Laurier Lacroix

Professeur émérite, Université du Québec à Montréal

Laurier Lacroix is Professor Emeritus at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he taught art history and museum studies. His research bears mainly on public art collections in Quebec and Canada before 1940. His achievements include the exhibitions and catalogues François Baillairgé (in 1985, at the Art Gallery of Concordia University); Peindre à Montréal entre 1915 et 1930 (in 1996 at the Galerie d’art de l’UQAM); retrospectives devoted to Ozias Leduc (in 1978, at the Art Gallery of Concordia University; in 1996, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) and Art Gallery of Ontario) and Suzor-Coté (in 1986, in Arthabaska; in 2002, at the MNBAQ and National Gallery of Canada), as well as Les arts en Nouvelle-France (in 2012, at the MNBAQ). He is also interested in contemporary art and has curated exhibitions of the work of Irene F. Whittome (in 1990, at the Musée d’art de Joliette (MAJ); in 1998 at the Canadian Center of Architecture; in 2004, at Bishop University), Pierre Dorion (in 2002, at the galerie d’art de l’Université de Sherbrooke), Guy Pellerin (in 2004, at the MAJ), Robert Wolfe (in 2006, at BAnQ), Micheline Beauchemin (in 2009, at the MNBAQ) and Lisette Lemieux (in 2016, at Musée de Lachine). Recipient of the Prix Carrière of the Société des musées québécois (1997) and of the Gérard-Morisset Prize (2008), Laurier Lacroix is a member of the Société des Dix (2005) and the Académie des lettres du Québec (2012).