Geneviève Cadieux

Geneviève Cadieux (; born 17 July 1955) is a Canadian artist known for her large-scale photographic and media works in urban settings. She lives in Montreal.

Education Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1955. She received her BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa.

Teaching Concordia University, 1991 – present; Guest professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1994; École nationale des beaux-arts in Grenoble, 1996

Works Geneviève Cadieux is a photographer who frequently works with audio-visual materials in her large-scale public installations in urban settings. Cadieux's work confronts identity, gender, and the body.

Cadieux's early career was mainly in film photography. Her 1989 work, Hear Me With Your Eyes, was featured at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and consisted of large-scale photographic prints of a woman displaying sexually evocative facial expressions.

Over time, Cadieux's work has shifted to integrating video and audio content, such as her Broken Memory. The piece employed glass sculpture representative of the human body and a recorded reading of a 17th-century poem by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz.

A notable video work by Cadieux was included as the inaugural piece of the 2002 The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, an undertaking by Creative Time and Panasonic wherein the 59th minute of each hour of the day saw an artistic image in place of regular programming. Cadieux's Portrait celebrated the regeneration and renewal of spring, featuring footage of a solitary tree, a lonely survivor of the 1998 ice storm in Montreal.

One of Cadieux's most prominent works is her 1992 piece La Voie lactée, a photograph of a woman's red lips displayed on the rooftop of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. It has since become an icon of Montréal. In 2011, a sister piece, La Voix lactée, was commissioned by the Société de transport de Montréal as a gift for the Paris Metro, in exchange for the Hector Guimard Parisian metro entrance at Square-Victoria-OACI station.

In 2019, her work FLOW/FLOTS was unveiled at Rideau station of the O-Train, Ottawa.

Exhibitions

Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France Museum Van Hadendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium The Montreal Biennial, Canada, 1985, 1986, 2000 Tate Gallery, London, 1995 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 1996 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 2011 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 2018 Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas