Artist Statement/ Biography

Through painting and sculpture, Joani Tremblay investigates the relationship between landscape, its simulations and reproductions, and how it is combined with our own memory of places. It’s a salient topic in our contemporary times when our understanding of nature has been entirely affected by its many simulations and reproductions, ranging from films and photographs to theme park attractions, computer games and advertisements, from pages to screens to physical spaces and back again. Their work tangles between the abstract and the representational, the virtual and the physical, and the utopian and the real. They do all their drafting digitally, testing hundreds of possibilities in digital collage, assembling images from a variety of sources (old, new, from personal research on foot, from mass media, from advertisements, etc.).

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Joani Tremblay holds an MFA from Concordia University (2017). Tremblay’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions notably in Los Angeles (Kantor LA), Stockholm (Pony Sugar), New York City (NADA NY), Tokyo (3331 Arts Chiyoda), Edmonton (Latitude 53), Toronto (Zalucky Contemporary) and in group exhibitions notably in New York (Asya Geisberg Gallery), Brooklyn (Interstate Projects), Los Angeles (00-LA), Romania (Bucharest Art Week), Denver (Dateline Gallery), Mexico City (Material Art Fair) and Montreal (Parisian Laundry). They have participated in residencies in Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo. They are the recipient of numerous grants, the most recent of which is The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2018). Their work appeared notably in ArtViewer, Maake Magazine, Daily Lazy, Gather Journal, Canadian Art, Art Observed and ArtFCity.