Sophie Jodoin

Jodoin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.{{Cite web |last=Gruwel |first=Marieke |date=23 November 2017 |title=Two winners, five Concordia finalists for Prix Pierre-Ayot and Prix Louis-Comtois |url=https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/finearts/2017/11/23/five-concordian-finalists-for-prix-pierre-ayot-and-prix-louis-co.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202204327/https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/finearts/2017/11/23/five-concordian-finalists-for-prix-pierre-ayot-and-prix-louis-co.html |archive-date=2 February 2020 |access-date=4 March 2019 |website=Concordia University}}

Jodoin has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009, sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.{{Cite news |last=Kosilova |first=Darya |date=21 March 2012 |title=Sophie Jodoin |url=http://thelabmagazine.com/2012/03/21/sophie-jodoin/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223212719/http://thelabmagazine.com/2012/03/21/sophie-jodoin/ |archive-date=23 February 2014 |access-date=28 January 2013 |work=The Lab Magazine |issue=5}} In Jodoin's drawing, the lack of objective figures gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception that contains didactic intent is Yesterday and Tomorrow, which consists of a series of drawings.{{Cite book |last=De Facendis |first=Dario |title=Sophie Jodoin |date= |publisher=Galerie de Bellefeuille |others=Translated by Jill Corner |year=2000 |isbn=2922173127 |editor-last= |location=Westmount, Québec |language=fr, en |type=Exhibition catalogs |oclc=46616035 |access-date=}} Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walking through a corridor.

John A. Parks described Jodoin's work as having "a rich and sensual language of mark and gesture to build images suggestive of horror and violence in a fashion that is curiously affecting."{{Cite journal |last=Parks |first=John A. |author-link=John Alexander Parks |date=Spring 2009 |title=Depicting Troubling Events Artistically |journal=American Artist: Drawing |volume=6 |issue=20 |pages=28–37 |issn=1941-8140 |via=Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)}} In 2015, Jodoin described her works as linked to "the monstous," and that it had shifted from "themes of pain, violence, mortality or innocence despoiled" to "a sense of disquiet."{{Cite journal |last=Jodoin |first=Sophie |date=March–May 2015 |title=The Disquieting Strangeness of Being Human |journal=Border Crossings |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=83–87 |id={{ProQuest|1667167740}}}}

In 2017, Jodoin was awarded the Prix Louis-Comtois by the Association des galeries d'art contemporain.{{Cite news |date=7 December 2017 |title=2017 Awards for excellence in visual arts - Celia Perrin Sidarous receives the Prix Pierre-Ayot and Sophie Jodoin, the Prix Louis-Comtois |url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/2017-awards-for-excellence-in-visual-arts---celia-perrin-sidarous-receives-the-prix-pierre-ayot-and-sophie-jodoin-the-prix-louis-comtois-662651653.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919124131/https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/2017-awards-for-excellence-in-visual-arts---celia-perrin-sidarous-receives-the-prix-pierre-ayot-and-sophie-jodoin-the-prix-louis-comtois-662651653.html |archive-date=19 September 2021 |access-date=5 May 2025 |work=Canada Newswire}}{{Cite journal |last=Dubois |first=Anne-Marie |date=Fall 2018 |title=Je est une autre Room(s) to move : je, tu, elle de Sophie Jodoin |trans-title=I is another Room(s) to move: I, you, she by Sophie Jodoin |url=https://esse.ca/hors-dossier/je-est-une-autre-rooms-to-move-je-tu-elle-de-sophie-jodoin/ |url-status=live |journal=Esse |language=fr |volume=94 |pages=80–83 |issn=0831859X |id={{ProQuest|2413214387}} |url-access=registration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621001414/https://esse.ca/hors-dossier/je-est-une-autre-rooms-to-move-je-tu-elle-de-sophie-jodoin/ |archive-date=21 June 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025}}

• d’un seul souff, Artexte, Montréal, Québec 2023{{Cite journal |last=Lamarche |first=Bernard |date=Winter 2024 |title=Sophie Jodoin: d'un seul souffle |trans-title=Sophie Jodoin: in one breath |url=https://esse.ca/compte-rendu/sophie-jodoindun-seul-souffle/ |url-status=live |journal=Esse |language=fr |volume=110 |pages=90–91 |issn=0831-859X |id={{ProQuest|2921221187}} |url-access=registration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112003621/https://esse.ca/compte-rendu/sophie-jodoindun-seul-souffle/ |archive-date=12 January 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025}}{{Cite news |last=Boutin |first=Sarah |date=24 October 2023 |title=Jeudi vendredi il pleut : dialogues à partir de l’exposition d’un seul souffle de Sophie Jodoin |trans-title=Thursday, Friday, It's Raining: Dialogues from Sophie Jodoin's Exhibition of a Single Breath |url=https://viedesarts.com/jeudi-vendredi-il-pleut-dialogues-a-partir-de-lexposition-dun-seul-souffle-de-sophie-jodoin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250507-231757/https://viedesarts.com/jeudi-vendredi-il-pleut-dialogues-a-partir-de-lexposition-dun-seul-souffle-de-sophie-jodoin/ |archive-date=7 May 2025 |access-date=7 May 2025 |work=Vie des Arts |language=fr |issue=272 |issn=1923-3183}}
• Room(s) to move: je, tu, elle, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Québec 2018{{Cite news |last=Clément |first=Éric |date=20 July 2018 |title=Sophie Jodoin: raffinement et profondeur |trans-title=Sophie Jodoin: refinement and depth |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201807/20/01-5190277-sophie-jodoin-raffinement-et-profondeur.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241205024020/https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201807/20/01-5190277-sophie-jodoin-raffinement-et-profondeur.php |archive-date=5 December 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025 |work=La Presse |language=fr}}
• une certaine instabilité émotionnelle, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2015{{Cite journal |last=Genda |first=Dagmara |date=13 May 2015 |title=Sophie Jodoin Turns a Forensic Eye to the Poetic |url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/sophie-jodoin-turns-a-forensic-eye-to-the-poetic/ |url-status=live |journal=Canadian Art |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905180256/https://canadianart.ca/reviews/sophie-jodoin-turns-a-forensic-eye-to-the-poetic/ |archive-date=5 September 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025}}{{Cite news |last=Charron |first=Marie-Ève |date=16 May 2015 |title=Le dessin comme processus ouvert |trans-title=Drawing as an open process |url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/440148/le-dessin-comme-processus-ouvert |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250508-012309/https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/440148/le-dessin-comme-processus-ouvert |archive-date=8 May 2025 |access-date=7 May 2025 |work=Le Devoir |language=fr}}
• Volta NY Fair, New York, NY 2012{{Cite web |date=24 February 2012 |title=Sophie Jodoin @ VOLTA NY |url=https://www.artprwire.com/post/18191665100/sophie-jodoin-volta-ny |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304110512/https://www.artprwire.com/post/18191665100/sophie-jodoin-volta-ny |archive-date=4 March 2012 |access-date=5 May 2025 |website=Art PR Wire}}
• close your eyes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia 2012{{Cite news |date=21 June 2012 |title=Artist draws human condition in black & white |work=The Review |location=Richmond, B.C. |pages=1 |issn=1490-5027 |id={{ProQuest|1021740866}}}}{{Cite news |last=Piper |first=Julia |date=28 June 2012 |title=The E-list |work=The Province |pages=C6 |id={{ProQuest|1022740105}}}}{{Cite book |last=Rattray |first=Michael |url=https://www.richmondartgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/RAG-Sophie-Jodoin-brochure.pdf |title=Sophie Jodoin - close your eyes |publisher=Richmond Art Gallery |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-926594-22-4 |language=en |oclc=1408116130 |access-date=5 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610235510/https://www.richmondartgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/RAG-Sophie-Jodoin-brochure.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2024 |url-status=live}}
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 2012{{Cite news |last=Louie |first=Mark |date=16 October 2012 |title=Detachment in black and white: The message portrayed in Sophie Jodoin’s minimalist exhibit evokes uneasiness and intrigue |url=https://www.queensjournal.ca/detachment-in-black-and-white/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627080432/https://www.queensjournal.ca/detachment-in-black-and-white/ |archive-date=27 June 2023 |access-date=4 May 2025 |work=The Queen's Journal}}
• Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence, Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Landry 2011{{Cite web |last=Landry |first=Marie-Claude |date=2011 |title=Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence |url=https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/small_chronicles_of_everyday_violence/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130204920/https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/small_chronicles_of_everyday_violence/ |archive-date=30 November 2022 |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=Musée d'art de joliette |language=en}}
• I felt a cleaving in my mind, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Susannah Wesley 2011{{Cite journal |date=December 2013 – February 2014 |title=Formal Intimacies |url=https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/formal-intimacies |url-status=live |journal=Border Crossings |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=18 |id={{ProQuest|1548424982}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302171950/https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/formal-intimacies |archive-date=2 March 2024 |access-date=5 May 2025}}
• You have to kill a whole to get a little, Oboro, Montréal, Québec 2011{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=James D. |date=Spring 2011 |title=Sophie Jodoin |url=http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118054132/http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin |archive-date=18 January 2014 |work=Magenta Magazine |volume=2 |issue=2}}{{Cite news |last=Kenoyer |first=Jane |date=29 November 2012 |title=Sophie Jodoin – You have to kill a whole to get a little |url=https://hifructose.com/2012/11/29/sophie-jodoin-you-have-to-kill-a-whole-to-get-a-little/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009105215/https://hifructose.com/2012/11/29/sophie-jodoin-you-have-to-kill-a-whole-to-get-a-little/ |archive-date=9 October 2024 |access-date=5 May 2025 |work=Hi-Fructose |issn=2642-0112}}
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Invited Artist, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario 2010{{Cite news |last=Gessell |first=Paul |date=11 November 2010 |title=The art of war; Various exhibits show the different faces of war |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=E1 |id={{ProQuest|763696162}}}}{{Cite news |date=4 September 2010 |title=The Calendar |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=J10 |id={{ProQuest|748825401}}}}
• The Cherished Ones, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2010{{Cite web |last= |date=26 March 2020 |title=Sophie Jodoin - "The Cherished Ones" - 2010 |url=https://newzones.com/blog/2020/03/26/sophie-jodoin-the-cherished-ones-2010/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720003527/https://newzones.com/blog/2020/03/26/sophie-jodoin-the-cherished-ones-2010/ |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=Newzones Gallery |language=en-CA}}
• De peine et de misère, Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 2010
• Nous sommes en manque, National Center for the Arts - French Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario. Invited by director Wajdi Mouawad 2009{{Cite web |date=21 September 2010 |title=Wajdi Mouawad reçoit Sophie Jodoin et Diana Thorneycroft |url=https://nac-cna.ca/en/podcasts/episode/wajdi-mouawad-recoit-sophie-jodoin-et-diana-thorneycroft |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714165818/https://nac-cna.ca/en/podcasts/episode/wajdi-mouawad-recoit-sophie-jodoin-et-diana-thorneycroft |archive-date=14 July 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=National Arts Centre |language=en-CA |type=Podcast description and link to podcast}}
• Sophie Jodoin: Head-Games: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2009{{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=James D |date=September–November 2009 |title=Haunted: The Uncanny in the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin |url=https://www.sophiejodoin.com/s/x4b98gw1fmemq6n67c07gqseaab8fa |url-status=live |journal=Etc |issue=87 |pages=51–53 |issn=0835-7641 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506001328/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e8e66db078692122d70242/t/5ae7f9a9352f53431725d5db/1525152171767/sj_etc_2009.pdf |archive-date=6 May 2025 |access-date=5 May 2025 |via=Sophie Jodoin}}{{Cite journal |last=Grande |first=John K. |date=Summer 2009 |title=Sophie Jodoin: Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e8e66db078692122d70242/t/5ae7f9c31ae6cf12928216eb/1525152196587/sj_viedesarts_2009.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Vie des arts |volume=53 |issue=215 |pages=9 |issn=0042-5435 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506001710/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e8e66db078692122d70242/t/5ae7f9c31ae6cf12928216eb/1525152196587/sj_viedesarts_2009.pdf |archive-date=6 May 2025 |access-date=5 May 2025 |via=Sophie Jodoin}}{{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=James D |date=September 2010 |title=jake moore |url=https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/jake-moore |url-status=live |journal=Border Crossings |publication-date=September–November 2010 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=148 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250505-233724/https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/jake-moore |archive-date=5 May 2025 |access-date=5 May 2025 |quote=...Sophie Jodoin' s inaugural exhibition at Battat Contemporary in Montreal last year, where her exotic headgear locked me claustrophobically inside with darkness all about.}}
• Vigils, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2009{{Cite web |last= |date=27 March 2020 |title=Sophie Jodoin - "Vigils" - 2009 |url=https://newzones.com/blog/2020/03/27/sophie-jodoin-vigils-2009/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721184242/https://newzones.com/blog/2020/03/27/sophie-jodoin-vigils-2009/ |archive-date=21 July 2024 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=Newzones Gallery |language=en-CA}}
• Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec. Curated by Danielle Lord 2009{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Exhibit catalog: Sophie Jodoin: Menus drames et petits riens - Curators: Lord, Danielle |url=https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/31367/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802225112/https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/31367/ |archive-date=2 August 2021 |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=Artexte Information Centre}}
• Sophie Jodoin: Head-Games: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Connexion Gallery, organised by UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 2008{{Cite news |last=Eagan |first=Mireille |date=9 October 2008 |title=Exhibition investigates psychology of war; Check it out until October 17 at UNB's Memorial Hall |work=Here |location=Saint John, N.B. |pages=A14 |issn=1719-8704 |id={{ProQuest|434263990}}}}{{Cite news |date=13 September 2008 |title=Agenda |work=Telegraph-Journal |pages=G7 |id={{ProQuest|423327342}}}}{{Cite news |date=18 September 2008 |title=Today and tomorrow |work=Telegraph-Journal |pages=D9 |id={{ProQuest|423319441}}}}
• Regiment, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec; travelled to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C. 2007{{Cite news |date=9 March 2007 |title=The next 14 days |work=Nanaimo Daily News |pages=C3 |id={{ProQuest|361632431}}}}{{Cite news |date=15 March 2007 |title=Portraits map life experience |work=Nanaimo Daily News |pages=A34 |id={{ProQuest|374551801}}}}{{Cite news |last=Burkholder |first=Carolynne |date=16 March 2007 |title=Go ahead and enjoy some great shows without me |work=Nanaimo Daily News |pages=C3 |id={{ProQuest|361630608}}}}
• Regiment, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2007
• Diary of K.: a journal of drawings (part II), Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2005{{Cite journal |date=November 2005 |title=Portrait of the Artist as Her Subjects |journal=Border Crossings |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=13–14 |id={{ProQuest|215548948}}}}{{Cite news |date=21 October 2005 |title=Fun Listings + Friday, Oct. 21 to Thursday, Oct. 27 |work=Calgary Herald |pages=SW10 |id={{ProQuest|245326725}}}}
• Diary of K.: a journal of drawings (part I), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005{{Cite news |last=Dault |first=Gary Michael |date=24 September 2005 |title=Do these ideas work? That's a stretch |work=The Globe and Mail |pages=R10 |id={{ProQuest|383613040}}}}
• Drawing Shadows; portraits of my mother, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2004{{Cite news |last=Goddard |first=Peter |date=28 October 2004 |title=Top picks from fall's first crop |work=Toronto Star |pages=G7 |id={{ProQuest|438750475}}}}{{Cite news |last=Dault |first=Gary Michael |date=21 May 2005 |title=Go ahead, try to find the brush strokes |work=The Globe and Mail |pages=R9 |id={{ProQuest|383658077}}}}
• Figures Undressing, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003
• Sophie Jodoin, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2000{{Cite news |last=Lehmann |first=Henry |date=2 September 2000 |title=New frameworks: It's the season of alternative art |work=The Gazette |pages=S13 |id={{ProQuest|433648629}} |quote=...Bellefeuille will feature work by Sophie Jodoin, a Montrealer known for her "smoky," almost totemic human figures and faces with eyes that look right through you}}
• Architectures, Centre d’exposition des Gouverneurs, Sorel, Québec 1997
• Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, Québec 1996
• Portraits, Observatoire 4, Montréal, Québec 1995{{Cite news |last=Liss |first=David |date=8 April 1995 |title=Dark, moody images give new life to portraiture |work=The Gazette |pages=H6 |id={{ProQuest|432816078}}}}
• Portraits, Galerie d'Art d'Outremont 1995{{Cite news |date=16 March 1995 |title=Larger than life |work=The Gazette |pages=F4 |id={{ProQuest|432802052}}}}
• Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994
• Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 1992

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• [http://www.sophiejodoin.com/ Official site]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402002929/http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin Sophie Jodoin Review]
• [http://www.newzones.com/ Newzones]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110424205553/http://www.preview-art.com/previews/11-2010/jodoin.html Sophie Jodoin - The Cherished Ones]

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