Exhibitions

Window exhibition on Rachel for the Holidays 2023: Shuvinai Ashoona, Leila Zelli, Ari Bayuaji, August Klintberg, Ed Pien

20 December 2023 - 2 January 2024 WE INVITE YOU TO DISCOVER SELECTED WORKS FROM OUR HOLIDAY SHOWCASE - MEET IN FRONT OF 963 RACHEL EST IN MONTREAL! Admire works by Shuvinai Ashoona, Leila Zelli, Ari Bayuaji, August Klintberg and Ed Pien until January 3, 2024. We also invite you to browse our site and discover the... Read More

Rojin Shafiei: Bavan

9 November - 16 December 2023 CLOSING EVENT / MEET THE ARTIST SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER 2023 FROM 3 PM TO 5 PM This artwork is a tribute to Bavan, a 7-year-old girl, the daughter of Fereshteh Ahmadi, a 32-year-old woman who was shot in the chest by security forces in the Kurdish city of Mahabad, located... Read More

Leila Zelli: A Chant Can Cross the Ocean

9 November - 16 December 2023 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Leila Zelli's first solo exhibition at the gallery entitled ' Un chant peut traverser l'océan' [' A Chant Can Cross the Ocean'] Since the waves of worldwide demonstrations for Iran, between solidarity marches and the sharing of video excerpts from the Iranian... Read More

Les mains menant / Guiding Hands: Samonie Toonoo, Napachie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona

9 September - 21 October 2023 This exhibit unites the work of three Inuit artists from Kinngait, Nunavut. Shuvinai Ashoona's recent drawings, alongside pieces by Napachie Pootoogook and Samonie Toonoo, reveal a recurring motif: the hand. This tangible symbol extends from the artists' own creative processes of drawing and sculpting, becoming a conduit for storytelling, preservation,... Read More

Chih-Chien Wang: Blue Lake, Pink Land, Patched Sphere, Fresh Wound

9 September - 21 October 2023 Blue Lake, Pink Land, Patched Sphere, Fresh Wound 'This text is difficult to write because of the failure that awaits. The more I expose, the more unbearable it might be. The amount of guilt is overwhelming. In preparing for the exhibition, I looked through images and notes, fragments of thoughts... Read More

Jérôme Fortin : Extraits

12 August - 2 September 2023 The gallery Pierre-François Ouellette is pleased to present a selection of Extraits de Jérôme Fortin . With patience, haunted by series and repetition, Jérôme Fortin cuts and folds a multitude of papers. Assembled in concentric circles and glued together, they form the silent matter of the resulting mysterious LPs,... Read More

JOHN LATOUR - HALF-SHADOWS / PÉNOMBRES

12 August - 2 September 2023 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Half-Shadows / Pénombres - a solo exhibition of new and recent artworks by John Latour. Half-Shadows / Pénombres comes on the heels of the artist's solo exhibition Ghost Town that took place at London's Five Years gallery in 2023, and includes a... Read More

Ari Bayuaji - The Ocean Called Home

27 May - 5 August 2023 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is honoured to present an exhibition of works by Ari Bayuaji from his 'Weaving the Ocean' (2020-ongoing) series entitled 'The Ocean Called Home'. His series transforms the jetsam of plastic ropes disentangled from the roots of mangrove trees along the coast of Indonesia into hauntingly beautiful... Read More

Observation - Phyllis Lambert

15 April - 20 May 2023 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain proudly presents the exhibition Observation - Phyllis Lambert, curated by Adad Hannah. The exhibition echoes her latest book , Observation Is A Constant That Underlies All Approaches , published by Lars Müller Publishers (Zurich). The exhibition presents a selection of seventy photographs that follow her inquisitive... Read More

Ari Bayuaji @ Centre Space (Toronto) - Weaving the Ocean

25 March - 1 April 2023 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is thrilled to renew presentations at Centre Space, created in Toronto at 65 George Street with Feheley Fine Arts in 2012. For this first new exhibition, the gallery is honoured to present works by Ari Bayuaji from his Weaving the Ocean (2020-ongoing) series. This series transforms... Read More

"There is a Space For Me and You"

16 March - 1 April 2023 Art Matters 2023 'There is a Space For Me and You' @ PFOAC An Art Matters exhibition as part of Concordia University's undergraduate visual arts festival Facilitator Aimée Lebeau Artists Christopher Larochelle: 1008 | @chrizlaroshell Fanny Lord-Bourcier: La and Ko | @cartou.che Justine Bellefeuille: Amorphe | @justinebellefeuille Edson Niebla... Read More