Emmanuelle Léonard (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer and

Video artist Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

Education

Léonard received an MFA degree in visual and media art from the

Université du Québec à Montréal The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system. UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...

in 2002.

Work

Léonard's creative practice explores the aesthetic dimensions of documentary styles as well as the ideas of institutional authority and power. She is particularly interested in legal photography and administrative archives, which she manipulates to question and explore the idea of proof.

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for ...

and the

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (, MACM) is a contemporary art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Place des festivals in the Quartier des spectacles and is part of the Place des Arts complex. Founded in 1964, it ...

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Living people 1971 births 20th-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Artists from Montreal {{Canada-artist-stub