Chantal duPont (1942–2019) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist based in
Montreal. She worked in multimedia, photography, painting, sculpture, graphics and writing. For much of her career, she was an associate professor at the
Université du Québec à Montréal. She is remembered in particular for her award-winning video art.
Biography
Chantal duPont studied at the
École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1964 to 1966.
She did her Master's degree at
Concordia University
Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
from 1967 to 1969.
Her creative work builds on aspects of identity and memory of the body. It has been presented at many video festivals at home and abroad, earning awards in Belgium, Colombia, France and Portugal.
She frequently attended Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art. In 2007, the year after she had received the Bell Canada Award, the Festival presented a retrospective of her video art contributions. In addition to her own creative work, she trained and assisted many generations of artists. She is remembered in particular for her video ''Du front tout le tour de la tête'' which in 2001 won awards in
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
,
Clermont-Ferrand and
Quebec.
[
Side by side with ]Martine Époque
Martine Époque (April 30, 1942 – January 18, 2018) was a French-born Canadian dance educator and choreographer living in Quebec.
She was born in Six-Fours-les-Plages and studied music and dance at the , the Schola Cantorum de Paris and the in ...
and Andrée Beaulieu-Green she was one of the outstanding women who contributed to digital art in the Province of Quebec. In connection with her Bell Canada Award, the assessment committee noted her "stunningly beautiful works", adding "With grace and elegance, she interweaves technical precision with performance to create potent meditations on identity and memory."[
Chantal duPont died on 25 February 2019 in Montreal.
]
Awards
*2005: Bell Canada Award in Video Art
Collections
* Cinémathèque Québécoise
* Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts (french: Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke) is an art museum in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 241 Dufferin Street in downtown Sherbrooke.
The museum receives funding from the City of Sherbrooke, ...
* Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
References
External links
Chantal duPont website
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20th-century Canadian women artists
21st-century Canadian women artists
Canadian video artists
Women video artists
1942 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Canadian artists
21st-century Canadian artists
Artists from Montreal