Vicky Sabourin
Vicky Sabourin lives and works in Montreal. She holds a master’s degree in visual arts from Concordia University. Her work has been presented in art galleries, museums and artist-run centres in Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Portugal. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Les Curiosités at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), Danse Macabre at L’Oeil de Poisson in Quebec City, and Warmblood at Hamilton Artists Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario. Sabourin’s piece Lac caché was part of the event Manif d’art 8, Biennale d’art contemporain du Québec, presented at the MNBAQ. This event, whose theme was joy, included work by Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager. In December 2014 she was named emerging artist of the year by the newspaper La Presse and was a finalist for the Pierre Ayot Award. She is a recipient of grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.