Photography and collage lead Tanya Morand to create canvases and silkscreen prints in which she explores the variegated and social reality of cities she visits. Her work takes us on a geographical and temporal journey from Sherbrooke to Quebec City by way of Madrid and Havana. The cultural and vernacular heritage of the various places depicted enters into dialogue in these cut-up and reassembled cities.

Tanya Morand was invited by the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke to come discover the city of Sherbrooke. She casts a new look on our municipality in her canvases, at times critical and at others contemplative, and invites us to imagine our future city, whose destiny rests with all of us.

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About the artist Tanya Morand
Born in Montreal, Tanya Morand completed a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and a master’s degree in painting at Concordia University. Her works have been exhibited in numerous venues, including Articule in Montreal, La Chambre blanche in Quebec City, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, the Centre d’exposition Louise Carrier in Lévis, as well as in Europe and the United Kingdom. Her work is part of several public collections, including the CPOA of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as well as numerous private collections.

The artist has participated in several artist residencies, including Engramme in Quebec City, SAGAMIE in Alma, the Banff Centre, and Intercambiador and the Fondacion Valparaiso in Spain.

The artist lives and works in Quebec City, where she practices drawing and painting in an artist studio in the St-Jean-Baptiste neighborhood. She is a member of Engramme, a cooperative printmaking studio and gallery at the Méduse complex, where she does screen printing. She also teaches painting at Champlain St. Lawrence College.