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Louise Déry(Montreal, Canada)﻿ holds a PhD in Art History and has been the director of the Galerie de l’UQAM since 1997. She is an associate professor in the department of Art History, UQAM. Previously curator at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, she has realized many projects featuring individual contemporary artists including Giuseppe Penone, Rober Racine, Sarkis, Nancy Spero, Michael Snow, Anthony Gormley, Dominique Blain, Stéphane La Rue, Raphaëlle de Groot, David Altmejd, Artur Żmijewski and the philo­sopher Jean-Luc Nancy, amongst others. Curator of some thirty exhibitions of Canadian artists abroad, including a dozen in Italy, she was curator of the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007, with a David Altmejd exhibition. At the 2013 and 2015 Venice biennales, she has curated performances by Raphaëlle de Groot and Jean-Pierre Aubé.

Amongst her most recent projects accompanied with catalogues are: Aude Moreau. The Political Nightfall at the Galerie de l’UQAM, The Power Plant, Toronto and Casino Luxembourg; Françoise Sullivan. Radiant Trajectories at the Galerie de l’UQAM. Déry has received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence (2007) and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France.

http://louisedery.com/