Exhibitions

You Are (I Am) Here

Pardiss Amerian, Martin Golland, Adad Hannah, Dil Hildebrand, Alice Reiter, Jackson Slattery 21 November - 19 December 2020 You Are (I Am) Here Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present You Are (I Am) Here, a group exhibition about painting featuring works by Dil Hildebrand, Pardiss Amerian, Martin Golland, Adad Hannah, Alice Reiter, and Jackson Slattery.You Are (I Am) Here centres on dualist strategies of twofoldness in... Read More

Michaëlle Sergile - Gesture : Body movements in political discourse

19 September - 7 November 2020 A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. What we are getting at becomes plain: Mastery of language affords remarkable power.1 By language, I mean words, sounds, voice, intonation, gestures, sighs, silences and posture. I have been interested in the great leaders... Read More

Chih-Chien Wang: In Search of a Solid Ground

19 September - 7 November 2020 In search of a solid ground I cut a branch off a tree which was growing crookedly and creating a shade over a vegetable garden. Partially to allow light and water to fall on the vegetable garden and partially because the crooked branch looked odd, the tree was cut. I... Read More

Ripley Whiteside: Tropospheric

A special online exhibition curated by Erika Del Vecchio 3 - 17 September 2020 'As above so below. Tropospheric is a selection of twenty-five never before seen watercolors and ink on paper drawings by Ripley Whiteside from 2015 to 2020. Curated like a puzzle, the works are organized in a montage so that they can be taken individually or together as a whole experience,... Read More

Adad Hannah: The Raft of the Medusa (PPE)

2009-2020 25 July - 18 September 2020 HOW IT CAME ABOUT 'In May 2020 I was asked to do an Instagram takeover of @galeriepfoac . As part of that process I went looking for 'making-of' images from some older projects. During that process I came across a set of images produced in May 2009 that I had... Read More

5th Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA 2020)

Kahwatsiretátie : TeionkwariwaiennaTekariwaiennawahkòntie \ Honoring kinship 25 June - 29 August 2020 The gallery Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is honoured the present the works by Bob Boyer, Hannah Claus, Wally Dion and Dylan Miner curated by David Garneau part of the fifth edition of the Contemporary Native Art Biennial. Tanshi, hello, bonjour. I'm David Garneau, curator of Kahwatsiretátie. The title... Read More

Fish Traps

Isuma Collective 18 March - 11 April 2020 Saputi (Fish Traps) by filmmakers Paulossie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn will be featured in the video room. This film was selected specifically with Napachie Pootoogoo's body of work in mind by the Isuma collective. The gallery is very grateful to them.Saputi is part of the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers)... Read More

Pitseolak Ashoona

18 March - 11 April 2020 The gallery is honoured to present six drawings from the sixties by Napachie Pootoogook's mother Pitseolak Ashoona and three engravings published by the Kinngait studios. Born in 1904 on Nottingham Island in the Hudson Strait, while her family was en route from Sugluk (now Salluit), on the north coast of... Read More

Napachie Pootoogook

18 March - 11 April 2020 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is honoured to present a solo exhibition of drawings by Napachie Pootoogook (born in 1938, Sako Island Camp, NT, Canada; died in 2002 Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU, Canada) from the archives of Dorset Fine Arts. Although this selection represents the first exhibition in Québec dedicated to... Read More

Lise Beaudry

Underscape 25 January - 7 March 2020 Underscape is a video shot with an underwater viewing system – a camera device used when ice fishing to locate fish. This camera is be plunged through an opening in the ice of the frozen lake and floats close to the under surface of the ice. 'Shot in the icy... Read More

Ripley Whiteside

The Waters Are Alive 25 January - 7 March 2020 'Our Sublime Coexistence: Thinking with Ripley Whiteside's landscapes of climate change' by Roksana Filipowska, PhD, New Haven, Connecticut Imagine a grove of trees. Perhaps it is a familiar grove, well-worn with footpaths and memories. Maybe the imaginary grove is an assemblage of trees, an image of arboreal signifiers with sketchy... Read More