Line Ouellet

Director and Chief Curator

From 1984 to 1988, Line Ouellet served as Head of Communications and Deputy Editor for Continuité, a magazine devoted to Quebec’s heritage, before acceding to the posts of Editor and Editor in Chief. In 1988, she began working as a project manager for the thematic exhibition service of the Musée de la civilisation du Québec (MCQ). She was named Director of the department in 1993, and was later appointed to the position of Director of the Musée’s education service. She left the MCQ in 1999 to work as Exhibition Director with the MNBAQ and, in 2011, took up a new challenge as Director General of the Museum. She greeted the MNBAQ’s expansion project with great enthusiasm, putting her leadership skills and considerable museum experience at the service of Quebec art, and would later draw upon the same expertise in developing the future museum complex and its vision for the future. In the course of her career, Line Ouellet has taken part in some 20 conferences and written approximately 30 essays and articles. She has also overseen more than seventy exhibitions and forty publications. She has also received numerous prizes including an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Museums Association (in the Publications category) for Camille Claudel et Rodin : la rencontre de deux destins (Éditions Hazan, 2005); the Publication Prize from the Société des musées québécois for Design d’exposition : Dix mises en espace d’expositions au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2003); the Merit Award of the Société des musées québécois (2009, in the Institution category), for the exhibition Le Louvre à Québec. Also in 2010, she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honorary title awarded as a tribute to those who have helped to promote the arts and letters in France and around the world.