Pierre Dorion
Gibraltar Point

Pierre Dorion was born in Ottawa in 1959, now living in Montreal. Bachelor in Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa in 1981, he started to exhibit his work two years later. Centre International d'art contemporain offered him a solo exhibition in 1994 (Autoportraits 1990-1994). In 1997, he was awarded the prix Louis-Comtois from the City of Montreal in collaboration with Association des galeries d'art contemporain. In 2010, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal presented an exhibition of his paintings paired by the source material he uses for his work , titled Pierre Dorion: peinture et photographie. In 2012, the Musée d'art contemporain offered him a retrospective exhibition that travelled to the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. He is represented by Galerie Blouin Division in Montreal, and Jack Shainman Gallery, in New York.