Geneviève Cadieux

Geneviève Cadieux studied at University of Ottawa. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is photograph and installation art. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public art. Employment is recorded with Concordia University. Work by Geneviève Cadieux is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art de Joliette, Vancouver Art Gallery, Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts and Art Gallery of Ontario. Distinctions recorded are Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas and Member of the Order of Canada.

• Name — Geneviève Cadieux • Born — 17 July 1955 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Education — BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa • Known for — photographer who frequently makes large-scale public installations

Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1955. She received her BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa.

Geneviève Cadieux is a photographer who frequently works with audio-visual materials in her large-scale public installations in urban settings. Cadieux's work confronts identity, gender, and the body. She presents the body as a landscape, focusing on small details close-up, such as mouths, bruises, and scars. Cadieux's early career was mainly in film photography. Her 1989 work, Hear Me With Your Eyes, was featured at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and consisted of large-scale photographic prints of a woman displaying sexually evocative facial expressions. Over time, Cadieux's work has shifted to integrating video and audio content, such as her Broken Memory. The piece employed glass sculpture representative of the human body and a recorded reading of a 17th-century poem by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. A notable video work by Cadieux was included as the inaugural piece of the 2002 The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, an undertaking by Creative Time and Panasonic wherein the 59th minute of each hour of the day saw an artistic image in place of regular programming. Cadieux's Portrait celebrated the regeneration and renewal of spring, featuring footage of a solitary tree, a lonely survivor of the 1998 ice storm in Montreal. • Illustration — La Voie lactée, 1992 One of Cadieux's most prominent works is her 1992 piece La Voie lactée, a photograph of a woman's red lips displayed on the rooftop of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. It has since become an icon of Montréal. In 2011, a sister piece, La Voix lactée, was commissioned by the Société de transport de Montréal as a gift for the Paris Metro, in exchange for the Hector Guimard Parisian metro entrance at Square-Victoria-OACI station. Based on the theme of the French language binding France and Quebec, it features a mosaic reproduction of La Voie lactée, accompanied by a poem by Anne Hébert. It was installed at Saint-Lazare station. In 2019, her work FLOW/FLOTS was unveiled at Rideau station of the O-Train, Ottawa.

• Illustration — Lierre sur pierre, 2009 • Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France • Museum Van Hadendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium • The Montreal Biennial, Canada, 1985, 1986, 2000 • The São Paulo Biennial, Brazil, 1987 • The Sydney Biennial, Australia, 1987 and 1990 • The Venice Biennial, Italy, 1990 • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1993 • Tate Gallery, London, 1995 • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 1996 • Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, 1998 • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000 • The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, New York, 2002 • Geneviève Cadieux, Barcelone, 2003–21, National Gallery of Canada, 2021

Geneviève Cadieux is recorded as having received Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.