Tricia Crivellaro


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Rooted in my Québécoise identity and feminist values, my artistic practice explores how fashion can serve as a transformative practice. It centers themes of unbecoming, fragmentation, and reconstruction inviting reflection on patriarchy, capitalism, ecological degradation, and other systems of oppression. Whether through the creation of speculative, process-based prototypes or by curating a group exhibition, I thrive to engage in poiesis and experimental interventions. 

My practice and process, and thus the prototypes I create, often evolve on my own body as well as those others and provide a means to reflect on personal and/or social processes and how those systems have agency upon our bodies, identities, actions, and environment. My practice is deeply collaborative. 

Working with others to create experiences that bridge fields such as contemporary dance, textile-making, music, curation, and photography has been fundamental to my growth as both a person and an artist, and to my understanding of the ever-evolving contemporary world.







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PROJECTS

ABOUT

YEAR


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Photosynthetic Jacket was created by Béatrice Dubreuil and Tricia Crivellaro during an art residency at École Buissonnière (Sentier Urbain) in Montréal.
2025

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Uniform-undone; photographs

This editorial photoshoot builds on the research project Uniform-undone: A study in the repurposing of military attire through history and in experimental practice. 2025

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Pouki 3 – J’écouterai ton processus et ces êtres résonants

The one-night outdoor exhibition (third edition) titled J’écouterai ton processus et ces êtres résonants, focused on the art of listening, featuring short presentations by artists and fostering open discussion. 
2025

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Collaboration Veri – Fabric Scraps Totes

One-of-a-kind Taro tote bags were created with playfulness and spontaneity, using production scraps in collaboration with long-time friend, designer, and collaborator Catherine Veri. 
2025

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Because You Never Asked

This performance originates from Roger White’s decade-long family archival project, collecting stories of his grandmother Marianna Clark’s experiences living under the Nazi regime and eventually fleeing. 
2025

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Pouki 2 – Les lignes droites n’existent pas

The one night outdoor exhibition (second edition) titled Les lignes droites n’existent pas, consisted of unfinished, experimental works and process documentation displayed alongside lively music. 2023

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Created by choreographer Stephanie Fromentin, this piece is rooted in concepts of matriarchal ancestry presented through movement, music, and text.2023

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David Street Drawing Room in Chicago – Anne Wilson’s studio

The space is both a working studio and textile archive where I examined historical cloth and lace through drawing, microscopy, and research to deepen understanding of Anne Wilson’s practice.
2022

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Art Residency – Collaboration with choreographer Sebastien Provencher

This exploratory Research Art Residency project investigates transformation and movement through the layering and upcycling of garments.
2022

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What Will Come

In this absurd dialogue between live music, lighting, scenography, and movement, What Will Come is as much a question as it is a hypothesis.
2021

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Children of Chemistry

Children of Chemistry draws inspiration from the masculine and feminine standards conveyed through the media and popular culture. With humor and sarcasm, the choreographer, Sebastien Provencher, plays with gender codes to highlight the absurdities that lead us to conceive of our society in binary terms.
2021

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Jacket Pattern Replica for artist August Klintberg

Commissioned to reconstruct a jacket pattern draft based on a photograph of Claude Cahu, involving historical and speculative hand-drawn pattern-making and replica design.2019


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pouki; photographs

This editorial photoshoot from 2019 showcases archival garments—prototypes made for clients and projects, alongside numerous pieces I designed for myself.2019

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Pouki 1

A one night exhibition curated by the Pouki team (first edition), bringing together four friends who created a selection of works, finished or in progress (paper, photos, and drawings).2019

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Le Vaisseau-Coeur

This piece transposes the contrasting worlds of two landmark works of 20th-century choral music, performed in a former church. 2019

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aikido — Undergraduate Fashion Collection

Using methods of critical design and sustainable thinking, this project embodies the form of the disaster as a way to bring awareness to the impacts of the fashion industry. 
2015

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Selected Drawings

Drawings by Tricia Crivellaro.

2012 — ongoing












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