Deputy-Director of the Canadian Cultural Centre
Art Historian
Catherine Bédard is an art historian, graduate from University of Montreal and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Curator and art critic, she is currently Deputy-Director of the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris where she has been in charge of the exhibition programme since 1993. She also teaches “Geopolitics of Art” at Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle since 2010.
Curator of over eighty monographic and collective exhibitions, Catherine Bédard is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues including Arnaud Maggs : Notes capitales (2000), Ken Lum (2002), John Massey : This Land (2005), Donigan Cumming, La Somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar (2007). She contributed to Parachute, La Revue d’Esthétique, Critique and is the author of several texts on contemporary artists in collective publications such as L’œuvre en programme (capc musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2004), Image & Imagination(Le Mois de la Photo 2005, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montréal), Towards a New Interior (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). She recently curated the photographic exhibitions In the Middle of Nowhere. Isabelle Hayeur, Pascal Grandmaison, Thomas Kneubuhler (Mois de la photo, Paris, 2012) and Stan Douglas. Abandonment and Splendour (2013-2014).