Diane Landry
Diane Landry lives and works in Québec City. She originally studied natural science and worked in agriculture. At age 25, she decided to live her dream and become an artist. She went back to school and obtained a BFA from Université Laval (1987) and an MFA from Stanford University (2006) in California. She thought her talent was in painting, but her work in her studio, her day-to-day reality and her concern for recycling naturally led her to produce installations and performance works influenced by readymade and her preoccupation with recycling. In short, she is a tinkerer, a “DIY-er”. She likes to put herself in contexts that shake up her creative habits, by doing artist residencies across various cultures. These stays disrupt her creative reflexes and lead her to constantly renewed challenges.
Her works have been widely shown in Canada, the United States, Latin America, several European countries, China and Australia. In 2014, she was awarded the Jean-Paul Riopelle career grant, offered by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She received one of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grants in New York, in 2015. She delivered numerous commissions for art projects and her work is included in several collections. Landry is represented by Vivianeart Gallery (Calgary) and Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio). [Source: VOX, 2023].
