Handicrafts, know-how and folklore come to the fore in contemporary art in this exhibition that dismantles the principles of hierarchy in art. Fait main / Hand Made presents these practices by exploring not only popular art, raw art and Pop Surrealism but also technology. More than 40 Canadian artists from Vancouver to Halifax have been assembled in this sweeping exhibition. Fait main / Hand Made promises a brilliant overview of a significant segment of contemporary output in Canada.
The exhibition will encompass a broad range of practices, from wood carving to quilts, not to mention ceramics and embroidery. It includes a chair sculpted from newspaper, objects covered in knitting, textile videos and 3D printing. The craft-based processes used will highlight the mastery of matter. The event ultimately examines the transformation of work, politics, labour and leisure.
ARTISTs
ANNE ASHTON
Anne Ashton ewas born in San Diego, California in 1958. In 1982, she obtained a BA in Visual Art and Literature from San Diego State University, and went on to study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been living and working in the Montréal area since 1985. Her work, which encompasses painting, drawing and installation, is intended to stimulate reflection on the vulnerability and power of nature. The artist exhibits regularly in Canada and the United States, in venues such as Oboro in Montréal (2004), the Musée régional de Rimouski (2007), the Plein sud contemporary art centre in Longueuil (2010) and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2017). Her works can be found in the collections of many Canadian institutions, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Musée régional de Rimouski and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.
JONATHAN BERGERON
Born in Montréal in 1973, Jonathan Bergeron is a painter, street artist and illustrator who draws his inspiration primarily from skate and punk rock culture. He started out as a graffiti artist under the nickname ZEN. He also taught himself oil painting and, under the alias Johnny Crap, made a name for himself in “kustom culture” and “lowbrow” circles with images that were often published in magazines, including The Horse BackStreet Choppers, Car Kulture Deluxe and Ol’ Skool Rodz. He then went on to develop a pop-surrealist universe around the figure of the calavera (skull and crossbones), garbage and the forces of nature. In addition to exhibiting his paintings in art galleries, he has done illustrations for rock music groups, including Avenged Sevenfold, Black Label Society, Slayer, Anthrax, Guns N’ Roses and Pearl Jam. Many of his illustrations have been selected for publication by American and Canadian publishers.
CARL BOUCHARD
Born in La Baie in 1967, Carl Bouchard has a BA (1990) and an MA (2014) from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. He is interested in psychic and affective mechanisms, which he reveals within the context of a sensitive multidisciplinary art practice. He is also the president and a founding member of the artists’ centre Le Lobe (1993). He has worked for over fifteen years in collaboration with the artist Martin Dufrasne and has some thirty solo exhibitions to his name. He has also taken part in over eighty group shows and festivals in Canada and abroad. In addition to exhibiting at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal (1997), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2001, 2003, 2008), the Musée régional de Rimouski (2006), the Musée d’art de Joliette (2007) and the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (2008), Bouchard has participated in the Manif d’art de Québec (2000, 2008, 2014) and the Liverpool Biennial (2010). Bouchard has also won the Prix du CALQ – Créateur ou créatrice de l’année au Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (2014). His works can be found in many public and private collections across Canada.
NATHALIE BUJOLD
A multidisciplinary artist living and working in Montréal, Nathalie Bujold was born in 1964 at Chandler in the Gaspésie region of Québec. She became a member of the art centre L’œil de poisson upon its foundation in 1985 and earned a BA from Université Laval in Québec City. In 1992, she was awarded the René-Richard Prize. Various exhibitions and residencies have taken her as far afield as Italy, Colombia, Lebanon, Switzerland and France. Her monotapes have been presented in the context of monographic programs at the Vidéographe art centre (Marseille), the Pleasure Dome (Toronto) and (in conjunction with Vidéochroniques) at the Palais des beaux-arts in Lille, at the invitation of the L’Heure exquise! international video arts centre. In addition to exhibiting at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal and at Vidéochroniques, she has participated in the Symposium des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, the Sympo-fibres international fibre-art symposium of Saint-Hyacinthe, the Akousma (acousmatic music) Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art, the Victoriaville International Contemporary Music Festival, the 2nd International Digital Arts Biennal (BIAN), the Rencontres internationales des arts multimédia (RIAM) in Marseille, the Phos Festival and the Media Arts section of the Perséides Art and Film Festival in Gaspésie. In 2008, Bujold was awarded the Prix à la création artistique of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She recently completed an MA at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2016). She is represented by Galerie Ellephant in Montréal.
MARK CLINTBERG
Born in Edmonton in 1978, Mark Clintberg is an artist who also works in the field of art history. He is interested in collaborative and affective practices. After obtaining a BA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2001, he went on to complete an MA (2008) and a PhD in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. In addition to having participated in some thirty solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe, Clintberg was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2013 and was nominated for the same prize again in 2016. He was also nominated for the Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada for his PhD thesis. His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Edmonton Arts Council, the Bank of Montreal, the TD Bank and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Clintberg divides his time between Montréal and Calgary, where he teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He is represented by Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montréal.
MARIE CÔTÉ
Born in Montréal in 1955, Marie Côté has been making ceramics on the potter’s wheel for over thirty years. Her artistic concerns draw upon the centuries-old tradition of pottery-making and the sculptural potential to be found in shaping fluid material by hand. After studying ceramics at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Côté earned a BA in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montréal (1982-1985). She did a ceramics internship at Liverpool Polytechnic in England (1985-1986) and an artist’s residency at Inukjuak, Nunavik (2011). In addition to exhibiting her work in various galleries in Québec, France and Syria, she has taken part in major events like the Visions 91 exhibition (a component of the Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal), the International Ceramics Biennial of Châteauroux (France) and Artcité : quand Montréal devient musée, an exhibition presented by Montréal’s Musée d’art contemporain. Her works can be found in both private and public collections, including those of the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), Loto-Québec, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (art loans collection), the Musée régional de Rimouski and the Raphael Yu Collection of Canadian Ceramics at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Côté lives and works in Montréal.
PATRICK COUTU
Born in Montréal in 1975, Patrick Coutu holds a BA in Visual Art from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1997) as well as an MA from the Glasgow School of Art and Concordia University in Montréal (2005). His work explores the ways in which nature is constructed and draws on research in mathematics and other fields with a view to understanding these phenomena. He has taken part in many prestigious individual and group exhibitions in Québec and elsewhere in Canada. These include Œuvres spatiales at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2002) as well as Chute and It Is What it Is at the National Gallery of Canada (2008 and 2011 respectively). Galerie René Blouin and Galerie B-312 artists’ centre in Montréal, Espace virtuel in Chicoutimi and L’Écart contemporary art centre in Rouyn-Noranda have also mounted solo exhibitions of his work. His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. In 2007, he was awarded the Pierre-Ayot Prize by the City of Montréal. Coutu lives and works in Montréal. He is represented by Division Gallery.
MYRIAM DION
Born in 1989, Myriam Dion has carved out a place for herself with her painstaking practice of cutting newspaper pages into fine, lace-like tracery. She completed her BA in 2012 and her MA in 2014 at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since then she has had solo exhibitions in Montréal (Maison du développement durable, 2013; Division Gallery, 2014 and 2017; Arprim, centre d’essai en art imprimé, 2016) and Québec City (L’œil de poisson, 2017). She has also taken part in over twenty group exhibitions in Canada and Europe. She has been awarded the Prix Diagonale (2012), the Robert Wolfe Prize (2012) and the Post-Residency Award of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2016). Works by Dion are in the collections of Global Affairs Canada, Loto-Québec, the TD Bank and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (art loans collection). She lives and works in Montréal, where she is represented by Division Gallery.
JEAN-ROBERT DROUILLARD
Born in Chatham, Ontario, in 1970, Jean-Robert Drouillard spent the entirety of his childhood in the Gaspé region of Québec. In 1994, after completing a program in Québec literature and creative writing at Université Laval in Québec City, he studied sculpting technique at the École-atelier de sculpture, also in Québec City, in 2000. He has taught at the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec since 2004. Drouillard has many works of public art to his credit, in addition to solo exhibitions at Galerie Orange, Galerie Lacerte art contemporain, Espace virtuel, Circa art actuel and the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. He has participated in the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (2010) and in the Biennale de sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (2012). He was also a finalist for the Prix en art actuel (contemporary art prize) of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) in 2013. In 2014, his work was selected for the Manif d’art 7 at the MNBAQ. His works are in the municipal collections of Montréal and Québec City, as well as in the MNBAQ and various private collections. Drouillard lives and works in Québec. He is represented by Galerie Art Mûr.
SÉBASTIEN DUCHANGE
Born in France in 1977, Sébastien Duchange grew up in the glassmaking city of Saint-Gobain. A master glassmaker, he trained first at the European Centre for Research and Training in Glass-Work in France (1998-2000), and later did a stint at the Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques (CIRVA) in Marseille. His whimsical, conceptual blown-glass pieces have been presented in numerous exhibitions in North America and Europe. Duchange was twice a finalist (2010 and 2011) for the François-Houdé Prize, which is awarded by the City of Montréal together with the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec (CMAQ). In 2015, the CMAQ awarded him the Jean-Marie-Gauvreau Prize. His works are in a variety of private and public collections, including those of the Claridge Foundation, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Espace Verre (Montréal) and Malou Georges-Majerus in Luxembourg. Duchange lives and works in Montréal, where he founded the Atelier Sébomari along with Marie-Hélène Beaulieu. He is represented by the L.A. Pai Gallery in Ottawa and Galerie Elena Lee in Montréal.
JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER
Jean-Pierre Gauthier was born in Matane, Québec, in 1965. He holds an MA in Visual Art from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1995) and makes kinetic and acoustic installations and sculptures. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Québec, elsewhere in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2007, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) paid tribute to his work with a retrospective that would travel throughout North America until 2010. Gauthier has been awarded such prestigious prizes as the Sobey Art Award (2004), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts (2005) and the Louis-Comtois Prize, awarded by the City of Montréal (2012). Gauthier’s work can be found in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He has lived and worked in Montréal since 1986. He is represented by Galerie Ellephant.
CYNTHIA GIRARD-RENARD
Born in Montréal in 1969, Cynthia Girard-Renard challenges the hierarchical categories that have traditionally governed the artistic conventions of style and technique, and does so with a sizeable dose of satire. In 1998, she completed her MA in Visual Art from Goldsmiths College in London. She has exhibited regularly in Canada and abroad for over twenty years, showing her work in some sixty individual and group exhibitions in artists’ centres, galleries and museums. She has done artist’s residencies in Paris, New York, Berlin and London. Her work is in many collections, including those of the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Galerie de l’UQAM. She lives and works in Montréal and is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau.
CARLA HEMLOCK
Carla Hemlock was born in 1961 on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake. A self-taught artist, she has had a professional art career since 2000. Her textile pieces, with their abundance of sociopolitical visual codes, have earned her a considerable reputation on the North American scene. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in a wide range of venues, including the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New York, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec in Montréal, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and New York, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts and the Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montréal. She also has exhibited internationally in France, Germany and Russia. Hemlock’s work can be found in many public collections, including those of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the City of Montréal, the Iroquois Indian Museum, the Seneca Art and Culture Center in Ganondagan, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the Fenimore Art Museum in New York. She lives and works in Kahnawake, Québec.
BARB HUNT
After four years of studio work, Barb Hunt received her Visual Art Diploma from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (1982). She also holds an MA from Concordia University in Montréal (1994). Her fibre art focuses mainly on violence and mourning in the context of war. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, England, Belgium, Poland, the United States, Lithuania and Mexico. She is a recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Research from Memorial University in Newfoundland (2004). Her work is included in the collections of the Central Museum of Textiles (Poland), the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (St. John’s), Seneca College (Toronto), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank. Hunt considers Winnipeg home and divides her time between Newfoundland, where she teaches, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
RICHARD KERR
Born in Saint Catharines, Ontario in 1952, Richard Kerr is a filmmaker, visual artist and professor. He is recognized for his experimental film work, which developed out of his early association with the Escarpment School, a group of avant-garde filmmakers that began at Sheridan College in Ontario in the late 1970s. He has made over thirty films that have been screened and collected around the world. The most famous of these are Last Days of Contrition (1988) and Cruel Rhythm (1991). In the 1990s, Kerr began to be interested in the materiality of film and extended his practice to encompass the visual arts with meta-film installations. Among his exhibition venues are the McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke (Québec), the Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal) and the Toronto International Film Festival (2017). Kerr’s work appears in many collections, including those of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the McKenzie Art Gallery, the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, the Ontario College of Art and Design University, the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He lives and works in Montréal, where he teaches experimental film at Concordia University.
GUILLAUME LACHAPELLE
Guillaume Lachapelle who was born in Sherbrooke, Québec in 1974, holds a BA in Visual Art from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1998). A sculptor, he makes mainly installations and reduced-scale models. Lachapelle has presented his work in solo exhibitions at the Reiter Gallery in Leipzig, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien cultural centre in Berlin and the Edward Day Gallery in Toronto, as well as at the Circa contemporary art centre and Galerie Art Mûr in Montréal. He has also taken part in the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (2016) and in group exhibitions at the Bermondsey Project Space in London, the Art Mûr Gallery in Berlin, the Cornell Art Museum in Florida (2017), the Musée régional de Rimouski and the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. In 2015, as part of the Venice Biennale, his work was shown in the European Cultural Centre. He has work in the collections of Loto-Québec, the City of Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (art loans collection). He lives and works in Montréal and is represented by Galerie Art Mûr.
CAL LANE
Born in 1968, Cal Lane is known for her transformations of heavy metal objects into systems of delicate lace-like tracery. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she grew up in Saanichton, British Columbia. After learning welding, she studied painting at the Victoria College of Art (1994) and sculpture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2001), and then went on to earn an MA in Sculpture from the State University of New York (2004). She has taken part in many individual and group exhibitions in North America and abroad. The venues where she has exhibited include the Grunt Gallery in Vancouver, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Foley Gallery in New York, the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the 18th Sydney Biennale in Australia. She currently lives and works in New York and is represented by Galerie Art Mûr.
GUY LARAMÉE
Born in 1957, Guy Laramée is a multidisciplinary artist known for making sculpted books in evocative landscapes. He holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (2000) and an MA in Anthropology from Concordia University in Montréal (2002), as well as an MA in Visual Art from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2004). He has worked in a variety of fields, including musical composition, in particular as part of Tuyo (a group he co-founded), and has exhibited his visual art pieces in solo and group shows in Canada, the United States and Europe. Works of his can be found in many public and private collections, including those of Bowdoin College Library (Maine), the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Montréal), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), the Messner Mountain Museum (Italy), the libraries of Michigan State University and the University of Toronto (Mississauga), the Yale University Museum (Connecticut), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (art loans collection) and the Cameron Art Museum (North Carolina). Laramée lives and works in Montréal. He is represented by the JHB Gallery in New York.
MACLEAN
The art of Maclean, who was born in Winnipeg in 1969, explores the landscapes of highways and roads in their various guises. Since earning a BA in Visual Art from the University of Manitoba, he has taken part in numerous individual and group exhibitions in a broad array of artists’ centres and museums throughout Canada. In 2013, one of his works was selected for inclusion in The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, a survey show organized by the Galerie de l’UQAM. Works by Maclean can be found in the permanent and art loans collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as well as in the collections of the Bank of Montreal, the National Bank of Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada in New York. Maclean lives and works in Montréal, where he is represented by Galeries Bellemare Lambert.
SARAH MALONEY
Sarah Maloney was born in 1965 in Toronto. She makes objects inspired by anatomic and botanical forms as a way of raising sociopolitical questions related to theories of gender. Currently a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, she studied visual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at the University of Windsor. Maloney has been awarded prizes by the art councils of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario. She has also participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Her works can be found in the collections of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax), as well as in the art banks of the art councils of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Maloney lives and works in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia. She teaches at NSCAD University in Halifax..
PARYSE MARTIN
Paryse Martin is a multidisciplinary artist who creates imaginary worlds with Surrealist leanings in a Baroque aesthetic. Born in 1959 in Caribou, Maine, she earned a BA and MA at Université Laval in Québec City, as well as a PhD in art studies and practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2007). Martin has participated in over fifty individual and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including the Symposium de la jeune peinture de Baie-Saint-Paul in 1986 and Manif d’art 8 in 2017. In 2014 she received the Videre Visual Arts Creation Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Bank of Canada and Library and Archives Canada, and in the art banks of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She has also created many public artworks in Québec. Martin lives and works in Québec City, where she is represented by Galerie 3.
LUANNE MARTINEAU
Luanne Martineau was born in Saskatoon in 1970. She studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Alberta College of Art and Design before earning an MA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia (1995). Her sculpture deconstructs art hierarchies by bringing craft processes into contact with Modernist ideologies. The venues where she has exhibited include the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, the Banff Centre, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal). In 2007, Martineau received the Viva Prize of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, and in 2009, she was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She lives and works in Montréal, where she teaches at Concordia University. She is represented by TrépanierBaer Gallery in Calgary.
JEAN-MARC MATHIEU-LAJOIE
Jean-Marc Mathieu-Lajoie was born in Québec City in 1950. A year after his first exhibition, which was held at Université Laval (Québec City) in 1972, he presented his work at the Musée du Québec. He spent the next thirty years working in other areas but came back to art in 2003, when he took part in Manif d’art 2. An experienced collector and “hijacker” of puzzles and religious objects, Mathieu-Lajoie quickly gained recognition for his dazzlingly meticulous work. In 2005, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) selected his work for inclusion in the group show Appearances. Two years later, he exhibited in Marseille, and the year after that he had a show in the Galerie des arts visuels in Québec City. He went on from there to the Liverpool Biennial in England and was included in a group exhibition at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. In 2011, he exhibited at the Villa Bagatelle in Québec City. Mathieu-Lajoie lives and works in Québec City.
GILLES MIHALCEAN
Gilles Mihalcean was born in Montréal in 1946. A self-taught artist whose works show remarkable craftsmanship, he embarked on his career as a professional sculptor in 1968. Since then he has had over a dozen major solo exhibitions and has presented his work in numerous landmark group shows. He is also known for his public art projects—there are about ten so far. His work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Windsor Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank. Mihalcean has been awarded many prizes, including the prestigious Jean-Paul Riopelle Career Grant, awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2004, and the Paul-Émile-Borduas Prize (2011).
CHRIS MILLAR
Born in Claresholm, Alberta, in 1977, Chris Millar is known for making art characterized by a wide array of pop-culture references and an abundance of detail. Millar, who holds a BA from the Alberta College of Art and Design (2000), has had numerous solo exhibitions. His work has been selected for inclusion in major surveys of Canadian art, including It Is What It Is at the National Gallery of Canada (2010), Oh, Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2012) and The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada at the Galerie de l’UQAM (2013). In 2005 and 2007, he was a finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Millar’s work can be found in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the National Gallery of Canada. He lives and works in Montréal. He is represented by TrépanierBaer Gallery in Calgary.
MITCH MITCHELL
Born in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois, Mitch Mitchell is trained as a printmaker and mechanical engineer. In 2010 and 2012, he was selected to represent Canada at the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal and, in 2011, took part in an exhibition of contemporary Canadian printmaking at the National Museum of Fine Art in Chongqing, China. He has received many national and international awards for his work, which can be found in numerous institutional collections, including those of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal and the Art Gallery of Alberta. He has participated in a wide array of individual and group exhibitions both in Canada and abroad. The venues where he has exhibited include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Kelowna Art Gallery, the dc3 Art Projects contemporary art gallery (Edmonton), the Sporobole contemporary art centre (Sherbrooke), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montréal) and the Vaste et vague artists’ centre (Carleton, Québec). Mitchell lives and works in Montréal. He is represented by dc3 Art Projects in Edmonton and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montréal.
GENEVIÈVE MOISAN
Geneviève Moisan holds an MA in Visual Art, with a concentration in Fibres and Material Practices, from Concordia University in Montréal (2016). Her art focuses on technical research and constitutes a critical analysis of society in the age of hypermodernity. Moisan has been instrumental in bringing craft practices into the world of contemporary art by placing her technical know-how at the service of visual artists. Her work has been presented in Montréal, Venice, Paris, Oaxaca, Milwaukee and Mississauga.
DIDIER MORELLI
Titulaire d’un baccalauréat de l’Université Concordia à Montréal (2011) et de maîtrises de l’Université de Toronto (2012) et de l’Université Simon Fraser de Vancouver (2014), Didier Morelli est aujourd’hui candidat au doctorat en performance à l’Université Northwestern d’Evanston, en Illinois. Né en 1989, l’artiste interdisciplinaire se concentre sur la performance et le relationnel. Il a présenté son travail au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Israël, en Islande, en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Chili et en Argentine.
FRANÇOIS MORELLI
François Morelli was born in Montréal in 1953. He holds a BA from Concordia University in Montréal (1975) and an MA from Rutgers University in New Jersey (1983). Over the course of his career he has developed a body of work that encompasses installation, drawing, sculpture and performance focused on the body and its environment. Morelli’s work has been presented in Canada, the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. He has exhibited in a wide array of venues, including the Musée du Québec (1979), the Musée d’art de Joliette (1980), the Musée régional de Rimouski (1988), the Centro di Cultura Canadese in Italy (1989), the Horodner Romley Gallery in New York (1994, 1995) and La Vitrine in France (2004), as well as at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery (2006, 2008) and 1700 La Poste (2017) in Montréal. His work can be found in many private and public collections in Canada and the United States, including those of the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington). Morelli is a recipient of the Prix d’excellence de la Biennale de dessin et d’estampe d’Alma (1993) and the Louis-Comtois Prize from the City of Montréal (2007). He lives and works in Montréal.
NADIA MYRE
Born in 1974, Nadia Myre is a member of the Anishinabeg Kitigan Zibi First Nation. She employs public participation as a strategy to engage in dialogue on identity, resilience and the politics of belonging. A graduate of Camosun College (Victoria, 1995), the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, 1997) and Concordia University (Montréal, 2002), she is a recipient of the Prix à la création artistique of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2009), the Les Elles de l’art Prize of the Conseil des arts de Montréal (2011) and the Sobey Art Award (2014)—after having been nominated in four consecutive years (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014). Myre has had many solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows. Her work can be found in the collections of the McKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), the City of Ottawa, the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée de la civilisation de Québec and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Myre is represented by Galerie Art Mûr in Montréal.
CLINT NEUFELD
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1975, Clint Neufeld works in ceramics. He transforms objects normally associated with trades and pastime activities—old car engines, for example—into objects of aesthetic contemplation through changes of material and context inspired by “hot rod” culture. After three years in the army and an unsuccessful attempt to become a firefighter, he earned a BA in Visual Art from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (2002), followed by an MA from Concordia University in Montréal (2006). Since then he has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. He was selected to take part in Manif d’art 7 (2014) in Québec City and in the historic travelling exhibition Oh, Canada, presented at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2012). Neufeld was also a finalist for the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics in 2011. His work was published in Hot Rod Magazine in 2013. His work can be found in a variety of public and private collections. He lives and works in the vicinity of Osler, Saskatchewan.
MICHAEL PATTEN
Michael Patten is a multidisciplinary artist and curator of European and Cree origin. Born in 1977 in Regina, Saskatchewan, he is a member of the Sakimay First Nation. Since earning a BA in painting and drawing and a minor in art history from the University of Regina, he has had seven solo exhibitions. Humour is recurrent in his art, which brings together elements of popular culture to make elegant wordplays that provoke reflection on identity-related issues and the paradoxes of contemporary life. Patten has participated in a large number of group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. His recent appearance in the Montréal-based Art souterrain event attracted considerable attention. In 2012, his work was presented in one of the satellite exhibitions of the Québec City Biennial, Manif d’art. And in 2017, the McCord Museum presented a number of his works in the permanent exhibition Wearing Our Identity: The First Peoples Collection. Patten lives and works in Montréal.
DOMINIQUE PÉTRIN
Dominique Pétrin, who was born in 1976, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist residing in Montréal. In 2011 the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) selected her for an artist’s residency in Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik. This was followed by a residency at the Banff Centre in 2015. She was also selected to represent Canada at the Art OMI International Residency in New York state (2014). A former member of the petrochemical rock band Les Georges Leningrad, Pétrin has collaborated with such renowned artists as Sophie Calle, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Pierre Lapointe and Banksy, and with the choreographers Antonija Livingstone, Stephen Thompson and Jennifer Lacey. She has also participated in an array of art events, including the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (2011) and the Québec Triennial (2012). She was a finalist for CALQ’s Work of the Year Award (Montréal) in 2013, was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2014, and was a candidate for the Louis-Comtois Prize of the City of Montréal in 2017. Pétrin has shown her work in Canada, France, the United States, Belgium, Palestine and the United Kingdom. She is represented by Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montréal.
olivier roberge
Trained in traditional cabinet-making, Olivier Roberge makes miniature sculptural landscapes using model-making methodology and skill sets to create worlds imbued with a poetic dimension. Born in Québec City in 1981, he now lives and works in Montréal. Roberge has participated in group shows at the Centre Materia in Québec City (2009, 2016), the Morgan Bridge Gallery (2011), the Regart contemporary artists’ centre (2013), Galerie 3 (2015) and L’œil de poisson (2017), as well as at the Contemporary Art Fair (2013), Canadian Bacon (2016, 2017), Dialogue 2 (Canadian Bacon and Galerie Lacerte art contemporain, 2016) and Manif d’art 8 (2017). In Montréal, he has exhibited at Espace Projet (2011) and Circa art actuel (2017), in addition to taking part in the Contemporary Art Fair of Saint-Lambert (2015, 2016, 2017), where he won the Prix du public (2016). His work can be found in private collections as well as in the collections of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Desjardins and Global Affairs Canada.
JÉRÔME RUBY
Jérôme Ruby was born in France in 1971. He is interested in the dynamics of social relationships, which he explores by means of visual art and the critical potential of the imagination. Before settling in Montréal in 2003, he studied art at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Saint-Étienne (1993), the École supérieure d’art du Havre (1999) and at Fresnoy–Studio national des arts contemporains (2002). Ruby has since exhibited his work at the Donald Browne Gallery in Montréal as well as at Le Lobe and the Bang Centre in Chicoutimi, the Darling Foundry in Montréal and the art centre Le Lieu in Québec City. He has participated in group shows at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Phi Centre in Montréal and the French Institute of Japan in Yokohama. His work can be found in the collections of the Médiathèque du Fresnoy and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (art loans collection), as well as in private collections in France, the United States and Canada.
BRENDAN LEE SATISH TANG
Brendan Lee Satish Tang was born in 1975 in Dublin to parents with Chinese, Indian and Trinidadian roots who migrated to British Columbia while the artist was still a child. A graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2006), Tang has exhibited in many venues, including the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, the Power Plant Gallery in Toronto, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award and won the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. He followed these up by winning the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award in 2012 and the Biennale Internationale de Vallauris Contemporary Ceramics Award in 2016. His works are included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Musée Ariana in Geneva, Canada House in London and the Canada Council Art Bank. Tang lives and works in Vancouver, where he is represented by Jones Gallery.
STEPHEN SCHOFIELD
Stephen Schofield was born in 1952 in Toronto. He holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Toronto (1975) and an MA in Visual Art from Concordia University in Montréal (1982). Exploration of the human body is central to his art, which encompasses a variety of techniques, including ceramics. He has had solo exhibitions at the Musée régional de Rimouski, the Power Plant Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada. He has also participated in major group shows in the Montréal Biennial, the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Schofield has been awarded the Louis-Comtois Prize by the City of Montréal (2004). His work can be found in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal), the National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council Art Bank. Schofield lives and works in Montréal.
BARBARA TODD
Barbara Todd was born in 1952 in Cambridge, Ontario and holds a BA (Honours) in Fine Art from the University of Guelph in Ontario (1975). She is known for her interdisciplinary work, which combines political and poetical concerns with a socially engaged fibre-art practice. Her quilt series have been featured in major exhibitions across Canada, one of the most famous of which is the travelling exhibition Barbara Todd: Security Blankets. Organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, it had a pan-Canadian tour from 1992 to 1995. Todd’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including those of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of History. Todd divides her time between Montréal and Troy, New York. She is represented by Galerie Art Mûr.
ANNA TORMA
Anna Torma was born in 1952 in Tarnaörs, Hungary. In 1988, after completing a degree in Textile Art and Design at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts in Budapest (1979), she immigrated to Canada, where she developed an art practice devoted to large-scale hand-embroidered wall hangings and collages. Torma’s work has been presented in Canada and abroad. Recently, she was one of three artists selected for the Singular Mythologies exhibition held at 1700 La Poste in Montréal (2016). She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in addition to being a recipient of the Strathbutler Award of the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation (2008) and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts (2014). Her work has been included in the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa, the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in Halifax, the New Brunswick Art Bank in Fredericton and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has lived and worked in Baie Verte, New Brunswick since 2002.
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