Annie Baillargeon

Annie Baillargeon (born 1978) is a Canadian artist known for photomontage and performance art. A mix of "performance and relational aesthetics with new media art techniques", her work is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Her images have also been exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, and at the Liverpool Biennial. A co-founder of the art action collectives, Les Fermières Obsédées (2001-2015) and Les B.L.U.S.H. (2015-),

Baillargeon's photomontages are characterized by staged, sole or patterned self-portraits. As actor, set designer, and choreographer, her "kaleidoscopic" images and photographic narratives cross into performance art. Described as allegory, her work reflects feminist issues of physical violence, exploitation, and seduction,

Career highlights Annie Baillargeon was born in 1978 in Victoriaville, Quebec. Interested in dance, cinema and the visual arts, in 2001 she co-founded the art-performance collective, Les Fermières Obsédées, and her first solo photographic exhibition was held at La Bande Vidéo (Québec QC). and at the 2006, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto ON). and at Galerie d'art Outremont (Montreal QC). and the following year she participated in the exhibition In a Post-World: Post-Punk Art Now at The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn NY). In 2016-17 she created an art installation with young immigrants from the Centre communautaire Jasmine Turcotte-Vaillancourt. Interviewed in Le Devoir, Baillargeon commented: "The goal is to have fun, to remove their daily concerns and immerse them in creation." She also performed with her new collective B.L.U.S.H. at the 2016 Biennale d'art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda, while solo expositions of her work were held during the Quebec City Biennial at Bibliothèque Aliette-Marchand and at Galerie D'Este in Montreal. Baillargeon lives and works in Quebec City. In 2015 she was awarded the Salt Spring National Art Prize Juror's Choice Award, and was listed for the Sobey's Art Prize in 2017.