Exhibitions
Women’s Daybook Series Vanier College, Montreal 2006 Vanier College / Womens Daybooks Series
About Auschwitz Vanier College 2010, 2003; Christ Church Cathedral 2005; Temple Emanu-El Beth Shalom 2004 Montreal
Vanier participates in the World March of Women 2000 Vanier College, Montreal 2001
The 50s / La cinquantaine Mois de la photo à Montréal, Cote St Luc Library 1997
“One in five…” Photographer as single mom L’ESPACE f, Matane 1998; Vaste et Vague, Carleton 1997; Séquence, Chicoutimi; Latitude 53, Edmonton 1996; Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax 1995; Mois de la photo à Montréal, Vox; Photo Passage, Harbourfront, Toronto 1993
Giving Birth is Just the Beginning: Women Speak About Mothering / Donner naissance n’est qu’un début: Les femmes parlent de maternité Toronto Photographers Workshop, 1986; Photographers Union, Steelworkers’ Hall, Hamilton, Ont.; Eye Photography Gallery, San Francisco; Dazibao Photography Gallery, Montreal 1985
You Can’t Hug Kids with Nuclear Arms Maisons des Chambre / The Rooming House Show, Montreal 1986; Powerhouse 1983
Relations Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto 1984; Dazibao Photography Gallery, Montreal 1982; Articule Gallery, Montreal 1981
Exhibitions (group)
“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”: The case of Art et féminisme Vox 2021-2022 centrevox.ca/en/exposition/
The Slide Show Loop Toronto 2014
Growing Up in Montreal in the 20th century Musée McCord / McCord Museum 2004 – 2007
Urbanité Centre de créativité du Gesù 2001
Galerie Mistral Montreal 1997-99
Whirling Dirvishes Mois de la photo à Montréal 1997
Regards du Québec: Un Album De Famille, Montreal1997
The Feminine Viewpoint Jacob Stores, Montreal 1995
Acte photographique, art contemporain Montreal Sexual Assault Centre 1995
Dirvishes Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa 1994
Faces of Canada Toronto 1992
Photographs of Children: 150 Years Winnipeg Art Gallery & others in Canada 1990
Bravo Canada Ottawa & Quebec City 1990
Public Exposures: One Decade Toronto Photographers Workshop 1990
Vivre Longtemps Musée de la civilisation, Québec 1989
Fotografia Canadiense Contemporanea Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 1988
F.I.L.E.F. Montreal 1988
Active Process: Artists’ Books Presentation House, Vancouver & others in Canada 1987-89
Working Artist Exhibition A Space, Toronto 1987
Viewpoints: Women and Media Hunter College, New York 1986
Quebec Women of the Eighties Powerhouse, La Maison de la Culture NDG, Montreal 1986
L’Effet Visuel/Titlesearch Femmes photographes/Women Photographers, Plessigraphe, l’espace Ovo, Montréal 1986
Quebec Documentary Photography Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon & others in Canada, 1985
Family: Tradition/Transition Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minnesota, Minneapolis 1985
Anti-Nuke Show Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal & others 1983
New Women: New Directions Houston Centre for Contemporary Photography, Texas 1983
Le Portrait l’espace OVO, Montreal 1983
Art et féminisme Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal 1982
Portraits Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal Youth and Old Age Gallerie Alliance, Montreal 1982
Little Shop Montreal 1981
Book
Giving Birth is Just the Beginning: Women Speak about Mothering / Donner naissance n’est qu’un début: Les femmes parlent de maternité 73 photographs, bilingual text excerpted from interviews, essays by Pat Armstrong and Greta Hofmann Nemiroff 1987 ISBN2-9801110-0-7 (available from the photographer)
Articles
Acts of Resistance: the Sonderkommando photographs VCTA Newsletter March 2005
Acts of Resistance: the Sonderkommando photographs sonderkommando-studien.de/fotografie-kunst/ 2005
Socially Motivated Photography Exposure (27:3) 1990
Art and Daily Life Women and Men: Interdisciplinary Readings on Gender Greta Hoffman Nemiroff (ed), Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1986
Giving Birth is Just the Beginning Women in Photography Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1986 ISBN0-9692670-0-2
Photographs reproduced in
Les unboxings d’Artexte. 410 June 2022
Montreal Health Press’ First Birth Control Handbooks University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections 2021
Against Violence Against Women timeline University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections 2021
Linda Brooks Proximities: art, education, activism Minneapolis: TC Photo 2020
Lisa Jorgensen An Interview with Two Pioneers of Women’s Studies at Vanier Vanier Academic Voices (2:2) Aug 2019
Linda Leith English publishers in Quebec display resilience and innovation in developing new market Quill and Quire Sept 2017
Catherine Lord Tender Buttons 2014 vasa-project.com/gallery/spe/lord-essay.php
The Women’s Daybook Toronto: Sumach Press 2002 – 2010; Second Story Press1996 – 2001, 1994, 1992, 1990
Same Cloth, Different Threads: The Jews of Quebec City, 1608-2008 exhibit, Lea Roback 2008
Ron Burnett How Images Think MIT Press 2004
Martha Rosler Post-Documentary, Post Photography? Decoys and Disruptions MIT Press 2004
Rita Godlevskis ShotBox 3: Home / Chez soi Postcard project, Toronto 2002
The Issues Collection Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd 2002, 1994, 1993
Birth Control Handbook, Sexual Assault, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Menopause Montreal Health Press 1977 / 2001
J Marc Coté Pouliot Regards du Québec: un album de famille Toronto: Projets photographiques urbains 1997
Women Artists in Canada Canada’s Digital Collections Archives 1996
La Galerie Séquence 1996
Textual Studies in Canada 7 1995
Maureen Reddy, Martha Roth, Amy Sheldon (eds) Mother Journeys Minneapolis: Spinsters’ Ink 1994
Motherwork Winnipeg 1994:3
Du fait d’appartenir: Aspects de la photographie québecoise et canadienne Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 1993
Forum Droits & libertés (16:1) La Commission des droits de la personne du Québec, Juin 1993
J Marc Coté Pouliot Faces of Canada/ Visages du Canada Toronto: Projets photographiques urbains 1992
Tepperman & Richardson The Social World Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd 1991
Gary Michael Dault Children in Photography: 150 Years Ontario: Firefly Books Ltd 1990
Fac similé Célébration des femmes de la FAC (1:2) mars 1989
Scott Marsden, Randi Spires, Gail Bourgeois, Sheena Gourlay, Bruce Barber, Nicole Jolicoeur, Alanis Obomsawin, Robert Craig Working Artist Exhibition Toronto, Ont.: A Space, 1989.
Ranfft, Eric Active Process : Artist’s Books, Photographic and Contemporary/The 1987 Catalogue Vancouver, BC: Presentation House Gallery, 1987
Maisons des Chambres / The Rooming House Show ISBN 2-9800933-0-0 Montreal 1986
Annabet Zwartsenberg Quebec Women in the Eighties Montreal: Les Editions de Rémue Ménage 1986
Greta Nemiroff (ed) Women and Men: Interdisciplinary Readings on Gender Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1986
Le Musée virtuel de la photographie Québecoise CD VOX 1985
Transition (19:4; 22:2; 25:4) Ottawa: Vanier Institute of the Family
Single Mother (2:2), Just Me & You, Kid, Publ.; The Creative Woman (9:4) Illinois: Governors State University
L’une á l’autre (4:3,5:1&2,3; 6:1)
Plessigraphe L’Effet Visuel/Titlesearch Femmes photographes/Women Photographers, Montreal 1986
La revue de naissance-renaissance; Révélatrices: femmes et photos, La Nouvelle Barre du Jour (No 136-7)
OVO Agenda, Couples, Le Portrait, Photography and Literature, Children 1982-85; Atlantis (7:1); Township Sun May 1981
Presentations / lectures
The Personal is Political: Motherhood in my work Women’s Archives, Morisset Library, University of Ottawa 2019
Acts of Resistance: the Sonderkommando photographs Society for Photographic Education; Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2005
About Auschwitz Dalhousie Art Gallery, 2005; Temple Emanu-El Beth Shalom, Montreal 2004; Vanier College 2003
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Guest Artist Halifax 2005, 1995, 1990
L’ESPACE f, Matane 1998; Vaste et Vague, Carleton 1997; La Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi & Latitude 53, Edmonton, 1996
New Options/Working Solutions: A Workshop on Socially Motivated Photography, Boston University 1989
Society for Photographic Education Conferences: Feminist Pedagogy 1990, Reconsidering The Women’s Eye 1987, Fighting for Jobs 1984, Reading Photographs (Ads) in the Classroom 1983
Photography and the Montreal Health Press Viewpoints: Women and Media, New York 1986
Giving Birth is Just the Beginning Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal 1985
Art and Daily Life with Alanna Stalker, Greta Nemiroff, Canadian Association of Art Education 1985, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women 1984, Dazibao Photography Gallery 1982
Reviews
Helene Brousseau Les unboxings d’Artexte. 410 June 2022
Caroline Duguay Après la cinquantaine, la vie! L’interligne 29 août 1997
Michele Tipman Photographer captures spirit, soul Craig & Canyon Banff April 29, 1997
Latitude 53 Nov 1996
Les Grands frissons Le Devoir Dec 31, 1993
Deirdre Hanna One in five traces single motherhood… Now June 3, 1993
Janieta Eyre A Single Mom’s Photo Album Eye Weekly 07.01.93
Lise Gagnon Ces photographes qui parlent d’histoire et de mémoire Photo Séléction (2:6) Sept 1991
Christopher Burnett Rethinking Pluralism: New Options/Working Solutions Afterimage Oct 1989
La Gazette des femmes Jan 1989
Joanne Lukitsh Daughter rite Afterimage Summer 1988
Céline Lemay Les Femmes parlent de maternité L’une à l’autre 1988
Doug Ischar This is no dream, this is really happening: Reclaiming Realism Spot Houston Center for Photography, Summer 1988
Sheila Scott Giving Birth is Just the Beginning: Women Speak about Mothering Photo Communiqué 1988
Pamela Harris Giving Birth is Just the Beginning Views Toronto Photographers Workshop, May 1988
Susan Schwartz Mothers speak of joys and struggles Montreal Gazette Jan 1988
Marjorie David Photo conference looks at the ‘woman’s eye’ behind the lens Chicago Tribune April 1987
Geoffrey Miles Giving Birth is Just the Beginning Vanguard Nov 1986
Line McMurray Traverser le reel, La Vie en Rose No 37, July-Aug 1986
Christine Tamblyne Three Views of Families Artweek San Francisco, Oct 1985
Jan Z. Grover Women/Documents image Huston Center for Photography, Summer 1984
Martha Rosler Some Contemporary Documentary Afterimage Summer1983
Louise Abbott Crawley Exhibit Celebrates Life Montreal Gazette April 1981
Collections and Awards
Archives and Special Collections, Morisset Library, University of Ottawa
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Faces of Canada Archive
National Gallery of Canada (Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography), Ottawa
Regards du Québec, Museé de la civilisation à Québec
Private collections
Regards du Québec 1996, Honourable Mention
Canada Council Project Cost Grant 1993; “B” Grants 1987, 1983
OVO 2ième Concours de maquettes originales de livres de photographie 1985, Second Prize
Professional Activities
Creative residencies, The Banff Centre of the Arts; Gibraltar Point, Artscape Toronto
Québec Roots, Blue Metropolis Distance-Education Programme Montreal 2005-8
Photography Co-ordinator Montreal Health Press /Les Presses de la santé de Montréal 1981- 2001
Selection Committee Dazibao Photography Gallery, Montreal 1983-88
Co-editor “What You Starin At?” Exposure (22:2)1984
Employment
Vanier College, Montreal, Teacher 1970-2004; Coordinator: Communications Dept 1978-82, 1987-92, 1997
Vanier College Teachers’ Association, Executive member & Newsletter Editor 1984-86, 1993-96
Loyola College (Concordia University), Montreal, Teacher 1967-70
Formal Education
MA English Literature University of Toronto 1967
BA Honours English Literature Sir George Williams University (Concordia) 1966