Valérie Blass
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Valérie Blass
b. 1967, Montreal, Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
Education
- 2006
Master of Fine Arts, Visual and Media Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
This Is Not a Metaphor, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada
- 2021
Ce qui a été vu ne peut pas être dévu, Parc Offsite, Montreal, Canada
- 2020
La poudre aux yeux: Of smoke in mirrors, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2019
Le parlement des invisibles, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Mime, the Model and the Dupe, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 2015
To only ever say one thing forever the same thing, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
My Life, Artspeak, Vancouver; Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2014
Théâtre d’objets, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
- 2013
Parisian Laundry Projects, The Hole NYC, New York, USA
Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
The manipulator manipulated, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
- 2012
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 2011
Petit losange laqué veiné, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
- 2009
Une fois de trop, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Dos-à-dos / Face-à-face, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada
- 2008
La plus pure apparence, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
- 2005
Elle-même, CIRCA Art Actuel, Montreal, Canada
Presque ça, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada
- 2001
Le regard des animaux, DARE-DARE – Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
Saint-Laurent, Galerie Eli Kerr, Montreal, Canada
- 2023
Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal, Canada
- 2022
C’était possible, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Canada
Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2021
The sun is a ghost that haunts the night, Chapter 1: Dilithium, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
L'Âme primitive, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Two Truths and a Lie, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
- 2020
Quarante, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada
- 2019
J’aime le rose pâle et les femmes ingrates, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2018
Travelogue, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA
- 2017
Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
- 2016
EXPANDED, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, USA
Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Superimposition: Sculpture and Image, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
From Ferron to BGL: Contemporary Art in Quebec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
The Green of Her, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
- 2015
Unsafe at any speed, 820Plaza, Montreal, Canada
Talking Back, Otherwise, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
HA HA! BUSINESS!, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, USA
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
- 2014
Les Rassembleurs/The Convenors, MKG127, Toronto, Canada
1 + 1 = 1, The collections of the Musée des beaux-arts and of the Musée d’art contemporain converse, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 2013
The Intellection of Lady Spider House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Traces of Life, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Configurations, Public Art Fund, Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, USA
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA
- 2012
Freedom of Assembly, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Parisian Laundry: Summertime in Paris, Drake Lab, Toronto, Canada
Collection Tedeschi, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
- 2011
Chimère / Shimmer, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada
It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 2010
La terre est bleue comme une orange, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 2009
Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Unbelievable and Marvelous, 27th International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
The Way I Are, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
- 2008
The Quebec Triennial: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 2007
Somme, La Vitrine, Centre Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
- 2006
Archipel, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Jumelages: L’espace et son double, Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada
- 1999
Salon de l’agglomérat, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
- 1998
Les Bricolos, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
- 1996
Printemps Plein Temps, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
Selected Publications and Catalogues
- 2021
Aspara DiQuinzio, ed., New Time: Art and Femininisms in the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 2016
Jill Snyder and Rose Bouthillier, Stranger, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
- 2012
Lesley Johnstone, Amelia Jones, Paulette Gagnon, and Wayne Baerwaldt, Valérie Blass, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- 2011
Loin des yeux, près du corps. Entre théorie et création, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
- 2010
Anne-Marie Ninacs, Chimère / Shimmer, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, ed., It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 2009
Jeanie Riddle, Helena Reckitt, and jake moore, Valérie Blass, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Geneviève Chevalier, Jeux de rôles et de hasards, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada
- 2008
Josée Bélisle, Paulette Gagnon, Mark Lanctôt and Pierre Landry, Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Magazines and Periodicals
- 2023
Francois Lemieux, ‘Deux nouvelles œuvres d’art pour le centre-ville’, Journal Métro, 25 January
- 2020
Anaïs Castro, ‘Valérie Blass: La poudre aux yeux’, Esse, 100, 11 September
Éric Clément, ‘La machine redémarre’, La Presse, 13 June
- 2019
‘Sculptural greatness you can’t miss’, AGO Insider, 26 November
Yaniya Lee, Brittany Shepherd, ‘In the Studio with Valérie Blass’, Canadian Art, 7 November
Sky Goodden, ‘Valérie Blass Makes Figurative Sculptures without the Figure’, Art in America, 29 October
Kimberly Huynh Nguyen, ‘Valérie Blass grounds the abstract in reality’, The Medium, 15 September
Ji-Yoon Han, ‘Le parlement des invisibles: un entretien avec Valérie Blass’, Espace, Issue 123, Autumn
Aidan Dunne, ‘Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life world’, The Irish Times, 9 July
Chris Hampton, ‘Laugh at this Valérie Blass’ sculpture in Toronto, sure, but take it seriously’, Toronto Star, 7 June
Dan Adler, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, April
‘What to See in 2019’, Canadian Art, 2 January
- 2018
Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh, ‘Inspirational Embodiments: The Incomparable Sculpture of Valérie Blass’, Border Crossings, Issue 148
- 2017
Debra Yeo, ‘Valérie Blass wins 2017 Gershon Iskowitz Prize’, The Toronto Star, 21 November
‘Valérie Blass Wins $50,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize’, Canadian Art online, 20 November
Xenia Benivolski, ‘Le Grand Balcon, BNLMTL, 2016’, C Magazine, Issue 133, Spring
Jens Hoffmann, ‘The Biennale de Montréal’, Artforum, February
- 2016
Nicole Yeba, ‘Valérie Blass Prix Ozias-Leduc 2016’, My Scena, 9 December
Claire Voon, ‘The Sly Excess of the 2016 Montréal Biennale’, Hyperallergic, 25 October
Steven Leyden Cochrane, ‘Layers of meaning: Group show highlights eight female artists, toys with with our perception’, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 October
John Pohl, ‘The Montreal Biennial will be seen from the “balcony”’, Montreal Gazette, 9 October
Gary Pearson, ‘Valérie Blass’, Sculpture, Vol. 35, No. 4, May
Karina Irvine, ‘Valérie Blass Pushes Figuration at Catriona Jeffries Gallery’, Canadian Art, 4 January
- 2015
Helena Wadsley, ‘Valérie Blass’, Galleries West, 3 December
Christina Nafziger, ‘Valérie Blass Reimagines the Human Figure by Abstracting its Structure and Space’, Beautiful Decay, 13 August
Bill Clarke, ‘Valérie Blass at Daniel Faria’, Artnews, 15 July
Murray Whyte, ‘Jennifer Murphy and Valérie Blass: Deluxe redux’, The Toronto Star, 20 April
Wojciech Olejnik, ‘Valérie Blass is both accessible and locked-up in “My Life”’, MOMUS, 19 April
Dominique Froment, ‘La Caisse de dépôt cible la crème des artistes québécois’, Les Affaires, 18 April
Marina Dumont, ‘Valérie Blass or the Re-appropriation of the Gaze’, Artoronto.ca, 1 April
Michael Turner, ‘Gesture Dominates in Valérie Blass’ “My Life”’, Canadian Art, 9 February
- 2014
André-Constantin Passiour, ‘Sous les boules roses, l’art vert et l’art brute’, Fugues, 16 June
Tina Gelsomini, ‘Profile of the artist: Valérie Blass’, The Seen, 14 March
Gabrielle Regimba, ‘Valérie Blass à voir absolument’, MODE34B, 7 February
Gabrielle Mathieu, ‘Du mensonge de la représentation. Théâtres d’objets de Valérie Blass’, L’Artichaut, 2 February
Rosie Long Decter, ‘Geometry, granite, distorted bodies’, The McGill Daily, 27 January
Eric Clément, ‘Valérie Blass à la Parisian Laundry: la quête’, La Presse, 18 January
- 2013
Claire Moeder, ‘Valérie Blass: Équilibrisme’, Zone Occupee, 13 December
Roberta Smith, ‘Valérie Blass’, The New York Times, 21 November
Sky Goodden, ‘Valérie Blass Fills the Hole in NYC’, Blouin Artinfo, 16 November
Bettie Nin, ‘Valérie Blass’, Critique d’art, 1 November
Josianne Desloges, ‘Les marionettes de Valérie Blass’, Le Soleil, 13 April
- 2012
Sky Goodden, Benjamin Sutton, ‘Public Art Fund Curator Talks Valérie Blass: “There is a Freedom In Her Creative Process”’, Blouin Artinfo, 5 December
R.M. Vaughan, ‘Valérie Blass’s sexy beasts’, The Globe and Mail, 29 June
Sky Goodden, ‘Curators of Valérie Blass Show Marvel “She’s Rarely Shown in this Capacity”’, Blouin Artinfo, 6 June
Anja Bock, ‘Valérie Blass, Musée d’art contemporain, Art Papers, May-June
Bernard Lévy, ‘Valérie Blass, artiste révoltée’, Vie des Arts, Vol. 56, No. 226, Spring
Leah Sandals, ‘Valérie Blass: Going all out’, Canadian Art, 1 March
Gabrielle Moser, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, 12 February
Annie Li, ‘Une Montréalaise, deux Africaines, trois féministes’, Le Délit, 7 February
- 2011
Lee Henderson, ‘Valérie Blass’, The Walrus, 12 November
James D. Cameron, ‘The Debris of the Aura: Valérie Blass at Parisian Laundry’, Éphémère, No. 93, June–September
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, Summer
Nathalie Petrowski, ‘Valérie Blass: le mélange des genres’, La Presse, 11 January
- 2009
‘Valérie Blass: Object Lessons’, Canadian Art, 10 September
Leah Sandals, ‘Valérie Blass: Particle Collider’, Canadian Art, 1 September
Cameron Skene, ‘Valérie Blass’, Canadian Art, 1 March
Nate Archer, ‘Valérie Blass: une fois de trop’, designboom, 18 February
- 2005
Jean-Ernest Joos, ‘Le poids de l’infigurable’, Esse, No. 55, Autumn
Nicolas Mavrikakis, ‘Valérie Blass et Frédéric Lavoie: Le bruit des choses vivantes’, Voir, 27 January
- 2002
Bernard Schütze, ‘Valérie Blass: Inverser le regard’, Espace Art actuel, No. 60, Summer
Residencies
- 2018
Triangle France, Marseille, France
- 2017
Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR), Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
- 2013
Production Residency, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
Production Residency, L’écart – lieu d’art actuel, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
- 2014
Artist-in-Residence, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
- 2014
Unbelievable and Marvelous, 27th International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
Awards
- 2017
Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- 2016
Prix Ozias-Leduc, Fondation Émile-Nelligan, Montreal, Canada
- 2012
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
- 2010
Prix Louis-Comtois, City of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Master of Fine Arts, Visual and Media Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
This Is Not a Metaphor, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada
Ce qui a été vu ne peut pas être dévu, Parc Offsite, Montreal, Canada
La poudre aux yeux: Of smoke in mirrors, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Le parlement des invisibles, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Mime, the Model and the Dupe, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
To only ever say one thing forever the same thing, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
My Life, Artspeak, Vancouver; Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Théâtre d’objets, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Parisian Laundry Projects, The Hole NYC, New York, USA
Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
The manipulator manipulated, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Petit losange laqué veiné, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Une fois de trop, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Dos-à-dos / Face-à-face, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada
La plus pure apparence, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Elle-même, CIRCA Art Actuel, Montreal, Canada
Presque ça, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada
Le regard des animaux, DARE-DARE – Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Saint-Laurent, Galerie Eli Kerr, Montreal, Canada
Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal, Canada
C’était possible, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Canada
Do Redo Repeat, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
The sun is a ghost that haunts the night, Chapter 1: Dilithium, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
L'Âme primitive, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Two Truths and a Lie, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Quarante, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada
J’aime le rose pâle et les femmes ingrates, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Travelogue, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA
Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
EXPANDED, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, USA
Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Superimposition: Sculpture and Image, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
From Ferron to BGL: Contemporary Art in Quebec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
The Green of Her, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
Unsafe at any speed, 820Plaza, Montreal, Canada
Talking Back, Otherwise, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
HA HA! BUSINESS!, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, USA
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
Les Rassembleurs/The Convenors, MKG127, Toronto, Canada
1 + 1 = 1, The collections of the Musée des beaux-arts and of the Musée d’art contemporain converse, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
The Intellection of Lady Spider House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Traces of Life, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Configurations, Public Art Fund, Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, USA
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA
Freedom of Assembly, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Parisian Laundry: Summertime in Paris, Drake Lab, Toronto, Canada
Collection Tedeschi, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Chimère / Shimmer, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada
It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
La terre est bleue comme une orange, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Unbelievable and Marvelous, 27th International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
The Way I Are, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
The Quebec Triennial: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Somme, La Vitrine, Centre Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
Archipel, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Jumelages: L’espace et son double, Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada
Salon de l’agglomérat, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
Les Bricolos, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
Printemps Plein Temps, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
Aspara DiQuinzio, ed., New Time: Art and Femininisms in the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jill Snyder and Rose Bouthillier, Stranger, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
Lesley Johnstone, Amelia Jones, Paulette Gagnon, and Wayne Baerwaldt, Valérie Blass, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Loin des yeux, près du corps. Entre théorie et création, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
Anne-Marie Ninacs, Chimère / Shimmer, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, ed., It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Jeanie Riddle, Helena Reckitt, and jake moore, Valérie Blass, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Geneviève Chevalier, Jeux de rôles et de hasards, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada
Josée Bélisle, Paulette Gagnon, Mark Lanctôt and Pierre Landry, Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Francois Lemieux, ‘Deux nouvelles œuvres d’art pour le centre-ville’, Journal Métro, 25 January
Anaïs Castro, ‘Valérie Blass: La poudre aux yeux’, Esse, 100, 11 September
Éric Clément, ‘La machine redémarre’, La Presse, 13 June
‘Sculptural greatness you can’t miss’, AGO Insider, 26 November
Yaniya Lee, Brittany Shepherd, ‘In the Studio with Valérie Blass’, Canadian Art, 7 November
Sky Goodden, ‘Valérie Blass Makes Figurative Sculptures without the Figure’, Art in America, 29 October
Kimberly Huynh Nguyen, ‘Valérie Blass grounds the abstract in reality’, The Medium, 15 September
Ji-Yoon Han, ‘Le parlement des invisibles: un entretien avec Valérie Blass’, Espace, Issue 123, Autumn
Aidan Dunne, ‘Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life world’, The Irish Times, 9 July
Chris Hampton, ‘Laugh at this Valérie Blass’ sculpture in Toronto, sure, but take it seriously’, Toronto Star, 7 June
Dan Adler, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, April
‘What to See in 2019’, Canadian Art, 2 January
Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh, ‘Inspirational Embodiments: The Incomparable Sculpture of Valérie Blass’, Border Crossings, Issue 148
Debra Yeo, ‘Valérie Blass wins 2017 Gershon Iskowitz Prize’, The Toronto Star, 21 November
‘Valérie Blass Wins $50,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize’, Canadian Art online, 20 November
Xenia Benivolski, ‘Le Grand Balcon, BNLMTL, 2016’, C Magazine, Issue 133, Spring
Jens Hoffmann, ‘The Biennale de Montréal’, Artforum, February
Nicole Yeba, ‘Valérie Blass Prix Ozias-Leduc 2016’, My Scena, 9 December
Claire Voon, ‘The Sly Excess of the 2016 Montréal Biennale’, Hyperallergic, 25 October
Steven Leyden Cochrane, ‘Layers of meaning: Group show highlights eight female artists, toys with with our perception’, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 October
John Pohl, ‘The Montreal Biennial will be seen from the “balcony”’, Montreal Gazette, 9 October
Gary Pearson, ‘Valérie Blass’, Sculpture, Vol. 35, No. 4, May
Karina Irvine, ‘Valérie Blass Pushes Figuration at Catriona Jeffries Gallery’, Canadian Art, 4 January
Helena Wadsley, ‘Valérie Blass’, Galleries West, 3 December
Christina Nafziger, ‘Valérie Blass Reimagines the Human Figure by Abstracting its Structure and Space’, Beautiful Decay, 13 August
Bill Clarke, ‘Valérie Blass at Daniel Faria’, Artnews, 15 July
Murray Whyte, ‘Jennifer Murphy and Valérie Blass: Deluxe redux’, The Toronto Star, 20 April
Wojciech Olejnik, ‘Valérie Blass is both accessible and locked-up in “My Life”’, MOMUS, 19 April
Dominique Froment, ‘La Caisse de dépôt cible la crème des artistes québécois’, Les Affaires, 18 April
Marina Dumont, ‘Valérie Blass or the Re-appropriation of the Gaze’, Artoronto.ca, 1 April
Michael Turner, ‘Gesture Dominates in Valérie Blass’ “My Life”’, Canadian Art, 9 February
André-Constantin Passiour, ‘Sous les boules roses, l’art vert et l’art brute’, Fugues, 16 June
Tina Gelsomini, ‘Profile of the artist: Valérie Blass’, The Seen, 14 March
Gabrielle Regimba, ‘Valérie Blass à voir absolument’, MODE34B, 7 February
Gabrielle Mathieu, ‘Du mensonge de la représentation. Théâtres d’objets de Valérie Blass’, L’Artichaut, 2 February
Rosie Long Decter, ‘Geometry, granite, distorted bodies’, The McGill Daily, 27 January
Eric Clément, ‘Valérie Blass à la Parisian Laundry: la quête’, La Presse, 18 January
Claire Moeder, ‘Valérie Blass: Équilibrisme’, Zone Occupee, 13 December
Roberta Smith, ‘Valérie Blass’, The New York Times, 21 November
Sky Goodden, ‘Valérie Blass Fills the Hole in NYC’, Blouin Artinfo, 16 November
Bettie Nin, ‘Valérie Blass’, Critique d’art, 1 November
Josianne Desloges, ‘Les marionettes de Valérie Blass’, Le Soleil, 13 April
Sky Goodden, Benjamin Sutton, ‘Public Art Fund Curator Talks Valérie Blass: “There is a Freedom In Her Creative Process”’, Blouin Artinfo, 5 December
R.M. Vaughan, ‘Valérie Blass’s sexy beasts’, The Globe and Mail, 29 June
Sky Goodden, ‘Curators of Valérie Blass Show Marvel “She’s Rarely Shown in this Capacity”’, Blouin Artinfo, 6 June
Anja Bock, ‘Valérie Blass, Musée d’art contemporain, Art Papers, May-June
Bernard Lévy, ‘Valérie Blass, artiste révoltée’, Vie des Arts, Vol. 56, No. 226, Spring
Leah Sandals, ‘Valérie Blass: Going all out’, Canadian Art, 1 March
Gabrielle Moser, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, 12 February
Annie Li, ‘Une Montréalaise, deux Africaines, trois féministes’, Le Délit, 7 February
Lee Henderson, ‘Valérie Blass’, The Walrus, 12 November
James D. Cameron, ‘The Debris of the Aura: Valérie Blass at Parisian Laundry’, Éphémère, No. 93, June–September
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Valérie Blass’, Artforum, Summer
Nathalie Petrowski, ‘Valérie Blass: le mélange des genres’, La Presse, 11 January
‘Valérie Blass: Object Lessons’, Canadian Art, 10 September
Leah Sandals, ‘Valérie Blass: Particle Collider’, Canadian Art, 1 September
Cameron Skene, ‘Valérie Blass’, Canadian Art, 1 March
Nate Archer, ‘Valérie Blass: une fois de trop’, designboom, 18 February
Jean-Ernest Joos, ‘Le poids de l’infigurable’, Esse, No. 55, Autumn
Nicolas Mavrikakis, ‘Valérie Blass et Frédéric Lavoie: Le bruit des choses vivantes’, Voir, 27 January
Bernard Schütze, ‘Valérie Blass: Inverser le regard’, Espace Art actuel, No. 60, Summer
Triangle France, Marseille, France
Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR), Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
Production Residency, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
Production Residency, L’écart – lieu d’art actuel, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
Artist-in-Residence, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
Unbelievable and Marvelous, 27th International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Prix Ozias-Leduc, Fondation Émile-Nelligan, Montreal, Canada
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
Prix Louis-Comtois, City of Montreal, Montreal, Canada