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JOHANNE CORNO
SYLVAIN TREMBLAY
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JOHANNE CORNO SYLVAIN TREMBLAY
Opera Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition that includes a retrospective of artworks by
two renowned contemporary artists from Canada: Johanne Corno and Sylvain Tremblay. These artists play a
vital role in the American Art Market. One by her thick texture mostly realized by a brightness of colors depicting
erotic faces. The other, by his very unique technique, combining an abundance of materials on canvas. On the
way she underlines the faces of her characters, in their eyes and the freedom and ecstasy they express, we cannot
deny that Corno’s work is inspired by American pop art and artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
from the 60s and 70s. On the other hand, the composition of Tremblay’s paintings can refer to American street
art and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Johanne Corno is a Canadian female artist based in New York, who distinguishes her style by representing erotic
faces. Inspired by neo pop art, her style is very much orbiting towards a use of bright and funky colors slashed
and applied roughly with a handful of strokes. These multiple strokes therefore create movement, dynamism
and momentum: beautiful and sumptuous faces accentuated by the movement of their hair and the rotation of
their faces.
Sylvain Tremblay is another well- established artist who combines resin and lacquer on canvas. His type of
representation draws its lines between abstraction and figurative. Individuals represented on his canvases are
limited significantly by the use of outer lines underlining simply and specifically their silhouettes. Characters of
men and women are mainly presented on the foreground whereas the background focuses on colors and shine
with the use of acrylic, mosaics of colors and a varnish that emphasizes the brightness of the piece compared to
the plasticity of the metallic lustre.
Opera Gallery wishes you a prosper year and a pleasant evening in our special exhibition. We hope the event
will inspire our observers’ imagination and strive them into new heights and new ideas.
Once again, we look forward to seeing you in Opera Gallery.
Ahmad Bachan
Manager
Opera Gallery Dubai
Gilles Dyan
Founder and Chairman
Opera Gallery Group
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In a city where the skyline is populated with towering skyscrapers, the French limestone façade of the 14-storey
Ritz - Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) represents a bold and refreshing contrast among its lofty
neighbours. The 341- room hotel, with 124 executive residences, offers an elegantly contemporary design and art
deco elements within a stately exterior.
Keeping with the overall master plan of the adjacent financial district which is determinedly low-rise and urban in
design, world-renowned architect Gensler, ensured The Ritz - Carlton maintained this original vision while drawing
influence from the best European architecture. The urban environment of The Ritz - Carlton was considered at every
opportunity and is showcased with a sunken garden, colonnade, and abundance of lush, shaded outdoor terraces,
a revealing Middle Eastern influence. The private, residential feel one would expect from a noble chateau is
established with the private courtyard and porte cochere; it is delicately balanced by intentional feng shui elements
including eight striking water features throughout the hotel and a dramatic 10 - storey outdoor waterfall cascading
down the building and into the courtyard.
“There are many water elements throughout the hotel which provide a soothing aesthetic quality to such an urban
location,” says General Manager Lothar Quarz. “The fact that modern design wisdom perceives the constant flow of
water to be auspicious bodes well for our hotel which we hope will be a hit among wedding and meeting planners.”
Entering the hotel lobby, all eyes are automatically drawn upwards to the three-storey high lobby ceiling. In lieu of a
traditional chandelier showpiece, 44 crystal stems designed to resemble frosted branches in the moonlight, illuminate
the lobby. Each of these contemporary light sculptures are meticulously positioned by hand to the silver leaf ceiling,
and comprises of full lead crystals in various sizes and shapes - octagon, tear drop, almond, square, pendeloque, and
pear. These visual masterpieces are by the renowned Prague-based lighting artisans at Lasvit (the name, a blend of
two Czech words meaning “love” and “light,”) who have created some of the most original light installations around
the world.
A unique concept in hotel design, The Ritz - Carlton, DIFC offers two separate planes from which guests can access
the hotel and facilities, the lobby and the podium level. Providing traditional ground level access at the lobby level,
guests can find the front desk, guest services and Can Can, the all- day dining French brasserie. The podium level
features a walkway directly attached to Dubai International Financial Centre, and is the only hotel to do so. The social
hub will be at No. 5 Lounge & Bar that is located in the prime welcoming position at the end of this pathway. The
room is masculine in texture and tone with leather panelled walls and a dark walnut plank floor; perfect for relaxing
with a drink and cigar.
The Lobby Lounge & Terrace which overlooks the main hotel reception is designed as a sleek salon with tailored furniture
and low tables situated on custom designed oriental carpets. Combined with the contemporary Lasvit chandelier,
the overall effect is one of glamour.
The Center Cut steak restaurant balances a palette of dark burgundy wine and rich butterscotch, with wood plank
floors surrounded by dark green marble. The central banquette features a sculptural whirlwind of handmade glass
leaves supported by silver cables. Striking ink-on-paper portraits of bulls are featured throughout the room. In contrast
to the muted tones of Center Cut and No. 5 Lounge & Bar, the signature fine dining Thai restaurant, Blue Rain, offers
a very minimal design emphasized by blue and gold shades. A water feature spills down one wall and through
the centre of the room under a glass floor - a very contemporary version of the water in the Court of the Lions at the
Alhambra and a hand-blown glass bubble chandelier, also by Lasvit, runs the entire length of the room. Blue Rain
looks out to the porte cochere from behind the 10-storey high waterfall in the main courtyard.
A dramatic 30 meter (100 feet) wine wall runs the length of the corridor connecting Center Cut and Blue Rain. Home
to over 3,500 bottles of the finest varietals in the world, it is a focal point for gourmands and wine connoisseurs.
The expansive Samaya Ballroom (Arabic for “My Sky”), measures 1,400 square meters (15,106 square feet), was
a major factor in the overall hotel layout due to its size. The roofscape overtop the ballroom was conceptualized to
make use of the area by bringing an additional element of outdoor space to the property and also creating a rooftop
Fountain Terrace perfect for weddings and other special events. Notable factors that make the Samaya Ballroom a
standout for event planners includes the ground level location, private driveway and hotel entrance, underground
loading dock and service areas, pillar - and chandelier - free function space with ceiling height of six meters (19 feet),
motor vehicle access directly into the ballroom as well as retractable walls which make the room divisible by four.
With the ability to host events from 10 to 1,500 people, The Ritz - Carlton, DIFC is Dubai’s ultimate destination for
stylish and luxurious meetings and events.
Ritz - Carlton guests will feel right at home with fine crystal chandeliers and oriental carpets used throughout the hotel but
in a non-traditional manner with colourful designs of Eastern influence. Inspiration from the Middle East surroundings
can be seen in the featured artwork of Arabian horses.
All guestrooms showcase floor - to- ceiling windows filled with natural light. The spacious feel is continued through
most rooms with glass open-concept bathrooms and each feature televisions embedded in the mirrors. Guestrooms
range from 45 square meters (484 square feet) to 220 square meters (2,368 square feet) in size and all vary in
shape, as well. The two Royal Suites have upholstered walls of creamy silk and matching drapery in the Parlour and
Dining Rooms much like 1940’s Parisian Salons. Each has a study which is wood paneled in Tiger oak and bedrooms
that boast handmade area carpets and silk upholstered walls.
By the numbers:
• Main lobby: 3 levels, 15 meter/49 foot height to ceiling
• 180 Art Deco style chandeliers
• Waterfall: 2,000 litres/528 gallons per minute (fall)
• Ballroom: 3,000 meters/9,843 feet of optic fiber and 15,000 light bulbs
• External passageways: 4,500 meters/14,764 feet
• 50,000 installed electric sources
• 1,200 external lamps
• 5,000 windows
• 40 varieties of plants and trees cover the hotel grounds
• More than 5,000 metric tons of marble and stone from around the world is showcased:
	 o Façade and interior lobby are made of French limestone (Valange) and Finnish marble
	 o Internal stones are Italian (Spa), Omani (guestrooms), Moroccan (executive residences’ kitchens), Spanish
(main entrance corridors) and Indian (green marble in Center Cut)
6 7Dubai bold on fluo green Mixed media Diptych: 152,5 x 305 cm - 60 x 120 in.
cOrno’sstatement
I’ve been painting for 30 years. It’s my passion. It gives me life and
energy. The main idea behind my work is an impulse to create a burst of
emotion that makes you go further, that makes you want to conquer the
world. Vivid colors best express this. I paint large because it gives me
room to breathe. I hate constraint. I value freedom and I want to express it
through my art. I see larger than life and that’s what I paint.
I describe my work as new expressionism. My style is a fusion of brilliant
colors, explosive gesture and figurative details with a contemporary
resonance and appeal. My paintings are loaded with raw energy. They
reflect intense emotions of love, passion, death.
Music provides a bubble in which I isolate myself from the world in the
creative process.
The subject matter that interests me is the human body. I have no shame
about it. It’s an object of beauty and an endless source of inspiration.
I try to depict the body of men and women liberated from the censorship
of puritanical attitudes.
New York City is raw, off limits. Within a few miles, you have access to
the whole world. That’s why I choose to live and paint here. I get restless
elsewhere. The city’s rhythm pulsates in my canvases.
Life is full of contradictions. I express these emotions with the contrasts and
dichotomies I portray in any given painting. I bring it all together but there
is never a resolution. It always remains a process, just like modern life.
We live in a world of paradoxes and I’m always on the edge.
I have always believed that I have something to say and to bring to the
world through my art. Nothing can stop me from saying it and following
my vision, my dream. My gestural strokes reflect my unapologetic attitude
- my drive for success, my restless dedication. I can’t imagine not painting.
It’s my destiny
8 9Dubai bold on pink Dubai bold on blue with tealMixed media Mixed mediaDiptych: 183 x 244 cm - 72 x 96 in. 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in.
10 11Dubai bold on yellow Dubai bold on grayMixed media Mixed mediaDiptych: 152,5 x 305 cm - 60 x 120 in. 122 x 152,5 cm - 48 x 60 in.
12 13Dubai bold on maroon Mixed media Diptych: 152,5 x 274,5 cm - 60 x 108 in.
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1 - white Mixed media 122 x 152,5 cm - 48 x 60 in.
2 - fluo orange with gold - 3 - orange - 4 - dark orange - 5 - clear orange Mixed media 152,5 x 122 cm - 60 x 48 in.
16 17Dubai bold on fluo yellow Mixed media 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in. Dubai bold on sky blue Mixed media 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in.
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cOrno’s BIOGRAPHY
Johanne Corno is a Canadian artist based in New York, who graduated from the University of Quebec in Montreal
and quickly turned to a full time painting career. Her first representation was at the Clarence Gagnon Gallery in
Montreal. By the late 1980s, she had become the darling of Montreal collectors and one of the most sought-after
Quebec artists. Her reputation was quickly growing across Canada with shows in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and
Vancouver. She was the featured artist at the Quebec Pavilion at Expo 86 in Vancouver that propelled her visibility
to new heights. During this period and into the early 90s, she was represented by Yves Laroche Gallery.
With a strong market in Canada, Corno turned to the US and had shows at the Morgan Gallery in Boston and San
Diego State University. But New York City was an irresistible magnet, so she moved there in 1992. To jump-start
her career, she participated in group shows and various art events. Following in the footsteps of O’Keefe and Dalí,
she was the featured artist at Steuben Glass, which placed her paintings in their flagship store on Madison Avenue.
The new millennium brought Corno to Opera Gallery in Soho, which began representing her work worldwide.
Playing a balancing act of high - energy dichotomies that stimulate the imagination and throw the viewer off
balance, her new style superimposes itself over underlying intricate figurative details. The resulting fusion has a
contemporary resonance and appeal. A superb colorist, she incorporates intense textures into her surfaces and
uses bold brush strokes.
Her international rise to fame took place in several stages. In 2007, Corno was the Guest of Honor for the Fido
Spot where her work was projected on the largest state of the art outdoor digital projector system in Canada.
Before that, her work was featured at Luminato, Toronto’s Festival of Arts and Creativity, in addition to being shown
at the Thompson Landry Gallery.
In 2009, Corno had an important exhibition at Opera Gallery Singapore titled Corno  Ali Esmaeilipour followed
by her first major exhibition at Opera Gallery Dubai, a joint exhibition with Wang Yehan. Another major event,
she was the Guest Artist of the Montreal International Jazz Festival for the celebration of their 30th
anniversary that
coincided with the 30 - year mark of her own artistic career. The commissioned painting is on permanent display
at the TD Gallery Lounge. An Opening at AKA Gallery scheduled to coincide with this event made the evening
news on CBC television. The Thompson Landry Gallery in Toronto featured Corno’s work in a special anniversary
celebration of their own gallery. An exhibition at Opera Gallery London took place in the fall and showcased
several large murals.
The year 2010 had several landmarks for Corno. First an important exhibition titled In the Mood for Art took place
at Opera Gallery Hong Kong. Corno also immortalized rock star bad boy, Eric Lapointe by painting his portrait for
the cover of his hit CD album. But the biggest surprise of all was the launch of Cornographie, Corno’s autobiogra-
phical account of her beginnings in New York City published by La Presse Editions. Her anecdotes are whimsical
and her style as colorful as her art. The year ended with a one-woman show at Opera Gallery New York simply
titled Corno that was by all accounts a smash hit.
Corno’s works can be found in museums, and corporate and private collections all over the world. In 2009, More
Magazine named her one of the Top 40 over 40 Women in Canada. Later in the year, Chatelaine Magazine
included her in their list of the Top 100 Women in Quebec. After much hard work, she never takes her success
for granted and encourages young artists to follow their dreams because sometimes dreams really do come true.
2012 Opera Gallery, Corno  Tremblay (group show), Dubai, UAE
2011 David Lawrence Gallery, West Hollywood, Quebec in
Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
Roosevelt Hotel, West Hollywood, Quebec in
Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
TD Gallery Lounge, Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan, Art and
Desire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2010 Opera Gallery, Corno, New York, USA
Centre National d’Exposition, Le paradoxe du rapprochement,
Jonquière, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
Opera Gallery, In the Mood for Art (group show), Hong Kong
2009 Opera Gallery, Corno  Eduardo Guelfenbein (group show),
London, UK
AKA Gallery, Corno, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Opera Gallery, Corno  Ali Esmaeilipour (group show), Singapore
Opera Gallery, Corno  Wang Yehan (group show), Dubai, UAE
AKA Gallery, Recent Paintings, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2008 Opera Gallery, Roc-Roussey  Corno (group show), New York, USA
Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Calgary, Canada
Opera Gallery, Corno  Moz (group show), Paris, France
Opera Gallery, Made in NY (group show), New York, USA
Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Toronto, Canada
Opera Gallery, Open Your Heart (group show), Hong Kong
2007 Opera Gallery, New Works, Venice, Italy
Opera Gallery, New Works, Seoul, Korea
Left Coast Galleries, Corno - Recent Works, Los Angeles, USA
Fido Spot Inauguration, Guest of Honor, Multi-media projection,
Toronto, Canada
Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Toronto, Canada
AKA Gallery, Corno- New Works, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Opera Gallery, New Works, London, UK
Opera Gallery, Corno, Hong Kong
2006 Left Coast Galleries, Recent Works, Los Angeles, USA
Left Coast Galleries, Recent Works, Studio City, Los Angeles, USA
Opera Gallery, Corno  Kaplan (group show), Hong Kong
Opera Gallery, New Works, London, UK
Royal Albert Hall, featured artist, Cirque du Soleil, Alegria
Premiere, London, UK
Roof Gardens, featured artist, Cirque du Soleil, Alegria
Premiere, London, UK
Thompson Landry Gallery, Recent Works, Toronto, Canada
Ars Vivesco (group show), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Éco - Musée du Fier Monde, Exposition Enchantée, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
2005 Opera Gallery, Corno, New York, USA
Columbus Circle, Techno - Graffiti Event, New York, USA
Splash Light Studio  Sweet Spot, Featured artist, Casablanca
Event for Jay-J  Latrice Barnet, with Vasili  Matthieu Lagarde,
François Ayrault  AntiGravity, New York, USA
The Train, Prêt - à-Porter Paris-New York, Featured artist,
New York, USA
Opera Gallery, Kaleidoscope, Paris, France
Opera Gallery, Recent Works, Hong Kong
Méliès at l’Ex-Centris, New Works, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ars Vivesco (group show), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Éco - Musée du Fier Monde, Exposition Enchantée, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
2004 Opera Gallery, Corno, Paris, France
Opera Gallery, Recent Paintings, New York, USA
Black and Blue Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2003 Opera Gallery, Larger than Life, New York, USA
Opera Gallery, Explosions of Color, Miami, USA
2001 Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michel Blais Gallery (group show), Vancouver, Canada
2000 Selima Gallery (group show), New York, USA
Steuben Glass, A Touch of the Exotic, featured artist, New York, USA
Paul LaBrecque Salon, New York, USA
Atmosphere Gallery, Portraits of New York, New York, USA
Atmosphere Gallery, Next, New York, USA
Atmosphere Gallery, Vision, New York, USA
Atmosphere Gallery, November, New York, USA
Atmosphere Gallery Opening, New York, USA
Art Mode Gallery, Corno Exposed, Calgary, Canada
ReCENTsoloGROUPexhibitions
20 21Temps nouveau d’un être Mixed media 61 x 61 cm - 24 x 24 in.
I want to always
paint by instinct
It’s like when you’re young and want to be a writer. First you have to live and travel
and learn so that you have a story to tell. The same is true with painting.
The images I paint are a celebration of the hopeful and cheerful aspects of human
life. I use acrylics and a top coat of varnish. I create human forms in a matte finish,
set against an abstract, hyper glossy background of color planes. My works are
almost sculptural; the roughly - sketched figures seem to emerge through the backdrop,
presenting themselves on canvas.
I’m an urban artist. I examine how the materials of a city grow and decay, like in
nature.
Just as the landscape painter understands trees and the color of the sky, I understand
the textures of a city.
My work is an illusion of freedom; my style seems to flow freely, but in reality, the
concept has already been conceived in the most precise detail.
My upcoming projects will be inspired by new environments, by a new urban life in
bigger cities. My inspiration now comes from China, where I have been living part-
time for the last year.
Beijing, the city of change! Everything goes so fast. I have to be ready to accept and
feel the real moment; the one that makes me insecure. When this happens, I want to
break the limits and express my discomfort using colors and textures.
My work becomes more sculptural. My art is more like the spontaneous manipulation
of the soul; it rises, it’s stronger. I use each experience like a message I must deliver. I
explore every new city and every new painting as if it was the very first time, without
limits or judgment calls, like an artist who must expel the history of humans.
My art is intuitive yet meticulously process-driven.
tremblay’sstatement
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Dame aux espaces modernes Mixed media 152,5 x 122 cm - 60 x 48 in.
Phase double expression Mixed media 91,5 x 91,5 cm - 36 x 36 in.
24 25Plaine du temps Mixed media 61 x 122 cm - 24 x 48 in.
26 27
Hautes perspectives 1 Mixed media 305 x 45,5 cm - 120 x 18 in.
Êtres de lumière intemporels Mixed media Triptych: 152,5 x 213,5 cm - 60 x 84 in.
28 29Dame au rocher Mixed media 61 x 61 cm - 24 x 24 in. Le grand parc de la falaise rouge Mixed media Triptych: 183 x 213,5 cm - 72 x 84 in.
30 31Affection intemporelle Mixed media 152,5 x 152,5 cm - 60 x 60 in. Haute attitude sans temps Mixed media 213,5 x 152,5 cm - 84 x 60 in.
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tremblay’s BIOGRAPHY
Sylvain Tremblay was born in 1966 in Quebec City, Canada, and lives and works in
Montreal. He has had exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States.
In collections all over the world, canvas upon canvas attest to the enormous richness of
the artist’s imagination and seemingly endless creative energy.
Sylvain Tremblay is a well-established artist who combines resin and lacquer on canvas.
Between abstraction and figurative, the silhouettes of his paintings appear thanks to outer
lines underlining them.
The paintings, boldly glowing with Sylvain Tremblay’s signature veneer, have streamlined
compositions playing against the abstract checkerboard of colour planes. They serve as
backdrops for the textural figures in his work. The paintings are striking, the emerging
human form roughly - sketched, elongated figures. As one approaches the painting, the
many layers of varnish, undulating, almost moving, begin to release their hidden images
creating an abstract landscape for the human forms within the piece.
Sylvain Tremblay’s works have always been anchored in the inescapable passage of time,
use and texture. His themes converge on the human condition in an industrialized, urban
context. Although the artist works on canvas, he sees his paintings as something closer
to sculpture. Tremblay shapes his human figures with the idea in mind of a sculpture,
weathered by time and the natural elements. “Just as the experiences in life weather us
physically and emotionally, I want to express this in art, that’s why I like to work with
texture; the crackling and the overall look of used, weathered and lived in.”
Tremblay’s gaunt, elongated silhouettes have been compared to the work of master
sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Working texture upon texture, color and more color, the
artist’s sculptural, undulating figures incorporate gesso, metal, sand or textiles. These
“urban” forms intertwine history with modernity with the absence of time and location,
which enhances the mystifying sense of immortality and the human condition as themes
in his work.
If imitation is indeed the highest form of flattery, then Sylvain Tremblay should consider
himself flattered. It seems his unique style has inspired others to follow step, but instead of
provoking anxiety, this unexpected form of artistic tip of the hat only spurred the painter
into a new level of meaning and passion in his work.
2012 Opera Gallery, Corno  Tremblay (group show), Dubai, UAE
2011 Caochangdi Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 World Universal Exhibition, Canada Pavilion, Shanghai,
China
Galerie Lydia Monaro (group show), Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
Opera Gallery, Silhouette of Dreams (group show), Singapore
Opera Gallery, New York, USA
Opera Gallery, Esmaeilipour  Tremblay (group show),
Hong Kong
2009 Opera Gallery, Timeless (group show), Seoul, Korea
Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Opera Gallery, Hong Kong
Opera Gallery, official book launch Sylvain Tremblay,
New York, USA
2007 Opera Gallery, Cisinsky  Tremblay (group show),
London, UK
Galerie d’art Iris, Baie - Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada
Art Gallery, Nassau, Commonwealth of the Bahamas
2006 Opera Gallery (group show), New York, USA
Opera Gallery (group show), Singapore
Contrast Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Opera Gallery (group show), Miami, USA
2005 2nd
Beijing International Art Biennale, Artist selected to
represent Canada, Beijing, China
Quebec Week, Artist selected to represent the province of
Quebec by the Quebec General Delegation in Brussels,
Silly, Belgium
Opera Gallery (group show), Hong Kong
Opera Gallery, Goddesses (group show), New York, USA
Opera Gallery (group show), Miami, USA
2004 6th
Art International Zurich Artfair, Artist selected to
represent the continent of America, NKE Gallery, Zurich,
Switzerland
Uncensored, Artist invited by the New Yorker Magazine,
New York, USA
Contrast Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Opera Gallery, Timeless textures (group show), Singapore
Opera Gallery, Timeless women (group show), Singapore
2003 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Murmures urbains, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Eighteen Restaurant, Ottawa, Canada
Galerie d’art Iris, Temps au jardin, Baie -Saint-Paul,
Quebec, Canada
Opera Gallery, Regards sur le temps (group show),
New York, USA
2002 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Les intemporels, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Galerie Bénédicte Gauthier Summer, Réflexion du temps,
Paris, France
Galerie d’art Iris, Harmonique du temps, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
2001 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Gens du nouveau millénaire,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Grand Prix du Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Grand Prix, Indianapolis, USA
2000 Galerie Tremblay-Monet, Fragments humains, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Grand Prix du Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Grand Prix, Indianapolis, USA
ReCENTsoloGROUPexhibitions
Borden Ladner Gervais, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hôtel Le Saint-James, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hôtel Le Saint-Sulpice, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Newman-Haas Racing LLC, Lincolnshire, USA
Stikeman Elliot, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tower Watson  Co, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CORPORATECOMMISSIONS
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Corno & Tremblay

  • 2. 2 3 JOHANNE CORNO SYLVAIN TREMBLAY Opera Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition that includes a retrospective of artworks by two renowned contemporary artists from Canada: Johanne Corno and Sylvain Tremblay. These artists play a vital role in the American Art Market. One by her thick texture mostly realized by a brightness of colors depicting erotic faces. The other, by his very unique technique, combining an abundance of materials on canvas. On the way she underlines the faces of her characters, in their eyes and the freedom and ecstasy they express, we cannot deny that Corno’s work is inspired by American pop art and artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein from the 60s and 70s. On the other hand, the composition of Tremblay’s paintings can refer to American street art and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat. Johanne Corno is a Canadian female artist based in New York, who distinguishes her style by representing erotic faces. Inspired by neo pop art, her style is very much orbiting towards a use of bright and funky colors slashed and applied roughly with a handful of strokes. These multiple strokes therefore create movement, dynamism and momentum: beautiful and sumptuous faces accentuated by the movement of their hair and the rotation of their faces. Sylvain Tremblay is another well- established artist who combines resin and lacquer on canvas. His type of representation draws its lines between abstraction and figurative. Individuals represented on his canvases are limited significantly by the use of outer lines underlining simply and specifically their silhouettes. Characters of men and women are mainly presented on the foreground whereas the background focuses on colors and shine with the use of acrylic, mosaics of colors and a varnish that emphasizes the brightness of the piece compared to the plasticity of the metallic lustre. Opera Gallery wishes you a prosper year and a pleasant evening in our special exhibition. We hope the event will inspire our observers’ imagination and strive them into new heights and new ideas. Once again, we look forward to seeing you in Opera Gallery. Ahmad Bachan Manager Opera Gallery Dubai Gilles Dyan Founder and Chairman Opera Gallery Group
  • 3. 4 5 In a city where the skyline is populated with towering skyscrapers, the French limestone façade of the 14-storey Ritz - Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) represents a bold and refreshing contrast among its lofty neighbours. The 341- room hotel, with 124 executive residences, offers an elegantly contemporary design and art deco elements within a stately exterior. Keeping with the overall master plan of the adjacent financial district which is determinedly low-rise and urban in design, world-renowned architect Gensler, ensured The Ritz - Carlton maintained this original vision while drawing influence from the best European architecture. The urban environment of The Ritz - Carlton was considered at every opportunity and is showcased with a sunken garden, colonnade, and abundance of lush, shaded outdoor terraces, a revealing Middle Eastern influence. The private, residential feel one would expect from a noble chateau is established with the private courtyard and porte cochere; it is delicately balanced by intentional feng shui elements including eight striking water features throughout the hotel and a dramatic 10 - storey outdoor waterfall cascading down the building and into the courtyard. “There are many water elements throughout the hotel which provide a soothing aesthetic quality to such an urban location,” says General Manager Lothar Quarz. “The fact that modern design wisdom perceives the constant flow of water to be auspicious bodes well for our hotel which we hope will be a hit among wedding and meeting planners.” Entering the hotel lobby, all eyes are automatically drawn upwards to the three-storey high lobby ceiling. In lieu of a traditional chandelier showpiece, 44 crystal stems designed to resemble frosted branches in the moonlight, illuminate the lobby. Each of these contemporary light sculptures are meticulously positioned by hand to the silver leaf ceiling, and comprises of full lead crystals in various sizes and shapes - octagon, tear drop, almond, square, pendeloque, and pear. These visual masterpieces are by the renowned Prague-based lighting artisans at Lasvit (the name, a blend of two Czech words meaning “love” and “light,”) who have created some of the most original light installations around the world. A unique concept in hotel design, The Ritz - Carlton, DIFC offers two separate planes from which guests can access the hotel and facilities, the lobby and the podium level. Providing traditional ground level access at the lobby level, guests can find the front desk, guest services and Can Can, the all- day dining French brasserie. The podium level features a walkway directly attached to Dubai International Financial Centre, and is the only hotel to do so. The social hub will be at No. 5 Lounge & Bar that is located in the prime welcoming position at the end of this pathway. The room is masculine in texture and tone with leather panelled walls and a dark walnut plank floor; perfect for relaxing with a drink and cigar. The Lobby Lounge & Terrace which overlooks the main hotel reception is designed as a sleek salon with tailored furniture and low tables situated on custom designed oriental carpets. Combined with the contemporary Lasvit chandelier, the overall effect is one of glamour. The Center Cut steak restaurant balances a palette of dark burgundy wine and rich butterscotch, with wood plank floors surrounded by dark green marble. The central banquette features a sculptural whirlwind of handmade glass leaves supported by silver cables. Striking ink-on-paper portraits of bulls are featured throughout the room. In contrast to the muted tones of Center Cut and No. 5 Lounge & Bar, the signature fine dining Thai restaurant, Blue Rain, offers a very minimal design emphasized by blue and gold shades. A water feature spills down one wall and through the centre of the room under a glass floor - a very contemporary version of the water in the Court of the Lions at the Alhambra and a hand-blown glass bubble chandelier, also by Lasvit, runs the entire length of the room. Blue Rain looks out to the porte cochere from behind the 10-storey high waterfall in the main courtyard. A dramatic 30 meter (100 feet) wine wall runs the length of the corridor connecting Center Cut and Blue Rain. Home to over 3,500 bottles of the finest varietals in the world, it is a focal point for gourmands and wine connoisseurs. The expansive Samaya Ballroom (Arabic for “My Sky”), measures 1,400 square meters (15,106 square feet), was a major factor in the overall hotel layout due to its size. The roofscape overtop the ballroom was conceptualized to make use of the area by bringing an additional element of outdoor space to the property and also creating a rooftop Fountain Terrace perfect for weddings and other special events. Notable factors that make the Samaya Ballroom a standout for event planners includes the ground level location, private driveway and hotel entrance, underground loading dock and service areas, pillar - and chandelier - free function space with ceiling height of six meters (19 feet), motor vehicle access directly into the ballroom as well as retractable walls which make the room divisible by four. With the ability to host events from 10 to 1,500 people, The Ritz - Carlton, DIFC is Dubai’s ultimate destination for stylish and luxurious meetings and events. Ritz - Carlton guests will feel right at home with fine crystal chandeliers and oriental carpets used throughout the hotel but in a non-traditional manner with colourful designs of Eastern influence. Inspiration from the Middle East surroundings can be seen in the featured artwork of Arabian horses. All guestrooms showcase floor - to- ceiling windows filled with natural light. The spacious feel is continued through most rooms with glass open-concept bathrooms and each feature televisions embedded in the mirrors. Guestrooms range from 45 square meters (484 square feet) to 220 square meters (2,368 square feet) in size and all vary in shape, as well. The two Royal Suites have upholstered walls of creamy silk and matching drapery in the Parlour and Dining Rooms much like 1940’s Parisian Salons. Each has a study which is wood paneled in Tiger oak and bedrooms that boast handmade area carpets and silk upholstered walls. By the numbers: • Main lobby: 3 levels, 15 meter/49 foot height to ceiling • 180 Art Deco style chandeliers • Waterfall: 2,000 litres/528 gallons per minute (fall) • Ballroom: 3,000 meters/9,843 feet of optic fiber and 15,000 light bulbs • External passageways: 4,500 meters/14,764 feet • 50,000 installed electric sources • 1,200 external lamps • 5,000 windows • 40 varieties of plants and trees cover the hotel grounds • More than 5,000 metric tons of marble and stone from around the world is showcased: o Façade and interior lobby are made of French limestone (Valange) and Finnish marble o Internal stones are Italian (Spa), Omani (guestrooms), Moroccan (executive residences’ kitchens), Spanish (main entrance corridors) and Indian (green marble in Center Cut)
  • 4. 6 7Dubai bold on fluo green Mixed media Diptych: 152,5 x 305 cm - 60 x 120 in. cOrno’sstatement I’ve been painting for 30 years. It’s my passion. It gives me life and energy. The main idea behind my work is an impulse to create a burst of emotion that makes you go further, that makes you want to conquer the world. Vivid colors best express this. I paint large because it gives me room to breathe. I hate constraint. I value freedom and I want to express it through my art. I see larger than life and that’s what I paint. I describe my work as new expressionism. My style is a fusion of brilliant colors, explosive gesture and figurative details with a contemporary resonance and appeal. My paintings are loaded with raw energy. They reflect intense emotions of love, passion, death. Music provides a bubble in which I isolate myself from the world in the creative process. The subject matter that interests me is the human body. I have no shame about it. It’s an object of beauty and an endless source of inspiration. I try to depict the body of men and women liberated from the censorship of puritanical attitudes. New York City is raw, off limits. Within a few miles, you have access to the whole world. That’s why I choose to live and paint here. I get restless elsewhere. The city’s rhythm pulsates in my canvases. Life is full of contradictions. I express these emotions with the contrasts and dichotomies I portray in any given painting. I bring it all together but there is never a resolution. It always remains a process, just like modern life. We live in a world of paradoxes and I’m always on the edge. I have always believed that I have something to say and to bring to the world through my art. Nothing can stop me from saying it and following my vision, my dream. My gestural strokes reflect my unapologetic attitude - my drive for success, my restless dedication. I can’t imagine not painting. It’s my destiny
  • 5. 8 9Dubai bold on pink Dubai bold on blue with tealMixed media Mixed mediaDiptych: 183 x 244 cm - 72 x 96 in. 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in.
  • 6. 10 11Dubai bold on yellow Dubai bold on grayMixed media Mixed mediaDiptych: 152,5 x 305 cm - 60 x 120 in. 122 x 152,5 cm - 48 x 60 in.
  • 7. 12 13Dubai bold on maroon Mixed media Diptych: 152,5 x 274,5 cm - 60 x 108 in.
  • 8. 14 15 2 1 4 3 5Dubai bold on: 1 - white Mixed media 122 x 152,5 cm - 48 x 60 in. 2 - fluo orange with gold - 3 - orange - 4 - dark orange - 5 - clear orange Mixed media 152,5 x 122 cm - 60 x 48 in.
  • 9. 16 17Dubai bold on fluo yellow Mixed media 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in. Dubai bold on sky blue Mixed media 152,5 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in.
  • 10. 18 19 cOrno’s BIOGRAPHY Johanne Corno is a Canadian artist based in New York, who graduated from the University of Quebec in Montreal and quickly turned to a full time painting career. Her first representation was at the Clarence Gagnon Gallery in Montreal. By the late 1980s, she had become the darling of Montreal collectors and one of the most sought-after Quebec artists. Her reputation was quickly growing across Canada with shows in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver. She was the featured artist at the Quebec Pavilion at Expo 86 in Vancouver that propelled her visibility to new heights. During this period and into the early 90s, she was represented by Yves Laroche Gallery. With a strong market in Canada, Corno turned to the US and had shows at the Morgan Gallery in Boston and San Diego State University. But New York City was an irresistible magnet, so she moved there in 1992. To jump-start her career, she participated in group shows and various art events. Following in the footsteps of O’Keefe and Dalí, she was the featured artist at Steuben Glass, which placed her paintings in their flagship store on Madison Avenue. The new millennium brought Corno to Opera Gallery in Soho, which began representing her work worldwide. Playing a balancing act of high - energy dichotomies that stimulate the imagination and throw the viewer off balance, her new style superimposes itself over underlying intricate figurative details. The resulting fusion has a contemporary resonance and appeal. A superb colorist, she incorporates intense textures into her surfaces and uses bold brush strokes. Her international rise to fame took place in several stages. In 2007, Corno was the Guest of Honor for the Fido Spot where her work was projected on the largest state of the art outdoor digital projector system in Canada. Before that, her work was featured at Luminato, Toronto’s Festival of Arts and Creativity, in addition to being shown at the Thompson Landry Gallery. In 2009, Corno had an important exhibition at Opera Gallery Singapore titled Corno Ali Esmaeilipour followed by her first major exhibition at Opera Gallery Dubai, a joint exhibition with Wang Yehan. Another major event, she was the Guest Artist of the Montreal International Jazz Festival for the celebration of their 30th anniversary that coincided with the 30 - year mark of her own artistic career. The commissioned painting is on permanent display at the TD Gallery Lounge. An Opening at AKA Gallery scheduled to coincide with this event made the evening news on CBC television. The Thompson Landry Gallery in Toronto featured Corno’s work in a special anniversary celebration of their own gallery. An exhibition at Opera Gallery London took place in the fall and showcased several large murals. The year 2010 had several landmarks for Corno. First an important exhibition titled In the Mood for Art took place at Opera Gallery Hong Kong. Corno also immortalized rock star bad boy, Eric Lapointe by painting his portrait for the cover of his hit CD album. But the biggest surprise of all was the launch of Cornographie, Corno’s autobiogra- phical account of her beginnings in New York City published by La Presse Editions. Her anecdotes are whimsical and her style as colorful as her art. The year ended with a one-woman show at Opera Gallery New York simply titled Corno that was by all accounts a smash hit. Corno’s works can be found in museums, and corporate and private collections all over the world. In 2009, More Magazine named her one of the Top 40 over 40 Women in Canada. Later in the year, Chatelaine Magazine included her in their list of the Top 100 Women in Quebec. After much hard work, she never takes her success for granted and encourages young artists to follow their dreams because sometimes dreams really do come true. 2012 Opera Gallery, Corno Tremblay (group show), Dubai, UAE 2011 David Lawrence Gallery, West Hollywood, Quebec in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA Roosevelt Hotel, West Hollywood, Quebec in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA TD Gallery Lounge, Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan, Art and Desire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2010 Opera Gallery, Corno, New York, USA Centre National d’Exposition, Le paradoxe du rapprochement, Jonquière, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada Opera Gallery, In the Mood for Art (group show), Hong Kong 2009 Opera Gallery, Corno Eduardo Guelfenbein (group show), London, UK AKA Gallery, Corno, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Opera Gallery, Corno Ali Esmaeilipour (group show), Singapore Opera Gallery, Corno Wang Yehan (group show), Dubai, UAE AKA Gallery, Recent Paintings, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2008 Opera Gallery, Roc-Roussey Corno (group show), New York, USA Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Calgary, Canada Opera Gallery, Corno Moz (group show), Paris, France Opera Gallery, Made in NY (group show), New York, USA Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Toronto, Canada Opera Gallery, Open Your Heart (group show), Hong Kong 2007 Opera Gallery, New Works, Venice, Italy Opera Gallery, New Works, Seoul, Korea Left Coast Galleries, Corno - Recent Works, Los Angeles, USA Fido Spot Inauguration, Guest of Honor, Multi-media projection, Toronto, Canada Thompson Landry Gallery (group show), Toronto, Canada AKA Gallery, Corno- New Works, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Opera Gallery, New Works, London, UK Opera Gallery, Corno, Hong Kong 2006 Left Coast Galleries, Recent Works, Los Angeles, USA Left Coast Galleries, Recent Works, Studio City, Los Angeles, USA Opera Gallery, Corno Kaplan (group show), Hong Kong Opera Gallery, New Works, London, UK Royal Albert Hall, featured artist, Cirque du Soleil, Alegria Premiere, London, UK Roof Gardens, featured artist, Cirque du Soleil, Alegria Premiere, London, UK Thompson Landry Gallery, Recent Works, Toronto, Canada Ars Vivesco (group show), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Éco - Musée du Fier Monde, Exposition Enchantée, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2005 Opera Gallery, Corno, New York, USA Columbus Circle, Techno - Graffiti Event, New York, USA Splash Light Studio Sweet Spot, Featured artist, Casablanca Event for Jay-J Latrice Barnet, with Vasili Matthieu Lagarde, François Ayrault AntiGravity, New York, USA The Train, Prêt - à-Porter Paris-New York, Featured artist, New York, USA Opera Gallery, Kaleidoscope, Paris, France Opera Gallery, Recent Works, Hong Kong Méliès at l’Ex-Centris, New Works, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Ars Vivesco (group show), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Éco - Musée du Fier Monde, Exposition Enchantée, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2004 Opera Gallery, Corno, Paris, France Opera Gallery, Recent Paintings, New York, USA Black and Blue Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2003 Opera Gallery, Larger than Life, New York, USA Opera Gallery, Explosions of Color, Miami, USA 2001 Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Michel Blais Gallery (group show), Vancouver, Canada 2000 Selima Gallery (group show), New York, USA Steuben Glass, A Touch of the Exotic, featured artist, New York, USA Paul LaBrecque Salon, New York, USA Atmosphere Gallery, Portraits of New York, New York, USA Atmosphere Gallery, Next, New York, USA Atmosphere Gallery, Vision, New York, USA Atmosphere Gallery, November, New York, USA Atmosphere Gallery Opening, New York, USA Art Mode Gallery, Corno Exposed, Calgary, Canada ReCENTsoloGROUPexhibitions
  • 11. 20 21Temps nouveau d’un être Mixed media 61 x 61 cm - 24 x 24 in. I want to always paint by instinct It’s like when you’re young and want to be a writer. First you have to live and travel and learn so that you have a story to tell. The same is true with painting. The images I paint are a celebration of the hopeful and cheerful aspects of human life. I use acrylics and a top coat of varnish. I create human forms in a matte finish, set against an abstract, hyper glossy background of color planes. My works are almost sculptural; the roughly - sketched figures seem to emerge through the backdrop, presenting themselves on canvas. I’m an urban artist. I examine how the materials of a city grow and decay, like in nature. Just as the landscape painter understands trees and the color of the sky, I understand the textures of a city. My work is an illusion of freedom; my style seems to flow freely, but in reality, the concept has already been conceived in the most precise detail. My upcoming projects will be inspired by new environments, by a new urban life in bigger cities. My inspiration now comes from China, where I have been living part- time for the last year. Beijing, the city of change! Everything goes so fast. I have to be ready to accept and feel the real moment; the one that makes me insecure. When this happens, I want to break the limits and express my discomfort using colors and textures. My work becomes more sculptural. My art is more like the spontaneous manipulation of the soul; it rises, it’s stronger. I use each experience like a message I must deliver. I explore every new city and every new painting as if it was the very first time, without limits or judgment calls, like an artist who must expel the history of humans. My art is intuitive yet meticulously process-driven. tremblay’sstatement
  • 12. 22 23 Dame aux espaces modernes Mixed media 152,5 x 122 cm - 60 x 48 in. Phase double expression Mixed media 91,5 x 91,5 cm - 36 x 36 in.
  • 13. 24 25Plaine du temps Mixed media 61 x 122 cm - 24 x 48 in.
  • 14. 26 27 Hautes perspectives 1 Mixed media 305 x 45,5 cm - 120 x 18 in. Êtres de lumière intemporels Mixed media Triptych: 152,5 x 213,5 cm - 60 x 84 in.
  • 15. 28 29Dame au rocher Mixed media 61 x 61 cm - 24 x 24 in. Le grand parc de la falaise rouge Mixed media Triptych: 183 x 213,5 cm - 72 x 84 in.
  • 16. 30 31Affection intemporelle Mixed media 152,5 x 152,5 cm - 60 x 60 in. Haute attitude sans temps Mixed media 213,5 x 152,5 cm - 84 x 60 in.
  • 17. 32 33 tremblay’s BIOGRAPHY Sylvain Tremblay was born in 1966 in Quebec City, Canada, and lives and works in Montreal. He has had exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States. In collections all over the world, canvas upon canvas attest to the enormous richness of the artist’s imagination and seemingly endless creative energy. Sylvain Tremblay is a well-established artist who combines resin and lacquer on canvas. Between abstraction and figurative, the silhouettes of his paintings appear thanks to outer lines underlining them. The paintings, boldly glowing with Sylvain Tremblay’s signature veneer, have streamlined compositions playing against the abstract checkerboard of colour planes. They serve as backdrops for the textural figures in his work. The paintings are striking, the emerging human form roughly - sketched, elongated figures. As one approaches the painting, the many layers of varnish, undulating, almost moving, begin to release their hidden images creating an abstract landscape for the human forms within the piece. Sylvain Tremblay’s works have always been anchored in the inescapable passage of time, use and texture. His themes converge on the human condition in an industrialized, urban context. Although the artist works on canvas, he sees his paintings as something closer to sculpture. Tremblay shapes his human figures with the idea in mind of a sculpture, weathered by time and the natural elements. “Just as the experiences in life weather us physically and emotionally, I want to express this in art, that’s why I like to work with texture; the crackling and the overall look of used, weathered and lived in.” Tremblay’s gaunt, elongated silhouettes have been compared to the work of master sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Working texture upon texture, color and more color, the artist’s sculptural, undulating figures incorporate gesso, metal, sand or textiles. These “urban” forms intertwine history with modernity with the absence of time and location, which enhances the mystifying sense of immortality and the human condition as themes in his work. If imitation is indeed the highest form of flattery, then Sylvain Tremblay should consider himself flattered. It seems his unique style has inspired others to follow step, but instead of provoking anxiety, this unexpected form of artistic tip of the hat only spurred the painter into a new level of meaning and passion in his work. 2012 Opera Gallery, Corno Tremblay (group show), Dubai, UAE 2011 Caochangdi Art Gallery, Beijing, China Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2010 World Universal Exhibition, Canada Pavilion, Shanghai, China Galerie Lydia Monaro (group show), Montreal, Quebec, Canada Opera Gallery, Silhouette of Dreams (group show), Singapore Opera Gallery, New York, USA Opera Gallery, Esmaeilipour Tremblay (group show), Hong Kong 2009 Opera Gallery, Timeless (group show), Seoul, Korea Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2008 Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto, Canada Opera Gallery, Hong Kong Opera Gallery, official book launch Sylvain Tremblay, New York, USA 2007 Opera Gallery, Cisinsky Tremblay (group show), London, UK Galerie d’art Iris, Baie - Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada Art Gallery, Nassau, Commonwealth of the Bahamas 2006 Opera Gallery (group show), New York, USA Opera Gallery (group show), Singapore Contrast Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Opera Gallery (group show), Miami, USA 2005 2nd Beijing International Art Biennale, Artist selected to represent Canada, Beijing, China Quebec Week, Artist selected to represent the province of Quebec by the Quebec General Delegation in Brussels, Silly, Belgium Opera Gallery (group show), Hong Kong Opera Gallery, Goddesses (group show), New York, USA Opera Gallery (group show), Miami, USA 2004 6th Art International Zurich Artfair, Artist selected to represent the continent of America, NKE Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Uncensored, Artist invited by the New Yorker Magazine, New York, USA Contrast Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Opera Gallery, Timeless textures (group show), Singapore Opera Gallery, Timeless women (group show), Singapore 2003 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Murmures urbains, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Eighteen Restaurant, Ottawa, Canada Galerie d’art Iris, Temps au jardin, Baie -Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada Opera Gallery, Regards sur le temps (group show), New York, USA 2002 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Les intemporels, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Galerie Bénédicte Gauthier Summer, Réflexion du temps, Paris, France Galerie d’art Iris, Harmonique du temps, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2001 Galerie Lydia Monaro, Gens du nouveau millénaire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Grand Prix du Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Grand Prix, Indianapolis, USA 2000 Galerie Tremblay-Monet, Fragments humains, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Grand Prix du Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Grand Prix, Indianapolis, USA ReCENTsoloGROUPexhibitions Borden Ladner Gervais, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hôtel Le Saint-James, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hôtel Le Saint-Sulpice, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Newman-Haas Racing LLC, Lincolnshire, USA Stikeman Elliot, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Tower Watson Co, Montreal, Quebec, Canada CORPORATECOMMISSIONS
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