Mireille Perron (born 1957) is a Canadian visual artist, writer, scholar, and assistant professor at

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(AUArts) based in

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. Born in

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, Perron has been exhibiting widely across Canada, the United States, and Europe since 1982, and has published over 80 essays relating to visual art and craft and has been faculty at

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since 1990.

Education

Perron holds a Bachelor of Arts and an MA in art history from

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

, a Diploma in Ceramic Technology from

John Abbott College John Abbott College (French: ''Collège John Abbott)'' is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal. John Abbott College is one of eight English public ...

, and a Diploma in Fine Arts from Collège du Vieux-Montréal.

Career

Mireille Perron has taught at several institutions throughout her career. Perron was Head of the Ceramics Department at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts from 1984–89, then taught at the

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from 1989-93. Since 1990, she has been teaching at the Alberta University of the Arts where she became a permanent faculty member in 1996.

Visual arts

Perron has exhibited extensively across Canada, The United States and Europe both in group and solo exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include ''Prise de Position/Having a viewpoint,'' a permanent display in Villenauxe, France, 2009, ''The Spiral'', an installation in Newtown Castle,

Burren College of Art Burren College of Art is an Irish non-profit independent art college specialising in undergraduate and graduate Fine Art education, located in Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland. The Master of Fine Art programme is accredited by the Univers ...

, Ireland, 2011 and ''The Laboratory of Feminists Pataphysics presents Ateliers of the Near Future'', at

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, Calgary, Canada, 2010. In 2000, Perron founded ''The Laboratory of Feminist

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'', which made its first appearance at the

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for Perron's solo exhibition titled ''Les Belles Ratoureuses / The Beautiful Pranksters'' curated by Christine Sowiak. ''The Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics'' is an ongoing series of "social experiments masquerading as artworks/events". Perron showed a survey of ''The Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics'' at

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in 2007 and exhibited ''The Laboratory of Feminists Pataphysics presents Ateliers of the Near Future'', in which Perron invited 13 emerging artists to respond to the installations in the exhibition, at

in 2010.

Writing

Perron has published over 80 essays related to visual arts and craft including: * ''Of Word, of Skin'', with Kim Huynh, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Mireille Perron,

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, published by Kim Huynh in 2001. * ''The Art of camouflage, A Female Touch, Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney,'' published by

in 2007. * ''Medical Tabulae: Visual Arts and Medical Representation'', with Allister Neher in ''RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review'' in 2008. * ''Making Noise with forgotten punctuation marks, spoiled syllables, clipped sentences, infected paragraphs, and mere mouthing'', edited by Jessica Wyman published by YYZBOOKS in 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perron, Mireille Living people 21st-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Artists from Montreal Canadian installation artists Université de Montréal alumni University of Calgary faculty 1957 births