La Memoire Retrouvee, by Renee duRocher

La Memoire Retrouvee, 2000, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”       

Born in the city of Granby, Renée duRocher holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Art from University of Quebec in Montreal and is the recipient of numerous prizes and distinctions. Deeply attached to her town, she lives and works in Granby and is deeply involved its cultural life.

This established artist has to her credit more than 100 solo and group shows and her work as been shown in Canada and abroad. Her painitings features in several private and public collections in Canada and the U.S. In September 2018, her show DIVERSITY/IDENTITY was presented at the Art Gallery of the Ambassy of Canada in Washington DC.

These include the Government of Canada, the City of Granby, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Baie-St-Paul, Que., the Fine Are Museum of Sherbrooke, the Museum of Pierre Boucher, the Centre d’Arts Orford, Pratt & Whitney Toronto, the Desjardins Collection and RBC, as well as some American collectors.

Appreciated and recognized by her peers and art critics, duRocher’s paintings are also leaving their mark on Quebec’s art history, as reviews of her work by art historians appear in visual arts journals and monographs.