Sophie Jodoin (born, 1965) is a Montreal-based visual artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. In Jodoin's drawing, there is no objective figure and that gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception of her work that contains some didactic intent is "Yesterday and Tomorrow", which is consist of a series of drawings. Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walked through a corridor.
Jodoin is known chiefly for her figurative, drawing-based practice in traditional media as well as college, video, and altered found objects. She has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009, sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.
Solo exhibitions
VOLTA NY, New York, NY 2012
close your eyes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British-Columbia 2012
Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 2012
Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence, Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Landry 2011
I felt a cleaving in my mind, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Susannah Wesley 2011
You have to kill a whole to get a little, Oboro, Montréal, Québec 2011
Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Invited Artist, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario 2010
The Cherished Ones, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2010
De peine et de misère, Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 2010
Nous sommes en manque, National Center for the Arts - French Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario. Invited by director Wajdi Mouawad 2009
Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec. Curated by Danielle Lord 2009
Hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Connexion Gallery, organised by UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 2008
Regiment, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec; travelled to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C. (2007)
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (2007)
Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part II), Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2005
Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part I), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005
Drawing Shadows; portraits of my mother, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2004
Figures Undressing, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003
Recent Works, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2000
Architectures, Centre d’exposition des Gouverneurs, Sorel, Québec 1997
Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, Québec 1996
Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994
Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 1992
Group exhibitions
Intimate Theatre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario. Developed by Art History graduate student Kristina Thornton 2012
Calgary Collects, Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta. Curated by Jeffrey Spalding 2012
Victoria Collects, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia. Curated by Mary Jo Hughes 2012
Front by Front, Museum London, London, Ontario. Curated by Cassandra Getty 2011
La coexistence des traits. 40 ans de dialogue entre les éditions du Noroît et les artistes visuels, Maison de la culture Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Gilles Daigneault, Marc-André Brouillette 2011
body / no body, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris 2011
Sagamie : l’imprimé numérique en art numérique, Galerie d’art de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec. Curated by Nicholas Pitre 2011
Black, Atelier Punkt, Montréal, Québec 2011
Go Figure, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York 2010
Les objets secrets de l’atelier, Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Robert Dufour 2010
Le Tarot de Montréal, Maison de la Culture Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Bouthillier (limited edition 23-card tarot deck) 2010
The Figure Five Ways, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2010
White Object, Atelier Punkt, Montréal, Québec 2010
Somewhere along the line, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax. Curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Katie Belcher 2009
Storm of painters, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2009
Terminal’s First Annual Short Video Festival, screening of Headgames, The Department of Art and The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee 2009
Embodied Forms (John Fox, Sophie Jodoin, Louise Masson), Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Québec 2009
