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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

  
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Selected works from 1900 to 2000

Françoise Sullivan
Born in Montréal (Québec, Canada) in 1925
Training
  • Began dancing classes at age 9.
  • Studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1941 to 1945.
  • Went to New York, in 1946, to study modern dance in the Boas studio.
  • Took sculpture classes with Louis Archambault at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in the early 1960s.
  • Studied welding at the École des arts et métiers de Lachine.
Artistic production
  • Decisive encounter: Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes group.
  • Her work shares a fascination for the realms of the unconscious mind with the Automatistes.
  • A multidisciplinary artist, Françoise Sullivan paints, sculpts, dances, creates choreographies and does photography. She also writes about art.
Alongside her artistic career
  • Has had a university teaching career since 1977.
Of note
  • Wrote a text (La danse et l’espoir) in the Refus global manifesto.
  • Founder of modern dance in Québec.
  • Received the Paul-Émile-Borduas award in 1987, the ultimate tribute for a Québec artist.
  • In 2000, the Université du Québec à Montréal awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of her artistic career.