Jocelyne Alloucherie
(1947–)
Jocelyne Alloucherie
1947–
Jocelyne Alloucherie (1947– ), born in Québec City, is a sculptor and academic. Her work often integrates drawing and photography into installations, rooted in intellectual rigour and clarity and defined by a personal visual vocabulary and definition of space.
Alloucherie began her artistic career in the early 1970s. She studied Fine Arts at the Université Laval in 1971 and received an MFA from Concordia University in 1981. Her work combines the disciplines of sculpture, architecture, photography, installation, drawing, and painting, to conceptually and poetically explore the relationships between image, object, and place. She plays with the ambiguous components that resemble architectural archetypes, urban or domestic furniture, without making any direct reference to reality. She often produces sculptural and pictorial installations ranging from human-scale to monumental.
Alloucherie has exhibited in major museums and institutions, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1998); Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1995); the Vancouver Art Gallery (1996); Grand Palais, Paris (2008); and Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (2020). She also received numerous prestigious awards in Canada, such as the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1989, the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2000, the Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008.
As an academic, Alloucherie has taught visual arts and art history at the Université Laval, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Concordia University, and the University of Ottawa.