biography

Josée Pedneault lives and works in Montréal. She received a BFA in fine arts and a certificate in Art History at the Université Laval in Quebec city. In 2006, she completed with honors an MFA in photography at Concordia University with Geneviève Cadieux as a thesis adviser. The same year, following an international competition, Josée Pedneault was awarded a 4 months art residency and grant at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, with the program Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes. The residency concluded on a solo exhibition. During her stay in Poland, the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw awarded her a special grant and financed the exhibition's catalogue. In 2007, a photo series on Hong Kong was commissioned for the art issue of Air Canada's enRoute magazine. The series was published on 12 pages of the magazine as well as shown on Air Canada's international in-flight screens for 3 months. In 2006-2007, Josée Pedneault has been represented by Galerie Thérèse Dion, before the well-known Montreal gallerist passed away last November and gallery closed down.

Her photographic and installation work has been shown in Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Poland and Luxembourg. Her last exhibition, Murmures, presented at the Mois de la photo in Montreal was awarded the People's Choice Award Le Devoir/Contact Image. In June 2008, her photo series from Warsaw with love will be shown at the 4 th edition of the Manifestation d'art actuel de Québec (Manif d'Art) in Quebec City. She is currently working in Paris where she has been invited as a resident artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (CALQ, January to July 2008).