Matt Shane
Matt Shane’s individual practice incorporates painting and drawing in several different modes, all of which are practised with assured handling and confident execution. Marrying imaginative and intellectual elements to a generous, humanistic outlook, Shane investigates places as ideas and vice versa. He creates panoramic vistas that both invite us inwards as well as insist on a mental taking stock, an attempt at systematic logic that can be understood as literal, political, technological - but also as aesthetic and abstract.
Shane holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from Concordia University, and lives and works in Montreal. He has received numerous grants, commissions, residencies, and bursaries and is currently a professor at Concordia University and Dawson College. His work can be found in the collections of the Bank of Montreal, the Caisse Populaire Desjardins, Hydro-Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
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Solastalgia
20 Jan - 26 Feb 2022In 2003, two years prior to the launch of Google Earth, the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term “solastalgia” to describe environmentally induced distress. Albrecht writes, “As opposed to...Read more -
Ce qui fût et ce qui est
15 Jul - 14 Aug 2021McBride Contemporain is honoured and thrilled to announce the gallery’s list of represented artists, twelve individuals who as artists and people we are all delighted to be working alongside, and...Read more -
Shambling Mound
11 Mar - 17 Apr 2021McBride Contemporain is delighted to present the exhibition Shambling Mound, featuring a new collaborative body of work by Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane. Titled after a multivalent linguistic figure that...Read more -
Overworld
23 May - 29 Jun 2019Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to present “Overworld”, our first exhibition at the gallery of the work of Jim Holyoak, Matt Shane, and of the well-known collaboration between the two....Read more
