Mimi Parent - Canadian Surrealist Artist

Mimi Parent (September 8, 1924 - June 14, 2005), born Marie Parent in the Montreal and was a Canadian surrealist artist.
She was the eighth child of the nine children of architect Lucien Parent. Between 1942 and 1947 she pursued her studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montréal and there she met the artist Jean Benoît (whom she later married in 1948). In 1947 she had her first one-woman exhibition displayed at the Dominion Gallery in Montreal and received praise from Time Magazine.
In 1948 she received the Cézanne medal and she exhibited at the “Surrealist intrusion into the Enchanter’s Domain” in city New York during 1960 and in 1966 had an only exhibition at the “Maya” gallery in Brussels. She then exhibited in Chicago, London, Lausanne and Frankfurt. She assisted with the association of the “”Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme”" (EROS) that ran from December 15, 1959-February 15, 1960 in Paris, with the menu for the exhibition being designed by Parent and Duchamp. The display catalogue, titled Boite Alerte - Missives Lascives, was presented as a green box into which ideas can be ‘posted’.
She lived and also worked in Paris, France. She died 14 June 2005 in Switzerland.







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