue, Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017
"Lyne Lapointe and La Fontaine’s Fables by Marc Chagall," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2015
"Lyne Lapointe," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Lyne Lapointe: Perches/Perchoirs," The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, NL, Canada
2012
"Lyne Lapointe: Oeuvres Choisies," Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Lyne Lapointe: Selected Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2011
"Lyne Lapointe: Cabinet," Musée D’Art De Joliette, Joliette, QC, Canada
2008
"Lyne Lapointe: La Clef," SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal, QC, Canada
2007
"Lyne Lapointe: La Perle," Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2004
"Lyne Lapointe: The Blind Spot," Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada; Travelled to: Musée du Nouveau-Monde, La Rochelle, France (2004); Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke Québec, QC, Canada (2005); Maison Hamel-Bruneau, QC, Canada (2005); Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada (2006)
2003
"Lyne Lapointe:The Blind Spot," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002
"Lyne Lapointe: La Tache aveugle," Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997
"Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1996
"Martha Flemming & Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1995
"Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe: Work 1984-1994," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1994
"Lyne Lapointe," Museu de zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993
"Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1989
"Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Curated by Bill Olander, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1988
"Lyne Lapointe/ Martha Fleming," Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montréal, QC, Canada
"New Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1981
"Lyne Lapointe," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Echoes of Circumstance," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
"Soft Focus," Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, QC, Canada
2022
"Stressed World," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Over the Rainbow: A Selection of Works by LGBTQ2S+ Artists," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021
"Anti/Body," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2020
"Les feuilles - Qu’on foule - Un train - Qui roule - La vie -·S’écoule (Guillaume Apollinaire)," Curated by Pierre Bourgie, Catalogue Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019-2020
"Peindre la nature avec un miroir," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019
"Dunkle Energie. Feministisch organisieren, kollektiv arbeiten = Dark Energy. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively," Curated by Veronique Boilard, Andrea Haas, Nina Hochtl and Julia Wieger, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien /Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2018
"Travelogue," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Terræ Incognitæ," Galerie Catalogue, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"En avant la Musique!," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017
"The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
"Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present," Curated by Jos.e Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Christine Lalonde, Rhiannon Vogl and Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
"Rien de moins," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"The Hold: Studies in the Contemporary Collection," Curated by Sunny Kerr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's, University, Kingston, ON, Canada
2016
"Mutations," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
"De Ferron à BGL: art contemporain du Québec," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2015
"Chemin faisant," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2014
"The Beauty of Gesture," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2013
"Collection Luciano Benetton," Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
2010
"Femmes artistes. L’éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2009
"Above and Below," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
2008
"À la croisée de l’art et de la médecine," Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Universit de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada (Travelled to: Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)
2007
"Coup d’éclat: Acquisitions 2006-2007," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
"Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
2006
"Illumination Escapade," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
2005-2006
"Dessins de la Collection," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2005
"Science," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
"Animal Nature," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
"La Sculpture et le vent: Femmes sculpteures au Québec," Centre d’exposition CIRCA, Montréal, QC, Canada
2000
"Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000," Galerie d'art Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
1999
"Les Bouches ouvertes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Québec, QC, Canada
1997
"Exquisite Corpses," Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Telling Stories: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
"En cause: Brancusi, une fiction de l'atelier," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
"Présences: l’art contemporain au féminin," Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada
1996
"La Collection: OEuvres-phares," Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1995-1996
"Seeing in Tounges: A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Québec," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995
"Pervert," The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1994
"Dreaming of You," Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Well-Spring," Bath Festival Trust, Bath, England, UK
"La Collection Lavalin du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Biennale de São Paulo," São Paulo, Brazil
"De causis et tractatibus," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
1993
"Objets choisis," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1992
"Queues, Rendezvous, Riots: Questioning the Public in Art and Architecture," Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, Canada
"La Collection: Tableau inaugural," Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Pour la suite du Monde," Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
"Edge 92 Bienniale," London, UK and Madrid, Spain
1991
"Outrageous Desire: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representation in Recent Works by Lesbian and Gay Artists," Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
1990-1992
"Team Spirit. — An Independent Curators Incorporated," Curated by Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli Sundell, New York, NY (Travelled to: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (1991); Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (1991); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1991); The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (1991); Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC (1992); Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA (1992); Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (1992))
1990
"Queer," Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY
"The Collector's Cabinet," Curated by Carol Anne Klonarides, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1989
"Une histoire de collections: dons 1984-1989," Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1988
"Installations: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
1984
"Face à face: Auto-portraits," Powerhouse, Montréal, QC, Canada
1983
"Künstler aus Kanada: Räume und Installationnen," Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1982
"Photographs by Artists," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada
1981
"Betty Goodwin, Jene Highsteen, Lyne Lapointe, Marcel Lemyre, Keith Sonnier," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2012
Québec studio in New York, Council of Arts and Letters of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada
1998
Prix Graff, Duo Lapointe/Fleming, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997
Prix Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Public Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Brown University Art Museum, Providence, RI
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, QC
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON