Bio

Dominique Rey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Canada whose practice includes video, performance, painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. Using immersive methodologies, Rey’s works distil her experiences of working with specific, culturally marginalized subjects and figures. These include groups as disparate as strippers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir), and a disappearing order of Nuns (Les Filles de la Croix), to performance-based projects where she dives inward to explore the unconscious “other” within. Dominique Rey’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including MOCCA (Toronto), MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Centre Clark (Montreal), Tabacka Art Center (Kosice, Slovakia), and Art Center/South Florida (Miami Beach). Rey is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and La Fondation Ricard. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Border Crossings, Frieze, Canadian Art, Flare, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She holds a MFA in Photography from Bard College (NY) and a MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute (Berlin). Her art appears in numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Province of Manitoba, and the Wedge Collection. Dominique Rey was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts International Artist Residency in 2016 at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. 

Works

Sisters of the Cross / Les Filles de la Croix

  • 2012
  • Dominique Rey

Sisters of the Cross is a meditative video that proposes to unveil the hidden and profound lives of a disappearing order of nuns in Winnipeg, Brazil, Argentina, and France. This contemplative work is a meditation on the texture of slowness, the nature of listening, and the relationship between attention and time.

Sisters of the Cross / Les Filles de la Croix

Self As Other

  • 2019
  • Dominique Rey

Self as Other was shot in studio with choreographer/dancer Peter Quanz & dancer Kristin Haight. They were directed to hold a difficult balancing pose for as long as possible. Playing between the languages of photography & video, this piece intends to portray the ambiguity of the male and female dancers' bodies.

Self As Other

Funambule

  • 2017
  • Dominique Rey

Funambule moves between the open expanses of the grasslands to the dark shadows of a cedar grove where a traveler and a hunter beckon us to the heart of the forest.

Funambule

Tundrunning

  • 2011
  • Dominique Rey

Tundrunning is part of a larger project titled Erlking of a malevolent figure whose beguiling power pulls us inextricably in; calling the unsuspecting traveler to her fate in the depths of the wilderness.

Tundrunning

Selling Venus

  • 2005
  • Dominique Rey

"Selling Venus" presents a portrait of exotic dancers, and of the artist herself taking on the role of a stripper, at the Crazy Horse Dance Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. From the intimacy of their dressing room, Dominique Rey documents the performative process of self-transformation into "working women". She uncovers illusions and stereotypes about a subculture of women in extreme feminine roles and in doing so reopens the debate on the exploitation of women in oppressive environments.

Selling Venus

City of St. Boniface

  • 2004
  • Dominique Rey

Ruins, railways, bridges, well-kept lawns. The city of St. Boniface is a study in contrasting tempi, motion and stillness, noise and silence.

City of St. Boniface