Christine Major
{{short description|Canadian painter (born 1966)}}
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Life and work
Christine Major was born in Quebec City, Quebec, in 1966.{{cite web |title=Artists in Canada |url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?lang=en&rID=26798 |website=Canadian Heritage |publisher=Government of Canada |accessdate=12 December 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214070905/https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?lang=en&rID=26798 |archive-date=14 December 2018 |url-status=dead }} Major earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa and her Master of Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.{{cite web |title=Resume {{!}} Christine Major {{!}} The Painting Project |url=http://leprojetpeinture.uqam.ca/christine_major_cv-christine_major_resume-eng |website=The Painting Project |publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal |accessdate=12 December 2018}} She lives and works in Montreal and teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Women are generally the subject of Major's paintings, with domestic violence being a common theme.{{cite web |title=Description {{!}} Christine Major {{!}} The Painting Project |url=http://leprojetpeinture.uqam.ca/christine_major_description-christine_major_description-eng |website=The Painting Project |publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal |accessdate=12 December 2018}}
Collections
- Cuisine Rouge, 2010, Université du Québec à Montréal{{cite web |title=Cuisine rouge {{!}} Christine Major {{!}} The Painting Project |url=http://leprojetpeinture.uqam.ca/christine_major_cuisine_rouge-christine_major_cuisine_rouge-eng |website=The Painting Project |publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal |accessdate=12 December 2018 |archive-date=14 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214071143/http://leprojetpeinture.uqam.ca/christine_major_cuisine_rouge-christine_major_cuisine_rouge-eng |url-status=dead }}
- Collection Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600012293|title=Christine Major|website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|accessdate=18 January 2020}}
Exhibitions
- "Her Story Today", 2015–16, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.{{cite web |title=Her Story Today |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Her-Story-Today/64E83CA3042EA323 |website=Mutual Art |accessdate=12 December 2018 |language=en}}
- "The Disorderless of Things", 2015, Galerie de l'UQAM, University of Quebec{{cite web |title=The Disorderless of Things |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/The-Disorderless-of-Things/2B0C070CB24D4867 |website=Mutual Art |accessdate=12 December 2018 |language=en}}
Further reading
- Davis, Heather (editor). Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2017). {{ISBN|9780773549371}}
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Category:Painters from Montreal
Category:Artists from Quebec City
Category:University of Ottawa alumni
Category:Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal