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.

Created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation, the Sobey Art Award is the country’s pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art. It is given every year to an artist under forty who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within the eighteen months prior to being nominated. Selected from around a hundred candidates nominated by a curatorial panel, the winner is awarded $50,000, and the other four finalists receive $5,000 each, for a total of $70,000 in prize money presented annually at a gala event.

Runa Islam
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Through her works, Islam pursues an investigation of the history of experimental film, doing away with narrative structures and representations in favour of visual explorations. The Montréal presentation focuses on the artist’s fascination with cinema as a device. It consists of five 16-mm film installations produced over the last six years, including a 2010 work commissioned by the two presenting museums.

David K. Ross  Attaché
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
In this new series of photographs titled Attaché, Québec artist David K. Ross continues his examination of the world behind the scenes of art and museology. Previously, with Dark Rooms, Ross explored the places where works, crates and materials are stored.

Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Why are so many contemporary artists revisiting the forms, ideas and aspirations of early Modernism? That highly topical question is the crux of the exhibition Yesterday’s Tomorrows that brings together works by ten Québec, Canadian and international artists who re-examine this pivotal period in the twentieth century.