Ianna Book is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal, QC. /// Ianna Book est une artiste multidisciplinaire qui vit et travaille à Montréal, QC.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------STUDIES | ÉTUDES
- VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS /// ARTS VISUELS ET MÉDIATIQUES, Université du Québec à Montréal
- FINE ARTS /// ARTS PLASTIQUES, Cégep du Vieux-Montréal
EXHIBITIONS & OTHER EVENTS | EXPOSITIONS & AUTRES
- 2024 - ESPACES INCARNÉS / Performance, Centre PHI, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2023 – EROS CIRCUITRY / Performance, Produit rien, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2023 – SEXE, DÉSIRS ET DATA / Group exhibit, Centre PHI, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2022 – COURS "L'INTIME ET LE POLITIQUE" (invitée) / Artist talk, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- 2021 – NUIT INFRAROUGE / Performance, Centre PHI, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2020 – LGBTQ HERITAGE / Group exhibit, ACCA Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- 2020 – SEXUALITÉS ET TECHNOLOGIES / Performance, les3sex, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2019 – INCLUSION (PRIDE MTL) / Group exhibit, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2018 – L'ART QUEER DE LA PERFORMANCE / Artist talk, Colloque international, UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2018 – POST QUEER / Artist talk, UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2018 – HARD: SUBVERSIVE REPRESENTATION / Group exhibit, UH Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
- 2017 – TÉMOIGNER POUR AGIR / Group exhibit, galerie de la Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2017 – EXPANDED VISIONS: 50 YEARS OF COLLECTING / Group exhibit, Leslie & Lohman Museum, New York, NY, USA
- 2017 – MOMENTA / Portfolio discoveries, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2017 – VIVA! ART ACTION / Performance, Les ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2017 – LE GENRE À L'ÉPREUVE DE LA VILLE / Artist talk, Studio XX, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2017 – SOUND ACTS FESTIVAL / Group show (video screening), Athens, Greece
- 2016 – TRANS TIME / Group exhibit, Confluences gallery, Paris, France
- 2016 – OK LUCID / Solo exhibit, La Centrale gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2016 – ARTISTES QUEERS / Artist talk, World Social Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2016 – SEX HABITS / Group exhibit / The Archer Ballroom, Chicago, IL, USA
- 2016 – TRANS & THE NOTION OF RISK / Solo exhibit / Leslie & Lohman Museum - PSPS, New York, NY, USA
- 2015 – DÉMOCRASTIE! / Group exhibit, La Centrale gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2015 – 7e CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES RECHERCHES FÉMINISTES (CIRFF) / Artist talk, Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2015 – QUEER NETWORKS / .DPI 32 / Studio XX, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2015 – I'M TRANS / Group exhibit, Waterloo Arts gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 2014 – FEMINIST ART BASE / Brooklyn Museum - Elisabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- 2014 – TRANS TIME / Group exhibit, Espace créatif, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2014 – PRIDE MTL / Group exhibit, Place Émilie-Gamelin, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2014 – TRANS AVENUE / Performance & book launch, Leslie & Lohman Museum, New York, NY, USA
- 2014 – TRANS AVENUE / Artist talk, Bluestockings, New York, NY, USA
- 2014 – TRANS AVENUE / Artist talk, School of the Photographic Arts (SPAO), Ottawa, ON, Canada
- 2013 – TRANS AVENUE / Book launch, Librairie Formats, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2011 – XPOSE (Radical Queer Semaine) / Group exhibit, Fresh Paint, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2008 – / P H O E N I X /
- 2007 – MON URÉTHANE / Performance, Studio L'espace vide (Grover), Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2005 – NEC PLUS ULTRA VALÉTUDINAIRE / Solo exhibit, Galerie du Gesù, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2001 – CRÉATION DE RÉSISTANCE / Group exhibit, La Bande vidéo (Complexe Méduse), Québec, QC, Canada
- 1999 – ART, CULTURE, RÉSISTANCE ET LUTTES SOCIALES / Artist talk, Gesù, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 1999 – MONTAGE / COLLAGE / Solo exhibit, Galerie 1040, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 1998 – DL : SPECTACLE / Solo exhibit, Cégep du vieux Montréal (Canif), Montréal, QC, Canada
COLLECTION
- Permanent collection at Leslie & Lohman Museum, New York, NY
- private collections
BOOKS, MAG, CATALOGUE
- QUEER HOLDINGS : A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection, Noam Parness, Assistant Curator, Gonzalo Casals, Museum director, Hirmer Publishers, 2019
- ESSE ARTS + OPINIONS / NO.91, Ianna Book - Trans Avenue, Anne-Marie Dubois, 2017, Magazine, pages 78, 79, 80, 81
- DESIRE CHANGE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST ART IN CANADA, Trans Time: Time for Trans Visibility, Gina Badger, 2017
- PERFORMANCE RESEARCH / VOLUME 21 ISSUE 5, Protocol and Performativity : Queer selfies and the coding of online identity, Mikhel Proulx, pp. 114 - 117, 2016
- PERFORMANCE RESEARCH / VOLUME 21 ISSUE 5, Trans Time : Time for Trans Visibility in contemporary art, Marie-Claude G. Olivier, Audrey Laurin, pp. 111 - 113, 2016
- TÉMOIGNER POUR AGIR, Oeuvre "OK Lucid!" de Ianna Book, commissaire d'exposition: Jamie Wilson Goodyear, directrice: Maria Nengeh Mensah, 2017, pages 32, 33, 34
PRESS REVIEWS | REVUE DE PRESSE
- RADIO-CANADA, Plongée dans la sexualité à l'ère numérique au Centre Phi, Zacharie Routhier, 2023
- LE DEVOIR, Briser les codes du regard dominant, Amélie Revert, 2023
- JOURNAL MÉTRO, Oser explorer "Sexe, désirs et data" au Centre PHI, Jules Couturier, 2023
- VICE MEDIA (video), Les sites de rencontre vus par une artiste Trans, Brigitte Noëlle, 2018
- BIG RED AND SHINY, Women, subverting the script, in HARD: Subversive Representation, Mallory A. Ruymann, 2018
- EX SITU, Ok Lucid: une exploration des réseaux sociaux, Juliette Marzano, 2016
- DNA INFO, Trans Art Exhibit Coming to SoHo Gay Museum's Prince St. 'Project Space', Danielle Tcholakian, 2016
- NOMOREPOTLUCKS, Realness, Passing, and the True Self(ie), Mikhel Proulx, 2015
- THE HUFFINGTON POST, Trans Time : la toute première exposition collective trans à Montréal, Samuel Larochelle, 2014
- THE MCGILL DAILY, It’s about time, Vita Azaro, 2014 24H, Une exposition tulipe percutante, Anne-Marie Provost, 2014
- BUZZFEED, Trans Art & Culture in 2014, Motha | december 2014
- À BÂBORD, Trans avenue : faire corps avec le changement Catherine St-Arnaud et Miguel Gosselin-Dionne | avril-mai 2014, pages 40, 41
- POSTURE MAGAZINE, Trans and the Urban Context, Winter Mendelson, 2013
- CURVE MAGAZINE | LOTL, Review of Trans Avenue, Gillian Kendall, 2013