Laureen Marchand lives in Val Marie, Sask, just north of the Montana border at the gateway to Grasslands National Park. Inspired by this region’s subtlety and remoteness, her paintings reflect on our ideas and perception of beauty. These artworks invite us to see not just the painted object, but ourselves in it.
Laureen Marchand has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally in more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions as well as over 50 group shows, in Canada and internationally. Her paintings have been recognized by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council, are held in many public and private collections, and have been represented in exhibition catalogues and reviewed in newspapers and magazines. Laureen Marchand has been artist in residence at the Leighton Colony/Banff Centre for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, among others. She has lived and painted in Canada and Ireland.
For most of twenty years, Laureen Marchand’s imagery was narrative and figurative. Then during the production of the work that became part of a two-person exhibition called Bequest, with Honor Kever, which toured western Canada for almost two years in 2002 and 2003, the figures left her work. The space that remained came to be inhabited by objects and scenes which signify the human presence rather than recreating it.
Laureen Marchand has contributed widely to Canada’s artistic community as teacher, mentor, writer, curator, and cultural facilitator. She holds the Canadian Artists Representation “Tony” Award for service to the visual arts in Saskatchewan and the Centennial Leadership Award for Service to the Province of Saskatchewan. She is currently represented by Grasslands Gallery Online and Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK;
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Prairie Wind & Silver Sage – Friends of Grasslands, Cloakroom Gallery, Val Marie, SK: The Grasslands, Near and Far: Watercolours by Catherine Macaulay; Oil Paintings by Laureen Marchand
2017 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK:: Botanical : Laureen Marchand and Catherine Macaulay
2014 Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK: Beholder
2007 McIntyre Gallery, Regina, SK: Last Rose and Others
2005 McIntyre Gallery, Regina, SK: Gathered Roses
2003 Allie Griffin Art Gallery, Weyburn, SK; Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK; Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB ; Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan: Bequest: Honor Kever and Laureen Marchand
2003 McIntyre Gallery, Regina, SK: Friendship’s Gardens: Catherine Macaulay and Laureen Marchand
2002 Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK; Little Gallery, Prince Albert, SK; Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, SK: Bequest: Honor Kever and Laureen Marchand
2002 McIntyre Gallery, Regina, SK: Oil and Water: Laureen Marchand and Catherine Macaulay
1998 McIntyre Street Gallery, Regina, SK: To Fly
1996 Innovation Place, Saskatoon; McIntyre Street Gallery, Regina, SK: Grace
1993 McIntyre Street Gallery: “Scenes from Childhood”, “Mama’s Memories”, “Songs”: Paintings
1992 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Studio Visit: Laureen Marchand
1991 Swift Current National Exhibition Centre: The Train: Vanishing Point
1990 McIntyre Street Gallery: Musica Figurata
1989 McIntyre Street Gallery: Time and Places
1989 Joe Moran Gallery, Regina, SK: The Train
1989 Saskatoon Public Library Gallery, Saskatoon: Life Cycles
1987 Gordon Snelgrove Gallery; Allie Griffin Gallery, Weyburn; Wynyard Public Library, Weyburn, SK; Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre, Yorkton, SK: The Train
1985 Rosemont Art Gallery: Short Stories
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK: Home
2022 Grasslands Gallery Online: Wintering; A Swiftly Tilting Planet; Summerlight; Art Now 2022 on location at Prairieland Park Saskatoon SK, and online; Wonderland
2022 Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK: Just Getting Warmed Up; Harvest of Colour
2021 Grasslands Gallery Online: Art Now 2021; You Are Here: A Place on a Map of the Heart; Deck the Walls: Small Works/Big Stories
2021 Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK: Floored!, ART: It’s what’s for Christmas
2021 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Winterlong: A Group Exhibition
2020 Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK: Peace. Love. Hope. Joy.
2020 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Painting the Landscape
2020 Art Now Fine Art Fair 2020, online, and on location at Nouveau Gallery, Regina
2019 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: F*#! Winter
2018 Art Now Fine Art Fair, Saskatoon, SK
2018 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Midsummer
2018 Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK: The Art of Summer
Cumberland Gallery, Legislative Building, Regina: 70 Years: Art from the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection
2017 Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Painting the Landscape
Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK: Oh Canada: The View from Here
2015 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK: Holiday Miniature Show
2015 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK: Welcoming Bigoudi, Mike Keepness, and Laureen Marchand: New Artists, New Work
2014 Art Gallery of Swift Current, SK: Legacy: A Swift Current History of Visual Art
2013 Art Gallery of Swift Current, SK: The Salon
1998 – 2012
McIntyre Gallery, Regina, SK: Gallery Artists
2011 Art Gallery of Swift Current, SK: Summer Salon Invitational
2010 Art Gallery of Swift Current, SK: Summer Salon
2006 – 2008
St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia; Studio Gennai, Pisa, Italy; Circolo Culturale Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy; Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON: Forest for the Trees. Curated by Intersperse Curatorial Collective
2007 Stronach Gallery, Costelloe, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland: Gallery Artists
2002 Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL, US: Ragdale 25th Anniversary Exhibition
2001 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK: Dialogue
2000 The Little Gallery, Prince Albert, SK: After the Grain Elevator: Imagining the Prairie Icon
1996 AKA Artists Centre, Saskatoon, SK: Beyond: Notions of the Spiritual. (Toured Saskatchewan)
1992 – 1994
Estevan National Exhibition Centre, SK; Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, SK; Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, AB; Nanaimo Art Gallery and Exhibition Centre, BC; Vernon Arts Gallery, SC; Surrey Art Gallery, BC; Rosemont Art Gallery: Figures ofSpeech: Symbol and Metaphor in the Work of Four Saskatoon Painters
1992 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Laughing Matters
1992 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Open
1991 AKA Artists Centre, Saskatoon, SK: Sense or Sex
1989 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK: Sport Art 1989
1989 Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: On Their Marks: Culture Jocks on Site
1989 AKA Artists’ Centre, Saskatoon, SK: Anarchy
1989 Saskatoon Public Library Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Life Cycles
1988 Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, AB: Western Canadian Icons
1988 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Open
1987 AKA Artists Centre, Saskatoon, SK: The Farm Show: A Documentary (toured by the Mendel Art Gallery)
1987 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK: Sport Art ’87
1987 Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Invitation to Exhibit
1985 The Art Gallery, Mount St.Vincent University, NS: Women and Peace
1984 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK: I Survived 1984
1982 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK: Saskatchewan Open
SELECTED AWARDS
- CARFAC “Tony” award for services to CARFAC and the Saskatchewan visual arts community, 2013
- Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Assistance Program, 2006, 1999, 1992, 1990, 1985, 1984
- Centennial Leadership Award for service to the Province of Saskatchewan, 2005
- Saskatchewan Arts Board, Travel, 1993
- Canada Council, Short Term, 1992
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014 Beholder, catalogue, Art Gallery of Regina, essay by Catherine Macaulay
2003 After the Grain Elevator: Re-imaging the Prairie Icon, catalogue, Little Gallery, Prince Albert, Essay by David Garneau
2002 Jack Anderson, “Artists take look back at life.” Regina Leader-Post, June 26
2002 Greg Beatty, “For whom the bell tolls.” Regina Prairie Dog, June 13-26
2002 Bequest: Honor Kever and Laureen Marchand, catalogue, essay by Katherine Lawrence
1996 Sheila Robertson, “Transition and turmoil give birth to angels.” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Sept. 2
1988 Laughing Matters, catalogue, Mendel Art Gallery
1993 Greg Beattie, “Pictures from the family album.” Regina Leader-Post, May 17
1993 Figures of Speech, catalogue, Rosemont Art Gallery/Women at Work Curatorial Collective,
Regina/Saskatoon
1992 Sheila Robertson, “Studio visit,” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Nov. 21
1992 Elizabeth Philips, “Laureen Marchand suite.” Broadway Magazine, Saskatoon, Oct.-Nov
1989 Sport Art ’89, catalogue, Rosemont Art Gallery
1988 Sheila Robertson, ‘Saskatchewan Open tantalizing hint of artistic diversity.” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Jun 18
1988 Steven Smith, “Western Canadian Icons.” Border Crossings, Winnipeg, MB, Summer
1988 Sheila Robertson, “Touring bicycle expressed as heroic Figure.” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 1988
1988 Western Canadian Icons, catalogue, Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1987 The Farm Show, catalogue, AKA Artists Centre, Saskatoon
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Saskatchewan Arts Board
Saskatchewan Government Insurance
Moose Jaw Art Gallery and Museum,
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton
Saskatchewan Property Management Corporation
SaskSport Inc.
Department of Art History, University of Saskatchewan
ARTIST’S RESIDENCIES
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamaghkerrig, Monaghan, Ireland (2018, 2012)
Leighton Artists Colony, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, (2013, 2009, 2001)
Self-Directed Residency, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2003)
Saskatchewan Writers/Artists Colony, St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, SK (1985 – 2001)
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, US (1994)
EDUCATION
1985 Master of Fine Arts, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
1978 Master of Library Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
1971 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB