Birth : Hauterive, Québec, 1958.
Training : Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 1995, Bachelor degree in Art in 1984 both from the University of Québec in Montréal. Happiness after a hard day’s work… may be drinking good red wine in a fashionnable wine bar, warming up over a hot stove smelling the good odors of a simmering dish, cuttling under soft linen bedspread before the complete intimacy of darkness. No need to speak outloud during those moments, either intimate or immerge in a crowd. We hear words behind their smiling closed lips while their intense look on one another stops the action. These social interactions also attract our eyes...and make us smile.
Medium : Acrylic.
Exhibitions : More then twenty individual exhibitions in Québec, France, Switzerland and Spain since 1977. Many group exhibitions since 1979 in prestigious art centers : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, University of Québec Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Center, University of Montréal Art Gallery. She has been chosen to exhibitit at the auction sale " Les Femmeuses", organized by the Pratt and Withney company.
Collections : Private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. More than twenty-five canadian companies have acquired her works: Bell Canada, Ogilvy Renault, CIBC Bank, Group Jean Coutu, Fiducie Desjardins.
Bibliography : La Peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960, Robert Bernier, Éditions de l’Homme, 2002; Le Collectionneur, May 1996, number 34; La Presse, Raymond Bernatchez, February 1995; le Journal de Nancy (France): Manon Otis: promesse canadienne, March 1980.
Awards : Honorable mentions given by Le Cercle des Artistes Peintres du Québec in 1985, 1987, 1990, 1995; twice recipient of the Girardin-Vaillancourt Foundation scholarship.
