Mario Doucette
Contemporary
Contemporary
Artist
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Name: Mario Doucette
Biography: Mario Doucette is an Acadian artist from Moncton, New Brunswick. He is a painter, but he also works with video, drawing, performance and Super8 film. In 2004, after a residency in the French village of Brouage, he created Histoires, a series of works combining drawing and painting that reflects on the effects of colonialism. In painting, he attempts to reveal the shortcomings of the historical colonial discourse as told by the victors. Nourished by research on the history of the Acadians, he imagines alternative discourses to the usual stories that have been perpetuated by many historians and also by artists since the publication of Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847) by the American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He has been featured in many exhibitions in several museums and galleries, notably at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum where he was a Sobey Art Award finalist in 2008. He recently contributed work to the Oh Canada exhibition in 2012 presented at MASS MoCA (USA), in 2013 the Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal) exhibition The Painting Project, in the National Art Gallery (Ottawa) exhibition Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014 and in the 2018 national virtual exhibition 150 Years | 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act. The Acadian artist won the Visual Arts Artist of the Year Award at the Les Éloizes 2018 Gala. He is currently working on a new series of paintings, prints and sculptures called Harias. Mario Doucette is represented by Galerie Division (Montréal). www.mariodoucette.com
Type of artist: Professional artist
Type of art practices: Contemporary
Biography: Mario Doucette is an Acadian artist from Moncton, New Brunswick. He is a painter, but he also works with video, drawing, performance and Super8 film. In 2004, after a residency in the French village of Brouage, he created Histoires, a series of works combining drawing and painting that reflects on the effects of colonialism. In painting, he attempts to reveal the shortcomings of the historical colonial discourse as told by the victors. Nourished by research on the history of the Acadians, he imagines alternative discourses to the usual stories that have been perpetuated by many historians and also by artists since the publication of Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847) by the American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He has been featured in many exhibitions in several museums and galleries, notably at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum where he was a Sobey Art Award finalist in 2008. He recently contributed work to the Oh Canada exhibition in 2012 presented at MASS MoCA (USA), in 2013 the Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal) exhibition The Painting Project, in the National Art Gallery (Ottawa) exhibition Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014 and in the 2018 national virtual exhibition 150 Years | 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act. The Acadian artist won the Visual Arts Artist of the Year Award at the Les Éloizes 2018 Gala. He is currently working on a new series of paintings, prints and sculptures called Harias. Mario Doucette is represented by Galerie Division (Montréal). www.mariodoucette.com
Type of artist: Professional artist
Type of art practices: Contemporary
