Over the past three decades, Diane Landry has been invigorating her audiences with a multidisciplinary practice that investigates the transformative properties of light, sound, and motion. Most widely recognized for her installation projects and performances, Landry’s works integrate elements of kinetic sculpture, optical illusion, film, audio, and photography. Through the repurposing and recycling of ordinary objects and materials, Landry proposes complex reconsiderations of beauty in the mundane.

Landry is particularly interested in the ambiguity of time as an element that can be controlled and not. This has led her to the creation of “oeuvres Mouvelle” or “Mouvelle Artwork” – material works that must be watched for some time before its full meaning is understood.

Landry was born in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. She studied natural science at Cégep de Sainte-Foy and worked in the agricultural field for five years, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the Université Laval in 1987, and subsequently a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 2006.

She has exhibited and performed widely throughout Canada, and internationally in the United States, Europe, China and Australia. Landry has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec; the Art Gallery of Hamilton; the Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio; and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, among others. Recently, Landry’s work was included in the internationally touring exhibition, Oh Canada, organized by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Her works can be found in Canadian and international public and private collections and she has been the recipient of multiple awards, grants and distinctions, including the Giverny Capital Prize and the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. Landry currently lives and works in Quebec City.