Background
Mimi Parent was born Marie Parent in Montreal, Quebec on September 8, 1924. She was the eighth of the nine children of architect Lucien Parent.
Between 1942 and 1947 she studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal.
Mimi Parent was born Marie Parent in Montreal, Quebec on September 8, 1924. She was the eighth of the nine children of architect Lucien Parent.
Between 1942 and 1947 she studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Parent was later expelled from the school after joining a controversial artists' group.
In 1947 she had her first one-woman exhibition at the Dominion Gallery in Montreal which received praise from Time Magazine.
She exhibited at the "Surrealist intrusion into the Enchanter's Domain" in New York in 1960 and in 1966 had a solo exhibition at the "Maya" gallery in Brussels. She also exhibited in Chicago, London, Lausanne and Frankfurt.
Mimi assisted with the organization of the "Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme" (EROS), which ran in Paris from December 1959 to the following February; although this is often attributed to Duchamp, she came up with the ideas for the exhibit catalogue, titled Boite Alerte - Missives Lascives, which was presented as a green box into which ideas could be 'posted'.
She lived and worked in Paris, France.
Mimi died 14 June 2005 in Switzerland. Her ashes were scattered by her husband Jean Benoît at Château de Lacoste the estate of the Marquis de Sade in Haute-Provence.
painting
Espace bleu
Une vieille histoire, dans un vieux port, sur un vieux continent
Le Chant de la louve
Maîtresse
Adieu vieux monde
Panthère noire
Untitled
Reliquaire pour un crâne surmodelé du Moyen-Sepik, Nouvelle-Guinée
Le Passager clandestin
Le Viol
Le Passage du mervillon
Viens
The Rousseau Brothers
Ève rêve
Le Profanateur
Les Très Riches Heures du marquis de Sade
Le Labyrinthe
Masculin feminin
Ex-voto
La Chouette
Kleine Nachtmusik
She married the artist Jean Benoit in 1948.