Jocelyne Alloucherie

Jocelyne Alloucherie (born February 8, 1947) is a Canadian installation artist who explores the relationships between sculpture, architecture and photography through her work.

Career Born in Mont-Apica, Quebec, she spent many of her early years in Chicoutimi and moved to Quebec City before 1961. She studied for short periods at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quebec between 1961 and 1965. She studied visual arts at Laval University from 1970 to 1973, graduating with her B.F.A. She has spent over thirty years practicing and teaching visual arts and art history at the Laval University, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Concordia University, and the University of Ottawa.

Solo exhibitions Her first solo exhibition was held at the Musee du Quebec (1973) (New York, 2009) Lames, Sirene, Poussieres at Palazzo Brandolin Rota (Venice, 2009) Climates at the Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2010) Una realta flutuente at VillaGiulia (Verbania, Italy, 2011) Boreales at the MuMa (Musee Andre Malraux) (Le Havre, France, 2012) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) award (1997) Prize of the Association of Canadian publications Artist Project in Canadian Art (2004) Prix Jean-Paul Riopelle, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2006) Her sculpture Porte de jour is the centrepiece of the remodeled Dalhousie Square in Old Montreal, designed by Robert Desjardins, which was honoured by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (2006)