LYNE LAPOINTE - life jacket
Lyne Lapointe: Life Jacket
One day event. Tuesday, September 22, 12-6pm
Farm Projects will feature Canadian artist Lyne Lapointe’s Life Jacket woodcuts on Tuesday, September 22, for a special one-day event.
This series has been part of Lapointe’s artistic practice since 2018, the Life Jacket series brings together richly textured woodcuts that consider themes of vulnerability, protection, displacement, and the human relationship to public space. Selected prints from the series have also appeared as part of Lapointe’s guerrilla art campaign, installed in unexpected locations including the American Museum of Natural History and public parks.
Lapointe and her partner, filmmaker Nancy Marcotte, have spent time annually in Wellfleet for many years, developing a longstanding connection to the Cape and its landscape. This one-day presentation at Farm Projects offers an opportunity to encounter the Life Jacket works in this particular place and context.
Lapointe was recently named a recipient of the 2026 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, one of Canada’s leading national recognitions for artistic achievement. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
Highlights from the nomination statement:
Nominators: Diana Nemiroff, art historian and author, former Quebec editor for Vanguard magazine, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, retired Director at the Carleton University Art Gallery, and Anne‑Marie St‑Jean Aubre, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator of Québec and Canadian Contemporary Art (1945 to Today) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“Lyne Lapointe’s approach to artmaking is inherently hybrid, involving solo productions as well as collaborations and a wide variety of sculptural and pictorial means. . . . Influenced by her working-class background and her lesbian sexual identity, she has a keen appreciation of the repressive force of social and class conventions.”
“She has continued to recover that which is marginal, forgotten or overtaken by modernity, investigating knowledge systems long eclipsed by modern science and the drive for progress.”
“Aesthetically, she embraces the decorative, incorporating folkloric references and artisanal techniques in her work, thus becoming part of a significant movement in the international art world today that interrogates purist norms. Her attention to craftsmanship and focus on making by hand gives her work increased importance in this context.”
About the artist Lyne Lapointe (born in 1957, Montreal) is one of Canada's major multidisciplinary artist. Her influence has been felt in artistic, feminist, and queer circles, as well as in the field of installation art and pictorial practices involving collage techniques with extraordinary craftsmanship. Driven by what she has termed “an archaeology of memory,” her artistic practice involves what has always fascinated her: female desire, popular and historical sources, nature, animal and human imagery, and, by extension, the precarious nature of the visible and invisible, at the limits of the material and the perceptible.
For over forty years, the artist has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Europe. She has distinguished herself in prestigious settings such as the São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum in New York, and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, which held a survey exhibition of her work that toured across Canada and in France. The National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are some of the country’s leading museums that have acquired her works throughout her career.
LYNE LAPOINTE
print series and film screening at PAAM
Wednesday, September 02, 6pm
Lyne Lapointe, The Spirit of Matter / Directed by Germán Gutiérrez and Carmen García, Argus Films, 2024, 90 min, color, sound [film/documentary]
English subtitles
Q&A with Megan Hinton and Lyne Lapointe following the film.
Lyne Lapointe (born in 1957, Montreal) is one of Canada's major multidisciplinary artist. Her influence has been felt in artistic, feminist, and queer circles, as well as in the field of installation art and pictorial practices involving collage techniques with extraordinary craftsmanship. Driven by what she has termed “an archaeology of memory,” her artistic practice involves what has always fascinated her: female desire, popular and historical sources, nature, animal and human imagery, and, by extension, the precarious nature of the visible and invisible, at the limits of the material and the perceptible.
For over forty years, the artist has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Europe. She has distinguished herself in prestigious settings such as the São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum in New York, and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, which held a survey exhibition of her work that toured across Canada and in France. The National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are some of the country’s leading museums that have acquired her works throughout her career.
works on paper by Lyne Lapointe to view in the print room
