Isabelle Hayeur is a Canadian visual artist known for her photographs and experimental film. Hayeur’s works are inspired by a critical analysis of ecology and urbanity. Since the late 1990s, Hayeur has created public art commissions, photography books, video installations, and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions. Her artworks can be found in both national and international collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris. Hayeur obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2002, both from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has lived and worked in Montreal for most of her life. Hayeur was raised in the suburb of Bois-des-Filion in Montreal, where she lived into her early 20s. During these years, Hayeur experienced feelings of alienation and dislocation that she believes to accompany suburban living. Hayeur’s suburban upbringing is highly influential to her works, where she frequently confronts the issue of land exploitation in urban planning. Hayeur currently resides in the Rawdon Municipality, located on the Ouareau River in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

Creator Id: 266
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Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: collaboration, commission, digital, installation, painting, photography, public art, video

Born in Quebec City in 1931, Edmund Alleyn attended the École des beaux-arts in Quebec City and studied with the painter Jean-Paul Lemieux. Remarkably versatile, Edmund Alleyn was an innovator whose stylistically diverse paintings, drawings and multimedia installations are all critically regarded as superb examples of their genre. An intellectual painter, his oeuvre resonates with the tensions that exist between the figurative and non-figurative, sometimes playfully marrying Pop and Formalist art together. In his later work, he invoked an elegiac, cinematic quality, inviting viewers to locate their place within his work. By the age 24, the mercurial artist won the Grand Prix aux Concours artistiques de la province de Québec and a grant from the Royal Society enabling him to move to France in 1955. He won a bronze medal at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1959 and the following year he represented Canada at the Venice Biennial. His art is collected by the most prestigious institutions in the contemporary art scene as well as by private collectors in North America and Europe. Edmund Alleyn passed away in Montreal in 2004.

Creator Id: 13
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Year of Birth: 1931
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: painting

Renée Duval graduated with Honours from Emily Carr College of Art (1986) and completed an M.F.A. at Conrcordia University in Montreal. (1991) Her work has been exhibited across Canada and she has participated in exhibitions in the United States, France and Mexico. Her work can be found in numerous public as well as private collections and she has received several grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Renée's work was included in the Canadian painting survey publications Carte Blanche Vol 2-Painting (2008) and The RBC Painting Competition:10 years (2008).

Creator Id: 188
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City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Mediums: painting

Lynne Cohen was an American-Canadian photographer and educator. She taught at several institutions, primarily Eastern Michigan University (1968-1973), Algonquin College (1973-1975), and the University of Ottawa (1974-2005). Cohen was known for her photographs of empty institutional interiors: living rooms, public halls, retirement homes, laboratories, offices, showrooms, shooting ranges, factories, spas, and military installations. Despite this interest in living and working spaces, Cohen's photographs are usually devoid of human presence. She photographed using an 8 x 10" view camera, allowing her to capture great detail, and create very large prints beginning in the mid-eighties. Her work has been published in catalogues such as Occupied Territory (1987) and No Man's Land (2001). In one of her last monographs, Cohen described a major goal in her work, a "long-standing preoccupation with formal, intellectual and ideological camouflage. Cohen was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes for her work. In 2005, Cohen was the recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. She was nominated for the Grange Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto in 2009. In 2011, she was the recipient of the inaugural Scotiabank Photography Award. Cohen's work is represented in the collections of over 50 public institutions. In Canada these include the National Gallery of Canada; the Art Museum at the University of Toronto; Art Gallery of Ontario; Canada Council Art Bank; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff. Internationally, her work is held in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Kunsthaus Zurich; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Princeton University Art Museum; and the Tate Modern, amongst others.

Creator Id: 133
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Year of Birth: 1944
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: Wisconsin
Gender: Female
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: photography

Michael Merrill is a Canadian artist who was educated at the School of Art and Design of the Montreal Museum of Fine arts.

Creator Id: 425
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City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking

Jo-Anne Balcaen is a Montreal-based artist who works with a range of mediums including video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Her work has been presented in Canada, the US and Europe, including solo exhibitions in Montréal at Optica, Galerie Clark, La Centrale, and Galerie B-312; in Calgary at Truck and The New Gallery, in Winnipeg at Ace Art Inc., and in Halifax at eyelevel gallery. She has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Manitoba Arts Council, and has attended residencies at the Banff Centre and at the International Studio and Curatorial Residency (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. Jo-Anne also works as a freelance English translator specializing in the arts and culture sector.

Creator Id: 43
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Year of Birth: 1971
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Gender: Female
Mediums: audio, installation, photography, text-based, video

Lise Boisseau is a teacher in the Department of Visual Arts at Cégep Marie-Victorin in Montreal. A visual artist, she has regularly exhibited her research work in drawing and painting since 1986.

Creator Id: 71
Year of Birth: 1956
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: painting

Linda Covit is a Canadian sculptor known for her public artworks. In 1994 Covit completed Nature Stations, a public artwork installed at the Cite de la Santé de Laval in Laval, Quebec. The 2002 work Circle of Words, Garden of Thought is installed at the Driftwood Community Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Covit's 2009 sculpture Water Garden is installed at the City of Calgary's Water Centre. Her 2015 large-scale work Havre, at 13m by 16m, is permanently installed on the McGill University Health Centre's Glen site in Montreal. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the City of Montreal and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Creator Id: 151
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Year of Birth: 1948
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: earthwork, installation, photography, public art, sculpture

Evergon is a Canadian artist, teacher and activist. Throughout his career, his work has explored photography and its related forms, including photo-collage, instant photography (discontinued Polaroid), colour photocopying, and holography. Throughout his prestigious career, he has been recognized for his leading experimentation in the field of photography. A significant forerunner in North American contemporary art/gay communities, Evergon’s subject matter has been the source of major exhibitions since the mid-1970’s. In 1988, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography organized a major retrospective of his work, Evergon 1971-1987, which exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada and toured nationally and internationally. His dedication to and influence on generations of students is exhibited by his eminent teaching record. He retired in 2015 after being Associate Professor of Photography at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec since 1999. His work is included in public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canada Council Art Bank, the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, the Polaroid International Collection, Frankfurt, Germany, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England. He is represented in Canada by Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa.

Creator Id: 198
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Year of Birth: 1946
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: collage, photography

Naomi London is a visual artist with a practice based in sculpture, installation and drawing. Her works are held in several public collections including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. She has an MFA from the University of Southern California (USC) and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal, and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She has been teaching in Fine Arts Department at Dawson College since 2000, (Chair of the Fine Arts Department from 2013 – 2015.)

Creator Id: 380
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Year of Birth: 1963
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, sculpture

Nicole Jolicoeur is a Canadian artist best known for her work in photography and video. In the late 1980s, much of her work was inspired by research into Jean-Martin Charcot's theories on feminine "hysteria." She studied at École des Beaux-arts in Quebec City and at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA) where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree. From 1972 to 1990, she taught at École des arts visuels of Université Laval and from 1990 to 2007 at École des arts visuels et médiatiques of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In 1980, she began developing her installation practice using photography and text and now video, which puts into perspective various discourse and contexts concerning the representation of a female subject. She creates spatial settings with reference to fields as diverse as the beginnings of psychiatry, the exploration of the polar regions, anthropology, strolling in the city, Roman Catholic religious iconography and now the operatic duo. Her practice has been built up around the implications relative to how women are represented as well as her interest in the found image, the theatricality of photographic records (more precisely the body of images J. M. Charcot and his followers produced at La Salpêtrière, Paris, at the end of the 19th century), the narrative created by image/text relationships, the performative aspects of self-representation and the use of one’s own voice. Since 1973, her work has been exhibited in solo, duo and group shows in Quebec, Canada, England, France and the United States, and has been the subject of numerous critical comments published in books, catalogues and periodicals concerned with art. In addition to her photographic installation practice, she has a strong interest in the production and publication of artist’s books, and artist’s projects and writings in art books and magazines. She has made many public presentations of her artwork at symposiums and as lectures. She has received financial support for her work from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, UQAM and PRIM (Productions Réalisations Indépendantes Montréal). Her works are in numerous public collections, among them, that of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée-Château d’Annecy in France, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Université du Québec à Montréal and in private collections as well.

Creator Id: 306
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Year of Birth: 1947
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography

Anne Kahane was an Austrian-born Canadian artist. Best known for her figures carved in wood, Kahane began her career as a printmaker and commercial artist. In addition to her work as a sculptor using wood, brass, and aluminum, Kahane's artistic repertoire also included drawing and printmaking. Upon enrolling in night classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal (1940), she furthered her studies in traditional sculpture, commercial art, industrial design, and architecture. In the fall of 1942 Kahane began training as a commercial artist at Valentine's School of Commercial Art. In 1945 she went to New York to study at the Cooper Union Art School. It was there that she discovered the art of woodcarving, the technique that would later shape her career. In 1953, Kahane's maquette for The Unknown Political Prisoner Monument was the only Canadian entry to take a prize in the international sculpture competition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London, England. In the same year, Kahane had her first solo exhibition at the Galérie Agnès Lefort. She received no financial prize from her London competition, but as a result, in 1952, was asked to join the Sculptors Society of Canada. At the 1956 Concours Artistique de la province au Quebec, Kahane won the grand prize for her work Ball Game. As an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy, Kahane exhibited with them between 1964 and 1976, and with the Art Association of Montreal from 1957 to 1965. Kahane's work was internationally celebrated, representing Canada with James Wilson Morrice, Jacques de Tonnancour, and Jack Nichols at the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1958), at Expo 67 in Montreal and at the Brussels World's Fair (1968). She received public and private commissions, notably her sculpture for the Winnipeg airport (1963) and a piece for Montreal's Place des Arts (1963–1964). Kahane taught fine arts at Concordia University from 1965 to 1980. Later, as a resident sculptor, she taught at McMaster University in Hamilton (1980–1982), where she explored flat structural techniques using flexible materials to depart from traditional three-dimensional structures.

Creator Id: 312
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Year of Birth: 1924
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Austria
Gender: Female
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: commission, drawing, printmaking, public art, sculpture, wood

Lynn Millette has worked in both traditional and electronic media. She has a comprehensive background in disciplines related to culture including the new technologies, philosophy, psychology, literature, and the humanities as well as practical experience in research and critical/analytical writing. Her solo exhibition, Roadtrip was held at the Maison de la Culture Janine-Sutto in Montreal (2019). Other solos include, Windows in the Water was held at the Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal (2013), Interior experience , at the McClure Gallery and Sens vécu, at the Maison de la Culture Plateau-Mont-Royal (both in 2007). Lynn Millette has participated in several group exhibitions including, most recently, The Wrong epicentre in Valencia, Spain (2019), Pérégrination, a pavilion in the 4th Wrong Biennale (2019), Uncommon at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto (2019), Ana notes sur notes (2012) at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, The Inner Space/The Outer Place, Concordia University (2008). Lynn Millette has a BFA (Concordia), an MA ès arts from UQAM and a PhD from Concordia University. Her work is indexed at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art and can be found in several private and public collections in Canada and the United States.

Creator Id: 430
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City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Mediums: digital, painting

Nadia Myre RCA is a contemporary visual artist from Quebec and an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation. For over a decade, her multi-disciplinary practice has been inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, longing and loss. Myre is one of the co-founders of daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Québec, along with Skawennati, Caroline Monnet, and Hannah Claus. Myre graduated from Camosun College (1995), completing a Fine Art associate degree. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1997), completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). She earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Concordia University (2002). She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, "Cont[r]act" at OBORO, Montréal (2002), "Skin Tissue" at the National Museum of American Indian, New York (2010), Tout ce que reste - Scattered Remains at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2018). Myre has also participated in many notable group shows including; "The American West" at Compton Verny Gallery, London, United Kingdom; "All Our Relations" for the 2012 Sydney Biennale, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia; and "Social Factory" for the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China. A trilogy of works by Myre were commissioned for Pimisi station of the Ottawa O-Train: Pimisi/eel, woven basket, and birch forest fence. They were unveiled in 2019. Myre is a recipient of numerous awards. She is a recipient of Prix Louis-Comtois (2021), the Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec (2019), the Banff Centre for Arts Walter Phillips Gallery Indigenous Commission Award (2016), and the Sobey Art Award (2014), Canada's largest award for young artists. She was also nominated for the award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Myre is also the recipient of the Pratt & Whitney Canada's ‘Les Elles de l’art’ for the Conseil des arts de Montréal (2011), Quebec Arts Council's "Prix à la création artistique pour la region des Laurentides" (2009), and a Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum (2003).

Creator Id: 442
Year of Birth: 1974
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Additional Statuses: First Nations
Gender: Female
Mediums: mixed media, photography, sculpture, textiles

Leopold Plotek, combines abstraction and figuration in large format paintings which take as their starting point his memories, his experience of architecture, objects and art (he mentions Picabia, Cubism and other sources as important), as well as his readings in art, history (often Soviet), and poetry of all periods. His references are elliptically treated however, as he develops ways of painting them according to his own recipe which varies, picture to picture. In this singular pictorial dynamic, each painting is basically a conception on its own, though a series of sorts can exist. As a result, certain of Plotek’s paintings prefigure the practice of many contemporary abstract painters and can be viewed, like them, as extending the range of abstraction. His work is represented in major Canadian public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; and the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa. Plotek is represented by the Corkin Gallery in Toronto. He teaches at Concordia University in the Fine Arts, Studio faculty.

Creator Id: 478
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Year of Birth: 1948
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Russia
Gender: Male
Mediums: painting

Lorraine Simms RCA is a contemporary Canadian artist. Simms earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art in 1978. In 1990, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She began painting professionally in 1991. She previously taught at Dawson College and Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, cultural institutions, and museums in Canada and the United States, including the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Her work was the subject of a Bravo TV documentary in the Shaping Art series. Simms is the recipient of numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Championing the work of other artists, she has curated many solo and group exhibitions that featured their works. Simms practice is expressed in painting, painting installations, drawing and assemblages. She works in thematic series that are linked formally and conceptually. Her works aim to strike a balance between the observable and the implied, while exploring the fugitive nature of representation. For the past decade Simms has developed several series that feature animal forms – plush, taxidermy and bones – in paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Creator Id: 555
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Year of Birth: 1956
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, installation, painting, sculpture

Serge Tousignant RCA is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and a photographer. After receiving his graphic arts diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1962, Tousignant began to study lithography and etching in the studio of Albert Dumouchel. He continued his studies from 1962 to 1965 at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London, England, where he studied painting and lithography. His early work was as a multidisciplinary artist, but he stopped painting after 1967. In 1967, he began producing sculpture that plays on illusion and engages the viewer in participation. In 1972, he began to use photography, which is the medium he has continued to use. In 1978, he began the photographic series Geometrisation solaire, based on arrangements of sticks and the shadows they cast. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, notably in a solo travelling exhibition titled Serge Tousignant: Phases In Photography held at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1992 and in numerous group exhibitions such as Lumières: Perceptions and Projections as part of the CIAC’s 100 Days of Contemporary Art, Montreal (1986). In 2017, a retrospective entitled Serge Tousignant: Research Papers was held in Montreal at VOX, Centre de l'image contemporaine, of all the different formulations of his work from printmaking to photography. The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art held a two-person show of Luis Jacob and Serge Tousignant titled I See What You Are Looking At of Tousignaut`s sculpture in 2019. His work in public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, and in many other art galleries. Tousignant was a founding member of the artist-run gallery Véhicule and played an important role in the development of the Montreal art scene of the 1970s. He was also a professor at the University of Montreal Art History department from 1974 to 2002.

Creator Id: 611
Year of Birth: 1942
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: photography, printmaking

Denis Rousseau is a versatile artist who primarily practices sculpture, but also photography and video. For around twenty years, he has demonstrated a predilection for installation and kinetic art. His work is often interactive, with certain sculptures activating as a visitor passes by or according to an established rhythm. Varied themes such as birth, the sacred, death and sexuality, often approached with irony, playfulness and absurdity, serve as referential bases for these objects whose relationship to the body is obvious. Since 1976, his works have been part of numerous individual and group exhibitions, in Quebec, Canada and abroad, notably at the Galerie Christiane Chassay (Montreal, 1991) and at the venue Les voûtes Poyenne (Bordeaux, 2004). In 2005, his work was the subject of an individual exhibition at the Rimouski museum. Several catalogs and exhibition booklets have been dedicated to him. His works are part of several public and private collections such as those of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Regional Museum of Rimouski, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.

Creator Id: 525
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Year of Birth: 1951
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, photography, sculpture, video

Stephen Schofield holds an MFA, visual arts, from Concordia University, Montreal (1982) and a BFA from York University, Toronto (1975). Since 1999, he has taught in the School of Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec. Through drawing, sculpture, and performance, figurative representation of the human body is at the core of his practice. His artworks have been exhibited in Canada and abroad and are in the City of Montreal’s collection and those of the most important Canadian museums.

Creator Id: 540
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Year of Birth: 1952
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: commission, drawing, performance, public art, sculpture

Paul Litherland is a visual artist working mostly with photography and video. He works with many artists in his role as a documentation specialist and produces artworks related to this and his experience as a skydiver. Now in his 39th year of jumping from airplanes he has accumulated over 2250 jumps, including over 500 Wingsuit jumps and 35 BASE jumps. He studied photography and fine art at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and graduated from the MFA program in photography from Concordia in 1994.

Creator Id: 375
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Year of Birth: 1962
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Male
Mediums: audio, performance, photography, video

Donigan Cumming uses photography, video, painting, drawing, sound, and text in multi-media artworks and installations that have been widely exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America. His work is recognized internationally for its forthright and compassionate representation of humanity and its forgotten members. His artist’s book The Stage (1991) is included in Parr and Badger’s The Photobook II (2006) and Errata Editions selected The Stage (2014) for its ‘Books on Books’ series on key photographic publications. Retrospectives of his video work have been mounted by leading festivals and museums. In 2005 Moving Pictures (MOCCA, Toronto) premiered his monumental photo and encaustic collages on panel, Prologue and Epilogue, and the DVD collection of 18 video works, Controlled Disturbance. His recent book and video, Kerr’s Suitcase(2015)and Out of Kerr’s Suitcase(2016), are an assemblage of visual documents, direct cinema, and animation that revisits the dream of a life in photography. Cumming lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Creator Id: 154
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Year of Birth: 1947
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: Virginia
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting, photography, text-based, video

Sylvia Safdie is a Canadian artist who gathers and utilizes found natural materials in a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and video to explore different themes in her work, calling upon early childhood memories, her Jewish heritage, and her experience of moving from Israel to Canada. At the age of 26 while recovering from an operation she turned to painting. Safdie obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Concordia University, in Montreal, Québec, in 1975. Safdie's early childhood memories, her Middle Eastern Jewish heritage, and experiences in Israel, followed by moving to a new country, are main sources of inspiration and inform her five-decade-long artistic career. As a child, she would build sandcastles on the beaches near Haifa, where she became aware of their vulnerability amongst the waves with time, and further increased her fascination with transiency. At this time, she began to collect rocks and natural ephemera, which she then classified by size, shape, colour, material, and origin. These childhood practices and impulses were carried into her career as a professional artist and helped navigate her feelings of displacement after leaving Israel. After completing her degree, Safdie has travelled broadly to places rich in her Israeli roots, such as Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and to areas such as Morocco, Mexico, and India. During her travels, she physically collects or video documents specific natural objects, materials, or scenes, and ultimately capture the subtle archeological traces of place through time. Over the course of her explorations, Safdie collected over 500 earth samples, which she uses in her paintings and drawings. Her travels are viewed as an ongoing exploration of spirituality and her Jewish history, combined with her passion for nature, as a form of grounding herself with the land and past. Chronologically, Safdie used found natural objects in her sculpture installations at the beginning of her career in the 1970s, and then, in the early 1980s, she began painting with oil and earth materials. Scratching away and layering are among many physical techniques that characterize her process of painting. Later in her career, she was drawn to photography to capture inherent truths revolving around her themes. In 2001, Safdie began experimenting with video works that included or excluded sound, which demonstrated her ideas in a fluid, non-static way.

Creator Id: 529
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Year of Birth: 1942
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Lebanon
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, sculpture, video

Lorraine Simms RCA is a contemporary Canadian artist. Simms earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art in 1978. In 1990, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She began painting professionally in 1991. She previously taught at Dawson College and Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, cultural institutions, and museums in Canada and the United States, including the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Her work was the subject of a Bravo TV documentary in the Shaping Art series. Simms is the recipient of numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Championing the work of other artists, she has curated many solo and group exhibitions that featured their works. Simms practice is expressed in painting, painting installations, drawing and assemblages. She works in thematic series that are linked formally and conceptually. Her works aim to strike a balance between the observable and the implied, while exploring the fugitive nature of representation. For the past decade Simms has developed several series that feature animal forms – plush, taxidermy and bones – in paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Creator Id: 555
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Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1956
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, installation, painting, sculpture

Manuela Lalic work has been presented in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Her artistic biases have led her to do several international residencies in New York (Canada Council for the Arts - International Studio and Curatorial Program residency, 2009), Rajasthan, India (Sandarbh Artist Residency, 2013-2014) and Yaoundé, Cameroon (short residency as part of the Ravy Biennale, 2016). Since 2014, Manuela Lalic has been a lecturer at UQÀM’s School of Visual and Media Arts. The cliché phrase « I can do that too » heard from a person criticizing contemporary art marked Manuela Lalic’s strategy of doing. Thus, so that everyone can identity with the artistic act, her work is based on simple gestures that she put on « poor » materials and objects (twisting a paper clip, tying a knot in a plastic bag). By constructing a materiality in ambivalence between what is artificial and natural, the unstable, the perishable, the degraded, the dirty is juxtaposed the refined, the detailed, the seductive. From object manipulation and/or images and the resulting accumulations, Manuela Lalic elaborates stagings evoking « collective moments » by diverting gestures, objects and space organization associated with these rituals and conventions with these ways of « being together ». She is interested in mass behavior to question the capitalist society’s functioning, which prefabricates and standardizes our desires and needs. In this logic, the performance is of the order of infiltration into mass movements (extending the red line marking the bus shelter with a red ribbon, cutting it, going from one bus shelter to another and reconstructing this path as a red line on the map of Montreal; tracing the outline of chewing gum deposits accumulating on the sidewalks in New York City). By observing tensions between her Franco-Serbian-Canadian different identity states, which are also linked to rural, urban or cosmopolitan affiliations, Manuela Lalic wonders about the link between the individual and their community, a recurring theme in her practice. The feeling of belonging with the attachment to one’s native country and roots interests her as much as the determination part and control that one can have. In that sense, as a sculptor and performer, Manuela Lalic has an observer's position: she chooses what she relativizes, value, caricature by positioning herself in front of these multiple cultural affiliations.

Creator Id: 350
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City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Mediums: installation, performance

Bettina Hoffmann is an artist whose work includes photography, video and performance. Hoffmann studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule der Künste (Berlin University of the Arts) in the class of Shinkichi Tajiri and Rebecca Horn (1985-1992). She attended as well the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1987) and the California Institute of the Arts (1989–90) where she worked under the supervision of Krzysztof Wodiczko. Her work is located at the intersection of photography, film, sculpture, contemporary dance and theatre. Bettina Hoffmann creates video tableaux and performances to facilitate the examination of the underlying mechanisms of social relations, conflicts and communication. Her work is centred on people and the human body; movements, subtle gestures, body language, distance and proximity, with an interest in ambiguous movements and actions that shift between violence and sensuality. She is developing her work through experimentation and in the process introduces rules that impose or limit a participant's use of specific body parts, which leads towards unusual, sometimes unsettling movements and situations. She is recognized for the use of unfamiliar camera perspectives and slow and steady camera movements. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, the Artothek Berlin of Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany, and the Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst.

Creator Id: 280
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Year of Birth: 1964
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Germany
Gender: Female
Mediums: performance, photography, video

Sylvain Bouthillette is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist whose practice oscillates between painting, sculpture, photography, installation, music and dance. His work offers a dialogue between spiritual values and critical discourse. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in visual arts from Concordia University. His favorite themes are life, death, spirituality, materiality and also impermanence, confusion, instability, ridicule, ambiguity, uncertainty and embarrassment. He attempts to demonstrate that ceasing to believe that life is something stable and definable allows a form of liberation. Bouthillette has exhibited his work in Canada, the United States and also in Europe both solo and in groups. His creations can be seen in the collections of the National Bank, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Giverny Capital, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Musée des beaux-arts arts of Sherbrooke as well as in several private collections.

Creator Id: 84
Year of Birth: 1963
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, painting, performance, photography, sculpture

Michèle Drouin RCA received her MFA in art education at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, and her BFA in art education at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal. Michele Drouin is one of Canada’s leading contemporary abstract painters. Her painting is characterized by energetic drawing and dramatic contrasts of light and dark. Her use of pigment mixed with mica or steel dust add a mineral aspect to the painting, which combined with her vibrant palette, gives an overflowing fluidity to the canvasses. Drouin’s work can be found in important Canadian Collections such as The Bank of Canada, General Electric Canada and IBM. She has exhibited in France, The United States, England, Tunisia, and in most major cities in Canada.

Creator Id: 177
Year of Birth: 1933
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: painting

Eva Brandl studied stage design at the Conservatoire before completing her B.F.A. at Université Laval in Québec City (1974) and her M.F.A. at Concordia (1979), and also undertook graduate study in media drama at the Université de Montréal (1981-82). Eva is a part-time instructor in Concordia's Department of Studio Arts, and she also teaches at Montreal's Marianopolis College. Since the early eighties a major part of her work has been focused on large installations, drawing on a variety of media and forms of presentation. Her sculptural ensembles have been featured in numerous exhibitions in Quebec, Canada and abroad.

Creator Id: 87
Year of Birth: 1951
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Germany
Gender: Female
Mediums: installation, sculpture

Nadia Myre RCA is a contemporary visual artist from Quebec and an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation. For over a decade, her multi-disciplinary practice has been inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, longing and loss. Myre is one of the co-founders of daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Québec, along with Skawennati, Caroline Monnet, and Hannah Claus. Myre graduated from Camosun College (1995), completing a Fine Art associate degree. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1997), completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). She earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Concordia University (2002). She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, "Cont[r]act" at OBORO, Montréal (2002), "Skin Tissue" at the National Museum of American Indian, New York (2010), Tout ce que reste - Scattered Remains at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2018). Myre has also participated in many notable group shows including; "The American West" at Compton Verny Gallery, London, United Kingdom; "All Our Relations" for the 2012 Sydney Biennale, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia; and "Social Factory" for the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China. A trilogy of works by Myre were commissioned for Pimisi station of the Ottawa O-Train: Pimisi/eel, woven basket, and birch forest fence. They were unveiled in 2019. Myre is a recipient of numerous awards. She is a recipient of Prix Louis-Comtois (2021), the Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec (2019), the Banff Centre for Arts Walter Phillips Gallery Indigenous Commission Award (2016), and the Sobey Art Award (2014), Canada's largest award for young artists. She was also nominated for the award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Myre is also the recipient of the Pratt & Whitney Canada's ‘Les Elles de l’art’ for the Conseil des arts de Montréal (2011), Quebec Arts Council's "Prix à la création artistique pour la region des Laurentides" (2009), and a Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum (2003).

Creator Id: 442
Year of Birth: 1974
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Additional Statuses: First Nations
Gender: Female
Mediums: mixed media, photography, sculpture, textiles

Françoise Sullivan initially studied at the city’s École des beaux-arts. While this uniquely multifaceted artist was first renowned as a dancer and choreographer, it has been her work as a painter, sculptor and photographer that has truly stood out in her long career. Along with Paul-Émile Borduas, she was one of the founding members of the avant-garde Automatiste movement, and one of the signatories of that group’s 1948 manifesto, the Refus global. Moreover, in that revolutionary document Borduas included the entire text of Ms. Sullivan’s celebrated lecture on La danse et l'espoir.Since then, her work has been shown at countless different solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (1993) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2003). Another major exhibition will be dedicated to her at the MMFA in the fall of 2023, on the occasion of her centennial anniversary. She received the Paul-Émile Borduas Award in 1987 and holds honorary degrees from UQAM and Toronto’s York University. A teacher at Concordia University for over 30 years, Françoise Sullivan was also a board member of the Montreal Arts Council, a jury member and lecturer.

Creator Id: 583
Year of Birth: 1929
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: dance, installation, painting, performance, sculpture

Mathieu Beauséjour is a self-taught artist who has created installations, interventions, and images since the mid-1990s. Through a position of resistance and détournement, he subverts the materials and concepts of power, alienation, and oppression. Beauséjour’s practice casts an ironic and nostalgic look on political and artistic avant-garde movements, and uses cultural emblems such as money, hymns, and manifestos to examine the current state of the world. His context-based work is specifically conceived for the space it will occupy, whether it be a gallery, a site of intervention, a printed page, or a period of action. Mathieu Beauséjour lives and works in Montreal. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal), the Musée régional de Rimouski (Rimouski), the Darling Foundry (Montreal), and Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), among others. Notable group exhibitions include the Manif d’art 7 de Québec (Quebec City) and the Québec Triennal at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal). His work can be found in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec City), and the Haupt Collection (Berlin). Beauséjour was the winner of the Giverny Capital Prize in 2010 and a finalist for the Prix Louis-Comtois in 2012 and 2016.

Creator Id: 56
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Year of Birth: 1970
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, performance

Lynn Millette has worked in both traditional and electronic media. She has a comprehensive background in disciplines related to culture including the new technologies, philosophy, psychology, literature, and the humanities as well as practical experience in research and critical/analytical writing. Her solo exhibition, Roadtrip was held at the Maison de la Culture Janine-Sutto in Montreal (2019). Other solos include, Windows in the Water was held at the Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal (2013), Interior experience , at the McClure Gallery and Sens vécu, at the Maison de la Culture Plateau-Mont-Royal (both in 2007). Lynn Millette has participated in several group exhibitions including, most recently, The Wrong epicentre in Valencia, Spain (2019), Pérégrination, a pavilion in the 4th Wrong Biennale (2019), Uncommon at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto (2019), Ana notes sur notes (2012) at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, The Inner Space/The Outer Place, Concordia University (2008). Lynn Millette has a BFA (Concordia), an MA ès arts from UQAM and a PhD from Concordia University. Her work is indexed at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art and can be found in several private and public collections in Canada and the United States.

Creator Id: 430
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City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Mediums: digital, painting

Marisa Portolese is a Canadian-Italian and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Portraiture, representations of women, and figures in nature are recurrent subjects in her artistic practice. Autobiography and familial and cultural heritage are equally prominent themes explored through the genre of storytelling, the narrative still and moving image. She often produces large-scale colour photographs, rich in painterly references that concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments regarding identity and spectatorship. She attempts to weave together gesture, affect, and the nuances of the gaze, to create an immersive and emotional landscape for the viewer. Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she produced many photographic projects, which have received critical acclaim and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions widely shown in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Artist in Residence at the McCord Museum in Montreal; her work during this residency culminated as a solo show and a catalogue publication entitled In the Studio with Notman. Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in various journals, magazines, newspapers, art books and periodicals, and she has three published monographs: Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma Chambre (2003), Antonia’s Garden (2012) and In the Studio with Notman (2018). She has been awarded grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 2022, she received a Concordia University Research Fellow Award. In addition, her works are included in various corporate, museum and private collections.

Creator Id: 483
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Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography