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SULLIVAN, Françoise

Born
Montreal, Quebec, 1923
Biography synopsis
An artist of astonishing versatility and innovation, Françoise Sullivan is one of Canada's most celebrated visual and performance artists. As a child, Sullivan showed considerable artistic ambition, and was enrolled in art and dance classes. From 1934-45, she studied classical dance with Gérald Crevier, as well as painting at the Hochelaga Convent (1939) and visual art at the École des Beaux-arts de Montréal (1940-45). Sullivan, however, was disappointed by the traditional approach of these schools, and was eager to experiment. In 1941, she met the radical abstract painter Paul-Émile Borduas and became associated with the Automatistes, exhibiting with them and signing their 1948 manifesto "Refus global," to which she contributed the essay "La Danse et l'espoir." In 1945, she left for New York to study dance with Franzinska Boas, Martha Graham, and Louis Horst. Returning to Montreal in 1947, Sullivan continued to perform original choreographies until 1954, despite her new family responsibilities: she married painter Paterson Ewen in 1949 and gave birth to four sons in ten years. Sullivan devoted the 1960s to sculpture, studying welding under Armand Vaillancourt and at Lachine's École des arts et métiers, and wood, iron, and plaster sculpture at the EBAM. She executed work for Expo 67 and experimented with Plexiglass. In 1970, she made the first of many trips to Europe and began executing conceptual projects inspired by her travels. Sullivan returned to painting in the 1980s, often taking Greek mythology as her subject. A retrospective at the Musée du Québec followed in 1993, after which time Sullivan's works became increasingly abstract. Honours awarded throughout her career include the Prix du Québec (1963), the Prix Borduas (1987), membership in the Order of Canada (2001), the Governor-General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2005), and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2008). Sullivan is a professor at Concordia University and continues to create new choreographies.
Media used
Choreography
Conceptual art
Dance
Metalworking
Mixed media
Oil painting
Painting
Performance art
Photography
Sculpture
Education
Private study, 1934 - 1945 (under Gerald Crevier; classical dance)
Hochelaga Convent School, Montreal, Quebec, 1939
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1939 - 1945
Private study, 1945 - 1947 (under Franzinska Boas, Martha Graham, and Louis Horst in New York City; dance)
Private study, 1959 (under Armand Vaillancourt; metal welding)
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1960 (under Louis Archambault; wood, iron, and plaster sculpture)
Ecole des arts et metiers, Lachine, Quebec, 1961
Memberships
Quebec Sculptors' Association, 1965
Order of Canada, 2001
File & Archive locations
Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Toronto Reference Library, ON
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
University of Calgary Library, AB
Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, QC
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
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Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. Montage de choréographies de Françoise Sullivan [video recording]. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Paul-Emile Borduas, 1905-1960. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1962
Musée d'art de Joliette. L'école des femmes: 50 artistes canadiennes au musée / The School of Women: 50 Canadian Artists at the Museum. Joliette: Musée d'art de Joliette, 2003
Musée d'art de Joliette. L'école des femmes: 50 artistes canadiennes au musée. Joliette: Musée d'art de Joliette, 2003
Nadeau, Jessica. "Vuillard et Sullivan au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal." Le Devoir (Montreal) 10 May 2003: G5
Nasgaard, Roald. Abstract Painting in Canada. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008
Nasgaard, Roald. "Abstract Painting." Canadian Art 15.4 (Winter 1998): 48-55
National Gallery of Canada. Prélude à l'automatisme / Towards Automatisme. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1994
Navarro, Pascale, et al. "Françoise Sullivan: Ne jamais s'arrêter." Châtelaine 34.3 (Mar. 1993): 28
Newlands, Anne. Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings Buffalo, New York and Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2007
P. C. "Desautels reçoit l'Ordre du Canada." Le Droit (Ottawa) 24 Aug. 2001: 2
P. C. "Le Conseil des arts annonce les lauréats des Prix du gouverneur général." Le Droit (Ottawa) 9 Mar. 2005: 44
Paikowsky, Sandra. Contemporary Canadian Works on Paper. Montreal: Concordia Art Gallery, 1988
Paikowsky, Sandra. Corridart Revisited: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, July 12 - August 18, 2001. Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2001
Paquet, Bernard. "Baie-Saint-Paul 2000: 18e Symposium international de la nouvelle peinture au Canada." Vie des arts 179 (Summer 2000): 33-40
Patry, Jean. "Archiver la danse." Spirale 82 (Oct. 1988): 6
Perron, Maurice. Danse dans la neige [video recording]. Montreal: 1977
Perusse, Bernard. "Montreal Artists on Prize List: Governor-General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts." Gazette (Montreal) 9 Mar. 2005: D5
Petrowski, Nathalie. "Françoise Sullivan: La dame en rouge." La Presse (Montreal) 15 Jun. 2003: E1
Poulette, Michel, and René Gingras. Ceçi est mon corps, ceçi est mon art. Montreal: Radio-Quebec, 1980
Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
Prigogine, I. Physique, temps et devenir. Paris, New York: Masson, 1980
Provencher, Normand. "Si Sullivan m'était contée: Tableau éclaté." Le Soleil (Quebec) 6 Oct. 2007: A22
Racicot, Yves. Un Pas dans l'inconnu [video recording]. Montreal: Université du Québec à Montréal, 1988
Racicot, Yves, et al. Temps danse: 13 choreographies pour 2 danseurs: Partie I [video recording]. Montreal: Université du Québec à Montréal, 1980
Racicot, Yves, et al. Temps Danse: Et la nuit à la nuit [video recording]. Montreal: Université du Québec à Montréal, 1981
Racine, Rober. "Thirteen Choreographers For Two Dancers." Artscanada 38 (Mar-Apr. 1981): iii, 8
Rannou, Pierre. "Des véritables rapports de Patrick Straram le Bison Ravi avec l'Internationale Lettriste et l'Internationale Situationniste." INTER 93 (Spring 2006): 40-44
Recurt, Elisabeth. "Françoise Sullivan: Trajectoire de passions." Parcours 4.5 (Winter 1998): 18-20
Reference Division, McPherson Library, compilers. Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Arts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, University of Victoria, 1971
Regimbauld-Zeiber, Monique, et al. L'Image manquante. Montreal: Editions les petits carnets, 2005
Rosemont, Penelope. Surrealist Women: An International Anthology. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998
Rowe, Andrea. "Montreal Dance makes Inventive, Interesting Debut." Ottawa Citizen 27 Jan. 1987: A13
Saint-Pierre, Gaston. Et ainsi la suite...: Edmund Alleyn, Pierre Boogaerts, Sorel Cohen, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Andrew Dutkewych, Raymond Gervais, Pierre Granche, Suzy Lake, Rober Racine, Francoise Sullivan, Bill Vazan ... Montreal: Galerie Christiane Chassay; CIRCA centre d'exposition, 1995
Saint-Pierre, Marcel. "Françoise Sullivan: La rhétorique du rêve." Vanguard 15.3 (Summer 1986): 34-9
Smart, Patricia. Les Femmes du Refus global. Montreal: Boreal, 1998
Steinbert-Kraut, E et al. . Actuelles I. Montréal, Quebec: Air Canada, 1983
Stewart Hall Art Gallery. Of Collage: The Artist as Collector. Montreal: Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 2003
Swoboda, Victor. "'In the '60s he was the King of Paris': The Art World Pays Tribute to Abstract Painter who put Quebec on the International Map." Gazette (Montreal) 14 Mar. 2002: C2
Swoboda, Victor. "New Moves on Montreal Dance: France's Ballet de Lorraine Performs a Program of Seven Short Works from as far back as 1948." Gazette (Montreal) 19 Apr. 2008: E11
Teitelbaum, Matthew, ed. Paterson Ewen. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996
Teyssedre, B., ed. Borduas et les automatistes, 1942-1955. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971
Tremblay, Odile. "Traces d'un parcours éclaté." Le Devoir (Montreal) 6 Oct. 2007: E9
Trepanier, Esther and Landry, Pierre. Femmes artistes du XXe siecle au Quebec: Oeuvres du Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec. Quebec, Quebec: Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, 2010.
Vaillancourt, Armand. Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpture de masse / Mass Sculpture. Rivière-du-Loup and Sainte Foy: Editions Mus'art and Publications du Québec, 2004
Vaughan, R. M. "The Road to Documenta: The European Adventures of Luis Jacob and Keith Cole." Canadian Art 24.4 (Winter 2007): 46-9
Vehicule Art, Inc. Françoise Sullivan/ David Moore: Exposition, 28 octobre-11 novembre, 1977. Montreal: Vehicule Art, Inc, 1977
Viau, René. "Armand Vaillancourt, top-modèle." La Presse (Montreal) 11 Aug. 2007: E6
Viau, René. "Esprit de Refus global es-tu la?" Vie des arts 213 (Winter 2008): 65-7
Viau, René. "Images mutantes." Le Devoir (Montreal) 17 Mar. 2007: E7
Viau, René. "L'Explosion automatiste." La Presse (Montreal) 4 Aug. 1998: B2
Viau, René. "La Peinture...pour toujours!" La Presse (Montreal) 22 Jan. 2000: D12
Viau, René. "Refus global fête ses 60 ans." La Presse (Montreal) 18 Jan. 2008: 2
Vignault, Louise. Identité et modernité dans l'art au Québec: Borduas, Sullivan, Riopelle. Montreal: Hurtubise HMH, 2002
Vignault, Louise. La Question identitaire dans l'art moderne québecois. Montreal: McGill University, 2000
Vignault, Louise. Le Primitivisme dans l'oeuvre de Françoise Sullivan. Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1994
Villeneuve, Paquerette and Bernard Levy. "Festival international du film sur l'art 2007: Le quart de siècle du Fifa." Vie des arts 208 (Autumn 2007): 84-5
Volkmann, Barbara, et al., eds. OKanada Ottawa: Canada Council, 1982

Writings by
Fournier, Jacques, et al.; illustrated by Françoise Sullivan. Sainte Sebastienne II: Hommage à Louise Bourgeois. Montreal: Editions Roselin, 2007
Moore, David, with the assistance of Françoise Sullivan. Three Holes in the Ground. Montreal: Maker Press, 1981
Sullivan, Françoise. "Dance and Hope." Total Refusal Toronto: Exile Editions, 1985
Sullivan, Françoise. "Goodbye Monsieur Duchamp [Mémoires 2004: La vie, l'apprentissage et les arts]." Royal Society of Canada Transactions 4.7 (2004)

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