Diane Lafontaine

Diane Lafontaine is a contemporary visual artist and architect () who works in Montreal and the Laurentians. She has been involved in independant research, reflection, creation and production of visuals arts, architecture and design for more than twenty five years.

Her works are built of a large range of mixed elements taken directly from her daily environment. Her pictorial works take form by the use of newspaper clippings, advertising posters founded in garbage containers, images taken out of ancient volumes, photographs of her own sculptural works and abandoned items and fragments of hand-made paper which she pasters, photographs, scans, digitally modify with software, and transfers on paper, using the most recent technologies of impression.
Carried out throughout the late 1980’s to the late 1990’s, her installations consist of fragments of utility items (sewing machine machine mechanism, clothesline pully), of architectural vestiges (parts of doors, windows and lathing) and of her pictorial works which she integrate in structure made of steel, wood,glass, plastic.
By taking fragments, she retrieves whatever falls in her line of vision, is abandoned, discarded, or would not ordinarily retain anyone’s attention. She asse...

Master of History and Theory of Architecture at McGill University
Bachelor of Architecture at Université de Montréal, with complementary studies in visual arts (Pavillon Mont-Royal)
Diploma in Applied Arts at Algonquin College in Ottawa
Advanced training in printed art (new technology and traditional techniques) at Atelier Circulaire, Montreal

2017 - Salon des Membres, édition 2017, Galerie de l’Atelier Circulaire, Montréal.
2016 - Salon des Membres, édition 2016, Galerie de l’Atelier Circulaire, Montréal.
1996 - Ville-Métaphore-Projet. Architecture urbaine à Montréal. 1980-1990. Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris.
1996 - Concours ARQ 1996, Galerie du Marché Bonsecours, 350 rue Saint-Paul Est, Montréal.
1996 - Montréal en projet. Dix ans de l’architecture urbaine 1980-1990, Galerie de l’École d’architecture de l’Université Laval à Québec.
1995 - City, Metaphor, Urban Constructs: Urban Architecture in Montreal, 1980-90, Galerie Frau, New York
1994 - L’expérience urbaine des femmes, Galerie du S.A.C. de l’Université de Montréal.
1992 - Montréal en projet : dix années d’architecture urbaine, Galerie du Centre de design de l’UQAM.
1992 - Histoires d’ailleurs. Potsdamerplatz : empreintes et fragments, Installations au 4399 St-Laurent, Montréal
1992 - Video-Cathedral, Galerie de l’École d’architecture de l’Université McGill.
1990 - Le Mini-golf 1990, Galerie du 4040 Saint-Laurent à Montréal.
1989 - Le logement : métamorphose et métaphores, Installations au 896 rue de Lagauchetière à Montréal
1988 Galerie du S.A.C. de l’Université de Montréal