Dominique Rey BIOGRAPHY

 

Dominique Rey is a French-Canadian visual artist working in photography, film, and sculpture. Performance and the body are central to her practice, and she utilizes modes of fragmentation to explore the self within contemporary experiences of disorientation and dislocation. Her ongoing project MOTHERGROUND attempts to unravel the myriad transformations of early motherhood, the relentless balance and imbalance at stake, and the oscillation between extreme emotional states, from agony to ecstasy.

Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, including at the Tabacka Art Center, Galleri Box, ArtCenter/South Florida, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Remai Modern, Plug In ICA, VU, MacLaren Art Centre, Gallery TPW, Galerie de l’UQAM, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Centre Clark, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Museum London. Rey is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and La Fondation Baxter & Alma Ricard. In 2011, she was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, and in 2016 she received the Canada Council for the Arts International Artist Residency at La Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Remai Modern, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Scotiabank, and the Province of Manitoba.

She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany. Dominique Rey is a professor at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, located on Treaty 1 Territory and the Homeland of the Red River Métis.