Sarah Stevenson is a Canadian artist whose practice spans sculpture and drawing. Born in England and raised across multiple Canadian cities, she received her BFA from the University of Victoria in 1984 before settling in Montreal in 1988. Over the past three decades, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Bologna), and the Esker Foundation (Calgary).
Stevenson has long been represented by Galerie Blouin/Division in Montreal and more recently by Galerie Trépanier Baer in Calgary. This fall, she will take part in a residency at Fogo Island, continuing her exploration of form, line, and spatial presence.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 In The Eye, Blouin Division, Toronto, Ontario
2023 A Minor Catastrophe, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2022 Une petite catastrophe, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montréal, Québec
2021 Before the Storm, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Québec (curated by Caroline Andrieux)
2020 Still Falling, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2019 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2018 Nothing Hidden, The Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
2017 Fragile, Galerie McClure, Montréal
2007 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2007 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2002 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2002 Hundreds and Thousands/Des centaine et des milliers, Bishop’s University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Québec
2000 Three Shapes/Trois formes, independent project, sponsored by the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
1999 Almost Invisible, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1999 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1998 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1996 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1995 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1993 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1992 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1992 Plug-In Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
1991 Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
1990 Kingston Artists’ Association, Kingston, Ontario
1990 Oboro, Montréal, Québec
1990 Nothing Up My Sleeve, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Without Language, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Articule, Montreal, Québec
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Contextile 2024, Contemporary textile art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal
2024 Suspension: Holly King and Sarah Stevenson, galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2024 Le Temps Passe Lentement, Blouin Division, Montréal, Québec
2023 Révélations, Grande Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
2022 Sarah Stevenson & Naomi London, La Vitrine (Atelier Daigneault | Schofield) Montréal, Québec
2021 Biennale international du lin de Portneuf, Québec
2020 Inaugural Exhibition, Blouin Division, Montréal, Québec
2019 Alexander, Carl, Herzog, Stevenson, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2017 Dessins 3, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2016 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2013 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2011 25 ans, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal. Québec
2011 i Level, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2010 Another Country, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 L’Éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000. Œuvres de la collection du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
2010 Titres IV, Musée d’art de Jolliette, Jolliette, Québec
2009 Jardins, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2009 Titles 5, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Bad Dog, No Biscuit, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2008 Titles 3, Libraire L’écume des Jours/Galerie Articule, Montréal
2008 Titles 4, Attic Books/forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2007 Oeuvres de la collection Prêt d’œuvres d’art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
2006 Fray, Textile Museum of Canada, Koffler Centre, Toronto, Ontario,
2005 Langage plastique, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2003 Between Line and Form, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario
2002 Officina America, Villa della Rosa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologne, Italie
2002 Le corps et ses absences, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
2001 Rendez-Vous No 3, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2001 Artwithheart, Benifit Auction for Casey House, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Paysages, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2001 Artcité, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2000 Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2000 London Biennale 2000, Internet and various locatons, London, England
2000 The Very Thing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia
1999 Redefining the Still Life: Selections from the Permanent Collection/La nature morte:ouevres tirèes de la collection permanente, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1998 Between Body and Soul, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, and Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Québec
1998 El origen de las cosas, Sala de las Custodias, Santafé de Bogotà, Colombie
1997 Von Kopf bis Fuss, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria,
1997 Die Burgenländische Landesgalerie, Eisenstadt, Austria
1997 L’origine des choses, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1997 La collection Prêt d’ouvres d’art, acquisitions 1997, Musée du Québec, Québec
1997 Brancusi-Une fictionde l’atelier, Axe NÉO-7, Hull, Québec
1996 L’écart, centre d’art contemporain La Ferne du Buisson, France
1996 Ginette Légaré, Lucie Robert and Sarah Stevenson, Glendon Galery, York University, North York, Ontario
1995 A Notion of Conflict-A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1995 The Table Project, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
1995 L’origine des choses, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
1994 Perspective (Sarah Stevenson and Carlo Cesta), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1994 L’origine des choses, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec and the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1994 Séduction: Jana Sterbak, Sarah Stevenson et Javier Pérez, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1994 From the Permanent collection, a Selection of Recent Aquisitons/Choix d’aquisitions récentes de la collection permanente, Galerie d’art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Concordia University, Montréal. Québec
1993 Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 34 Räume, Berlin, Germany
1989 Beyond Surface, Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia
1987 Artropolis, Vancouver, British Columbia
COLLECTIONS
Claridge Collection
Collection de la Caisse de dépôt du Québec
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Crédit Lyonnais Canada, Montréal
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
La collection prêt d’ oeuvres d’art du Musée du Québec, Québec
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Various private collections
AWARDS
Prix Les Femmeuses Pratt & Whitney Canada and Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2008
PUBLIC WORKS
Vortex, Arena Pat Burns, Stanstead, Québec, 2011