Marilou Lemmens

Marilou Lemmens is an artist based in Durham-Sud, Quebec, Canada. Working as a duo with Richard Ibghy since 2002, she creates installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and artists’ books. Her works pay particular attention to the history and power of science and other forms of knowledge, including the language of economy, the magic of statistics, the capacity for models to impact the future, the aesthetics of data visualization, and the design of laboratory experiments.

Her works have been the subject of solo exhibitions in Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe including at the Ulrich Museum of Art (U.S.A., 2021), the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment (Canada, 2020–2021), the Bemis Center (U.S.A., 2019), VOLT/Visningsrommet USF (Norway, 2018), the Audain Gallery (Canada, 2018), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Canada, 2017), the ISCP (U.S.A., 2016) and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Canada, 2016). She has participated in group exhibitions and international events including at the 1st Fiskars Biennale (Finland, 2019), the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (U.S.A., 2018), the OFF-Biennale Budapest, (Hungary, 2017), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Canada, 2018), the Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador, 2016), the Istanbul Biennial, (Turkey, 2015), La Filature, Scène nationale and La Kunsthalle (France, 2013), the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway, 2013), and the Sharjah Biennial (2011). She received the Prix Giverny Capital (2019) and the Prix de la recherche of the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment (2020). [Source : VOX, 2022]