[3] She played a major role in supporting and developing the local community of artist-run centres and contemporary art galleries.

[5] Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne trained at the École des beaux-arts de Québec, as well as with André Lhote in Paris in 1957.

[2] Rivard-Lemoyne started doing arts administration in 1969, after moving to Ottawa,[4] in the Cultural Division of the Secretary of State of Canada.

[2] The Ottawa Art Gallery presented an exhibition of Rivard-Lemoyne's drawings and paintings in 1996 called Survol.

[6] The exhibition curator, Diane Génier, describes Rivard-Lemoyne's drawings and paintings as atmospheric and process driven, dealing with themes of light and immensity.