« Agency » is an international initiative that was founded in 1992 by Kobe Matthys and has offices in Brussels. Agency constitutes a growing “list of things” that resist the radical split between the classifications of nature and culture. This list is mostly derived from judicial case…

Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montreal. Since 1973, she has had many solo shows and participated in a great number of arts events in Quebec, the rest of Canada, and…

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Of Brazilian origin, Petunia Alves has lived and worked in Montreal since 1983\. Involved in the independent video scene…

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Carlos Amorales lives and works in Mexico City. In his artistic research, he is interested mainly in language and the impossibility/possibility of communicating through means that are unrecognizable or not codified: sounds, gestures, and symbols…

Siobhan Angus is an art historian and organizer. She is an assistant professor of Media Studies at Carleton University and holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from York University where her dissertation was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal.

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Collectif d’artistes fondé en 1968 à San Francisco par les jeunes architectes Chip Lord et Doug Michels, rejoints ensuite par Curtis Schreier, Hudson Marquez et Douglas Hurr. Pendant dix ans, le collectif combine…

Raymonde April was born in 1953 in Moncton, New Brunswick, and grew up in Rivière-du-Loup. She lives and works in Montreal, where she has been teaching photography at Concordia University since 1985…

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Born in Poland in 1966 lives and works in Montreal and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kinga Araya’s multidisciplinary practice is organized around a thematics of movement and communication…

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation whose practice includes installation, photography and design.

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Born in 1978 in Buffalo, Cory Arcangel now lives and works in New York City. He completed studies in music at Oberlin Conservatory in 2000\. His works will soon be on view in solo exhibitions at…

Roy Arden was born in Vancouver in 1957 where he lives and works today. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia and has been active as an exhibiting visual…

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For the past dozen years, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil has been investigating manifestations of the desire for security in the public spaces of developed societies. Often adopting a documentary format or pastiching a guided tour…

Sven Augustijnen (b. 1970, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels…

Nicolas Baier lives and works in Montreal. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, including at Galerie René Blouin in Montreal and TPW Gallery in Toronto…

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Bertille Bak has developed a body of work staging populations or situations that she subverts with the close involvement of the protagonists themselves.

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John Baldessari was born in 1931.He received a B.A. and an M.A. from San Diego State College. He has been a leading light for an entire generation of artists who followed his teachings at Southwestern…

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Amy Balkin is an artist whose works propose alternatives for conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems, addressing property relations, environmental justice, and equity in the context of climate change.

Ami Barak is an independent curator and art critic who lives and works in Paris. He has launched numerous exhibitions and projects…

Né en 1936 à New York. Considéré comme un des pères du mouvement de l’art conceptuel américain, il est titulaire d’une maîtrise et d’un baccalauréat en beaux-arts du Hunter College de la City…

Yael Bartana was born in 1970 in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel. She lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Bartana’s video work is rooted in specific times and places…

Across various media and techniques, Adam Basanta investigates technology as a meeting point of concurrent, overlapping systems; a nexus of cultural, computational, biological, and economic forces.

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The sonic realm is the starting point for Steve Bates’s projects, which are evocations of communications networks and systems or descriptions of spatial and temporal experiences…

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Born in Congo, Patrick Beauduin moved to Belgium at age 7 where he lived until he immigrated to Canada in 1994…

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Mathieu Beauséjour’s work proceeds from a perspective of resistance, of “détournement” and, as he likes to call it, of “semiotic terrorism.” Born in 1970 in Montreal where he still lives and works…

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Born in Dublin, 1906; died in Paris, 1989\. Samuel Beckett is best known (much to his chagrin, it is said) as the author of the play _Waiting for Godot_. A legendary recluse, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature…

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Thomas Bégin is a multidisciplinary artist as well as a musician. His most recent works are sound installations fashioned from discarded audiovisual components, found musical instruments, and electric gadgetry…

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Sophie Bélair Clément is an artist. Her projects re-enact historical modes of presentation⎯staging as well as narrative form⎯based on documentary….

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Born in Rimouski in 1975\. Lives and works in Montreal.Gwenaël Bélanger’s work is characterized by an absolute quest for the inherent simplicity of things. Since 1999, the artist has used the most trivial slices of reality as inspiration for his art….

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**Born** 1979, Antigonish, Canada  
**Lives** Edmonton, Canada…

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Rémi Belliveau is an Acadian interdisciplinary artist and musician from Belliveau-Village (Memramcook Valley, New Brunswick).

Portrait of Rémi Belliveau. Photo: Annie France Leclerc.

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Walter Benjamin was an important philosopher and art theoretician best known for his work Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). Many years after his tragic death in 1940, he reappeared…

James Benning made his first avant-garde works in 1972, and shortly thereafter began producing longer experimental films…

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Dorion Berg is pursuing a program of interdisciplinary studies in Montreal, where he recently presented sound sculptures in a solo exhibition at Galerie SKOL…

Born in Johannesbourg, South Africa, in 1972\. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Exhibiting internationally since the mid-1990s, Candice Breitz…

Caroline Bernard and Damien Guichard have been collaborating for twenty years under the name _Lili range le chat_. Their works are often the result of travel or the exploration of a territory, whether onsite or from a distance…

Jen Bervin (born in Dubuque, United States; lives in Guilford, United States) engages eyes, hands, ears, and minds in an exploration of intersections between text and fibre.

Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol live and work in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Working collectively since 1995 as Bik Van der Pol, they explore the potential of art to produce…

Ivan Binet lives and works in Quebec. He has been active as a photographer since 1992 and is known mainly for his work around the notion of landscape. Among his better-known works are the series _Vases montagnes_ and…

Portrait of Ivan Binet. Photo : Béatrice Flynn.

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Doriane Biot holds a master’s degree in museology from Université de Montréal and a master’s degree in Visual Culture from University of Aberdeen.

Michael Blum, born in Jerusalem in 1966, is a Montreal-based artist. Following studies in history at Université Paris I and photography at the École nationale de la photographie in Arles, France, he developed an art practice—comprising videos, books and installations…

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Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent based in Vancouver. In the last three years, his work has been widely shown in prestigious institutions including the Vancouver Art Gallery (2009, 2012), The Power Plant…

Portrait of Raymond Boisjoly. Photo : Marco Campanozzi, LA PRESSE

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Vincent Bonin is an author and independent curator. He has produced various multi-faceted projects, notably Documentary Protocols (1967–1975)…

Portrait of Vincent Bonin. Photo : Michel Tremblay

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Erik Bordeleau is a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and cultural theorist. He works as a researcher at NOVA University in Lisbon and is also affiliated researcher at the Art, Business and Culture Center of Stockholm School of Economics.

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Nans Bortuzzo lives and works in Montreal. His art career intersects media arts, music and scenography. In 2018, he finishes a master’s degree in visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal…

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The artistic practice of Guillaume Bourdon shapes an imaginary of identity built on a digitalized existence lived mainly through virtual worlds…

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At this stage of the project, six weeks before the beginning of the event, I am creating random video itineraries downtown At first, my explorations revealed nothing special aside from the references….

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John Boyle-Singfield lives in Montreal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. His work explores notions of language and exhibition…

Portrait of Jouhn boyle-singfield. Photo : Olivier Pontbriand, LA PRESSE.

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Dirk Braeckman, born in 1958, lives and works in Gand, Belgium. Since 1985, Braeckman’s work has been shown regularly in Belgium and abroad. In 1999, a major exhibition entitled _z.Z(t)_…

**Born** 1990, London, United Kingdom  
**Lives** London, United Kingdom…

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Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic who divides her time betwen Berlin and Vienna. She is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Together with…

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Né à Boston en 1946\. Vit et travaille en Californie. Il détient un baccalauréat en beaux-arts du Pomona College et une maîtrise de l’Université de Californie. Au cours des années 1970…

Gerard Byrne lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He is a graduate of National College of Art & Design in Dublin, the New School for Social Research and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York…

Colin Campbell was born in Reston, Manitoba, in 1942 and received his MFA from the Claremont Graduate School in 1969\. His works include _Sackville, I’m Yours…_ (1972), _The Woman from Malibu_ (1976), and _Bad Girls_ (1980). He moved to Toronto in 1973…

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Mircea Cantor (1977–) is a Romanian-born artist who lives and works “on Earth,” as he likes to say. His films, installations, and sculptures draw their inspiration from the real, viewed from a simultaneously poetic and critical perspective…

Mathieu Cardin (born Matthew Carden in Agloe, U.S.A.) displayed outstanding skills in combat sports, gymnastics and theatre from an early age. These youthful pursuits left him with…

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Jenny Cartwright explores themes of self-determination and inequality through topics such as gentrification, activism, work and poverty. It is through this bias towards the sidelined that she attempts to combine poetry and manifestos.

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Nathalie Casemajor is an Assistant Professor in the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre at INRS in Montreal and co-director of the Observatory of Cultural Mediations.

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Alexandre Castonguay approaches different artistic forms suggesting modes of exchange and interaction inspired by the relational dynamics of information flows…

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Carolina Caycedo (born in London, United Kingdom; lives in Los Angeles, United States) examines the interrelations between humans and nature from the angles of sustainable development, access to resources, and economic and cultural equity.

Internationally acclaimed artist Melvin Charney (1935-2012) has created a unique body of work characterized by a preoccupation with urban space…

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The collective Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) was founded in early 2003 in St. Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Russia with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. They create interventions in public spaces, video projects…

Barbara Clausen is a curator and art historian who lives and works in Montreal. She teaches art history at at the Université du Québec à Montreal, UQAM….

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Lynne Cohen was born in Wisconsin, United States; lives and works in Montreal.er works, known in both Europe and North America, have been featured in…

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Sorel Cohen lives and works in Montreal. A graduate from McGill and Concordia universities, she has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over twenty years…

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Hannah Collins was born in London in 1956 and lives and works in Barcelona and London. Since 1986, she has been creating monumental work which captures the passage of time and the mark of…

Born in 1970 in Runcorn, England. Works and lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Phil Collins has gained international attention and acclaim for his frank…

Jordi Colomer was born in 1962 and lives and works in Barcelona. His videos have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe. His work has been shown at the Villa Arson…

Né en 1975, Patrick Coutu vit et travaille à Montréal. Son travail marqué par le thème de l’architecture, en tant que témoignage d’états d’esprit et de désirs individuels ou collectifs, se déploie sous plusieurs…

Portrait of Patrick Coutu. Photo : François Roy, La Presse

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Jon Davies is a Montreal-born curator, writer, and PhD Candidate in Art History at Stanford University. Between 2008–12 his curated retrospective _People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell_ toured across Canada…

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Born in 1949 in Leeds, U.K., Max Dean lives and works in Toronto. For over 35 years, his works have been in solo and group exhibitions around the world…

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Born in 1970, Michel de Broin lives and works in Montreal, and he obtained his master’s degree in visual arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1997\. His most recent exhibitions solos…

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Various structures of power, the forces of order, contemporary forms of oppression and security, and media manipulation are the core concerns of French artist Alain Declercq…

Historian and philosopher of art Thierry de Duve is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Emeritus from the Université de Lille 3\. He is the author of many books on art and on the aesthetic of modernity…

Artist, writer and illustrator Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montréal since the early 2000s. Employing a humorous approach, he creates surprising dialogues between images and words, between the read and the symbolic. 

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Known mainly as a sculptor and painter, Jean-Marie Delavalle has also been interested in Conceptual Art and, in the 1970s, played a significant role within Montreal’s artist community. His artistic career extends over nearly fifty years.

Portrait of Jean-Marie Delavalle (1944-2023)

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(In French) Spécialiste en droit de la propriété intellectuelle, Eléna Deleuze a poursuivi des études de droit en France…

Alain Deneault has published numerous essays, notably on Canadian mining policies, tax havens, multinationals, the sovereignty of private powers and the history of the polysemous notion of the economy.

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Manon De Pauw lives in Montreal. She has collaborated on multiple occasions with choreographer Danièle Desnoyers as well as musicians and composers André Pappathomas, Joane Hétu, and Philippe B. De Pauw recently created two major interdisciplinary performance works in collaboration with Pierre-Marc Ouellette…

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Guillaume Désanges lives and works in Paris. An art critic and curator, he is also the founder of Work Method , an independent agency for artistic projects. He is a member of the editorial board of _Trouble magazine_…

Né en 1969, Martin Désilets est titulaire d’une maîtrise en arts plastiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a séjourné au Liban à deux reprises , en 2001, lors d’une résidence d’artistes à Tripoli…

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Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel are a Toronto-based arts collaborative who explore the hopes and anxieties brought about by major technological disruptions.

Portrait of Hallie Siegel and Matt Donovan

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Primarily narrative and characterized by cohabitation of multiple genres and motifs, Pierre Dorion’s painted works revolve around questions asked of painterly practice by the photographic image…

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Born in 1960, Stan Douglas lives and works in Vancouver. He completed studies at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, in 1982\. His photographic and videographic works are world-renowned…

Portrait of Stan Douglas. Photo Evaan Kheraj.

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Jean Dubois explores the relations fostered by digital images with corporal interfaces, random structures and in situ textuality…

Portrait of Jean Dubois. Photo : Chloé Lefebvre.

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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a French painter, sculptor and writer, naturalized U.S. citizen in 1955\. Inventor of ready-mades in the early twentieth century, his artistic approach still has a major…

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Elitza Dulguerova lives and works in Paris. She is Assistant Professor in Art History at the Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research interests are twofold: the social history….

Bryony Dunne is an Irish visual artist and filmmaker who engages with the overlap between documentary film, cinema, photography, and the natural world.

Born in 1960 in Granby, Connecticut, U.S. Lives and works in Chicago. The art of Jeanne Dunning, which for several years has been structured around themes of the human body, is most famous for…

Maria Eichhorn was born in 1962 in Bamberg Germany. She currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and has been teaching at the School of Art and Design in Zurich since 2003…

Épopée is a cinema action group created in 2007, during the making of the film Men for Sale, a documentary about drug addiction and male sex workers in Montreal.

ExpVisLab is a California-based artists’ collective formed by George Legrady, Marco Pinter, and Danny Bazo.

Janieta Eyre lives and works in Toronto. Since the mid-1990s, she has been exploring the idea of duality and its disquieting aspects by metamorphosing herself in her photographs…

Omer Fast was born in Jerusalem in 1972\. He left Israel as a teenager with his family to move to New York. This geographical and cultural change helps to better understand his work and some of the recurring elements…

Born in 1941 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Hans-Peter Feldmann lives and works in Düsseldorf. Since the late 1960’s, he has created works that highlight images drawn from popular culture and based on…

Anna Ferrer was born in 1974 in Barcelona. Since 2000, she has been studying fine arts at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf with Hilla and Bern Becher. She recently participated …

Travel and movements are the components of my research and work method. _Movement #85, Montréal walks, November 23–December 1, 2007_…

**Born:** Peter Fischli : 1952, Zurich, Switzerland / David Weiss : 1946–2012, Zurich, Switzerland  
**Live:** Zurich, Switzerland…

Sabine Folie is an art historian, author, and independent curator. She is the Director of the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz. Research Center for Media and Performance Art (Austria) and teaches Public Art and New Artistic Strategies as a Guest Lecturer at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany)…

Robert Fones has developed a practice that includes sculpture, painting, engraving, photography, poetry, writing, and art criticism.

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Zachary Formwalt was born in 1979 in Albany, Georgia (US), and has been living and working in Amsterdam since 2008, when he began a two-year residence period…

Nikki Forrest is a visual and media artist based in Montreal. She is best known for her short experimental videos…

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Dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer and traducer. She works mainly in Montreal.  

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Samuel Fosso (1962–) is a Cameroonian artist who lives and works in Paris and Bangui, Central African Republic. He has gone beyond the standard practices of self-portraiture, staging scenes that often convey messages of a political nature…

Michel François (born in 1956), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Fascinated by the gestures of everyday life and the tensions that they reveal, François has distinguished himself, since the 1980s…

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LaToya Ruby Frazier (1982–) is an American artist who lives and works in Chicago. Through photography, video, and performance, she addresses rustbelt deindustrial­ization…

Thomas Ouellet Fredericks is simultaneously an artist, an open source technology developer and a lasagna enthusiast. He is vice-president of the Montreal artist-run centre Perte de signal and teaches…

Chloé Galibert-Laîné is a French researcher and filmmaker. Their video essays and desktop documentaries explore the intersections between cinema and online media. 

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Mario Garcia Torres lives and works in Mexico City / Los Angeles. He holds a BFA from the University of Monterrey, Mexico and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California…

Audrey Genois has been the executive director of MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formerly Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) since 2016. She has been very active in national and international contemporary-art communities. For fifteen years she…

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Camille Georgeson-Usher is a scholar, artist, and arts administrator. She is writing on ontologies of gathering and how protocols from different nations intersect in urban centres.

Raymond Gervais is a major figure on the Canadian art scene whose conceptual art, performance and explorations of sound link him to the major currents of contemporary art. He also writes about art and music, as well as about his own practice…

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Andrea Geyer lives and works in New York City. She uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works. Her works are temporal translations of specific social and political situations….

Melanie Gilligan, born in Toronto in 1979, currently lives and works in London and New York. She completed a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London (2002) and was a Fellow with the Whitney Museum…

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Nicole Gingras is interested in images, be they visual, aural, textual, or in other forms…

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In addition to being an artist, André Girard conducted research in formal languages and has given classes at the Information Technology Department at the Université de Sherbrooke…

Né à Rostock en Allemagne. Vit et travaille à Montréal. Artiste polyvalent, Peter Gnass sonde depuis plus de trente ans les potentialités de représentation de l’espace par le biais de structures…

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In his both poetic and meticulously formal work the Belgian photographer Geert Goiris evokes an elusive space between himself and his surroundings.

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Anne Golden is an independent curator and writer whose programs have been presented at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec…

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Maryse Goudreau (born in Campbellton, Canada; lives in Escuminac, Canada) probes social, political, and environmental issues through works that navigate among photography, sound art, performance, installation, and film.

Trevor Gould lives and works in Montreal where he currently teaches sculpture at Concordia University. He holds a National Art Teachers’ Diploma from the Johannesburg College of Art, South Africa, a BA in…

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Rodney Graham studied art history at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he still lives and works. Known mainly for his performances and conceptual films…

Portrait of Rodney Graham (1949-2022). Photo: Christopher Thomond, The Guardian

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Pascal Grandmaison (1975–) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Montréal. In his practice he explores, among others, how images influence perception and the understanding of the concept of infinity…

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Lynne Cohen

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