Artiste multidisciplinaire, Claire Dufresne est née et travaille à Montréal.
Bachelière en sciences, B.Sc., elle détient une Majeure en Études de l’Asie de l’est et
une  Maîtrise en Littérature comparéede l’Université de Montréal.

Elle est récipiendaire d'une bourse du Conseil des Arts du Canada, programme Inter-arts, 2003.
Son travail est imprégné de ses connaissances de l’Orientalisme.

Discours sur l’éphémère, son art questionne le lieu entre l’existence et la non-existence et est écriture d’intériorité.

Claire Dufresne is an experienced multi-disciplinary artist. Her work includes oil painting, etching, handmade paper sculptures and bronze.

Science Graduate from University of Montreal, she  majored in East-Asiatic Studies,
and has a Master's degree in Comparative literature Studies from the same university. She speaks and write Chinese language. She studied at Saidye Bronfman Art school with emphasis in etching, drawing and bronze casting. She completed these studies with workshops of all kind, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy, Japanese handmade paper with the Master Yoishi Fujimori. Experienced in foundry, she succeeded in 1990 to transform paper into bronze. From her knowledge of Oriental and Occidental  art of papermaking, she developed her own technics.

Claire Dufresne was named Fellow of the Canada Council for the Arts in 2003 Inter-Arts program.

Her approach to art is in a relationship with human being and life in the sense of consciousness of the ephemerality.
Her art, influenced by  literature, speaks of inner life and of the memory of time flying. Her artistic approach is inspired
by asiatic philosophy and literature.

Her personnal way of making artist books is close to sculpture.

Her  exhibition, Ars longa Viat brevis, 2000, is inspired by  Japanese No theater. I was a new approach to  present  artworks to public.

Claire Dufresne participated in many International art exhibit, in Taipei, Kyoto, Bruxelles, Luxembourg, Toulouse,
Ferrol (Spain) Toronto.

In Montreal, at La Maison de la culture Frontenac, La Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Cinémathèque québécoise,
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec,  Centre de créativité Le Gesu,  Japanese Pavilion of the Botanical Garden.

Her studio and publishing is located at:
4710, St-Ambroise
espace 110
Montréal, Qc,  H4C 2T7

claire.dufresne@sympatico.ca

Téléphone: 514-567-6747
 

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