Exhibitions

Luc Courchesne

Naked in Paradise 9 November - 21 December 2019 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to offer the public the opportunity to discover a work emblematic of the interactive work of Luc Courchesne, winner of the 2019 Paul-Émile-Borduas Prize in Visual Arts, Crafts and Digital Arts: 'Naked in Paradise'. As part of the exhibition, the artist will also unveil... Read More

Dil Hildebrand

You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones 9 November - 21 December 2019 Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present 'You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones', a solo exhibition of new works by Dil Hildebrand. For this exhibition, Hildebrand arranges a selection of anachronistic sculptures, paintings and drawings. Generated from an array of pre-modern and modern... Read More

Shuvinai Ashoona

"Clin d'oeil" to Shuvinai Ashoona 9 November - 21 December 2019 'When I start to draw I remember things that I have experienced or seen. Although I do not attempt to recreate these images exactly, that is what might happen. Sometimes they come out more realistically but sometimes they turn out completely different. That is what happens when I draw.' -... Read More

Meryl McMaster

Clin d'oeil à la série "As Immense as the Sky" 14 September - 19 October 2019 'The way we experience the passing of time shapes our relationship to our immediate world. My awareness of time comes from an overlapping of two distinct approaches—one is that of a linear path that extends in both directions from the present, and another one that is recurrent and cyclical. This... Read More

Adad Hannah

Rodin Reworked 14 September - 19 October 2019 “With Rodin Reworked, the paint that Adad Hannah applies over photographs of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures comes into view like some kind of alien matter, interrupting the material circumstances of both sculpture and photography. The paint is viscous and amorphous, but it also has an energetic force. The result is that... Read More

Coups de coeur

Courchesne - Fortin - Fuglem - Hannah - Hildebrand - Latour - León - Pien - Pigeon - Samayualie - Samayualie - Steinman - Valade - Wang 15 July - 31 August 2019 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is happy to present our summer group exhibition 'Coups de Cœur'. We've united the works of 14 artists from within the gallery, and artists we admire from a distance. Featuring works by Luc Courchesne, Jérôme Fortin, Karilee Fuglem, Adad Hannah, Dil Hildebrand, John Latour, Glenda León,... Read More

Mark Clintberg

Fruits and Flowers 9 May - 22 June 2019 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Mark Clintberg. This new series of textile works returns to and refigures an earlier body of work titled Hair. Hair photographically catalogues found photographs of men’s haircuts displayed in barbershop windows. The artist’s silhouette is subtly... Read More

Kent Monkman

La maison des fous 14 March - 27 April 2019 'My latest series The Madhouse reflects on the legacy of colonial institutionalization of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault, Francis Bacon, and Francisco de Goya, the Madhouse series depicts literal and allegorical struggles between guards and inmates in claustrophobic spaces of internment, exposing the psychological impact of... Read More

Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Plant Cosmos 26 January - 2 March 2019 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present two new photographic series by Marie-Jeanne Musiol. In continuity with her previous work on energy transfers around plants, the artist will show recent images of plant corona activity - photo stills of energy patterns. In their capacity to capture and translate plant... Read More