Caroline Monnet is an Anishinaabe French and Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation, and film.
18 Facts About Caroline Monnet
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Caroline Monnet grew up in both Douarnenez, France, and Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
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Caroline Monnet's father emigrated to Canada from France, and Monnet has French citizenship through him.
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Caroline Monnet's mother is Canadian and a member of the Kitigan Zibi First Nation.
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Caroline Monnet is the younger sister of artist and playwright Emilie Monnet.
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Caroline Monnet is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Lab 2016.
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In 2010, Caroline Monnet released the short film Warchild, which made its debut at the Presence Authochtone Montreal First Peoples' Festival in August 2011.
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In 2012, Caroline Monnet released Gephyrophobia, a short film about two individuals sharing the Outaouais River that was featured at Talent Tout court at Cannes Film Festival.
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Caroline Monnet was nominated for a Canadian Screen Awards for Best Short Drama for Roberta and Best Short Documentary for Tshiuetin.
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Caroline Monnet won a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best Experimental Film for Mobilize.
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Caroline Monnet was the first Canadian filmmaker selected for the 33rd session of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation residency in Paris.
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Caroline Monnet is a founding member of the Aboriginal digital arts collective ITWE.
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In 2017, Caroline Monnet released her documentary entitled Emptying the Tank through CBC.
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Caroline Monnet is one of the co-founders of daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Quebec, along with Skawennati, Hannah Claus and Nadia Myre.
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Caroline Monnet is widely known for her sculpting, work in film and installation.
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Caroline Monnet is interested in themes of identity, representation, and modernity.
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Caroline Monnet has made a signature for working with industrial materials, combining the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual culture with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms.
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Caroline Monnet's works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, as part of Rencontres Internationales, Axeneo7, Plug in ICA, Arsenal Montreal, Arsenal Contemporary NY, Walter Phillips Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, McCord Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art among others.