DumaStudio

Artiste multidisciplinaire

Curriculum Vitae2

Solo / Duo Exhibitions
2018 DENISE DUMAS / RANDY MERCHANT, Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene University, NH. USA
2014 MUTHERER (TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER), UMass Lowell's Art Gallery. MA
2014 TRANSFER UNITS/ UNITÉS DE TRANSFERT, Plein Sud Contemporary Art Exhibition Center in Longueuil, Qc.
2010 WAVES/VAGUES CIRCA Exhibition Center, Montreal, Qc.
2009 MAKE a WISH 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA.
2000 HOME SWEET HOME Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
1999 THE STUDIO Installation, Riverview Mill, Wilton, NH
1998 VISIONS Georges Laoun, Montreal, Qc.
1994 FOUILLES Laval University, Quebec, Qc.
1990 LE COMPLEXE ALICE Expression, St-Hyacinthe, Qc.
1987 LIENS Galerie 13, Montreal, Qc.
1986 NATURE SAUVAGE/CULTURE EN MOUVEMENT
Installation, Saint-Laurent St., Montreal, Qc.
Group Exhibitions
2020 FEU/Virtual exhibition. CIRCA art actuel. Montreal, Canada
2019 TANGIBLE ASSETS. Kelley Stelling Contemporary. Manchester, NH.
2019 BIENNIAL 2019. Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery. Keene State college. Keene, NH
2018 LE 30e ANNIVERSAIRE DU CIRCA, Centre art actuel, Montréal Qc.
2016 TERROIR, A NOVA SCOTIA SURVEY, Nova Scotia Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2011 INSIDE OUT, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
2011 FACULTY SHOW, Whistler House, Lowell, MA
2011 ACROSS SECTION/A CROSS A SECTION, UMASS, Lowell, MA
2009 WATER FALL, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2008 MIND MATTERS, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 VESSEL AS METAPHOR, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2006 DE L’INVENTION DES FRONTIÈRES, CIRCA, Montreal, Qc.
2006 BOUNDARIES/FRONTIERS, Gallery 119, Lowell, MA
2005 FACULTY SHOW, Massachusetts University, Lowell, MA
2004 THE ALPHABETH AS ART, Massachusetts University, Lowell, MA
2003 FACULTY SHOW, Massachusetts University, Lowell, MA
2002 FACULTY SHOW, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2002 ACTION/REACTION, Durham University Gallery, NH
2001 BIENNIAL 2001, New Hampshire Institute of Art. Manchester, NH
2001 «NEW FACULTY/NEW WORK » New Hampshire Institute of Art
Installation «The Spectator », Fuller Hall Gallery, Manchester, NH
1998 SHARON ART CENTER, Peterborough, NH, USA
1996 REGARDS SODAC, Longueuil, Qc.
1994 OBJET VERSUS OBJET Musée-Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal, Qc.
1994 LES BOURSIERS DE LA SODAC Plein Sud, Longueuil, Qc.
1993 CURIOSITÉS ESTHÉTIQUES Expression, St-Hyacinthe, Qc.
1991 LES LAURÉATS Longueuil et St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Qc.
1990 TRANSACTIONS Traveling exhibition grouping seven artists from Quebec
1989 COUP DE CŒUR Cité de l'Image, Montreal, Qc.
1988 CINQ PLUS Longueuil Cultural Certer, Qc.
1987 FEMMES/FORCES Musée du Québec, Qc.
1987 LES DIX ANS DE LA MAÎTRISE EN ARTS PLASTIQUES À L’UQAM
Quebec University, Montreal, Qc.
1987 UNE COLLECTION Plein Sud, Longueuil, Qc.
1986 INSTALLATIONS/FICTIONS Galerie Graff, Montreal, Qc.
1985 FILIATIONS Powerhouse, Montreal, Qc.
Studies
1982-1985 UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC IN MONTREAL (UQAM)
Master's Degree in Creation (Visual Arts)
1970-1972 ST-MARTIN'S SCHOOL OF ART, London, England
"Advanced Studies in Sculpture" with Antony Caro, Philip King, Tim Scott.
1969-1970 SIR JOHN CASS COLLEGE, London, England
"Three Dimensional Structure Design"
1964-1969 ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Quebec, Qc
Bachelor of Art, major in sculpture, minor in painting
Teaching
2001-2014 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN LOWELL, Lowell, MA
Foundations (Art Concepts 2D Design & 3/D Design
Art Concepts/Colloquium, Form and Content, Sculpture I)
2000-2003 NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE OF ART, Manchester, NH
Adjunct (Drawing & Introduction to Sculpture)
1987-1999 COLLÈGE ÉDOUARD-MONTPETIT, Longueuil, Qc.
Tenured art teacher. Sculpture, painting and visual Language.
Experience
2008-2009 "Mentor" Allstate Art Festival, Currier Museum of Art, NH
1998-1999 Visual arts specialist for the Quebec Ministery of Communications
1994-1995 Head of the Art Department of College Edouard- Montpetit, Longueuil, Qc.
1991-1993 Administrator at the Art Gallery of College Edouard- Montpetit-Longueuil, Qc.
1989-present Jury member for different artistic events
1972-1981 Freelance work: Animated film (concept and realization)
Stage design (in film making), graphic, illustration
Awards
2017-2018 Fellowship/Artist residency, Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene University, NH. USA
2017-2018 Canada Council on the Arts
2015 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Artist residency. Peterborough NH.
2010 Fellowship, New Hampshire Council on the Arts
1993 SODAC
1991 Premier Prix du concours « LES LAURÉATS EN ARTS CONTEMPORAINS », SODAC
1988 Canada Council on the Arts
1986 Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Quebec
1985 Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Quebec
1969 Canada Council on the Arts
Commissions
2018 US, site specific installation, Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene University, NH. USA
2008 Art Rock, Logan Airport, Boston MA, USA
2005 Private Commission for a Garden Sculpture: CYCLE, Denver, CO.
2003 Private Commission for a sculpture: SWING, Denver CO, USA
1991 Integration into Architecture Program
Ministry of Cultural Affairs Saint-Luc sur Richelieu School, Qc.
1989 Creation of an environment for the Family/Friends activities at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Montreal, Qc.
Press Reviews and Art Magazines Articles (selection)
Rannou, Pierre Denise Dumas. Déconstruction de la coiffeuse, Art magazine Espace no 107. P 66-67, 2014
Dewolfe, Stacey Review of Vagues/Waves on akimbo.ca blog, June 16 2010
VYUmagazine.com Interview with Denise Dumas, October issue no. 31, 2006
Hakim, Mona L'histoire réinventée, Le Devoir, July 2 and 3 1994
Cron, M.Michèle Permutation des langages visuels, Le Devoir, saturday October 19th 1991
Daigneault, Gilles Denise Dumas: " Il était une fois une petite ardoise", Le Devoir, November 15th 1986
Daigneault, Gilles Le Trimestre, Vie des Arts, Winter 1986
Dumont, Jean Images qui disent, mots qui montrent, Montréal ce mois-ci, 1986
Lepage, Joscelyne D'une installation à l'autre, La Presse, Saturday October 19th. 1985
Daigneault, Gilles 1/4, Vie des Arts, December 1985
CATALOGUES and other PUBLICATIONS
AGNS Terroir: A Nova Scotia Survey. Exhibition catalogue. 192 pages. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. NS. 2016-17 Curators: David Diviney, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Bruce Johnson, Independent Curator; and Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Connolly, Jocelyne Denise Dumas, UNITÉS DE TRANSFERT / TRANSFER UNITS Exhibition catalogue. Longueuil, Qc: Plein Sud, Contemporary Art Exhibition Center in Longueuil. 2014, 16p
Forcier, Madeleine OBJET VERSUS OBJET: L'archéologie dans l'imaginaire Exhibition catalogue. Museum of Archeology and History of Montreal, Qc. 1994
SODAC, Longueuil REGARDS Exhibition catalogue. Longueuil, Qc. 1991
Palardy, Lorraine Groleau, Michel Lamontagne, Yves ELAAC: Free Entry to Contemporary Art (COUP DE COEUR), Montreal 1989, 82p.
Caouette, Micheline Bissonnette, Lise FEMMES/FORCES Exhibition catalogue. Museum of Quebec, Qc. 1987, 94p
Collectif artistes-écrivais INSTALLATIONS/FICTIONS Québec. Editions NBJ, 1986, 170p.
Public Collections
Museum of Quebec, Quebec city
Lachine's Museum, Montreal
City of Longueuil, Qc
College Edouard-Montpetit, Qc

Portholes Portals

Portholes / Portals 2016

Portholes/Portals (Diptych) 2016, silver transfer on resin, conté crayon;
and Lunette (Sculpture) 2016, metal, paint.

An installation about an unbalanced and fragile world.

Presented at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, in Terroir, A Nova Scotia Survey. June 25th 2016- January 15th 2017

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Mirror Tell Me

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Detail of Seeds (diptych), 2016. Acrylic wash, mirror silver transfer on resin.

Mirror Tell Me (Ongoing)

In this project I extract the memory of old mirrors by removing their silver backings and transforming them through mixed media, exposing the spirits of the mirrors. Each mirror has a story, and the extraction pulls out the mystery that informs what follows. In these explorations, which take different forms based on each mirror’s response to the process, I investigate how an object’s memory, personal stories, and preoccupations reflecting our times intersect in a reconstruction to create new imagery.

Making Waves

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Studies: Traces left on glass by evaporation of black water.

Things in Common

This project is about turbulence and metamorphosis, it evokes states of consciousness experienced in times of crisis. I investigate how actuality, memory, and the making process intersect in the creation of new images.

A childhood memory of an Atlantic storm, observed from the two portholes of our ship’s cabin, is a metaphor to translate visually the idea of a world in turmoil. The raging black sea is associated with the precariousness of an uncontrollable situation, and the fear of being swallowed by that liquid abyss. Current events such as mass migration, a sick planet, the polarization leading to extremism, the Me Too movement, are examples of what inform this project.

Sculptures, video, sound, and light, echo each other in order to translate the various concerns explored in the multimedia installation as presented at the Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene Sate College, Keene, NH. USA.

Thanks to the Canada Council on the Arts for its support for the research and for the production of Things in Common.

Mutherer (Two or Three Things I Know About Her)

Mutherer (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) 2015

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Multimedia installation: sculpture, video projection, reflected light.

Mutherer suggests to be free of inherited patterns and imprints which inhibit creativity.

The subtitle is borrowed from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film Two or Three Things I know About Her. It also refers to the subject, “Her,” as both mother figure and creativity itself.

 

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Violon qui ne joue pas

MUTHERER, “The Violin That Doesn’t Play” (left on the picture),
and “That Night” (back wall)

Pour

View of video projection “Pour” on black painted wall

Transfer Units

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Transfer Units / Unités de Transfert

Multimedia installation presented at Plein Sud, Contemporary Art Center in Longueuil, Qc. 2014

Sculpture, video projection and refracted light echo each other to create a theatrical environment evoking the passage of time and the illusive character of memory. A mirrored dressing table is the origin of an unfolding family of events. Domestic furniture has been dissected to recreate new entities. Various elements collude to form a causal sequence revealing underlying myths, dreams and realities.

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Waves

Waves/Vagues 2010

Sculpture, video, sound

The tension of duality is a recurrent theme in my work. Being a twin plays a role in the origin of this desire for TWO. The installation’s dynamic is based on the idea of a dividing line. Combined with the displacement of the familiar, where sea waves animate the surfaces of an over-stretched kitchen table, illusion and reality are orchestrated to challenge our perception. Being the core of the display, the dividing plane operates as an imaginary mirror, where the illusion of perfect synchronicity only lasts a moment, depending on the point of view.

 

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Make a Wish

Make a Wish 2009

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Sculpture, video and sound installation.

A three-channel video projection, Make a Wish combines images of thunderstorms and water with an accompanying soundtrack of voiced concerns to envelop the gallery in an electrical storm of uncertainty. Watery surfaces spill with a myriad of visions that form a layered collage of contemporary troubles. Mixing real and virtual imagery, Dumas creates multiple points of view that redefine domestic, political, ecological, social, and economic ideas.

Three video sequences are synchronized to form a loop of 8 minutes and 15 seconds a piece:

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A three channel video, sound and sculpture installation.

Make a Wish is composed of: three 46” diameter x 12” (height) galvanized steel elements. Their surfaces act as screens for projections coming from the ceiling. Mirrors are adjusted to reflect details of the images above each element.

A different event appears in each container: Waves shows coffee being stirred while radio extracts list the words most heard on the news since the events of 9.11; Economist Soup deals with social turmoil and the difficulty of assimilating all that is happening; and Maison uses a child’s nightmare of a house being flooded and invaded by sharks as a symbol to combine recent economic and ecologic events.

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Borderline

Borderline 2006

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Sculpture, video and sound installation.

This work articulates psychological states and boundaries; the way that an interior self is constructed through memory, context and experience. I explore what occurs when the integrity of this interior self experiences a radical displacement in one’s own environment, language, and/or culture. In this installation I suggest we carry our personal boundaries/frontiers with us wherever we go. I explore how the self-defined limits of an out-of-scale stage can here become a tool to fulfill a child’s dream: a memory layer to overlap past and recent events. While the sculpture-stage compresses and oppresses, the resulting video performance conveys how one’s power to expand can reside in creativity.

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Sculpture, video and sound installation

Video duration: 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Sculpture: Theatre Trunk
Materials: Wood, tile, plexiglas, metal and neon
Dimensions: 60″ X 23″ X 25″