Born 1990, Montréal, Canada, lives and works in Quebec City, Canada
Florence belongs to the Artists File of Art and Architecture Integration Policy of Quebec (1%)
EDUCATION
2015-2016 Certificate in Studio Art (MFA Program), New York University (NYU Steinhardt), New York, USA
2013-2016 MASTER’S degree in Fine Arts and Sciences of art, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2009-2013 BACHELOR’S degree in Art History, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ears. Sorbonne Art Gallery, Paris, France
2023 Merging Echoes. (Duo) Kristian Touborg + Florence Giroux Gravel. Carvalho Park, Brooklyn, New York
2023 L’Entre Temps. Galerie AMF, Quebec City, Canada
2022 Light and Transparency. Centre culturel Georges-Vanier, Montréal, Canada
2022 Valse. Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Canada
2020 Chroma. Ubisoft, Montréal, Canada
2019 Vibrations chromatiques. Galerie AVE, Montréal, Canada
2019 Transparence chromatique. Musée Marius-Barbeau, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, Canada
2017 Traversée chromatique entre les fils de l’âme. Complexe Jules-Dallaire, Quebec City, Canada
2015 Les mots de l’âme entre les fils. Maison des étudiants Canadiens, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Réenchanter le quotidien. MANIF D’ART (Première Ovation), curated by Virginie Brunet-Asselin, Quebec City, Canada
2023 The Factory, Enchanting Portals. Curated by Emilie Dalum, Djúpavík, Iceland
2022 Territoires insoupçonnés : Fernand Toupin, Florence Giroux Gravel, Stéphanie L’Heureux and Gilles Tarabiscuité. Galerie Bernard, Montréal, Canada
2016 Obsolescere. The Commons Gallery, New York, USA
PUBLIC ART
2023 Aurora. Institut Teccart, Brossard, Canada
LAND ART
2021 14th edition of Créations-sur-le-champ/Land Art, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada
ART FAIRS AND ART EVENTS
2023 Plural (Contemporary Art Fair), Galerie Bernard, Montréal, Canada
2022 Foire Papier (Contemporary Art Fair), Galerie Bernard, Montréal, Canada
2020 FAC St-Lambert (Contemporary Art Fair), Saint-Lambert, Canada
2019 Pop Up, Centre Matéria, Quebec City, Canada
2019 ARTCH (Emerging Art Fair), Montréal, Canada
2015 PrintFest, International Print Center, New York, USA
COLLECTIONS
2021 UBISOFT, Montréal, Canada
2019 Claridge Inc., Montréal, Canada
Private collections, (Canada, USA, France)
RESIDENCIES AND ART PROGRAMS
2023 The Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland
2023 NYC Crit Club and ARTCH, Collaborative International Residency, New York, USA
2019 ARTCH (Art Souterrain, Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Montréal Centre-Ville and Conseil des arts de Montréal), Montréal, Canada
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 LOJIQ, Circulation of works Grant, Quebec City, Canada
2023 PREMIÈRE OVATION, Research-Creation Grant, (MANIF D’ART, Ville de Québec and CALQ), Quebec City, Canada
2022 PREMIÈRE OVATION, Research-Creation Grant, (MANIF D’ART, Ville de Québec and CALQ), Quebec City, Canada
2020 PREMIÈRE OVATION, Mentoring Grant in Public Art (MANIF D’ART, Ville de Québec and CALQ), Quebec City, Canada
2019 ARTCH, Research and creation grant, (Art Souterrain, Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Montréal Centre-Ville and Conseil des arts de Montréal), Montréal, Canada
2015-2016 Scholarship (based on academic results). Exchange program between Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and NYU, France/USA
PRESS / MEDIA
2024 Florence Giroux Gravel ou la corporéité minimale, Arts Hebdo Médias, Elio Cuilleron, www.artshebdomedias.com
2024 Florence Giroux Gravel: A Fusion of Perception, Movement and Space, Magzoid, https://magzoid.com
2023 Se perdre dans les dédales de fils de Florence Giroux Gravel, Le Soleil, Josianne Desloges, www.lesoleil.com
2023 Rentrée arts visuels: l’art dehors et dedans, Le Soleil, Josianne Desloges, www.lesoleil.com
2023 Rentrée des galeries, La Presse, Éric Clément, www.lapresse.ca
2019 Radio interview Passion FM June 18 with Dario Roy, Lac-Etchemin, Canada Listen
2019 Transparence chromatique: Florence Giroux Gravel expose en solo au Musée Marius-Barbeau de Saint-Joseph, EnBeauce.com, Johanne Mathieu, www.enbeauce.com
2017 Florence Giroux Gravel expose son talent à Québec, L’Éclaireur Progrès, www.leclaireurprogres.ca
2017 Une artiste beauceronne expose ses oeuvres à Québec, EnBeauce.com, Amélie Carrier, www.enbeauce.com
AUCTIONS
2021 Donated artwork LES IMPATIENTS, Montréal, Canada
2020 Les encans de la quarantaine, Sara A. Tremblay, Montréal, Canada
2020 Donated artworks (2) LES IMPATIENTS, Montréal, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Première Ovation 2021-2022 #13, Quebec City, Canada (pages 17-42-43)
2021 Première Ovation 2019-2020 #11, Quebec City, Canada (pages 66-67)
2020 Magazine Ligne, Montréal, Canada (pages 48-49) https://issuu.com/magazineligne
2016 GIROUX GRAVEL, Florence. The threads of the unconscious: Towards a poïetic of consciousness (Master’s thesis). Les fils de l’inconscient: Vers une poïétique de la conscience (Mémoire de maîtrise). Paris, 2016, 139 pages
IMPLICATIONS
2024 Talk. Invited artist to Yann Toma Fine Arts class (Master’s degree), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2023 Board member of Manif d’Art, La Biennale de Québec, https://manifdart.org
2023 Member of L’Oeil de Poisson
2022 Member of L’Oeil de Poisson
2020 Invited artist to a Roundtable Discussion in collaboration with SéminArts (Véronique Lefebvre) and ARTCH, (an introductory program to contemporary art collecting offered by the MAC), Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal
2020 Member of Centre Matéria
2020 Member of the RAAV
2016 Yann Toma’s assistant (artist-observer at the UN (United Nations))