Past
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Nadine Faraj : Playing with Fire
12 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 McBride Contemporain is proud to present Playing with Fire, the second solo exhibition by Canadian artist Nadine Faraj at the gallery. In this exhibition, Faraj continues her extraordinary delving into an exuberant and emancipatory kind of visionary imagery, exploring themes such as mortality and renewal, our primal human incandescence. This... Read more -
Vagabond Shoes
11 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Curator: Benjamin Klein McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Vagabond Shoes, this season’s latest installment in the gallery’s ongoing summertime engagement with artists living and working in New York City. A group show featuring the work of nine strong artists, this exhibition showcases a discreet survey of styles, tendencies and... Read more -
Off the Grid
Barry Allikas, Rachel Crummey, Lewis & Taggart 6 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Off the Grid, a group exhibition showcasing the works of artists Barry Allikas, Rachel Crummey, and artist duo Lewis & Taggart. The grid armature has been among the most common and dominant compositional strategies in modern and contemporary art, the go-to underpinning of visual... Read more -
Berirouche Feddal : Mon Bougainvillier est dans un sommeil profond
Opening Thursday April 25, from 6 to 8 PM 25 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 McBride Contemporain gallery is delighted to announce "Mon Bougainvillier est dans un sommeil profond", a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Berirouche Feddal. Read more -
Rebecca Munce : Songs From Angel Planet
14 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 McBride Contemporain gallery is delighted to announce Songs From Angel Planet, a solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Rebecca Munce. This new series of works delves deeper and more directly than ever into the spiritual life of human beings, exploring our mythologies relating to the otherworldly and the depiction of supernatural... Read more -
Best Friends for Never
Adrian Norvid & Marcela Szwarc 18 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 McBride Contemporain is pleased to present Best Friends for Never, a duo exhibition featuring the work of Montreal-based artists Adrian Norvid and Marcela Szwarc. Read more -
Stephen Schofield : Instruments of Joy
9 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 The artist will be present at the gallery on Saturday December 2nd and 16th, between 2 and 5 pm, to meet with you and discuss his work. McBride Contemporain is proud to announce Stephen Schofield's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Instruments of Joy (1). Although instruments appear not... Read more -
Michelle Bui : Affinités poreuses
14 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 McBride Contemporain is proud to announce the two-part presentation of the new body of work by represented artist Michelle Bui. Gathered under the title Affinités poreuses, this series will first be presented in a solo booth at the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS New York, at the Javits Center from September... Read more -
New York, New York
27 Jul - 2 Sep 2023 Curator: Benjamin Klein McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce our upcoming group show New York, New York, the third in our series of NYC-themed summer exhibitions. New York and Montreal are, in many ways, sister cities, both stemming in part from immigrant cultures on the East Coast. They share a... Read more -
Jim Holyoak : Gargantuans
25 May - 30 Jun 2023 McBride Contemporain is pleased to announce Gargantuans, Jim Holyoak's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Holyoak is a visionary fabulist, both a creator of stories and translator of mythic scenarios. Known nationally and internationally for his wide-ranging drawing practice, Holyoak works from observation, photographic sources, and imagination. Regardless of how... Read more -
Andrea Szilasi : Stop motion
13 Apr - 20 May 2023 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Stop motion, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Andrea Szilasi. Well known for her experimental approach to photography that sometimes involves collage and cut-outs, in Stop motion Szilasi presents a suite of new photographic works, and for the first time in her... Read more -
Mathieu Lacroix : Parties composantes
24 Feb - 8 Apr 2023 McBride Contemporary is proud to present Parties composantes, Mathieu Lacroix's first solo exhibition in the gallery. Read more -
Michelle Furlong : Constante magique
12 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 McBride Contemporain is delighted to inaugurate 2023 with a presentation of Michelle Furlong’s solo exhibition Constante magique. The artist is known for her exploratory and imaginative multi-media approach, but has chosen for this exhibition to concentrate solely on paintings, making it the first show of its kind of her career.... Read more -
Rihab Essayh : As With All Warriors of Love
11 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce As With All Warriors of Love, a solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Rihab Essayh. This presentation brings together works originally created for her master's exhibition presented at the Art Gallery of Guelph, as well as a series of new drawings. This body of artwork... Read more -
Sylvie Bouchard : Polarités
16 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Polarités, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Montreal artist Sylvie Bouchard. An aura of theatricality pervades the space of these paintings, highlighting our propensity to question the difference between reality and its representation, the real and the fictional. Bouchard creates an imaginary... Read more -
Brooklyn Bridge
28 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Brooklyn Bridge, a group exhibition surveying the work of fourteen artists currently based in Brooklyn, New York. We are pleased and honoured to bring them in concert to Montreal, Quebec, and Canadian audiences. In this exhibition, a wide variety of invested and individualized practices... Read more -
Yves Tessier : INVISIBLE À L’ŒIL NU
26 May - 16 Jul 2022 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present INVISIBLE À L’ŒIL NU, a solo exhibition of paintings by Yves Tessier. Based in Montreal and New York, Tessier is a highly inventive artist who has developed a personal language in figuration, one that is both immediate and richly enjoyable, as well as intricately... Read more -
Bea Parsons : Niso
21 Apr - 21 May 2022 McBride Contemporain is proud to announce Niso, Bea Parsons’ second solo exhibition at the gallery. Niso means two in nehiyawewin (Cree), and so in the most immediate sense refers to her second one-person show at the gallery - but the word and accompanying concepts and train of thought expand out... Read more -
BARRY ALLIKAS : Thinking Inside the Box
3 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 McBride Contemporain presents Thinking Inside the Box, Montreal-based hard-edge painter Barry Allikas’ third one person show with the gallery. Allikas is a veteran abstract painter, with a body of work in post-painterly abstraction that runs a wide gamut of formal concerns, but always turns out powerful and fascinating results. Not... Read more -
Solastalgia
20 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 In 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 nostalgia--the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home--solastalgia is the distress that is produced by... Read more -
Pink Moon People
18 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Pink Moon People, the first solo show at the gallery by Nadine Faraj. The artist employs watercolour on paper to devastating visual effect, displaying virtuosic technique and mature expressive control within this notoriously difficult to master medium. She marshals a space that is both... Read more -
The Motion and the Act
14 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present The Motion and the Act, a group show bringing together artists Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Michelle Furlong, and Ara Osterweil. The exhibition centres around the tensions generated by anticipatory, in-between states. Through their respective mediums, each artist confronts this constrained, unsustainable threshold, where possibility and... Read more -
Kline & Kolakis
9 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce Kline & Kolakis, a duo exhibition featuring new works by Montreal-based artists Chris Kline and Valerie Kolakis. We are honoured and excited to begin our season’s programming with this ambitious and transporting exhibition. These two artists, well-known to the Quebec contemporary art audience, bring... Read more -
Ce qui fût et ce qui est
15 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 McBride 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 whose work we deeply believe in. These are the artists now represented by the gallery: Barry Allikas Sylvie Bouchard Nadine... Read more -
Incomplete Open
13 May - 19 Jun 2021 McBride contemporain is delighted to announce Incomplete Open, a two-person exhibition featuring the Montreal-based artists Kelly Jazvac and Mathieu Lacroix. These two artists share a strong, committed engagement to thinking about and reacting to the reality of how our artistic and cultural envelope exists ambiguously within economic, industrial and architectural,... Read more -
Shambling Mound
11 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 McBride 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 refers to many images - from swamp horror monster and mossy, quasi-organic rubbish pile, to the movement of cities and... Read more -
Wandering Fortress
12 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Rebecca Munce’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Wandering Fortress. Comprising all new ceramic sculptures and drawings, this body of work enlarges and deepens the artist’s world of symbols and pictographs, hybridized mythopoetic fictions, and private world of intensely imagined fantasy. An expanding sense... Read more -
Chutes chromatiques
8 Oct - 7 Nov 2020 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Chutes chromatiques, a duo exhibition featuring new paintings by David Blatherwick and Frédérique Ulman-Gagné. Blatherwick and Ulman-Gagné are both artists who come out of the deep tradition of lyrical abstraction, although each has compounded and rethought the basic structure of their influences and approaches... Read more -
Peyak
3 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 “Peyak” is the Cree word for “one”. Bea Parsons chose it as the title of her first solo exhibition with McBride Contemporain because it projects and encapsulates a rhetorical, metaphoric centre that contains and radiates a set of artistic, social and personal ideas that she constantly engages with in the... Read more -
Cavernes
20 Feb - 28 Mar 2020 McBride Contemporain is delighted to present Cavernes, a group show featuring emerging artists Elise Lafontaine, Evangelos Michelis, Rebecca Munce and Katerina Pansera. In this exhibition, each artist explores the thematic and formal implications of various cavern-like spaces, ranging from the private interior chamber, intimate and enclosed, to an opening or... Read more -
Florès
9 Jan - 15 Feb 2020 McBride contemporain is delighted to open our New Year season with Florès, a solo exhibition of Montreal artist Stephen Schofield. Produced during a residency in Limoges, France, at the Centre de recherche sur les arts du feu et de la terre, these figurative sculptures depict a single subject in a... Read more -
Bouchard & Daigneault
28 Nov 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to announce Bouchard & Daigneault, an exhibition featuring the work of the Montreal-based painters Sylvie Bouchard and Michel Daigneault. Both are artists at the senior career level, and long standing and contributing members of Montreal’s artist community. They have in common a personal, and life-long... Read more -
Szilasi & Szilasi
17 Oct - 23 Nov 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is honoured to present SZILASI & SZILASI, the first ever duo exhibition featuring the work of Gabor Szilasi and Andrea Szilasi. The exhibition draws out mutual ideas, inferences and influences between both artists’ productions, highlighting similar areas of concern and differences of approach between them. Because one... Read more -
Tout croche
5 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is pleased to announce Tout croche, an exhibition of new paintings by Montreal artist Barry Allikas. In tandem with an upcoming solo presentation at this October’s Art Toronto fair, this exhibition features an all-new grouping of canvases by Allikas, in which he has found his strongest rhythm... Read more -
MTLNYC
25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to present MTLNYC, a group show focusing on the relationship in visual arts between Montreal and New York City. Concurrent to our Manhattan-based project Shadow Brokers in collaboration with Super Dutchess Gallery, this exhibition presents the visually and conceptually diverse works of six artists whose... Read more -
Overworld
23 May - 29 Jun 2019 Galerie 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. Unlike many collaborative teams in contemporary art, Holyoak and Shane are equally as committed to individual practice as to working... Read more -
Phantom
11 Apr - 18 May 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to present our first project with Montreal artist Lorraine Simms. A longtime professor of art as well as professional artist, Simms has exhibited in many of the most prestigious spaces in the city over the course of her career, as well as elsewhere in Quebec,... Read more -
Laboratoire Photo
28 Feb - 6 Apr 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to present “Laboratoire Photo”, featuring Michelle Bui, Edward Maloney and Alana Riley. This is our second “laboratory” themed exhibition, and as with “Laboratoire Peinture”, this format is designed to allow a group of talented and skillful artists united by medium to showcase a group of... Read more -
Lieux Suspendus
17 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to begin our 2019 program with “Lieux suspendus”, a duo exhibition featuring the work of Montreal artists Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron and Chloë Charce. Both are highly talented graduates of Concordia University’s MFA program in sculpture—and equally both challenge, and depart from every traditional notion of sculpture... Read more -
Disegno
18 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Galerie Deux Poissons is pleased to present “Disegno”, a duo exhibition featuring works on paper by Giuseppe Di Leo and Susan G. Scott. These two distinguished artists and longtime professors are highly accomplished and recognized in the world of academia, as well as in artistic creation. Both have also committed... Read more -
Star Rider
6 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to begin our season’s exhibition program with an exciting offering – “Star Rider”, a duo show featuring two highly talented emerging artists, Madeleine Mayo and Rebecca Munce. Both are recent Master’s of Fine Arts students from Concordia University’s excellent and respected program, and both have... Read more -
Fait ou défait c’est idem
12 Jul - 26 Aug 2018 Read more -
Laboratoire Peinture
25 May - 7 Jul 2018 Galerie Deux Poissons is delighted to announce our third exhibition, Laboratoire Peinture. The first group show at the gallery, it is as well the first to feature emerging artists. Deux Poissons is committed to programming that highlights the development of talented younger voices in contemporary art, and to that end... Read more -
Wallpaper Now
15 Mar - 19 May 2018 Artist Statement: After a sojourn in the world of organic shapes and landscape forms, I wanted to take my hard-edge practice back to basics; back to its minimalist roots. For me this meant going back to the simplicity of the line. Or, in this case, the stripe. Once that choice... Read more
