Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal. Her artistic and cinematographic work grapples with colonialism’s impact, updating outdated systems with anishinaabeg methodologies.
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions, notably at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Kunsthalle Schirn (Frankfurt, Germany), Arsenal art contemporain (New York, USA), Centre International d’Art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière (France) and the University of Toronto Art Museum (Canada). The artist has also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA), the Toronto Art Biennial (Canada), Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal, Canada), Baltimore Museum of Art (USA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, USA) and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), among others.
Her cinematographic work has been screened at numerous festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), Sundance Film Festival (Utah, USA), Berlinale (Berlin, Germany), Gothenburg International Film Festival (Sweden) and Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands). Her work has also been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, United States and Europe, notably at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA).
With bachelor’s degrees in sociology and communications from the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada (Spain), Monnet received the Prix Pierre-Ayot and was a finalist for the Sobey Arts Award in 2020. Monnet was also selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris for the Cannes Film Festival, received the Merata Mita Fellowship from the Sundance Institute and was named Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2023. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America and at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris.
Caroline Monnet is represented by Blouin Division in Montreal and Toronto.