Emmanuel Laflamme recycles popular imagery with humor and creates meaningful scenes that lead to both smiles and reflection. Like the surrealists, he creates representations whose obvious impossibility captures the viewer's attention. He creates his works a bit like an advertiser who has nothing to sell. Combining cultural references, he diverts ancient and modern myths to serve us his view of the world, both tender and critical.
The absurd is his playground, anachronism is his specialty. Emmanuel was born in 1984 in Montreal. A self-taught artist, he has worked as a cartoon designer and collaborated on projects for advertising, cinema and video games.
Emmanuel Laflamme
EDUCATION
Autodidact
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2017 Performative theories and practices, RAIQ - Electronic experiments, Studio XX
2013 Photoengraving, Atelier Graff
GRANTS & DISTINCTIONS
2019 Essor Prize - Isabelle-Aubin Prize, Le Vrai du Faux, École Dorval-Jean-XXIII, Québec, Canada
2019 LOJIQ Travel Grant, Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Project grant - cultural offer in the educational path, MCC, Canada
2019 Cultural mediation grant - school environment, MCC & Ville de Longueuil, Canada
2018-19 Studios Éphémères, Conseil des arts de Longueuil & Ville de Longueuil, Canada
2018 CALQ travel grant, London, United Kingdom
LOJIQ Travelling Grant, Roy's People Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2017 LOJIQ travel grant, Happy Startup Summercamp, Sussex, United Kingdom
Finalist for the Montérégie Culture Prize - La Fabrique Culturelle, Longueuil, Canada
2014 Public Prize at the Just for Laughs International Visual Arts Competition, Montreal, Canada
2013 Third Prize at the Just for Laughs International Visual Arts Competition, Montreal, Canada
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2020 Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Kalkman Gallery, Belgium
The Nave presents : We Consume, Uglyduck, London, UK
2019 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Kalkman Gallery, Netherlands
Emerging to Established, Krause gallery, New York, USA
Maison de la Culture Pointe-aux-Trembles, Canada
2018-19 Art Souterrain, Palais des congrès, Montreal, Canada
2018 Unauthorized, Con Artist Collective, New York, USA
Roy's People Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, Jersey City, USA
War is over, Ubisoft, Montreal, Canada
XL4 (part 2), MAI, Montreal, Canada
2017-19 What's New, Artothèque, Montreal, Canada
2016 Plurality, Artothèque de Montréal, Canada
2014,16 Foire d'art contemporain de Saint-Lambert, Canada
2016 New York Street Art Fair, Art Love NY, New York, USA
Nul p'art Ailleurs, DAM's 10th anniversary, La TOHU, Montreal, Canada
2015 Art Battle Group Show, #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 CCC Gets Physical @ Gamerz X, Aix-en-Provence, France
Exchange, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, USA
2013 Create This Revolution, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
PERFORMANCES & SPECIAL EVENTS (SELECTION)
2018 Anything Commercial, Dogson X Laflamme, Electric Perfume, Toronto, Canada
2017 Pas d'Radis Fiscaux - L'État d'urgence 2017, ATSA, Montreal, Canada
HAHA-ART X Museum of Fine Arts, Just for Laughs Festival, Place des Arts, Montreal, Canada
2015 Rencontres de la diversité, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
2014 Under Pressure, International Graffiti Convention, Montreal, Canada
INVOLVEMENT & VOLUNTEERING
2017-20 Parle-moi d'amour Wellington Centre, Montreal, Canada
2017-19 Parle-moi d'amour rive-sud, Saint-Lambert, Canada
2015-18 Mentor for the Passeurs de rêves program, Culture pour tous, Montreal, Canada
2017 Auction Moi-m'aime, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2015-17 Artsida Auction, Gallery D, Montreal, Canada
2013 Bénévotemps Auction, Montreal, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
Trop de réalité, Folio Essais, 2018
Créativité/Creativity, Éditions FrI, 2015
COLLECTIONS
Colart, Cedarome, Majudia, Ubisoft
MEDIA & BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
PAQUIN, Nathalie, Les symboles revisités d'Emmanuel Laflamme, Journal Point Sud, Canada, 2019
ROY, Marie-Josée, Place aux jeunes au volet HAHA-ART de Juste pour rire, HuffPost, Canada, 2017
COSATARANGOS, Apostolos, Scrabble Corporate Edition, designboom.com, Italy, 2017
RAE, Isobel, Emmanuel Laflamme: Ficticious Petrogliyphs, As.Iz, Canada, 2017
GARCIA, Atlandide, Emmanuel Laflamme: Biting Marriages, Baronmag.com, Canada, 2016
BÉNÉDICT, Yépao, The art of questioning through images, Monsieur Bénédict, France, 2015
MBOGO, Yvette Mistrale, OEuvres en mutations, TicArtToc, Canada, fall 2015, p.52-53
WEBB, Casey, Emmanuel Laflamme, mashup artist, Jung Katz, United States, 2015
LABRI-AISSA, Sonia, A clash of icons, The McGill Daily, Canada, 2015
SPROULL, Lisa, Catch this pop-up gallery while you can, CULT #MTL, Canada, 2015
DESCHAMPS, Karl, Interview with Emmanuel Laflamme, Fresh Paint Gallery, Canada, 2014
COLLECTIVE ARTS, Featured Artist: Emmanuel Laflamme, Collective Arts Blog, Canada, 2014
GRAY, Karyn, Emmanuel Laflamme | Graphic Difference, ION Magazine, Canada, 2014, p.22-25
CAGNIET, Marine, Emmanuel Laflamme, the art of appropriation, SURL Magazine, France, 2014
ROY, Marie-Josée, The colors of cynicism, Huffington Post, Canada, 2013
GOSSELIN, Marie-Andrée, FIMA : L'art hors des galeries, Journal 24h & Canoe.ca, Canada, 2013
PAULINE, Emmanuel Laflamme - The Art of the Geeks, Sous la Jupe, France, 2013
DELGADO, Jérôme, Un Circuit passepart, Le Devoir, Canada, 2013
DESLOGES, Josianne, Des oeuvres d'art à offrir en cadeau, Le Soleil, Canada, 2012
PECCADILLE, Joh, Emmanuel Laflamme, Orion en Aéroplane, F
DEPELTEAU, Benoît, Emmanuel Laflamme : Painting with Icons, Kolaj Magazine #2, Canada, 2012
DECOVER, Emmanuel Laflamme, DÉCOVER #18, Canada, 2012, p.32-34
RESIDENCES
2018 Mikw Chiyâm, Waskaganish, Canada
2012 Agrégat Artist Center, Longueuil, Canada
JURY
2019 Brossard Symposium
2019 Maison de la Culture Villebon de Beloeil
CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
2017-20 Art ou Pub, Artist in School, Ministry of Culture and Communications
2015 Guest speaker for the course Art, Culture and Society, UQAM, Canada
Guest speaker, Colloque Vocation en Arts, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada
2013 Artist's Rights & Intellectual Property, Fresh Paint Gallery, Montreal, Canada
School Learning VS Self-Taught, Fresh Paint Gallery, Montreal, Canada
ASSOCIATIONS
RAAV, CARFAC, DAM, Culture Montérégie
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