Ève K. Tremblay

Tron and Pink Cone, 2014, archival pigment print, 48 x 32 inches

Resident Artist at (Re)Create in Summer 2014

At the heart of my multidisciplinary practice lies photography, an anchor point around which I weave fragmented and staged narratives. My work unfolds through various mediums: photographic tableaux, videos, sculptures, ceramics, porcelains, drawings, paintings, and collages. These creations converge to form meditative spaces, designed to offer an alternative perspective on our world.

Born in 1972, Ève K. Tremblay grew up (en français) between Val-David and Montreal in Quebec. After studying French literature at the University of Montreal, she attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, worked in the film industry as a still photographer, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in visual arts with a photography major from Concordia University in Montreal in 2000 with a best overall achievement award. The influence of literature, theater, and cinema remains very present in her photographic and interdisciplinary works, mixed with the exploration of science and consciousness.

She was the recipient of many grants, such as from CAC and CALQ, and was longlisted for the Sobeys Art Award (Quebec, 2012). She lived many years between Montreal, Berlin, and NYC and has participated in numerous artist residencies. Her works have been widely published, namely in The New York Times, Art Forum Critic Picks, Ciel Variable, Border Crossings, C-Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, Kunstforum, Le Devoir, etc. Her works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Bergen Kunsthall, the Kunstraum Kreuzberg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, the Prague Biennial, the Nordic Biennale, MAC LAU, MAC/VAL, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, UWAG, SAAG, and the Owens Art Gallery, amongst others. Her works can be found in public collections such as Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Le Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, à Québec. She won a New York State Council on the Arts Award for 2023 (with the Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh as fiscal sponsor), where she will open a solo show on Oct 14th, 2023.

Exhibitions

Les petites cuillères, 1999
Poker Wig, 1999
L’Éducation sentimentale (Ciel variable magazine), Winter 2000–2001, Québec (publication)
Alice tombée furieuse, 2000
Tales without Grounds, Images from 2000–2005, Longueuil, Québec / CEAAC
Unmanifested Still Films, Ongoing from 2001 (noted in 2007), Exhibition at 3520 Saint‑Jacques, Montréal (2007)
Fressen, 2003
Mémoire anticipée d'une jeune fille dérangée, 2004
Un monstre dans le potager, 2004
Postures Scientifiques, Residency from Sept 2005 – Feb 2006, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
Tales Without Grounds (Exhibition at Buia Gallery), 2006, Buia Gallery, New York City
Lacrimae (Last drop), 2005
MAX (video), 2006, MLAB NYC
Becoming Fahrenheit 451, 2007–2008, Various (exhibited and published)
Very used page (p.22,23), 2007
Memo scroll in Red Hook, 2009, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Mishima in Red Hook, 2009, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Construction mentale, 2009
MLAB NYC Premiere (video installation), September 12–24, 2010, Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, New York
Dans les rues de Plattsburgh, NY, 2020–2021, Plattsburgh, New York
Au Lac des Possibles, January–February 2020, Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montréal / Lake Champlain & Point au Roche, NY

Collections

National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
Laurentides Museum of Contemporary Art, St-Jérôme
Iaab Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel
TD Bank Group Collection, Toronto
Bank of Montreal Collection, Toronto
Cirque du Soleil Collection
Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt, Toronto
Municipal Art Collection of the City of Montreal
Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts & Sciences, NYC
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Collection, New Jersey
Collection of Contemporary Art at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit Private Collections
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 Evonne, in the Shadow of Mimi and Jeanne, Mc Claude Léveillé, Montreal (May)
2024 Waiting for the Martian, Hangar7826, Montreal
2023 Archival Flowers, Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, NY
2020 Women, Leaves, Astrocytes & Mineral Madeleines, Val-David Exhibition Center
At the Lake of Possibilities, Patrick Mikhail Gallery Montreal
2018 Meadowlands Tales & Rocks, Plexus Projects, New York
Mineral Madeleines Between the Fires, Occurrence, Montreal
2015 Between the Leaves, Ève K. Tremblay Photographs MC Parc-Extension, Mtl

2014 Ève K.Tremblay:EKTBF451/EKTFF451 Notes & Confessions GMK Zagreb
2013 Ève K. Tremblay, Fugues Narratives, Cirque du Soleil, Montreal
2012 Ève K. Tremblay, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal
Ève K. Tremblay, With Books, Ruth Phaneuf Fine Arts, New York
2011 Some Adventures In The Theory of Everything, Fischerundfischer, Berlin
2009 Promenades au château de la mémoire et de l’oubli, Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal
2008 Ève K. Tremblay Becoming Fahrenheit 451, Buia Gallery, New York
2007 Postures scientifiques, Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal
2006 Tales Without Grounds, BUIA Gallery, New York
Mimi et Jeanne, VU, Québec, CAN
Postures scientifiques, Espace International CEAAC, Strasbourg
2005 Aires Transitionnelles, White Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Vanishing in Blue - A Game of Biosemiotics, Mdec Frontenac, Montreal
2003 Zoosemiotics, Frontstore (Kunstwerk), Basel
2002 In Search of Placebos, Circa, Montreal
2001 Ariadne's Mazes, The Eye of Poisson, Quebec
2000 Sentimental Education, Occurrence, Montreal

Visual artist and photographer Ève K. Tremblay short bio, artist statement and resume — Ève K Tremblay. (n.d.). Ève K Tremblay. https://www.evektremblay.com/infos

​Ève K. Tremblay

Exhibitions

Collections

Ève K. Tremblay