Artist Biography

Born in 1954 in Zabrze, Poland. Lives and works in Quebec.

 

EDUCATION

2005 Ph.D., Visual Arts (Printmaking), Academy of Fine Arts Katowice, Poland.

1978 Master’s, Visual Arts, (Graphic Design and Printmaking), Academy of Fine Arts Katowice, Poland.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Misfits, Galerie D’Este, Montreal, QC

2009 Exit, Galerie D’Este, Montreal, QC

2008 Musée québécois de culture populaire, Trois-Rivières, QC

2007 Teoartis Gallery, Evora, Portugal

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Fragments from Unknown.

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

2006 Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, QC

Recent Works, Teoartis Gallery, Evora, Portugal

Memories Margins, Open Studio, Toronto, ON

Letters from the Centre of the Earth, Engramme, Québec, QC

Works on paper, Gallery Erickson, Chicago, IL

Memories Matter, Gallery Engram, Katowice, Poland

Oeuvres récentes, Grave, Victoriaville, QC

All the better I can eat you with, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB.

2003 Printworks, Shacda Gallery, Shanghai, China

Printworks, Bizart Gallery, Shanghai, China

2002 Recent works, Galerie McClure, Westmount, QC

2001 OEuvres récentes, Le Centre de diffusion Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, QC.

1999 Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, QC

1998 Ulus National Gallery, Belgrade, Yougoslavia

1997 Peintures récentes, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, QC

1995 Banque de Montréal, Montréal, QC

Galerie Rochon, Toronto, ON

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 "L'Arte e il Torchio / Art and the Printing Press", VII Biennial of Engraving, Civic Museum ofCremona, Italy

2010 Ces artistes qui impriment – L’estampe au Québec depuis 1980, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montreal, QC

2009 Nomade, the Loto-Quebec Collection in Motion, Espace Création, Montréal, Qc.

2008 Papier 08, AGAC, Galerie D’Este, Montréal, QC

Galerie Orange, Montréal, QC

Travelling Exhibition, Musée nationale des beaux arts du Québec, QC

2007 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, QC

International Guanlan Print Biennial, 2007, Guanlan, China

2006 The 1^st International First International Small Size Engraving Salon Inter

Grabado, Uruguay

The 5^th International Printmaking Festival, Evora, Portugal

The 5^th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Bulgaria

International Small Engraving Salon 2006, Florean Museum, Romania

VII Art and Paper, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, ON

Prints, Gallery Simon Blais, Montréal, QC

The 5^th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt

2005 IV International Print Biennial, Novosybirsk State Museum, Russia

Biennale internationale de Gravura do Douro, Alijo, Portugal

Calligraphy: Words and Images, Galerie Mazarin, Montréal, QC

World of ElectroEtch, New Jersey Printmakers Council, NJ

6^th Kochi International Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan

North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA

Prix Loto-Québec 1978-2003, Musée québécois de culture populaire,

Trois-Rivières, QC

Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, QC

2004 VI Art and Paper, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, ON

6^th Beharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print - Art 2004

Bhopal, India

International Small Prints Exhibition, Tetovo Museum.

Tetovo, Macedonia

From Phillips to the Future: Canadian Prints from the Hart House

Permanent Collection, Toronto, Canada

IV Printmaking Festival of Evora, Evora, Portugal

Collection Loto-Québec, Museo de las artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

2003 Intergrafia 2003 World Laureats Gallery, Museum Niepolomice, Poland

Intergrafia 2003 World Lauteats Gallery, Regional Museum

Ostrzeszow, Poland

Duro International Print exhibit, Museum Grabajo, Portugal

Trois avenues de l’estampe, M.d.c. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, QC

Second International Biennial of Mini-Prints, Museum of Tetowo, Macedonia

2002-03 Grande Prairie Collects, Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

2002 12th International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea

Opus 16, Trois-Rivières, QC

International Print Biennial, Edmonton, AB

5^th Kochi International Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan

2001 Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois Rivières, QC

1^er Prix, Biennale du dessin, de l’estampe et du papier du Québec, Alma, QC

3ème Biennale de la gravure de l’Île-de-France, Domaine de Madame Elisabeth, Paris et Orangerie, Versailles, France

L’Arte E Il Torcio, 2^nd International Small Engraving Exhibition-Cremona, Civic Museum of Cremona, Italy

2000 Montréal-Madrid, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, QC

1998 Printmakers, (touring exhibition in Poland - Invited artist)

1997 International Graphic Arts Triennial, Krakow, Poland

Canada Nas Gerais 97, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1996 4th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Belgrade, Yougoslavia

International Print Show, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

1995 La Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’Art du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC

21International Biennial of Graphic Arts ^st Liubliana, Slovenia

Inter-Kontakt Grafik 95, Prague, Czech Republic

Biennale de l’Estampe et du Papier du Québec, Alma, Québec

1994 Galerie Eric Devlin, Montréal, QC

International Graphic Arts Triennial, Krakow, Poland

1993 ECHO - le symposium de la jeune peinture au Canada, Centre d’Art de Baie Saint-Paul, QC

Biennale, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Museum of Modern Art, International Graphic Art Biennial, Wakayama, Japon – Selected Artists

1992 Obstacles, Consulate General of Poland, Montréal, QC

1991 International Graphic Arts Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

1989 Biennale de l’Estampe du Québec, Alma, QC. – Artistes choisis

1985-1986 Cadaq International Small Prints Competition, Madrid, Spain

1985 Tout l’art du monde, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC

1984 4^th Expo Mini-Gravat Internacionale Cadaques, Spain

1982 Terre des Hommes, Pavillon du Québec, Montréal, QC

 

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

 

2012 The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

2006 Conseil des Arts et de Lettres du Québec, A Grant, Canada, Création 2006 Project

Triennial Prize, 5^th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt

Art Residency, Centre Engramme, Québec, QC

Art Residency, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Frans Masareel

Arts Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium Art Residency, Teoartis, Evora, Portugal

International Honorable Mention, Il Grabado 1st International Biennale of Engraving, Uruguay 2005

2005 Loto-Québec Prize, 4ieme Internationale Biennale d’Estampe,

Trois Rivières, QC

2004 Solo Exihibition Prize for III Festival Gravura, Evora, Portugal

Arts Residency Prize for III Festival Gravura, Evora, Portugal

Conseil des Arts et de Lettres du Québec, A Grant, Canada

Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, Canada

2002 1st Laureat, Musée National du Québec/ Monique & Robert Parizeau Foundation

Art Residency, Ses Salines, Mallorca, Spain

Grand Prize, Master Print Competition, Loto-Québec

2001 Art Residency, Atelier de l’Île Val-David, QC

Loto-Québec Prize, Biennale de l’Estampe et du Papier du Québec, Alma, QC

1999 Guest lecturer on Eastern European printmaking

1^st International Print Competition, Trois-Rivières, QC

1998 Invited Jury Member, 5^th International Graphic Arts Biennial, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1997 Annual Prize-winner, Thomas More Institute, Montreal, QC

Grand Prize, Ernst & Young Canadian Art Printmaking Competition, Toronto, ON

1996 Grand Prize, 4^th Biennial of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1994 Conseil des Arts et de Lettres du Québec, B Grant

City Award, International Graphic Art Triennial, Krakow, Poland

Symposium des Jeunes Peintres du Québec & Canada, Baie St. Paul

Palme Bronze, Biennale 1993, Société National des Beaux arts, Grand

Palais, Paris, France

 

ART CATALOGUES

2007 International Guanlan Print Biennale China 2007, Guanlan Shenzhen, China

2006 First International Engraving Biennial, IL Grabado 2005, Uruguay

Fifth Printmaking Festival, Evora, Portugal

Fifth World Print Competition, Lessedra

2005 Fifth Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt

VII Art and Paper, Gallery Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, ON

Biennal Internacional de Gravura do Douro, Alijo, Portugal

IV International Print Biennial, Novosybirsk State Museum, Novosybirsk, Russia

Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois- Rivières, QC

Sixth Kochi International Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan

Fourth North American Printmaking Competition, Boston, MA

2004 Collection Loto-Québec, Museo de la artes de la Udeq, Mexico

III Festival Gravura, Evora, Portugal

VI Art and Paper, Gallery Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, Canada

Sixth Beharat Bhavan International Biennial of Art- Print, Bhopal, India

International print exhibition, Tetovo Museum, Tetovo, Macedonia

2003 Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, QC

Ludmila Armata: Musée nationale des beaux-arts du Québec

Ludmila Armata, Shacda Gallery, Shanghai, China

Second International Biennial of Mini Prints, Tetowo, Macedonia

2002 Kochi International Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan

SNAP International Print Biennial, Edmonton, AB

2001 Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine Trois-Rivières, QC

Biennale de l’Estampe et du Papier du Québec, Alma, QC

Third Engraving Biennial of Ile-de-France, Domaine de Madame Elisabeth,

Paris and Orangerie, Versailles, France

L’Arte E Il Torcio, Second International Small Engraving Exhibition-Cremona 2001, Civic Museum, Cremona, Italy

1997 Polish Printmakers Abroad, Poland

1996 Fourth Biennial of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Nordgrafia 96, Sweden

1995 21^st International Graphic Art Biennial, Slovenia

Biennial de l’Estampe et du Papier du Québec

Triennial ‘95 Krakow, Poland

1993 Les peintres canadiens au salon Biennial SNBA, France

Fifth Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Japan

1992 Selected Artists, Polish Consulate, Montreal, QC

1991 Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Japan

1989 Biennial de l’Estampe et du Papier du Québec

Third Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Japan

1985 Tout l’Art du Monde

Fifth Expo mini-gravat internacionale Cadaques, Spain

 

ARTICLES

« Alma et Jonquire accueillent la 7e édition de la Biennale. »

Le Quotidien, (Saguenay) 16 juin 2001.

« Un septième biennale du dessin, d’estampe et du papier matière du

Québec et la présence de 35 artistes. » Le lac St-Jean 10 juin 2001 .

“Printmakers Competition.” Canadian Art 14 (1997).

Aird-Bélanger, Jocelyne. « L’estampe en fête: Versailles à Paris. »

Bon A tire 14 (2001).

Duncan, Anne. “Art Dines Out in Hard Times.” The Gazette (Montreal)

25 November 1995.

Grande, John K. “Letters From the Centre of the Earth.” La Morsure 2: 3 (2006).

Grande, John K. “Ludmila Armata: Recent works.” Art on Paper 6 (2002).

Grande, John K. “Ludmila Armata: Letters From the Centre of the Earth.”

Vie des Arts (2001).

Jordan, Betty Anne. “Focus on Ludmila Armata.” Canadian Art 7 (1990).

Kalebasiak, Lukasz. “Ze znakiem klonu.” Glos Wyborczy 31 March 2005.

Kozinska, Dorota. “Ludmila Armata: Graphic Life in Black and White.”

Vie des Arts 46 (2002).

Kozinska, Dorota. “Large Works, Themes at Armata Show.” The Gazette (Montreal)

26 September 1997

Lamarche, Bernard. « Affaires de matières. » Le Devoir 6 avril 1997.

Lehmann, Henry. “Prints Rule in Paper Town.” The Gazette (Montreal)

4 August 2001.

Mirandette, Marie-Claude. « L’Art du trait. » Le Devoir 4 août 2001.

Parenteau, Karine. « Biennale Internationale d’estampe contemporaine:

Trois Rivières par l’estampe. » Le Sourteaux (Trois-Rivières) août 2001

Raynor, V. “A Tribute to Country and to Canadian Printmakers.”

The New York Times 27 July 1997.

Taylor, Kate. “Art About” The Globe and Mail 8 March 1991.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmakers Printmakers. Toronto, 2005.

Collection Loto-Québec : Oeuvres choisies. Montréal, 2004.

Bomensour, Kim. Ludmila Armata: Prix de la fondation Monique et Robert Parizeau

2002. Québec : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2003.

Grande, John K. Allsorts Arts. Montreal: Go if Press, 2008.

Lucie-Smith, Edward and John K. Grande. Ludmila Armata, Materia pamieci, Gornislaskie Centrum Kulturalne. Katowice, Poland, 2005.

Lucie-Smith, Edward, John K. Grande and Irina Subotic. Ludmila Armata.

Montreal: Go if Press, 2003.

Subotic, Irina. Ludmila Armata: Recent Work, Etching and Drypoint. Point Claire:

Stuart Hall, 1999

 

COLLECTIONS

Desjardins

Air Canada

The Canada Council Art Bank

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland

Banque Nationale

Bibliothèque nationale du Québec

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, USA

Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée de la Communauté française de Belgique

City of Katowice, Poland

Cremona Civic Museum, Cremona, Italy

Département des estampes et de la photographie, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada

Ernst & Young

Fédération des Caisses Desjardins

Frans Masareel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

Gotlands Konst Museum, Visby, Sweden

Hart House Canadian Collection, University of Toronto

Loto-Québec

Mackenzie Gervais

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Museum Grabajo, Alijo, Portugal

Musée nationale des beaux arts du Québec

Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Cairo, Egypt

Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yougoslavia

Museum of Tetovo area, Tetovo, Macedonia

Musée du Bas-St-Laurent, QC

New York Public Library

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Novosybirsk State Museum, Novosybirsk, Russia

Pallant House, Chichester, UK

Plattsburgh State Art Museum, NY

Regional Museum of Silesia, Chorzow, Poland

Galerie Stuart Hall, Pointe-Claire, QC

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Print Collection, University of Toronto

University of Moncton Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England