Lyse Lemieux (artist)

[1] Lemieux was appointed and served for eight years (2002-2010) as a part-time member of the Canadian Artist and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal, a quasi-judicial tribunal in Ottawa, responsible for the interpretation and administration of the Status of the Artist Act (SAA).

Robin Laurence has said that Lemieux uses these "lopsided ovals to suggest either human heads or bodies, part of an experimental drawing practice that dodges between abstraction and figuration.

"[5] Her abstractions fragment the subject by separating heads and torsos, Robin Laurence sees this as a moment "created out of disjointed parts are reminiscent of the surrealist practice of 'Exquisite Corpse'.

"[6] Her work has been curated alongside Vikky Alexander, Nadia Myre, Beth Stuart, Meryl McMaster, Shary Boyle, Carol Wainio and Luanne Martineau in Aujourd'hui Encore at Trépanier Baer in Calgary, and more recently curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee for the Vancouver Art Gallery show Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures which contextualized emerging artists like Jeneen Frei Njootli, and Krista Belle Stewart with established artists like Mina Totino, Gary Neil Kennedy, and Elizabeth McIntosh.

[7] 2021: Trespassers/Intrus (solo), Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby[8] 2021: Holding a line in your hand, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops[9] 2020: Enceinte (solo), Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver[10] 2020: No Fixed Abode (solo), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby[11] 2019: Painted Drawings (solo), Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver[12] 2019: Some Kind of Behaviour (solo), Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island[13] 2018: Full Frontal (solo), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver[14] 2018: 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver[15] 2016-17: Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery[16] 2016-17: Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver[17] 2016: A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do, (solo) Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond[18] 2015: Out of Line, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario[19] 2015: Black is the Size of My New Dress (solo), Republic Gallery, Vancouver[20] 2015: In-Between-In-Between (with Meryl McMaster), Katzman Contemporary, Toronto 2014: Shaped Drawings, Something Wrong About the Mouth (solo), Republic Gallery, Vancouver[21] 2014: Beside Yourself, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver[22]