OLICORNO
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

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Olicorno is a self-taught performance artist and contemporary painter from Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. He works and lives in Montreal since 2009. He works mainly painting, installation art and performance art. Also a pianist and composer, his multidisciplinary work often uses his compositions in the making of art videos or video documentation.

He completed a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration from HEC Montreal in 2012. He then accumulated some professional experience in an art gallery and a music label. He launched as a full-time artist in 2013, following the success of his first performative painting series "Beauty Is What You See".

Olicorno has performed several performance series in Montreal, Winnipeg, New York and Barcelona. He has performed at various events including TEDx Montréal and La Relève Sympose, at Le Centre National D’Exposition de Jonquière. His visual work is in many private residences throughout Canada and is in public collections including Arthotèque (Montréal),Tremblant (Mont-Tremblant), La Maison Des Artistes Visuels (Winnipeg) and HEC Montreal.​

Ambition, symbolism, science, body knowledge, sensory experimentation, and philosophical questioning are recurring themes in his work.

Education
2017    Concordia University - Art History
2017    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA learning) - Art History
2012    HEC Montreal  - Bachelor Degree in Business Administration – Marketing
2009    CÉGEP de Jonquière - Diplôme d’études collégiales in humanities
2008    Royal Military College - Humanities and military studies
Exhibition Work
Solo (Selected)
2018     Titre à venir, Centre National d’Exposition de Saguenay, Jonquière, Quebec    
2017     Bones #2, Artothèque, Montreal
2016     Bones, L’Espace Contemporain, Montreal
2016     Travaux Récents, Galerie Carte Blanche, Montreal
2016     Beauty Is What You See, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg
2015     New Works, Fattal Studio, Montreal
2014    «Step Inside The Process», Le Performance Art vu par Olicorno, Rack Gallery, Montreal
Group (Selected)
2016    LOVE, Galerie 203, Montreal
2016    Group show, Orange County Center Fort Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Santa Ana, Californie, USA
2015    Exposition des Lauréats du 9e Symposium du CNE, Galerie Dépliée, Ville de La  Baie, (Québec)
2015    La Relève Sympose - Centre National d’Exposition, Jonquière, (Quebec)
2015     Mtl en Arts, Montreal
2015    Ekinoxe, Rack Gallery, Montreal
2015    Galerie Éphémère, La Salle De Montre, Montreal
2014     TEDx Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montreal
2014     The Vernissage, Green Point Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014     Art Carrousel, Nomad Nation, Montreal
2013    FAST, Festival d’Art Émergent de Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
Performances
2013-2016     Beauty Is What You See, 110 performances, Montreal, Winnipeg and New York City
2015              Dialogue sur les Grands Systèmes du Monde, Centre National d’Exposition, Jonquière, Quebec
2015              #BillboardExperimentation, Montreal
2014-2015    Temple
2013-2014    Mindset, Various locations (Quebec)
2013              #GloryRoad, Various locations (Saguenay, Quebec City, Montreal)
2013             OPAP2013, Various locations (Quebec)
2011             Personal Symbolism, Montreal (Quebec)
Awards
2015    Audience Award, La Relève Sympose, Centre National d’Exposition, Saguenay, Quebec
2014    First place, Concours ExpoPlus Abribus (Selected from 1000+ artist) Montreal

Grants
2015    Bourse du SAJE (Soutient Aux Jeunes Entrepreneurs)

Art Residencies
2015    Star-Crossed Lovers, (Painting), 3 months, Rack Gallery, Montreal

Publications
2017    Contemporary Performance Almanac 2017, by Caden Manson & Jenna Nelson,  NYC, USA
2016    Olicorno 2013-2016, by Heather Lynn and Olicorno, Montreal, Canada
2016    Contemporary Performance Almanac 2016, by Caden Manson & Jenna Nelson, NYC, USA

Collections
Artothèque, Montreal
Alliance de la Fonction Publique, Montreal
Centre National d’Exposition, Saguenay
Touché! phd, Montréal
Substance Stratégies, Montreal
Mont-Tremblant
HEC Montréal, Montreal
Private Collections (90+, Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Paris, Barcelona)