Emmanuel Laflamme


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.

  • Curiculum vitæ

    Emmanuel Laflamme

    www.emmanuellaflamme.com


    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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