Catherine Préfontaine

Catherine Préfontaine was born in Montreal and completed a bachelor‚ a degree in visual arts at Concordia University in 1997 with a major in painting and drawing and a minor in photography. She then obtained a master, a degree in visual and media arts at UQAM in 2003, where she focused on drawing in the form of an installation or an in situ work. Her work has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada since 1994 (Axe Néo 7, Dare-Dare, Galerie Sylviane Poirier, PLATFORM CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC + DIGITAL ARTS (Floating Gallery, Winnipeg). She lives in Montreal and divides her time between teaching and artistic creation.