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Valérie Blass (born 1967) is a Canadian artist working primarily in sculpture. She lives and works in her hometown of Montreal, Quebec, and is represented by Catriona Jeffries, in Vancouver. She received both her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, specializing in visual and media arts, from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She employs a variety of sculptural techniques, including casting, carving, moulding, and bricolage to create strange and playful arrangements of both found and constructed objects.
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- Ghada amer val rie blass wangechi mutu mus e d art contemporain de montr al
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- Solo exhibitions
- Group exhibitions
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In a 2011 article in the Canadian magazine The Walrus, her practice of sculptural assemblage was compared to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Louise Bourgeois. Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Royal Bank of Canada, and several other private collections.
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Solo exhibitions
In 2012, Blass' work was presented in a major solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal alongside accompanying solo exhibitions featuring works by Ghada Amer and Wangechi Mutu. Other notable solo exhibitions of her work include displays at Parisian Laundry in Montreal in 2008 and 2011 and at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto in 2009.
Group exhibitions
Blass' work has been presented in several notable group exhibitions, including the inaugural Québec Triennial at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2008, Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada at The Power Plant in Toronto in 2009, Oh, Canada, a major survey of contemporary Canadian Art at MASS MoCA in 2012. and It is What it Is, an exhibition featuring recent acquisitions of contemporary Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada in 2010/2011.
In 2015, Blass presented new sculptural work featuring sculptural busts, distorted mirrors, and casts of human limbs in an exhibition titled My Life at Artspeak, Vancouver before travelling to the commercial gallery Daniel Faria, Toronto.
