Exhibitions

Jeff Kulak

Next Best 11 December 2014 - 17 January 2015 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain presents a solo exhibition of new work by Jeff Kulak. Kulak's unique approach to sculpture in this exhibition draws from classical sculpture presentation, ironic dramatizations, and 3D productivity graphs. S A D N E S S C A N Y O N I'm the king of... Read More

John Player @ Centre Space (Toronto)

27 November 2014 - 24 January 2015 The culmination of John Player’s MFA work presents a restrained and detached view of surveillance culture. Endless defense from an unknown but constant threat is unveiled in appropriated images from mass media, newspapers and archives found largely on the Internet. The imagery shares a kind of aesthetic of power and... Read More

Kent Monkman

Urban Res 14 November - 20 December 2014 This new series of paintings by Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman carries forward themes from his previous narrative figurations, set against romantic North American landscapes stolen from Albert Bierstadt and other North American painters. Themes relating to historic and contemporary Native American experience such as colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience,... Read More

Naomi Cook @ pfoac221

The Pianola Project 18 October - 15 November 2014 The Pianola Project The Pianola Project is based on a player piano roll of Pete Wendling’s song “Hesitation Blues”. This was used as a template to transfer the placement of notes onto a 4 x 18 ft roll of paper. The original height of the scroll is 1 ft, which... Read More

Intertwined @ Centre Space (Toronto)

11 - 26 October 2014 Feheley Fine Arts and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain are delighted to unveil their first collaborative exhibition at Centre Space. Intertwined features Inuit textiles juxtaposed with works referencing textiles by Jérôme Fortin. The creation of textile works of art is a modern adaptation of the traditional practice of creating intricate patterns... Read More

Chih-Chien Wang

Distance to the Sea 25 September - 1 November 2014 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new photographs by Chih-Chien Wang since his exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2013. The artist's thoughtful approach to documenting life is continued here with an ensemble that presents his experiences with the passing of... Read More

Kota Ezawa: L'année dernière à Marienbad & Marc Audette: La Ligne

16 August - 13 September 2014 PFOAC is pleased to present an exclusive projection of Kota Ezawa's video LYAM 3D. This work is based on the classic 1961 French film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais. Kota Ezawa isolated scenes from the film in which the actors are unmoving while the camera pans and tracks... Read More

Luminescences MTL - TO @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Luc Courchesne - Karilee Fuglem - Dil Hildebrand - John Latour - Marie-Jeanne Musiol - Roberto Pellegrinuzzi - John Player - Chih-Chien Wang 26 July - 23 August 2014 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain est heureux de présenter le deuxième volet de Luminescences MTL - TO, une exposition collective d'oeuvres des artistes de la galerie. Luc Courchesne, Karilee Fuglem, Dil Hildebrand, John Latour, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, John Player, Chih-Chien Wang y participent. Luminescences attire l'attention sur le rôle discret... Read More

Luminescences MTL - TO

Luc Courchesne - Karilee Fuglem - Dil Hildebrand - John Latour - Marie-Jeanne Musiol - Roberto Pellegrinuzzi - Ed Pien - John Player - Chih-Chien Wang 7 June - 12 July 2014 Luminescences draws attention to the discreet yet important role that light plays in a wide range of artists' work. It alludes to light's ability to reveal and reflect, to shimmer or glow, to cast shadows or fade. Luminescences celebrates both the intangible and ephemeral nature inherent in light and the... Read More

Marc Audette et Adad Hannah @ Centre Space (Toronto)

Exposition phare du Festival de photographies Scotiabank CONTACT 3 - 31 May 2014 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present as part as Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival this exhibition which features new works by Toronto-based photographer Marc Audette and Montreal- and Vancouver-based artist Adad Hannah. Unifying these two bodies of work are the artists' expressive interaction between photographic history, nature, and current... Read More

Stéphane Gilot @ pfoac221

Pièce pour cinq interprètes, lumière rose et silence Commissaire Ariane De Blois 5 April - 17 May 2014 ACTS WITHOUT WORDS – A mimodrama for five performers, identified as A, B, C, D and E, unfolds (in abstracto) in a monochrome cell. Gentle silence. The viewer, becoming protagonist, is invited into the cell. C enters the space and looks around, turning his head from right to left.... Read More

Luc Courchesne

Vue d'ensemble 29 March - 17 May 2014 'It was while observing one of my professors 30 years ago that the idea came to me: instead of trying to figure out what he was trying to say, I started to watch how he said it. Since then, I started to travel through all life's layers of signs and... Read More

Edward Maloney @ Centre Space (Toronto)

15 February - 15 March 2014 Not far from downtown are the silhouettes of industries the city was built upon. In that first wave of industrial growth the coastlines were sharpened, tributaries confined, vistas obscured. The landscape became a background. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain presents Edward Maloney's first solo exhibition in Toronto. This exhibition brings together... Read More

Rencontre Nord-Sud

Shuvinai Ashoona, Ed Pien, Tim Pitsiulak, Itee Pootoogook, Jutai Toonoo, Papiara Tukiki 1 February - 8 March 2014 North-South Encounter Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present North-South Encounter – an exhibtion of works produced by Ed Pien during his time in Cape Dorset and of the artists with whom he shared the Kinngait studios. These artists are members of a new generation that is redefining Inuit... Read More

Matthew Biederman @ pfoac221

En collaboration avec Art45 25 January - 22 February 2014 Flatland: Matthew Biederman's Serial Mutations (z-axis) In his 1995 essay ”An Archaeology of the Computer Screen,” Lev Manovich acknowledged the passing of a century-old media typology and its related ‘framing’ tendencies. Rooted in the birth of cinema, the era of ‘dynamic screens’ (non-interactive moving images) was flickering into obsolescence with... Read More