Biography

Josée Pedneault is a visual artist living between Montreal and Chicago. Her work has been shown in international venues, such as Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2018), CONTACT Gallery (Toronto, 2015), TYPOLOGY (Toronto, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014) and Darling Foundry (Montréal 2012). She has completed several residencies in Berlin, Glasgow, Tokyo, Paris, Mexico and Reykjavik, amongst others. Since 2011, she had been realizing large-scale public art commissioned artworks in the province of Quebec; notably Kinésie, a series of permanent interactive artworks for the new Centre Aquatique de Granby (2020), and Le Messager, a large-scale photograph installed at the primary school Les aventuriers at Laval. In 2020, she published the book Glazial-Kosmogonie, a co-publication between Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Revoler Publishing, Berlin. Her most recent artist book Contre-jour, published by Free Pony Press, was released in September 2022. Josée Pedneault holds an MFA in studio art from Concordia University.

Informed by different fields of knowledge such as astronomy, cosmology, ecology, geography, and natural science, my artistic practice examines our relationships to the natural world. While most of my work is photo-based, my projects are presented as installations that combine images with objects, drawings, paintings, archival material, or small sculptures. Often shaped around scientific rationality, the fra

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