Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin (born, 1965) is a Montreal-based visual artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. In Jodoin's drawing, there is no objective figure and that gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception of her work that contains some didactic intent is "Yesterday and Tomorrow", which is consist of a series of drawings. Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walked through a corridor.

Jodoin is known chiefly for her figurative, drawing-based practice in traditional media as well as college, video, and altered found objects. She has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009, sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.

• VOLTA NY, New York, NY 2012
• close your eyes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British-Columbia 2012
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 2012
• Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence, Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Landry 2011
• I felt a cleaving in my mind, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Susannah Wesley 2011
• You have to kill a whole to get a little, Oboro, Montréal, Québec 2011
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Invited Artist, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario 2010
• The Cherished Ones, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2010
• De peine et de misère, Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 2010
• Nous sommes en manque, National Center for the Arts - French Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario. Invited by director Wajdi Mouawad 2009
• Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2009
• Vigils, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2009
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec. Curated by Danielle Lord 2009
• Hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Connexion Gallery, organised by UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 2008
• Regiment, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec; travelled to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C. (2007)
• Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (2007)
• Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part II), Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2005
• Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part I), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005
• Drawing Shadows; portraits of my mother, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2004
• Figures Undressing, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003
• Recent Works, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2000
• Architectures, Centre d’exposition des Gouverneurs, Sorel, Québec 1997
• Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, Québec 1996
• Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994
• Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 1992

• Intimate Theatre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario. Developed by Art History graduate student Kristina Thornton 2012
• Calgary Collects, Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta. Curated by Jeffrey Spalding 2012
• Victoria Collects, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia. Curated by Mary Jo Hughes 2012
• Front by Front, Museum London, London, Ontario. Curated by Cassandra Getty 2011
• La coexistence des traits. 40 ans de dialogue entre les éditions du Noroît et les artistes visuels, Maison de la culture Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Gilles Daigneault, Marc-André Brouillette 2011
• body / no body, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris 2011
• Sagamie : l’imprimé numérique en art numérique, Galerie d’art de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec. Curated by Nicholas Pitre 2011
• Black, Atelier Punkt, Montréal, Québec 2011
• Go Figure, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York 2010
• Les objets secrets de l’atelier, Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Robert Dufour 2010
• Le Tarot de Montréal, Maison de la Culture Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Bouthillier (limited edition 23-card tarot deck) 2010
• The Figure Five Ways, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2010
• White Object, Atelier Punkt, Montréal, Québec 2010
• Peux mieux faire, Atelier Punkt, Montreal. Curated by Emmanuel Galland 2009
• Somewhere along the line, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax. Curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Katie Belcher 2009
• Storm of painters, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2009
• Terminal’s First Annual Short Video Festival, screening of Headgames, The Department of Art and The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee 2009
• Embodied Forms (John Fox, Sophie Jodoin, Louise Masson), Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Québec 2009
• The Kahlo Legacy: Contemporary Women’s Self-Portraits, Spheris Gallery, Hanover, New-Hampshire 2008
• Spitting Image, artists from Edward Day Gallery at Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec 2008
• Vast Beautiful System (Barely Holding Together), Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Curated by Alex Kanevsky 2007
• Body Notes, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec 2006
• 8th International Miniature Art Biennial, Musée de la Miniature de Montélimar, Montélimar, France; travelled to Alma, Québec 2006
• Dancing to the Invisible Piper: Canadian Contemporary Figure Art, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario 2006
• On Form and Figure, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 2005
• Ils sont 19 du Québec, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2005
• Angela Grossmann, Sophie Jodoin, Mona Shahid, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005
• Woman, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2005
• Figure & Form, Buschlen Mowatt, Vancouver, B.C. 2003
• Human Figure, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2002
• Re-presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; travelled to Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York (2002)
• Made in Canada: Contemporary Art from Montreal, Burke Gallery, Plattsburg State University of New York, Plattsburg, New York 2001
• Le portrait, Domaine Cataraqui, Sillery, Québec 2000
• The Figure, Galerie 78, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 1999
• Eight Montreal Artists in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 1997
• Artifice, Montréal, Québec 1996
• Souffrance - Silence, Optica, Montréal, Québec 1995
• Drawing Plus, Open Space, Victoria, BC 1994
• Le Corps-Fantôme, Galerie Dare-Dare, Montréal, Québec 1993
• L'Entrespace, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Québec 1993