Sylvie Bélanger


Sylvie Bélanger is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist using sound, video, photography and installation. She lives and works in Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Early life

Bélanger received an MFA from York University, a BFA from Concordia University and a Baccalauréat in Philosophy of Religion from Université de Montréal.

Work

Bélanger has exhibited her multimedia installations across Canada, USA, France, Germany, Spain, England, the Netherlands, Japan, Thailand, Philippines and China.
In 2002 Bélanger was commissioned to create public art for the Bessarion subway station in Toronto. The work is a series of friezes of hands, feet and backs of heads, which represent the users of the station. The feet images appear on the concourse level while the heads appear on the platform level. The hand images appear along the stairs between the Sheppard Avenue side entrance/exit and the concourse.

Collections

Bélanger was the recipient of the Stauffer Prize awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts