Geneviève Thauvette

Geneviève Thauvette
Curriculum vitae
Born in 1985, lives and works in Toronto, ON
EDUCATION
2005-2007 Photography Program Graduate, Honours, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
2006 Alternative Processes Photography Workshop, SPAO, Ottawa, ON
2004-2005 Studio Arts Program, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
May 2013 Les Filles du Roi, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC
SEPT 2012 Cake is Freedom (Le gâteau ou la mort!), Nuit Blanche Ottawa, ON
SEPT 2012 Les Filles du Roi, Gallery St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON
FEB 2011 Beheld (alongside Low, Jesse Burke), Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia
MAY 2010 Les quintuples Dionne, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, ON
SEPT 2008 Beheld, Festival X, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, ON
NOV 2007 Cocks and Doilies, Atomic Rooster Bistro, Ottawa, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
APR 2013 Papier 13, International Art Fair, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC
JUN 2013 Le pArty, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
NOV 2012 RMG Exposed, Galerie Robert McLaughlin, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
AUG 2012 PopUp Gallery, City of Perth Arts Festival, Perth, WA, Australia
APR 2012 Papier 12, International Art Fair, Galerie St0Laurent + Hill, Montreal, QC
FEB 2012 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA, Australia
OCT 2011 Urban Portraits II, Archetype Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
SEPT 2011 Persona, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, USA
JUN 2011 Sotiri Prize exhibition, gallery Guri Madhi, Korce, Albania
MAY-JUN 2011 I am not a good enough feminist, Concrete Utopia, NY, NY, USA
MAR 2011 Labo Show, Labo, Toronto, ON
MAR 2011 Here and .ere, Propeller Center for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON
DEC 2010 New Work, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, ON
OCT 2010 Slideluck Potshow, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON
SEPT 2010 A Private Collection of Glenn McInnes: Canadian Photography, Festival X, Ottawa, ON
AUG 2010 Portraits of Bluesfest, CUBE Gallery, Ottawa, ON
AUG 2010 IRIS Awards, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA, Australia
JULY 2010 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, St-Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
MAY 2010 Exposed: Pervasive In#uence, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON
FEB 2010 Les VIe Jeux de la Francophonie Laureates Exhibition, Winter Olympic, Vancouver, BC
JAN 2010 New Work, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, ON
DEC 2009 SPAO Print Sale, Ottawa, ON
DEC 2009 Feminism: Now, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, NS
NOV 2009 Naked in the Capital, Arts and Architecture Gallery, Ottawa, ON
SEPT-OCT 2009 VIe Jeux de la Francophonie, Palais de l’Unesco, Beirut, Lebanon
JUN-SEPT 2009 Likeness, Karsh Festival, SPAO, Ottawa, ON
JAN 2009 New Work, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa, ON
APR 2007 Graduating Student Exhibition, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
BGS (COLLECTIVE WITH SARAH BECK) EXHIBITIONS
JUL 2011 Shift de nuit, Jeux de la francophonie canadienne, Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury
JUN 2011 Malbourse (collective installation), Harbourfront Center, Toronto, ON
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Production Grant
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts
2009 Gold medal winner representing Canada in photography at the VIe Jeux de la
Francophonie in Beirut, Lebanon
2007 Adobe Digital Imaging Award for outstanding pro"ciency in digital imaging and web design
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2012 “Melons” of Les quintuples Dionne, City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection
2010 Les quintuples Dionne series acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization
2010 “Communion” of Les quintuples Dionne, private collection of the McInnes Family
RESIDENCIES
2011 Les jeux de la francophonie canadienne, July 20-24th, Sudbury, ON
2010 Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, Place de la Francophonie, BC
2009 VIe Jeux de la Francophonie, Canadian representative for Photography, Beirut, Lebanon
WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
SEP 2013 Member of the photography jury, VIIe Jeux de la Francophonie, Nice, France
2012-2013 Member of the programming committee, LABO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FALL 2012 Member of the cultural jury (Nord American and Caribbean delegation), VIIE Jeux de
la Francophonie, Paris, France
AUG 2012 Jury, project grant, Ontario Art Council
APR 2012 Photography workshop series, Collège Franco-Ouest / L’escale / Collège Notre-Dame,
Nepean / Rockland / Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
OCT 2011 Portfolio review participant, Mois de la Photo à Montréal Biennale, Montreal, QC
SEPT 2011 Guest photographer, Radart (television program), TFO, Ottawa, ON
JUL 2011 Children’s workshop, FrancoQueer, Toronto Pride Festival, Toronto, ON
MAR 2010 Workshop leader, Vision d’art provincial youth francophone festival, ON
MAR 2010 Invited speaker, Vision d’art festival, Béatrice-Desloges, Orleans, ON
DEC 2008 Artist’s talk, Photography program, la Cité Collégiale, Ottawa, ON
APR 2009 Juror, Best Creative Advertisement Award, Algonquin Photography Program
Graduates Exhibition, Ottawa, ON
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2013 Ottawater, 9th edition, Canada
2011 Room Magazine (Cover), issue 34.4 Siblings, Canada
2011 Art Guide Australia, January/February edition, Australia
2011 Perth International Arts Festival, visual arts catalogue, Perth, WA, Australia
2010 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, ON
2009 Feminism: Now, exhibition catalogue, NASCAD, Halifax, NS
2009 Catalogue des Participants aux Concours Culturels, VIe Jeux de la Francophonie, Beirut,
Lebanon
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
December 27th: 2012 Simpson, Peter, “The best of 2012: From all-night art to wild horses”,
Ottawa Citizen
November 7th 2012: Louis, Plésius Junior, “Des artistes auditionnés pour les jeux de la
francophonie”, Le Nouvelliste (Port-au-Prince, Haïti)
September 28, 2012: Adams, Jill, “Life is beautiful: beginning of an all-night art affair”,
Centretown News
September 24th 2012: “Editorial: Ottawa in the street”, Ottawa Citizen
September 24th 2012: Cucchi, Maud, “Nuit Blanche et yeux grands ouverts”, Le Droit Ottawa
September 24th 2012: Simpson, Peter, “Nuit Blanche's Tremendous Debut in Ottawa”, Ottawa
Citizen
September 24th 2012: Boutilier, Alex, “Thousands Flock to Ottawa's Nuit Blanche”, Metro News
Ottawa
September 21st 2012: Cruikshank, Julie, “Geneviève Thauvette exhibits les Filles du Roi for
Festival X”, Apt 613
September 17th 2012: Simpson, Peter, “Nuit Blanche Ottawa: Things you need to know to make
it through the night”, Ottawa Citizen
September 8th 2012: Gessell, Paul, “How Quebec’s Revolution Sexuelle will Infiltrate Nuit
Blanche”, Ottawa Magazine
October 11th 2011: Rotteveel, Marga, “Dagboek Montreal”, Photoq.nl, Amsterdam
October 3rd, 2011: Rotteveel, Marga, Dagboek Montreal, Photoq.nl, Amsterdam
July 23, 2011: Oloman, Janine. “Youth Games Hour”, CKLU 96.7 FM, Sudbury
July 22, 2011: Lacroix, Marjolaine. “Téléjournal Ontario : Les jeux de la francophonie
canadienne”, Radio-Canada, Ontario
July 22, 2011: Robitaille, Éric. “Boréal express”, Radio-Canada Première chaîne 98.1 FM, Sudbury
June 13th, 2011: Simpson, Peter. “Another Gallery Closing”, Ottawa Citizen
February 17th, 2011: Jansen, Ara. “Female Focus”, The West Australian
February 16th, 2011: Ainslie, Ben. “Morning Magazine”, RTR 92.1 FM Perth, Australia
February 2011: Gessell, Paul. “.e Way I See It”, Ottawa Magazine
January 13th, 2011: Donovan, Jessica. “In the Eye of the Beholder”, X-Press Magazine Southwest
Edition (Australia)
December 13th, 2010: Simpson, Peter. “A year of capital delights”, voted 6th best thing of 2010,
Ottawa Citizen
September 29th, 2010: Simpson, Peter. “Bringing Fine Photography to the People”, Ottawa
Citizen
August 25th, 2010: Simpson, Peter. “An artist-eye view of Bluesfest”, Ottawa Citizen
July 13th, 2010: Simpson, Peter. “Portraits of Bluesfest returns for a second year”, .e Big Beat,
ottawacitizen.com
April Issue 2010: Levin, Mark. “Statu Quo”, Unfolding Magazine, www.unfolding.ca
April 22nd, 2010: Le Van, Katy. “Cinq fois plutôt qu’une”, Voir (Gatineau-Ottawa)
April 9th, 2010: Lauzon, Véronique. “Téléjournal Ottawa-Gatineau”, Radio-Canada
April 8th, 2010: Bibodeau, Hannah. “Ottawa CBC local Evening News”, CBC Television
April 8th, 2010: Neal, Alan. “All in a Day”, CBC Radio One 91.5 FM Ottawa
April 7th, 2010: Simpson, Peter. “Geneviève Thauvette” rally brings her photos to Ottawa”,
Ottawa Citizen
February 19, 2010: Barnabé, Lyne. “Espace Musique: Culture d’hivers”, Radio Canada
(Vancouver)
February 17, 2010: Aylesworth, Linda. “Vancouver Global TV Evening News”, Global TV
February 16, 2010: Zacharias, Yvonne. “Vive le Vancouver! The City’s Olympian French Quarter
is Brimming with Joie de Vivre”, .e Vancouver Sun
February 13, 2010: Barnabé, Lyne. “Vivez Vancouver – Culture d’hiver: Journée de la
Francophonie canadienne”, Radio-Canada
December 10, 2009: Simpson, Peter. “Picture this under your tree: SPAO holds pre-Christmas
print sale”, Ottawa Citizen
October 4, 2009: Simpson, Peter. “Quirky Canadian Wins Gold Medal”, Ottawa Citizen
October 3, 2009: Simpson, Peter. “Genevieve Thauvette wins gold for Canada at Francophone
Games”, Ottawa Citizen
October 2009: “Les Meilleurs Moments des jeux 2009”, TV5 Monde October Issue, 2009
Baraniecki-Andrzejak, Justyna. “Living a Photocopy: Quintuplets In Photo (cover story)”,
Upfront Magazine
September 30, 2009: Simpson, Peter. “Let the art begin... ”, Ottawa Citizen
September 28, 2009: TV5.ca - Geneviève being interviewed in Beirut, Lebanon (TV5, see Day 2)
August 21, 2009: Aubin, Katleen. “Bernier et cie (Les jeux de la francophonie)”, Radio-Canada
December 11, 2008: Gessell, Paul. “The good, the bad & the naughty, voted "the most intriguing
discovery of the year..." in the Ottawa arts scene, Ottawa Citizen