Chantal duPont

Chantal duPont (1942–2019) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist based in Montreal. She worked in multimedia, photography, painting, sculpture, graphics and writing. For much of her career, she was an associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1] She is remembered in particular for her award-winning video art.

Chantal duPont
Born1942
Montreal
Died25 February 2019
Montreal
NationalityCanadian
EducationMontreal School of Fine Arts, Concordia University
Awards2005 Bell Canada Award in Video Art from Canada Council for the Arts

Biography

Chantal duPont studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1964 to 1966.[2] She did her Master's degree at Concordia University from 1967 to 1969.[2][3]

Her creative work builds on aspects of identity and memory of the body. It has been presented at many video festivals at home and abroad, earning awards in Belgium, Colombia, France and Portugal.[4]

She frequently attended Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art. In 2007, the year after she had received the Bell Canada Award, the Festival presented a retrospective of her video art contributions. In addition to her own creative work, she trained and assisted many generations of artists.[5] She is remembered in particular for her video Du front tout le tour de la tête which in 2001 won awards in Lisbon, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec.[6][4]

Side by side with Martine Époque and Andrée Beaulieu-Green she was one of the outstanding women who contributed to digital art in the Province of Quebec.[7] In connection with her Bell Canada Award, the assessment committee noted her "stunningly beautiful works", adding "With grace and elegance, she interweaves technical precision with performance to create potent meditations on identity and memory."[8]

Chantal duPont died on 25 February 2019 in Montreal.[9]

Awards
  • 2005: Bell Canada Award in Video Art[8]

Collections

References
  1. "UQAM - École des arts visuels et médiatiques - Chantal Du Pont". eavm.uqam.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. "duPONT, Chantal (1942)". Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle. Archived from the original on 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-07-07. Retrieved 2019-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Chantal duPont". Oboro. Archived from the original on 2019-05-09.
  5. Gingras, Nicole. "Tribute to Chantal Dupont". Fifa. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. "Du front tout le tour de la tête" (in French). Vithèque. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. Dubois, Jean. "Un dernier au revoir à Chantal duPont" (in French). Hexagram-UQAM. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  8. "Montrealer wins video art prize". CBC. 17 February 2006.
  9. "Avis de décès". memoria.ca (in French). Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  10. "Oeuvres – 19 résultats pour «"Chantal duPont"» - La Cinémathèque québécoise".
  11. "Dupont, Chantal - Collections - MNBAQ". Collections - MNBAQ.
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