Born in Quebec City, Alloucherie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Université Laval in 1971 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1981 from Concordia University. She has taught visual arts and art history at the Université Laval, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.
Jocelyne Alloucherie offered some reflections on the development of her work in the exhibit guide to Climats (Climates) held at the Carleton University Art Gallery in 2010: "I develop rich bodies of work, grouped together under the same title and whose relations change according to the time and place of their exhibition. Like pieces of music, they undergo variation according to the way they are interpreted, which is a function of the space in which they are shown. The conceptual thread of a work is constant, but the way it is exhibited is not absolutely fixed"
Exhibitions
Her work has been seen in large international exhibitions over the years:
Anninovanta (Bologna, 1991)
Differentes natures (Paris, 1993)
Libera mente Palazzo del Capitano (Cesena, Italy 1998)
La Disparition third Biennale de Liege (2002)
Camere con vista Centre II Filatoio (Caraglio, Italy, 2002)
Species d'espays, at Tinglado 2 (Tarragona, 2003).
Il Velo (Turin, 2007)
Tout ce qui bouge ne se voit pas Transphotographiques (Lille, 2008)
Chambres d'Echo Musee Reattu (Arles, 2009)
L'arbre et le photograph the gallery of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012)
Alloucherie has had several solo exhibitions over the years:
Her first solo exhibition was held at the Musee du Quebec (1973)
Inside Out at L'Oratorio San Ludovico (Venice, 2005)
Occidents at the Grand Palais (Paris, 2008)
Sirens at 511 Gallery (New York, 2009)
Lames, Sirene, Poussieres at Palazzo Brandolin Rota (Venice, 2009)
Climates at the Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2010)
Una realta flutuente at VillaGiulia (Verbania, Italy, 2011)
Boreales at the MuMa (Musee Andre Malraux) (Le Havre, France, 2012)
Honours
In 1989, she was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts.
In 1997, she was awarded Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) award.
In 1999, she was awarded the Louis-Philippe Hebert Award of the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
In 2000, she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition for being a "seminal artist of her generation".
In 2002, she was awarded the Quebec government's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.
In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to the visual arts as an internationally renowned sculptor".
Her sculpture Porte de jour is the centrepiece of the remodeled Dalhousie Square in Old Montreal, designed by Robert Desjardins, which was honoured by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects in 2006.
