Raymonde April

Raymonde April (born 23 June 1953) is a Canadian contemporary artist, photographer and academic. April lives in Montreal where she teaches photography at Concordia University. Her work has been shown regularly in museums and galleries in Canada and Europe. Her photographs have also been featured in various publications and awarded the Prix du Québec.

Life and work

April was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and raised in Rivière-du-Loup in Eastern Quebec. She studied at several universities, specifically for art. She attended the art college in Rivière-du-Loup and the École des arts visuels of the Université Laval, in Québec. She has been a photographer since the 1970s. She attended and taught photography at Condordia University since 1985. She also helped open La Chambre Blanche, a facility for artists in Québec. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and in many other collections. She showed again at the Mois de la Photo à Montréal in 2011, this time her self-portraits. In 2022, Traversée (151 photographs by April), was shown at 1700 La Poste art center, Montreal.

Awards 2003: Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas award. 2005: Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography from the Ontario Arts Foundation. 2010: Officer of the Order of Canada for having "made a significant contribution to the evolution of photography in Canada".