Lyne Lapointe

Lyne Lapointe (born 1957) is a French-Canadian artist. Her work ranges from site-specific installations (1981–1995), found-objects, drawings, and paintings, with focuses on art history, museology, botany, and feminism. She has exhibited extensively in Montreal, Quebec, and New York City, New York, and across Canada. She now lives and works in Mansonville, Quebec.

Career

Collaboration with Martha Fleming (1981-1995) Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Lapointe lived and worked in Montreal with collaborative partner Martha Fleming. The two were together from 1981 to 1995.

Lapointe and Fleming's collaborations were rooted in the politics of radical feminism, marginalization, and museum practices. Their works combined site-specific histories, art historical references, female sexuality and desire, and botany, in order to critically analyze social politics. The two ended their relationship in 1995.

Studiolo In 1997, The Musee d’Art Contemporain exhibited a retrospective for Lapointe and Fleming titled, "Studiolo". The exhibit marked their 15-year collaboration, showcasing their polemic research and creative processes. Complementary to the retrospective was a publication, also Studiolo, which represented the political and philosophical frameworks from which they worked. La Salpetrière, (re-exhibited at Susan Hobbs Gallery 1995) HANGING, from the Musèe de Science, and antique book covers displayed at the Book Museum in Bath, England, displayed at Susan Hobbs Gallery (1995) Déjà Voodoo, Montreal, Québec, 1996

1995-

La Perle, Carlton University In 2007, Carlton University Art Gallery held a solo exhibition for Lapointe titled, La Perle. The exhibit engaged Lapointe's interest of sound, optics, and museum history, with 23 individual works of painting, drawings, and found-objects. The installation of works, drawn from images of botany, medical, art-historical sources and encyclopedias, were intended to challenge practices of museology and display methods. Cabinet, Musée d'art de Joliette, Quebec (2011); Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Quebec (2010)

In 2021, she was one of the participants in John Greyson's experimental short documentary film International Dawn Chorus Day.

Recognition

Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec (1983) Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York (1997) Prix Graff (1998) Canada Council for the Arts (2008).

Her work is collected in Canadian art institutes. She is represented by Roger Bellemare/Christian Lambert Gallery in Montreal, and has artworks at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.