About the Participating Artists
Just as Montreal is a multitude of languages, cultures, and artistic practices, so too is the group of participating artists in Post Monumental. The languages represented include: Kanien’kéha, French, English, Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Persian (Farsi). The artistic practices include: word art, calligraphy, creative writing, collage, photography, urban sketching, illustration, watercolour, cartooning, bead art, and textile art.
Full translation of bios forthcoming.
Agathe Dessaux (she/her)
Instagram: @lagangdhenriette Facebook: La Gang d’Henriette
Bio: Agathe Dessaux est la petite fille d’Henriette Chapeau, une parfaite inconnue qui lui a transmis la passion des fils et des aiguilles. Après des études en histoire de l’art et gestion culturelle, une carrière dans la production et diffusion d’arts de la scène, Agathe quitte l’Espagne, son pays d’adoption, pour suivre une formation en construction textile à Montréal. Elle crée des textiles pour perpétuer la tradition matriarcale. C’est en se les appropriant et en voulant les subvertir qu’ils reflètent ses réflexions féministes. Elle explore la limite entre la sphère privée et domestique et l’espace public, entre le dedans et le dehors, entre ce qui est visible et occulté, entre ce qui est tabou et ce qui est écouté. Elle cherche à définir un espace entre le silence et la parole pour repenser notre place dans l’histoire. Agathe prétend ainsi contribuer à redonner aux textiles la valeur qu’ils méritent, car leur dévalorisation s’est faite concurremment à celle des personnes s’identifiant comme femmes. La tradition textile est teintée de notre résilience.
Asia Mason (she/her)
Instagram: @asia.m.tl Website: www.asiamason.com
Bio: Asia Mason is a Montreal based visual artist, formally educated in commercial and documentary photography. She graduated from the photography program at Dawson College in 2021. Her work moves through photography, video and installation to explore the fluid nature of memory and identity. Often drawing inspiration from her family history migrating from the Caribbean, she focuses on stories about time, female lineage and the inheritance of memories. How can we bear witness to someone’s life through memories? What then are our responsibilities as the beholder? Her work looks at how we change each other when we share our stories and where those changes manifest themselves in her mind and body. Many of her projects come from personal anecdotes and ancestral knowledge which are then elevated with fiction. By collaging and re-photographing archives with still life, she attempts to create a tactile experience for the viewer. She recreates her still images into conceptual videos and multimedia pieces to evoke the layered experience of our stories passing through time. By reinterpreting her work into different media, she questions how she communicates stories and what is gained and what is lost in each process.
Aysha White (she/her)
Instagram: @aysha.white Website: www.ayshawhite.wordpress.com
Bio: Aysha White, is an artist, writer, and fact-checker. She served as a curator for the SUBVERSIONS Journal; Fringe Arts Editor (Print) and Creative Director for The Link Magazine during her undergrad at Concordia University, in Montréal. Her writing has appeared in This Magazine, Broadview Magazine, and Reader’s Digest Canada.Aysha is the Editor of A? Magazine, an upcoming print publication focused on art and culture in Montréal.She is currently an Editorial Fellow at The Walrus, a Canadian publication known for its commitment to fact-checking. Her mixed-media pieces have been featured in a number of exhibitions; most notably the Je Suis D’Ici Exhibit / I Am From Here, at the Radhourani Gallery, 2021.
Aysha’s artistic practice involves elements of mixed media collage, the relationship between image and text, polaroid and 35mm film photography, and collecting everyday ephemera. The aim of her work is to create an archive of the ordinary; finding and transforming the meaning of the mundane in order to challenge the viewer’s perception of everyday symbols; especially in relation to the concept of femininity.
Carla Gina Rubeo (she/her)
Instagram: @carla__gina Website: www.carlaginarubeo.com
Bio: “I deconstruct, then I rearrange the pieces to tell a new story.” Carla Gina Rubeo is a visual artist based in Milan. She was born and raised in Montreal, but relocated to Italy in 2018 to reconnect to her Italian roots while pursuing her studies. In 2021, she obtained her MA in Visual Arts & Curatorial studies at Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Identity and humanity’s relation to the natural world are common themes that she explores through different mediums such as painting, drawing, and collage. Her curiosity about collective histories, and interest in archives is the inspiration of her art practice. After selecting images from printed matter, connecting the dots between the past and her present time and place is part of her process. Carla Gina aims to offer new ideas on how we can live authentically by learning more about the local collective history to improve society.
Capsule vidéo, Lecture virtuelle
Caroline Fortin (she/her)
Instagram: @caroline.fortin.autrice Website: carolinefortinautrice.com/
Bio: Bachelière en arts visuels de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, la pratique de Caroline Fortin est d’abord et avant tout littéraire. Elle s’intéresse à la non-violence, à la désobéissance civile, aux conflits politiques, à l’histoire de l’art et à l’art contemporain. Elle perçoit l’espace littéraire comme un porte-voix pour mettre de l’avant les démarches artistiques qui brisent les règles, dénoncent les inégalités et transforment le monde. Caroline Fortin a notamment publié dans deux recueils de L’Esprit Libre, dans la revue Nyx et dans la revue Post-Scriptum.
Caroline Fortin est aussi directrice générale et rédactrice en chef des Éditions Continuité, dont la mission est de promouvoir la sauvegarde, la conservation et la mise en valeur de notre héritage culturel. Depuis 1986, les Éditions Continuité publient 4 numéros par année du Magazine Continuité, un périodique voué au patrimoine québécois sous toutes ses formes.
Catherine Barnabé (she/her)
Instagram: @catherinebarnabe Website: www.catherinebarnabe.com
Bio: Catherine Barnabé est commissaire, autrice et traductrice indépendante. En 2012, elle a cofondé l’organisme artistique Espace Projet qui diffuse des pratiques en art actuel. Puis, en 2020, quatre point trois, où l’édition est abordée comme un espace de collaboration, d’expérimentation et d’exposition. Diplômée de la maitrise en études des arts (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2011), son travail de commissaire a été présenté dans des lieux de
diffusion en Amérique du Nord et en Europe, notamment la Salle Alfred-Pellan à Laval, la Gallery 44 à Toronto et le centre d’art La Halle à Pont-en-Royans en France. Ses écrits sont diffusés dans diverses publications et revues spécialisées. Elle a effectué des résidences de commissariat à Est Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec) en 2012, à Linea de Costa (Cadix, Espagne) en 2015, à ISCP (New York, États-Unis) en 2016, aux Maisons Daura (Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France) en 2019 et à Viafarini (Milan, Italie) en 2022. En 2017, elle a complété un diplôme de deuxième cycle en traduction (Université Concordia) pour se spécialiser dans la traduction de textes liés aux arts visuels. Dans sa pratique commissariale, elle s’intéresse à la notion de géographie comme un moyen d’explorer les relations que nous entretenons avec les espaces qui nous entourent. Son approche de travail attentionnelle s’articule dans un dialogue avec les artistes sur le travail qui se fait en temps – le présent de la création – et lieu – celui d’un espace choisi et circonscrit.
Colette Campbell-Moscrop (she/her)
Instagram: @colette_artmaker
Bio: Née à Hamilton (Ontario), Colette Campbell-Moscrop, architecte et artiste multidisciplinaire, vit à Montréal depuis 1986. En 2013, elle est retournée aux études en arts visuels à l’Université Concordia. Elle a complété son BFA (Studio Arts) en 2016 avec la mention Grande Distinction. En plus de sa pratique courante avec le médium du dessin, elle s’implique dans le milieu artistique à Montréal comme bénévole avec l’OBNL Art Cible. L’œuvre de Colette se développe à partir de ses observations de la vie quotidienne, oscillant entre la réalité observée et dans son imagination, cherchant à exprimer à la fois le côté sombre mais aussi sublime de l’expérience humaine. En général, Colette se concentre sur le processus comme tel et l’hybridation d’images abstraites, d’écritures et de formes figuratives. Ses dessins, retravaillés continuellement au fil du temps, tant le sujet que le support, sont progressivement transformés à travers multiples manipulations comme le transfert d’image, le pliage, le collage et le lavage. Ses créations démontrent une exploration de différentes techniques et des prises de décisions de production strictes. En suivant des règles auto-imposées préétablies, son travail évoque des images visuelles étranges tout en soulignant le quotidien.
Colette travaille principalement avec les médiums dits traditionnels, comme la gouache et l’aquarelle, mais aussi non traditionnels, tels le vernis à ongle ou le liquide correcteur. Plus récemment, elle a commencé à œuvrer avec le médium de la sérigraphie.
Crystal Chan (she/her)
Instagram: @crystalcsk Website: www.crystal-chan.com
Bio: Crystal Chan is a writer, artist, and producer. Originally from 香港 (Hong Kong), she is based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), where she serves as an executive board member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She is a former artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and is now a professor in the Creative Writing Department of the University of British Columbia and an editor at UBC Press for RavenSpace publishing, an innovative publication program by Indigenous authors and their collaborators. Certified as both an editor and UX/UI/front-end designer, her specialty is merging storytelling and technology. She is the creator and director of Eighty Thousand Steps, a first-of-its-kind app for the CBC that allows listeners to power the story as they walk, one step at a time.
Cynthia Van Frank (she/her)
Instagram: @cynvanfrank Website: https://cynthiavanfrank.art/
Bio: Cynthia van Frank is a Montreal-based artist and educator. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, an Honours degree in Art Education from Concordia University, and studied at the New York Studio School. Cynthia is a grant winning artist; awarded Le Fonds pour la
Formation et Chercheurs and L’aide à la Recherche from the Quebec government. Cynthia van Frank’s paintings focus on her surroundings. They are a jumping off point to understand what makes one feel at home. Artists Pierre Bonnard, Mamma Andersson, and David Hockney influence her approach.
Daniel Jervis (he/him)
Instagram: @danieljervisart Facebook: Daniel Jervis Art Website: www.danieljervis.com
Bio: I’m an Animator and Illustrator, born in Quito, Ecuador. My passion for film, storytelling and drawing, drove me to pursue Animation outside my home country in Buenos Aires, Argentina where I studied and worked for 7 years. I later returned to Ecuador to take a break from 2d digital animation and start pursuing my own voice and artistic identity. It was there where I launched my own project “Cofre de Leyendas” , a collection of Illustrations and postcards based on traditional Ecuadorian legends. I’m still looking for my artistic voice in telling fantasy stories based on South American folklore and pre columbian art, focusing on a peaceful coexistence among humans and nature. In the meantime I’ve left my country again to work as a Character 3d animator for different studios and titles like: Disney’s Chirstopher Robin, The Lady and the Tramp, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 and 3, The Lego Batman Movie, among others.
Danyelle Orwick (they/them)
Instagram: @danyelleorwick Website: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/DanyelleOrwickArt
Bio: Danyelle Orwick is a queer mixed-race artist who calls a variety of places home. Their father is Indigenous (Ojibwe) from Fort William First Nation, and their mother is a settler from Nova Scotia. They grew up in rural Nova Scotia before moving to Montreal, where they lived for several years while studying Studio Arts, and then Art Education, at Concordia. They currently live and teach Secondary Art in the dual Cree and Inuit communities of Whapmagoostui and Kuujjuarapik. Danyelle’s body of work explores themes of mental health, fairy tales, and identity through relatable and vulnerable comics, watercolours, ink drawings, embroidery, and beadwork.
Five channels sound and music.
Hadi Jamali (he/him)
Website: www.hadijamali.com
Bio: Hadi Jamali is a Montreal-based intermedia artist whose research encompasses interactive installation, video, and photography. In 2003 he graduated from Science and Culture University in Tehran, Iran, in Visual Communications. He also received his BFA and MFA in Intermedia Art from Concordia University. Jamali’s research and creation rely on recuperating images, words, sounds, and marginalia from archival or historical documents. His most recent work uses spatialized sound and moving images to examine the link between dominant visual traditions and varying registers of contemporary (dis)location: not only geographic but also cognitive, temporal, and moral.
Jacob le Gallais (he/him)
Instagram: @jacob_le_gallais_art Website: www.jacoblegallais.com
Bio: Jacob Le Gallais is a visual artist, researcher and educator, working at the intersection of collage and craft practice. His work most often examines notions of the human-animal relationship, urban wildlife, and the Anthropocene; using the language of Folk Art and vivid colour as a means of exploring outsider perspectives and Queer identity. Of particular interest is industrial/post-industrial history, and how city landscapes function as shared space for a plurality of multi-species lives. With a strong orientation towards collaborative art-making and community-based learning, his making, teaching and research practices seek to foster communities of collaborative engagement, collective teaching, and to encourage the multifaceted practices of arts-based learning. Jacob’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Montreal. Currently a Ph.D candidate in Art Education at Concordia University, he also holds a Masters in Art Education (Concordia), and BFA Art History (Concordia). Jacob lives and works in Montreal.
Kaia’tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush (she/her)
Instagram: @celestiyuuul Website: www.kaiatanoron.com
Bio: Kaia’tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush is an Onkwehonwe/French-Canadian illustrator and visual artist from Oshahrhé:’on (Chateauguay), Qc. She completed her BFA in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University in December 2018 and has previously obtained DECs in Fine Arts and Illustration & Design from Montreal’s Dawson College. She recently celebrated her second solo exhibition, Iakoterihwatié:ni / Moulin à paroles / Chatterbox at Centre d’art daphne. She loves collaborating with clients who seek to enrich Indigenous communities and empower Indigenous youth. From 2012 to 2022, Kaia’tanó:ron has worked with the Encore! Sistema after school and summer camp programs based out of Karonhianonhnha School in Kahnawake, Qc. as a music and visual arts educator and currently works as an arts educator for Batshaw Youth and Family Centres. She is the social media and daphne beads: perler/parler coordinator at Centre d’art daphne.
Kayla Breaker (she/her)
Instagram: @kaylabreaker Facebook: The Breaker Box
Bio: Born and raised in Montreal, Kayla Breaker (she/her) holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Concordia University, majoring in Studio Arts with distinction. Breaker’s practice revolves predominantly around oil painting while using historical imagery, both personal and public to explore the concept of nostalgia. With Breaker’s use of highly pigmented neon colours, she brings new life to moments lost to time. Breaker also has a tendency to integrate the old with the new. By combining the tags of local graffiti artists with imagery taken long before graffiti as we know it existed, Breaker creates a juxtaposition between the modern world and the old-fashioned.
Kyle Williams (he/him)
Instagram: @kyle_williams_art Facebook: Kyle Williams’ Art
Bio: I am Kyle Kaientó:ton Williams, a 31 year old Kanien’kehá:ka artist from Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory. I’m a painter, illustrator, sculptor and musician. My most common visual art practice is drawing, which was my very first natural talent and outlet for my imagination from a very young age. As I grew older and played with crayons and markers and a bit of watercolor paint, I developed my skill as a figurative and structural artist, since I was drawn to things like cars, buildings, battleships and monsters smashing them all. For the last decade I’ve moved (reluctantly at first) into painting and this is the main medium I am currently pushing my way forward in.
Marguerite Marion Reyes (she/her)
Instagram: @marguerite.marion Website: www.margueritemarion.wixsite.com/artist
Bio: Marguerite Marion-Reyes was born in Montreal, Canada, but has lived most of her life in Santiago de Chile. She is a visual artist and educator currently working on research projects. She is presently pursuing a master’s degree in art education at Concordia University. Previously, she completed undergraduate studies in Visual Arts and Art Education for High Schools at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
With a life of ongoing travels from Chile to Canada and back, Marguerite’s artistic work focuses on the memory of places and objects involving distance, geography and the concept of home, working mainly on metal sculptures and installations focusing on first memories that are about to disappear. However, photography, video and art on paper are also among her growing interests, exploring the juxtaposition of videos and pictures with drawings and collages. In this way, she creates various interactions between what is seen and the lines that can emerge in between, playing with the two-dimensional capacities of paper and digital media.
Having participated in workshops for sculptural projects for public spaces, monuments and their increasing interaction with people fascinates her and makes her wonder: what do we accept as history and how can we challenge it?
Marven Clerveau (he/him)
Instagram: @marvenclerveau Facebook: @marvclerv Website: https://clerveau1.wixsite.com/marven/mes-oeuvres-d-arts
Bio: Marven Clerveau est un artiste afro contemporain qui évolue dans le milieu des arts visuels depuis une dizaine d`années. Ils est membre de Diversité Artistique Montréal (DAM et a récemment reçu la Bourse Vivacité du Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec (CALQ). La démarche artistique de Marven Clerveau est un amalgame d`esthétiques réaliste, expressionniste et surréaliste. Tout au long de sa carrière, il a été influencé par les œuvres de Basquiat, Frida Khalo et Andy Warhol.
Dans ses premières œuvres, il était particulièrement préoccupé par le silence et l’isolement qu`il s`imposait. Ayant dû faire face toute sa vie à un défaut d’élocution et à une scoliose, Clerveau donne, à travers son art, un espace et exprime le droit d’appartenance des corps et des voix atypiques et leur désir d`exister.
Fervent amateur de hip-hop et de musique, en collaboration avec le Centre Phi et le Commissaire Vladimir Delva, pour représenter les figures emblématiques qui ont marqué les quatre décennies du mouvement hip-hop au Québec.
Instagram: @maudetapin Website: www.maudetapin.com
Bio: S’intéressant à la notion d’imaginaire et de voyage, tant physique que réflexif, Maude Tapin articule sa démarche autour de l’idée d’évasion et d’identité. Vivant l’Art comme un puissant catalyseur d’expression, elle partage certaines perceptions pour ainsi amener le spectateur à voyager, réfléchir et se perdre dans sa propre pensée. Elle aime s’imprégner des lieux qu’elle visite afin de faire ressortir le meilleur de ce qu’ils évoquent et inciter les gens à se sentir apaisés par ce qu’ils contemplent. À l’aide de techniques mixtes, elle tend à honorer et mettre de l’avant leur vécu par la création d’œuvres très détaillées, empreintes de tranquillité et de nostalgie. L’idée est de s’éloigner un instant des préoccupations quotidiennes pour se réfugier dans un havre de sérénité et retrouver un peu d’espoir en la société actuelle.
Maude Tapin enseigne les arts au secondaire depuis 2011 mais se consacre davantage activement à sa propre pratique depuis 2019. Elle a récemment complété une maîtrise en arts visuels et médiatiques puis un microprogramme en art-thérapie qui lui ont permis de mieux saisir l’implication ainsi que l’influence de son être et ses affects dans sa démarche artistique. Cette prise de conscience s’est avérée un point tournant de sa carrière et n’a fait qu’attiser son besoin viscéral de créer afin de partager ce flot d’émotions.
Oxana Solovyeva (she/her)
Instagram: @oxana.solovyeva
Bio: Je suis née dans la petite ville de Stryi, dans l’ouest de l’Ukraine, non loin de la frontière polonaise. À l’âge de 19 ans, j’ai déménagé en Russie, où j’ai d’abord obtenu mon diplôme pédagogique, puis un autre du département de mise en scène de l’Académie de théâtre. Après avoir obtenu mon diplôme, j’ai commencé à travailler comme actrice au Théâtre du jeune spectateur de Khabarovsk (c’est la frontière orientale de la Russie). Avec la tournée de ce théâtre, j’ai visité de nombreuses villes en Russie, au Kazakhstan, au Japon. 13 ans plus tard, j’ai commencé à travailler au Théâtre de chambre de Moscou. Parallèlement, je me fait tourner dans des films.
En 2010, ma famille et moi avons émigré au Canada (Montréal). Depuis 2011, je travaille à la BAnQ Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal dans le cadre du projet L’Heure du Conte. C’était un projet merveilleux qui a donné à différentes diasporas nationales l’occasion d’introduire des contes de fées et des mythes traditionnels. Chaque représentation a été réalisée en deux langues : celle d’origine et Française.
Reihan Ebrahimi (she/her)
Instagram: @reihanebrahimiceramics Website: www.atelierguerd.com
Bio: Reihan Ebrahimi is an Iranian-born ceramic artist who lives between Tiohtiá:ke/ Montreal and Tehran. She moved to Canada in 2015 and received her BFA in ceramics in 2020 from Concordia University. The focus of her works is a reflection on notions of cultural identity, memory, and displacement. Remaking is the primary approach in Ebrahimi’s work and her research-based practice is nourished by the interplay of her studio practice, personal experiences, and research on historical artifacts. Her work has been showcased in Montreal and Tehran. Her most recent project “Wordless” will be showcased at a duo exhibition at Lethbridge Exhibition Center.
Ebrahimi is the co-curator and co-founder of Nowruz Projects, a multicultural collective that focuses on “ritual as a space for rebirth, reunion, and appreciation of diversity”. In pursuit of her interconnected interest in ceramics and art history, in 2019, she collaborated on a research project with Montreal Fine Arts Museum for a reconceptualization of their collections related to the art of West Asia in “The Arts of One World” exhibition. Reihan has recently been the recipient of the 2022 NCECA Helene Zucker Seeman Curatorial, Research, and Critical Writing Fellowship for Women.
provisoire sont en symbiose avec leur environnement.
Sarah Haddad (she/her)
Instagram: @le_titre_provisoire
Bio: Forte d’un parcours alliant photographie, communications et histoire de l’art, le collage est un aboutissant logique qui me permet de combiner les codes de l’image classique et commerciale et ainsi créer des résultantes défiant le convenu. À travers l’ensemble de mes projets artistiques, j’aborde le sujet par fragments. L’idée de réutiliser, autant les matériaux que l’imagerie, est très importante pour moi afin de construire sur quelque chose de commun, déjà existant, et de lui donner un sens inattendu.
Tatiana Tung (she/her)
Instagram: @tatitung Facebook: @tatitung.art Website: www.tatitung.art
Bio: Tati Tung is a citizen of the world. Born Brazilian but of Chinese, Hungarian, and Portuguese origins, she now lives at the multicultural Montreal. She studied in all domains of science, living on a path that testifies her longing for truth and change, and love for diversity shown in her artwork. With Zen painting elements, she creates colourful delicate watercolours engaging others to share their views of hope for the future. She sees art as a way to feed the soul that is always so thirsty for knowledge and beauty.
She studied art in its many forms, classical and digital, for many years before starting her artistic journey in projects like the exposition in celebration of Day of the Dead by CIR, the international collaboration with the Golden Thread Sketchbook, digital exhibitions with Gallea and the International Watercolour Society, culminating in a solo exhibition curated by Cristian Zaelzer on “How to not wear a Mask”, March/April 2022 in Montreal, CA. Recently involved in illustration of a children’s book to be released, and working in collaboration with different artists in Courtney Clinton’s Post Monumental project. Currently a member of RAAV, IWS, and RAQ.
Tong Shen (she/her)
Instagram: @tongshenart Website: www.tongshen.ca
Bio: I am an interdisciplinary contemporary artist. My work is abstract and often biographical of my immigration journey through Germany, U.S of A and Canada. My background is ethnic Han; my father was a child soldier in the Ten Year Revolution and the Great Leap Forward in China, my mother was a child labourer in a cotton spinning factory, and my grandparents were teachers, farmers, carpenter, and educators, My work was born of uprising and conflict in the 90’s, and delves into interconnectedness of individuals through late-capitalist-communist history, art, technology, literature, politics and labour. Effects of global warming, racial injustice, social and financial divide, colonialism, slave labour, gender equality and generational differences in neurodiverse youth create new cultures. I’m a feminist sculptor, writer, and art critique. I’m is the recipient of numerous awards including the Canadian Council of Arts Research and Creation Fund, the Nick Tadashi Graduate Scholarship, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Scholarship. I speak multiple languages, my works have been shown in China, Japan, U.S, and Canada.