List of products by brand Florence Victor
Florence Victor lives and works in Montreal, where she studied literature (Université de Montréal), theatre (UQAM), painting (Concordia University) and art history (UQAM). She holds a master's degree in art history on Renaissance portraiture (UQAM). In 2023, she completed a doctorate in Arts Studies and Practices (UQAM), for which she received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Her work can be found in public and private collections in Canada, the United States, France, Belgium, England and Australia.
EDUCATION
2015
Masters Art History, UQAM
2013-15
Min. Art History, UQAM
1993-96
Concordia University, Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1992-93
Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Things We Said, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
2025
Après la pluie, Galerie Salon Art Club, Montréal
12x2, Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, Ottawa
2024
L’heure bleue, Galerie Salon Art Club, Montréal
Expo S, the Long Haul, Montréal
2023
Artistes de la galerie, Galerie Salon Art Club
2022
Quelques jours à Berlin, Galerie Salon Art Club, Montréal
R Show, the Long Haul, Montréal
Expo R, the Long Haul, Montréal
2021
Maybe Tomorrow, St-Laurent + Hill gallery, Ottawa
2014
On Love, Structure and Doubt, St-Laurent + Hill gallery, Ottawa
2013
Moscow Method, Gallery3, Ottawa
2012
Tomorrow will be a better day, Gavin Spanierman Gallery, New York
2010
Hansel & Gretel, St-Laurent+Hill gallery, Ottawa
2008
On friendship, love and sex, St-Laurent+Hill gallery, Ottawa
2007
Vivre, Quartier libre gallery, Montreal
2006
Riverside drive, 479 Gallery, Ottawa La pluie d’été, Galerie Quartier libre, Montreal
2004
St-Laurent+Hill gallery, Ottawa Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Presbytère, St-Bruno
2003
Arounna Khounnoraj & Florence Victor, Galerie St-Laurent+Hill
2002
Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, Ottawa
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
L’heure bleue, Galerie Salon Art Club, Montréal
2009-2024
Annual Group Show, the Long Haul, Montréal
2023
Artistes de la galerie, Galerie Salon Art Club
2016
Petits formats, Gallery 3, Ottawa
2005-2009
Encan-bénéfice Centre d’exposition Plein sud, Longueuil
2009
Encan-bénéfice Centre d’exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, Canada Gallery artists, Galerie Quartier Libre, Montreal
2008
8x2, Galerie Quartier libre, Montreal
2007
Encan-bénéfice Centre d’exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, Canada Petits formats, Galerie Quartier Libre, Montreal
2006
Les Femmeuses, Pratt&Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Canada
2005
Gallery Artists, Galerie Quartier libre, Montreal Encan-bénéfice Centre d’exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, Canada
2004
Encan-bénéfice MACM, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Les Femmeuses, Pratt&Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Canada
2003
Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, Canada L’esprit zen, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Presbytère, St-Bruno
1998 - 2002
Les Femmeuses, Pratt&Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Canada
I have always been interested in comparative studies; oppositions and links. After my studies in literature and theater, I went to Paris, France. While spending day after day visiting museums, I found in visual arts what I had been looking for in acting: commitment, intensity, communion, density. When I came back to Montreal, I went to art school. I began with sculpture and welding classes. I was attracted to monumental structures and paradoxically, at the same time, to fragility. Then, slowly, I drifted toward painting.
Urban architecture — construction & deconstruction — has been for a long time the inspiration for my work. I was reading a lot and the books and monologues I had studied were constantly coming back to my mind, adding another dimension to my work.
Through literature, my paintings would be about human condition: life’s fragility, hope, love, rupture and solitude. Urban landscape would stay but would become metaphorical. From the city, I would use atmosphere, ugliness, dirt and void. My work has always stayed attached to those two poles: urban space and literature, finding in them material, structure and rhythm.
