Caroline Monnet
Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec. Deploying visual and media arts to demonstrate complex ideas, Monnet renders Indigenous identity and bicultural living through an examination of shifting cultural histories. She is noted for working with industrial materials processes, blending vocabularies of popular and traditional visual knowledge with tropes of modernist abstraction to create a unique formal language. Consistently occupying the stage of experimentation and invention, her work grapples with the impact of colonialism by updating outdated systems with Indigenous methodologies.
Monnet studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and film. Her work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial (NYC), Toronto Biennal of Art, KØS museum (Copenhagen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal), the National Art Gallery (Ottawa). Solo exhibitions include Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Arsenal Contemporary (NYC), Centre d’art international de Vassivière (France) and the Art Museum at University of Toronto. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America as well as the permanent UNESCO collection in Paris. Her films have been programmed at film festivals such as Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, Aesthetica (UK), Palm Springs International Film Festival. In 2016, she was selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris. Monnet is recipient of the 2020 Pierre-Ayot award, the Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellowship and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards. Finally she was recently named compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Installation view "Resilient to the Bones", Solo Exhibition Setareh, Berlin, Germany (2024), image: courtesy of the artist and SETAREH, photo: Trevor Good / Paul Litherland

Installation view "Resilient to the Bones", Solo Exhibition Setareh, Berlin, Germany (2024), image: courtesy of the artist and SETAREH, photo: Trevor Good / Paul Litherland

Tagging the Underground 01-09, 2021, silkscreens on waterproofing membranes, each panel 50 x 41 in.

In Silence We Speak Volumes, 2023, Oriented Strand board, acrylic, 47 x 47 in.

Installation view "Resilient to the Bones", Solo Exhibition Setareh, Berlin, Germany (2024), image: courtesy of the artist and SETAREH, photo: Trevor Good / Paul Litherland

The Room, 2023, Styrofoam, OSB, wood, 127 1/8 x 139 x 127 1/8 in.

We comme in numbers, 2020, Tyvek sewn on fabric, wood, 86 x 91.5 x 7.5 in.

River Flows Through Bent Trees, Site-specific Installation Baltimore Museum of Art, 2024, photo: Mitro Hood

River Flows Through Bent Trees, Site-specific Installation Baltimore Museum of Art, 2024, photo: Mitro Hood

Echoes from a near future, 2022, Inkjet printing on Lasal Photo Mat paper mounted on alupanel, 80 x 120 in., Edition of 3

Super Strong, 2020, Styrofoam, 73 x 97 x 3.75 in.

Installation view "Worksite", Solo Exhibition Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA (2023), photo: Greg Carideo

Installation view "Worksite", Solo Exhibition Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA (2023), photo: Greg Carideo

Radiant System n. 4, 2020, Embroidery on thermal bubble sheet, 26.25 x 26.25 x 1.5 in.

The Flow Between Hard Places, Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019, Ductal Concrete, 96 x 48 x 24 in.

Flow, 2019, Concrete and Foam, 30 x 30 x 30 in.

Take it all back, 2019, Embroidery on Tyvek, 48 x 36 in.