Jennifer Couëlle


Jennifer Couëlle,, is a children's book author based in Montreal, Canada. Her albums and collections of poems have been published in France and Canada.

Biography

Couëlle is granddaughter of the French architect Jacques Couëlle, and daughter of the painter Jérôme Couëlle. She is an art historian. She completed her master's thesis on "Kitsch as a Modernist Device" at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1991.
From 1989 to 2001, she was an art and theater critic for numerous publications, including art press, Canadian Art, Cahiers de théâtre Jeu, Variable Sky, Sculpture Space, Esse, ETC, Parachute, Possibles, Spirale and Vie des arts. She has also been a cultural journalist for Le Devoir, Elle Québec and La Presse.
During this period, she also curated several exhibitions, including L'Empreinte du vide , Mois de la photo in Montreal, Galerie Clark and Galerie Trois Points ; Antidote , and Galerie Plein Sud ; Tattoos, Gallery B-312 and Louis Muhlstock, The Draftsman / Un dessinateur at the Saidye Bronfman Arts Center.

Works in French