Irene Whittome

Whittome was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 4, 1942.{{cite web|title=Irene F. Whittome|url=http://www.ciac.ca/en/irene-f-whittome|website=Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal|accessdate=7 June 2016}}{{cite web|title=Lauréates et lauréats: Whittome, Irene F.|url=http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=197|website=Priz du Québec| date=5 December 1997 |publisher=Gouvernement du Québec|accessdate=7 June 2016}}{{cite book|author=Joan Murray|title=Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LYt7bMAMesC&pg=PA165|year=1999|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55002-332-9|pages=165–166}} She attended the Vancouver School of Art, and then spent five years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17.{{cite web|title=Irene F. Whittome|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/205/301/ic/cdc/waic/irwhit/irwhit_e.htm|website=Women Artists in Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=7 June 2016}}

From 1968 to 2007, Whittome taught visual art in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.{{cite web|title=Irene F. Whittome : un évènement|url=http://occurrence.ca/irene-f-whittome-un-evenement/|website=Occurrence|accessdate=7 June 2016}} She lives and works in Montreal and Ogden in Estrie.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions, 2023 |url=https://www-museejoliette-org.translate.goog/fr/expositions/irene-f-whittome-sublimation/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc |website=www-museejoliette-org.translate.goog |publisher=Musee Joliette |access-date=2 February 2023}}

Whittome has had over 35 solo exhibitions,{{cite web|title=Awards 2002 - Biographies|url=http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/htmlfixed/Archives/2002/2002-05-e.html|website=Canada Council for the Arts|accessdate=7 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317064228/http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/htmlfixed/Archives/2002/2002-05-e.html|archive-date=17 March 2016|url-status=dead}} including a major retrospective of her work at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2000.{{cite book|author1=Donald Preziosi|author2=Johanne Lamoureux|title=In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TV9EOqe1tjcC&pg=PR1|date=2 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-23187-4|pages=1–}} Between 1995 and 2000 she had four solo exhibitions in institutional venues: at the CIAC – Center international d'art contemporain de Montréal (1995), at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1997), at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998) and at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (2000). In 2001, she began working in the Stanstead area of Quebec for the production of Conversation Adru exhibited at the Art Gallery of Bishop's University (now Foreman Art Gallery) (2004). In 2003, she bought a disused granite quarry in Ogden and built her studio to work there in 2004. In 2023, the Joliette Museum organized an exhibition of her recent work titled Sublimation.

In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.{{cite web|title=Order of Canada|url=http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=10170|website=Governor General of Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=7 June 2016}} In 1997, she was awarded the Prix du Québec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas. She was also awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1989,{{cite web |title=Prizes |url= https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/victor-martyn-lynch-staunton-awards|publisher=Canada Council |access-date=15 August 2022}}{{cite web|title=Irene F. Whittome Conversations Adru|url=http://ftp.ubishops.ca/ccc/cultural/artgal03/bishop/IreneW1_press_E.html|website=Art Gallery of Bishop's University|publisher=Bishop's University|accessdate=7 June 2016}} an award for excellence in the arts from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in 1992,{{cite web|title=The Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO|url=http://www.ago.net/iskowitz-prize|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|accessdate=7 June 2016}} and the Governor General of Canada's Visual and Media Arts Award in 2002.{{cite web|title=Artist-Teacher Irene Whittome has Followed her own Muse|url=http://ctr.concordia.ca/2001-02/Mar_14/02-Whittome/index.shtml|website=Centre for Teaching and Research|publisher=Concordia University|accessdate=7 June 2016}}{{cite web|title=Awards 2002 - Laureates|url=http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/htmlfixed/Archives/2002/irene_whittome-e.html|website=Canada Council for the Arts|accessdate=7 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317064236/http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/htmlfixed/Archives/2002/irene_whittome-e.html|archive-date=17 March 2016|url-status=dead}} She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}

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