Artist Statement/ Biography

Ingrid Tremblay’s sculptural practice looks at how objects can convey unwritten stories. Her work addresses the relationships between material culture, history, nature, mythology, feminism, language, perception and experience. Tremblay is interested in the evocative power of objects, materials and sites to recall memories, to create narratives, or to generate affects. The idea of the imprint is omnipresent in the work — the imprints left by the human passage, by past experiences, or by the natural world. Natural and constructed, machine-made and crafted, micro and macro, past and present are often combined or mirror each other in the work. Tremblay creates spaces where reality, perception, memory and the imaginary meet and merge.

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Ingrid Tremblay is a French-Canadian/Syrian artist from Montreal. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin, a BFA from Concordia University, and a B.Sc. and a M.P.O. from University of Montreal. Tremblay was awarded the 2018-2019 VCU Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture. She additionally recently completed residencies at Djerassi (California) and the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (Vermont). Her work was shown in institutions, including Centre Clark (Montreal), Visual Art Center (Austin), Lawndale Art Center (Houston) and Phi Center (Montreal). For the participation at NARS, Tremblay gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.