Valérie Blass
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Valérie Blass is one of the most captivating artists to have emerged in Québec in the last ten years. She is a sculptor in every sense of the word: she is concerned with the object, with the way objects relate to one another and with their placement in space.

Ghada Amer
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Multidisciplinary artist Ghada Amer is known primarily for her pictorial work, which she augments with embroidery, temporarily blurring our reading of the works. Moving in closer to decipher the composition of her paintings, viewer turns into voyeur as the eye makes out, amidst the clumps and “drips” of thread, the female bodies displayed in situations of erotic pleasure.

Wangechi Mutu
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Wangechi Mutu’s work reflects her very original thinking on the state of the world and the relative hegemony of Western civilization. In her drawings and collages, as well as her sculptures, assemblages and videos, she conjures up the interplay of relationships between living organisms, humans and the power of nature. Highly regarded as a multidisciplinary artist, Mutu has exhibited regularly since the late 1990s.

Jon Pylypchuk
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
October 8, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Insidious. That’s the word to describe Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk’s works and the way they insinuate themselves, with their benign appearance initially obscuring the seriousness of the subject matter. Our unease stems from the fact that he uses items we associate with childhood (figures, puppets, dolls) to tackle such complex topics as poverty and violence. From October 8, 2010 to January 2, 2011, the Musée d’art contemporain presents Jon Pylypchuk, a survey of the recent output, from 2006 to 2009, of this multidisciplinary artist who is equally at home in painting, sculpture, installation and video.

BGL/Pascal Grandmaison/Adad Hannah/Karen Tam exhibition
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
October 8, 2010 to January 2, 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition 2010 Sobey Art Award, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting works by the four Québec semifinalists – BGL, Pascal Grandmaison, Adad Hannah and Karen Tam – also nominated for this year’s award. The show features a selection of their recent works chosen by Lesley Johnstone, curator at the Musée and member of the Curatorial Panel for the 2010 Sobey Art Award.