education

2009 – 2011
Transart Institute, Donau University Krems, Berlin, DE
MFA in New Media

2004 – 2007
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
MFA in Photography

1999
Yale University, Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, CT

1994 – 1999
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
B.F.A. Honors

solo exhibitions

2024
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MOTHERGROUND, Winnipeg, MB

2023
VU, Le vide entre nos corps, Quebec, QC

2017
Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Pieces of Me Pieces of You, Toronto, ON

2015
MacLaren Art Centre, Under the Rose Arch, Barrie, ON

2013
Langage Plus, Strangers to Ourselves, Alma, QC

2012
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Dominique Rey: Erlking, Lethbridge, AB

2011
Cultural Capital of Canada Legacy Project, Do Less Slowly Billboards, Winnipeg, MB

2010
Gallery 1C03, Pilgrims: Dominique Rey, University of Winnipeg, MB

2008
La Maison des artistes, Projections, Winnipeg, MB

2007
Truck Gallery, Sisters of the Cross, Calgary, AB

2006
Gallery TPW, Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Toronto, ON

2005
Alternator Gallery, Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Kelowna, BC
Galerie Sans Nom, Filles de la Croix, Moncton, NB
Plug In ICA, Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Winnipeg, MB
Michael Gibson Gallery, Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, London, ON
Le Centre d’art et de diffusion Clark, Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Montreal, QC

2002
Gallery One One One, The Bathers, University of Manitoba

selected group exhibitions

2023
Remai Modern, Picasso: Becoming the Faun, Saskatoon, SK 
Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen,NB, Galerie de l’UQAM,QC 

2021
La Maison des artistes, En conversation, Winnipeg, MB

2018
Winnipeg Art Gallery, In Place: Reflections from Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

2019
Remai Modern, If I Have a Body, Saskatoon, SK

2018
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Behind Closed Doors, Winnipeg, MB

2017
Galleri Box, The Superorganism, Göteborg, Sweden
Video Pool Media Arts Centre & Platform Centre, Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women, Winnipeg, MB
Plug In ICA, Entering the Landscape, Winnipeg, MB
Rodman Hall Art Centre, Material Girls, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
College Art Galleries, Material Girls, University of Saskatchewan, SK

2016
Plug In ICA, Superimposition: Sculpture and Image, Winnipeg, MB
National Gallery of Canada, Dominique Rey’s "Erking" photographs, Ottawa, ON
Contemporary Calgary, Material Girls, Calgary, AB
Doris McCarthy Gallery, Material Girls, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON

2015
Art Center/South Florida, Attitudes in Latitudes - Northern Wild Explores the Tropics, Miami, FL
Dunlop Art Gallery, Material Girls, Regina, SK

2014
Platform Gallery, When I Told You to Shoot the Sky I Had Something Else in Mind, Winnipeg, MB
MOCCA/Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Material Self: Performing the Other Within, Toronto, ON
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MAWA: Celebrating 30 Years of Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB

2013
MKG127, Toronto, ON
Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Please Stare, Regina, SK
School of Art Gallery, Perfect Imperfections, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Gallery 1C03, Herstory, University of Winnipeg, MB

2012
Galéria HIT, Objavenie Pomalosti II, Tabacka Art Center, Kosice, Slovakia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Now, Winnipeg, MB
MOCA Calgary, Street Life, Calgary, AB
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Migrating Landscapes/Canada at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture, Winnipeg, MB

2011
Red Roots Gallery, Macabre & Mysticism, New York, NY
Galéria HIT, Objavenie Pomalosti, Tabacka Art Center, Kosice, Slovakia
MMX Open Art Venue, Unterwegs, Berlin, DE
MKG127, Go Figure, Toronto, ON
AXENÉO7, Quelle dérive: Le possible et le réel de Winnipeg, Prairie Scene Festival, Gatineau, QC
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Bestial Encounters/Winnipeg Alphabestiary, Lethbridge, AB

2009
Winnipeg Art Gallery, She Works Hard, Winnipeg, MB

2006
Esther M. Klein Gallery, Whisper Down The Lane, Philadelphia, PA

performances and art actions

2022
21 (3x7=21) Hours of Linda Mary Montano’s 80th Birthdayarama, Mother Mound, Virtual performance, Organized by Franklin Furnace, Grace Exhibition Space, Streamside 7, E.A.R.T.H. Lab, Three Phase Center, and The Interior Beauty Salon

2014
RIAP (Rencontre internationale d’art Performance), Le Lieu, The New Abzurbs, Quebec, QC

2011
National Arts Centre, Prairie Scene Festival, The Abzurbs, Ottawa, ON
AXENÉO7, Quelle Dérive, Prairie Scene Festival, The Abzurbs, Gatineau, QC

2010
Gallery 1C03, Triple Abzurbs Threat Most Talented, University of Winnipeg, MB
On the Road, The Abzurbs, Winnipeg and surrounding areas, MB

2009
Viva! Art Action, The Abzurbs, Bain Saint-Michel, Montreal, QC

2008
Manif d’art 4: Leurre Juste, The Abzurbs, Quebec, QC
Cre8ery, pARTY, The Abzurbs, Winnipeg, MB

residencies

2016
Canada Council for the Arts International Residency Program, La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR

2014
Artscape Gibraltar Point Artist Residency, Luminous Bodies, Toronto Island, ON
Deep Bay Artist Residency, Manitoba Arts Council, Riding Mountain National Park, MB

2007 & 2013
Centre SAGAMIE Digital Photography Artist Residency, Alma, QC

2012
FAAS 3 L’art au Pied Carré Artist Residency, Galerie d’art du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury, ON

2003
Parallaxe Artist Residency, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB
DAIMON Artist Residency, Gatineau, QC

2001
Histoire de sens – L’Échangeur II Artist Residency, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB

selected honours and awards

2024
Canada Council for the Arts Concept to Realization Grant

2023
Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant

2018
Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant

2017
Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts A Grant

2016
Canada Council for the Arts International Artist Residency Grant
Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts A Grant

2015
Winnipeg Arts Council Individual Artist A Grant

2013
Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts A Grant

2012
Manitoba Regional Winner with Lancelot Coar of Migrating Landscapes, Venice Biennale in Architecture

2011
Sobey Art Award Long List Nominee

2010
Visual Arts Ambassador of Winnipeg, Cultural Capital of Canada
Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts A Grant

2005, 2009, 2010
Baxter & Alma Ricard Foundation Graduate Scholarship

2008
Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant

2007 & 2009
Video Pool Media Arts Centre Media Production Grant

2006
Manitoba Arts Council Video Production Grant
La Vague Judith Hamel Prize Best Media Art

2005
National Magazine Awards Foundation Gold Medal Award for Photojournalism & Photo Essay

2004
Canada Council for the Arts Grant to Professional Artists in Visual Arts

2003
Manitoba Arts Council Video Production Grant

2001
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Art Grant

collections

National Gallery of Canada

Remai Modern

Scotiabank

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Province of Manitoba

Wedge Collection

Université de Saint-Boniface

International Private Collections

books and catalogues

Exhibition Notes: Entering the Landscape, Essays by Jenifer Papararo, Sarah Nesbitt, and Sherry Farrell-Racette, Pub. Plug In Editions, 2018

Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984-2009), Essay by Kathy Rae Huffman, Pub. Video Pool Media Arts Center, 2017

Créer: Ce qu’en disent les artistes, Ed. Suzanne Joubert, Pub. Édition Suzanne Joubert, 2015

Material Girls, Ed. Jennifer Matotek, Essays by Wendy Peart, Blair Fornwald, and Jennifer Matotek, Pub. Black Dog Publishing, 2015

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, “Material Self: Performing the Other Within” by David Liss and Bonnie Rubenstein, 2014

RIAP 2014: Rencontre Internationale d’art Performance 18e Édition, Essay by Marie-Andrée Godin, Pub. RIAP, 2014

Winnipeg Now, Published by The Winnipeg Art Gallery, essays by Robert Enright, Meeka Walsh, Mark Kingwell, and Sarah Milroy, 2013

Sobey Art Award: 10th Anniversary, Published by The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Sobey Art Foundation, 2013

Les Vois de la Mémoire et de l’Altérité, “Dominique Rey: je est un autre” by J. R. Léveillé, 2013

Herstory: Art by Women from the University of Winnipeg Collection, Published by Gallery 1C03/University of Winnipeg, essay by Laura White, 2013

Dominique Rey: Erlking/Pilgrims, Co-Published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Gallery 1C03, essays by Josée Drouin-Brisebois and Leon Bernard Johnson, 2012

FAAS 3: L’art au pied carré/une retrospective de la foire d’art alternatif de Sudbury 2012, Published by La Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, essay by Elia Eliev & Valérie Mandia

Paperwait, Volume 13, 2010-2011, “Unfinished Business,” by Whitney Light

Winnipeg Art Gallery: Guide to the Collections, Ed. Stephen Borys, 2010

Resonant Dialogues: 25 Years of the Second Story Art Society in Calgary 2003-2008, “Dominique Rey”, Essay by Scott Rogers, Pub. Truck, 2008

The Winnipeg Alphabestiary, Ed. Meeka Walsh, a BorderCrossingsBook, 2008

CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, “Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir”, 2007

Quelques Degrés d’Écart, Essay by Marie Bouchard, Pub. Les Éditions L’Iterligne, 2007

Dominique Rey: Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir, Plug In Editions, essays by Cliff Eyland, Steven Matijcio, Marie Bouchard, 2005

Histoire de Sens, Éditions d’art Le Sabord, Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2002

selected articles and reviews

Esse Magazine, Issue 109, Fall 2023, “Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre”, review by Guillaume Adjutor Provost

FR Magazine, “Bribes d’état de corps”, article by Elise Anne Laplante, l’Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones Edition, 2021

Winnipeg Free Press, “WAG offers insight into artists’ creative processes”, article by Caitlyn Gowriluk, December 1, 2018

Göteborg Post, "A bit chaotic amongst rising emotions", review by Sara Arvidsson, November 16, 2017

Black Flash Magazine, Volume 34, Issue 2, “Fragmentation & Desire: An Interview with Dominique Rey”, article by Sandra Fraser, April 2017

Border Crossings, “Superimposition: Sculpture and Image”, review by Erica Mendritzki, Volume 28, Number 2, Issue No. 110, 2016

Winnipeg Free Press, “Layers of Meaning”, review by Steven Leyden Cochrane, October 20, 2016

Canadian Art, “Dominique Rey’s Veneration of a Disappearing Sisterhood”, review by Chris Hampton, May 27, 2015

National Gallery of Canada Magazine, “Contemplating Time with Les Filles de la Croix”, review by Alexia Naidoo, April 20, 2015

Canadian Art, “The Changing Art School: New Materials, New Technologies, New Pedagogies, New Collaborators”, Winter 2015

The Leader-Post, “Madonna, Move Over,” review by Bryan Schlosser, January 31, 2015

The Uniter, “Whose House? Dominique’s House”, article by Jill Groening, January 22, 2015

Inter Art Actuel, Issue 119, “RIAP 2014: 30 ans d’art action à Québec”, article by Mildred Durán Gamba, 2015

Border Crossings, “Material Self: Performing the Other Within”, review by Milena Tomic, Volume 33, Number 3, Issue No. 131, 2014

Adone Magazine, “Perspectives on Self at Contact’s MOCCA Show”, review by Brynn Higgins, June 18, 2014

Akimbo, “Material Self & In Character at MOCCA”, review by Terence Dick, May 20, 2014

Black Flash Magazine, “Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2014: Blog Post One. Starting with the Self.” review by Magdalyn Asimakis, May 16, 2014

L’Oeil de la Photographie, “Toronto Contact 2014/The Opening”, article by Sophie Bertrand, May 15, 2014

In Conversation with Canadian Contemporary Art Blog, “A first peek at Contact”, review by Trich Boon, May 2, 2014

Flare, “Art Star: Rey of Light”, article by Nadja Sayej, December 2013

La Liberté, “L’autre Moi”, article by Sabine Trégouët, May 29, 2013

Uptown/Winnipeg Free Press, “Pretty/ugly,” review by Steven Leyden Cochrane, May 23, 2013

CBC, “Artist Dominique Rey brings some greenery to the Winnipeg Art Gallery,” posted by Anna Lazowski, September 27, 2012

Canadian Art, review by J. J. Kegan McFadden, Summer 2012

ArtStars*, “Wish Box,” article by Nadja Sayej, nadjasayej.tumblr.com, August 9 & 10, 2011

Winnipeg Free Press, “Slow Down, Stat,” article by Carolin Vesely, cover article of the Arts Section, February 8, 2011

Winnipeg Free Press, “Her Imagination Runs Away With the Circus,” review by Alison Gillmor, September 30, 2010

The Uniter, “Exploring our urges to play with the grotesque”, review by Robin Dudgeon, September 23, 2010

Galleries West, Fall 2010, “Dominique Rey, Pilgrims”, review by Patricia Dawn Robertson, Fall 2010

Winnipeg Free Press, “Enjoy the fruits of this labour”, review by Stacey Abramson, March 6, 2009

Border Crossings, “Worker Be”, review by Robert Enright, Volume 28, Number 2, Issue No. 110, 2009

NOW, “Dominique Rey”, review by Bjarke Madsen, May 17 – 23, 2007

eVent, “Sex as a Commodity”, article by Portia Priegert, January 17, 2007

Liaison, “Dominique Rey, le portrait de Venus ou l’icone contemporaine”, article by Francois Chalifour, Fall 2006

Frieze, “City Report: Winnipeg”, article by Robert Enright, March 2006

The Globe and Mail, “In the skin of the sex kitten”, review by Robert Enright, April 27, 2005

Border Crossings, “Photo Diary: Selling Venus / Vénus au miroir”, Volume 24, Number 2, Issue No. 94, 2005

Gazette des femmes, “Femmes-mirages”, article by Pascale Guéricolas, May-June 2005

Winnipeg Free Press, “Bringing Venus down to earth”, review by Lorne Roberts, April 14, 2005

Western Living, “Selling Venus, Photographs from behind the velvet curtain”, review by Adriana Barton, The Globe and Mail, May 10, 2003, “The Spirit of the West”, review by Robert Enright, April 2005

Border Crossings, “Nouveau Winnipeg”, review by Robert Enright, Volume 22, Number 2, Issue No. 86, May 2003

Maclean’s, “Hey, we’re from Winnipeg too”, article by Amy Cameron, March 24, 2003

Winnipeg Free Press, “Young Winnipeg Artists”, article by Amy Karlinsky, March 20, 2003

The Globe and Mail, “Permission to dream is granted”, review by Robert Enright, November 2, 2002

ETC Montréal, Number 57, “Histoire de sens: un carrefour de signes”, article by Monique Langlois, Spring 2002

Border Crossings, “Mirror, Mirror in the Hand, Who’s Most Reflected in All the Land”, review by Robert Enright, Volume 21, Number 1, Issue no. 81, 2002

L’Accent Acadien, “Une histoire de sens qui interpelle la vie”, article by David Lonergan, October 5, 2001

L’Acadie Nouvelle, L’Échangeur de passage à Moncton, article by Sylvie Mousseau, Sept 14, 2001

Border Crossings, “Go Figure”, review by Robert Enright, Volume 19, Number 3, Issue No. 75, August 2000