About —
This online exhibition presents a feminist reading of the Musée d’art de Joliette’s (MAJ) 80-year history through 80 works of art from its permanent collection. It serves as a counterbalance to the Museum’s current holdings, only 12 % of which are works by women.
The result of three years of work, this exhibition was made possible by Digital Museums Canada, an investment program managed by the Canadian Museum of History.
The narratives that emerge are structured along three timelines. The first explores some of the major changes in women’s social and political conditions, as well as the political engagement of artists from Quebec and elsewhere. The second looks at the aesthetic and stylistic choices women artists have made throughout the history of art. The third outlines the history of women’s involvement with the MAJ.
The exhibition will go online on 14 June 2025.
Artists —
Jocelyne Alloucherie, Raymonde April, Kenojuak Ashevak, Micheline Beauchemin, Béchard Hudon, Liliana Berezowsky, Dominique Blain, Marie-Claire Blais, Valérie Blass, Édith Bouchard, Sylvie Bouchard, Rita Briansky, Kittie Bruneau, Geneviève Cadieux, Ghitta Caiserman, Tammi Campbell, Joane Cardinal-Schuvert, Emily Carr, Monique Charbonneau, Lynne Cohen, Sorel Cohen, Imogen Cunningham, Sylvia Daoust, Berthe Des Clayes, Suzanne Duquet, Josée Fafard, Claire Fauteux, Marcelle Ferron, Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe, Alicia Framis, Louise Gadbois, Claudie Gagnon, Lise Gervais, Betty Goodwin, Angela Grauerholz, Raymonde Gravel, Clara Gutshe, Jamelie Hassan, Anne-Renée Hotte, Sophie Jodoin, Anne Kahane, Suzy Lake, Lucie Laporte, Renée Lavaillante, Agnès Lefort, Leisure, Lisette Lemieux, Rita Letendre, Suzelle Levasseur, Naomi London, Liz Magor, Marcella Maltais, Meryl McMaster, Kathleen Moir Morris, Lilias Torrance Newton, Alice Nolin, Bea Parsons, Jane Ash Poitras, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber, Leslie Reid, Cynthia G. Renard, Ana Rewakowicz, Jeanne Rhéaume, Louise Robert, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, Sylvia Safdie, Carolee Schneeman, Louise Scott, Marian Dale Scott, Irène Senécal, Francine Simonin, Jori Smith, Sœur Marie-Anastasie (née Laura Tourangeau), karen elaine spencer, Barbara Steinman, Françoise Sullivan, Jocelyne Tremblay, Marion Wagschal, Catherine Widgery and Irene F. Whittome.
This online exhibition was made possible by Digital Museums Canada, an investment program managed by the Canadian Museum of History.
Images in the banner:
Kittie Bruneau, One Eye Suzy, 1963. Musée d’art de Joliette Collection. Photo: Lucie Rocher. © Kittie Bruneau / CARCC Ottawa 2025
Ghitta Caiserman, Celebration, 1954. Musée d’art de Joliette Collection. Photo: Stéfanie Meunier. © Ghitta Caiserman Estate