+++Artist of the month / December 2024+++

Tomas Dessureault (born in 2000) is an artist from Abitibi-Témiscamingue with a predilection for painting.

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+++Artist of the month / November 2024+++

Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee is an artisanal press created by Erasmo Pantoja and Mónica Mejía in Cali, Colombia. This organism encourages the construction of an uncertain and dispersed library through handmade publications in small, numbered print runs, functioning as a collaborative crucible for writings, exhumations, and translations.

+++Artist of the month / September 2024+++

Dayana Camacho Rodríguez (Cali, 1995) is a teacher of fine arts who obtained her degree at the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Cali, and currently resides in this same city. As a member of the Monómero Collective, Línea Roja Producciones and Sésamo Colectiva, she has experience in artistic education, execution of research-creation projects and project management. In addition, she has received various local and national awards, including the Arte cámara Award 2019, the Pacific Regional Hall 2020, an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Culture 2019, a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2020, the Cali Young Art Hall Award 2018 and a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2016, among others. She has also participated in various individual and collective exhibitions in spaces such as the Tertulia Museum,

+++Artist of the month / September 2024+++

Dayana Camacho Rodríguez (Cali, 1995) is a teacher of fine arts who obtained her degree at the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Cali, and currently resides in this same city. As a member of the Monómero Collective, Línea Roja Producciones and Sésamo Colectiva, she has experience in artistic education, execution of research-creation projects and project management. In addition, she has received various local and national awards, including the Arte cámara Award 2019, the Pacific Regional Hall 2020, an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Culture 2019, a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2020, the Cali Young Art Hall Award 2018 and a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2016, among others. She has also participated in various individual and collective exhibitions in spaces such as the Tertulia Museum, the Rayo Museum, the Jenny Vilá Gallery, the Mor Charpentier Gallery, the Cali Country Club, Lugar a Dudas, Sin espacio, the ARTBO Chapinero Rooms, and Casa Obeso Mejía, among others.

+++Artist of the month / August 2024+++

Vanessa Yanow is a queer artist from Tiohià:ke / Montreal. She works across diverse media, including flame worked glass, digital embroidery, collage, artifacts, photography, drawing, textiles and found objects. Yanow enriches her deeply imaginative and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of female and queer representation in the history of art and craft, queer sexualities and gender expressions, microbiology, climate change, parasitology, and community care. Vanessa’s studio is at The Long Haul – A 10,000 square foot visual art workspace and gallery in Parc Extension that she co-founded in 2001. Since co-founding The Long Haul, she has mentored emerging artists, coordinated the collective, advocated for their group, curated exhibitions, all while producing several large bodies of work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally. Yanow’s sculptures are part

+++Artist of the month / August 2024+++

Vanessa Yanow is a queer artist from Tiohià:ke / Montreal. She works across diverse media, including flame worked glass, digital embroidery, collage, artifacts, photography, drawing, textiles and found objects. Yanow enriches her deeply imaginative and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of female and queer representation in the history of art and craft, queer sexualities and gender expressions, microbiology, climate change, parasitology, and community care. Vanessa’s studio is at The Long Haul – A 10,000 square foot visual art workspace and gallery in Parc Extension that she co-founded in 2001. Since co-founding The Long Haul, she has mentored emerging artists, coordinated the collective, advocated for their group, curated exhibitions, all while producing several large bodies of work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally. Yanow’s sculptures are part of the city of Montreal’s permanent collection, the MUMAQ, and Le Musée National des Beaux Arts in Québec City.

+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++

Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus,

+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++

Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus, Emmanuel’s intention is to invite viewers to stage other realities by reflecting on their own sensorial experience of the artworks.

Emmanuel is winner of the National Hall of Visual Arts in the three-dimensional category with “The fish-tank” (2022), organized by the Costa Rican Art Museum, as well as two-time winner of the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Award (2023-24), given by the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts to work at the Atelier La Coulée. Emmanuel has also represented the Performing Arts Memory of Costa Rica before the XIV Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic (2019), and participated at the residency Raptors: reflection and action (2019), directed by the nicaraguan artist Patricia Belli. Emmanuel has a postgraduate degree in painting from the University of Costa Rica and is currently majoring in Intermedia (video, performance, and electronic arts) in Concordia university.

+++Artist of the month / May 2024+++

+++Founding Member+++

Emmanuel grew up in Quebec City, he moved to Montreal for his university in 2007, the year in which he met those with whom he created the collective Nesto Cienfuegos (Centfeux).

Since then, he has worked on most of the collective's film and video projects, in all positions and on all fronts. He has been mainly part of the image editing team for various film productions and behind the camera for his more exploratory projects.

His artistic practice also includes drawing, photography and music. Under the pseudonym Mano la Muerte, he is part of the rap

+++Artist of the month / May 2024+++

+++Founding Member+++

Emmanuel grew up in Quebec City, he moved to Montreal for his university in 2007, the year in which he met those with whom he created the collective Nesto Cienfuegos (Centfeux).

Since then, he has worked on most of the collective's film and video projects, in all positions and on all fronts. He has been mainly part of the image editing team for various film productions and behind the camera for his more exploratory projects.

His artistic practice also includes drawing, photography and music. Under the pseudonym Mano la Muerte, he is part of the rap project Sarbacane, alongside Philippe Edwards since 2017.

''Creation is a movement that gives meaning to existence, this is what he keeps in mind when the time comes to prepare the sequel.''

+++Artist of the month / April 2024+++

Sarah Galarneau is a multidisciplinary artist with significant experience in the field of print media. She is currently extending her practice into the creation of biomimetic installations consisting of printed, gathered, and reconstituted material that blur the boundary between plant life and the built world. Sarah studied Art History and Studio Art (2011) and Print Media (2015) at Concordia University and holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo in Ontario (2022). She has exhibited in various locations throughout Québec and Ontario and has completed residencies in Belgium, Mexico, and Peru.

+++Artist of the month / March 2024+++

Born in Colombia in 1979, Juan Munoz faces the French language not as a language of survival since his arrival in Quebec or of adaptation in daily life, but as a literary quest. He has already made himself present in the Quebec panorama with a science fiction short story from Solaris and the winner of a literary prize in Laval in 2012, as well as the inclusion in an anthology of tanka written by French-speaking authors (Éditions Little Clouds, 2013). In Spanish he published El Anticristo Derrotado y otros cuantos (Bronce, 2023), a collection of philosophical short stories.

+++Artist of the month / February 2024+++

Maryam Abdollahi is an Iranian surrealist with a Master's degree in painting from the Art University of Isfahan. While she is primarily a painter, she has experimented with other mediums ever since her graduation in 2013, channeling her creativity into other fields such as sculpting, calligraphy painting, jewelry design, painting on pottery/ceramics, engraving, and miniature arts. Throughout her artistic journey, she has had solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Spain, and The United States.

Her artistic trajectory has recently undergone a transformative shift, driven by a profound interest in surrealism and the enigmatic realms of the unconscious. This newfound fascination has led her

+++Artist of the month / February 2024+++

Maryam Abdollahi is an Iranian surrealist with a Master's degree in painting from the Art University of Isfahan. While she is primarily a painter, she has experimented with other mediums ever since her graduation in 2013, channeling her creativity into other fields such as sculpting, calligraphy painting, jewelry design, painting on pottery/ceramics, engraving, and miniature arts. Throughout her artistic journey, she has had solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Spain, and The United States.

Her artistic trajectory has recently undergone a transformative shift, driven by a profound interest in surrealism and the enigmatic realms of the unconscious. This newfound fascination has led her into a world, the exploration of which has revolutionized Maryam’s earliest collection of works. Primarily oil on canvas, these pieces portray magical and visionary worlds inhabited by otherworldly entities and archetypal symbols. She creates them automatically without any predetermined thought, pattern, or intention.

"I have ventured into places both familiar and strange, where the majestic presence of a higher force enveloped me. Doors opened one by one, and I was guided in love to unveil myself and find the one who resides within me.

Upon returning, my brush revealed to me where I’ve been”.

+++Artist of the month / December 2023+++

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1988.

Trained as a visual artist in the University of Los Andes (2011) and Universidad Nacional (2015), she has maintained a continuous dance practice all through her life. She is a certified expressive movement facilitator.

As a creative artist she uses Painting, Dance & Drawing to explore aspects of the body/mind, nature & symbols.

“Art represents an opening to the path of self-recognition that can lead us towards a meaningful way of life.”

+++Artist of the month / November 2023+++

French Canadian who grew up in Chile and Costa Rica. He studied jazz and Indian classical music. His love of different cultures and music lead him to compose works that unite elements that may seem irreconcilable at first glance.

As a yoga teacher and musician, his musical and lyrical work explores how sound and words can elevate CONSCIOUSNESS.

Author, composer and music producer working under his name and the pseudonyms: Old Disciple, Damaru Yoga and part of the duo Sarbacane.

+++Founding Member+++

I was born in Colombia in the year 1987, part of my childhood was spent in Seoul (South Korea) and the later part back in South America. I graduated from the Université de Montreal in 2010 with a degree in filmmaking and I have a Master’s in Visual and Fine Arts from La Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I’m currently living in Montréal working on my second Masters, in English Literature. I’ve painted (almost) all my life and I haven’t gone a day without drawing since September 23 2013. I’ll be buried with a book or two next to me. Worry not.

My first contact with Art came through books, more specifically, with the bits of encyclopedia that came

+++Founding Member+++

I was born in Colombia in the year 1987, part of my childhood was spent in Seoul (South Korea) and the later part back in South America. I graduated from the Université de Montreal in 2010 with a degree in filmmaking and I have a Master’s in Visual and Fine Arts from La Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I’m currently living in Montréal working on my second Masters, in English Literature. I’ve painted (almost) all my life and I haven’t gone a day without drawing since September 23 2013. I’ll be buried with a book or two next to me. Worry not.

My first contact with Art came through books, more specifically, with the bits of encyclopedia that came with the Sunday supplement of the newspaper. These glossy images were for me a constant source of joy and amazement. They were my first form of external comfort, the first baby steps towards an affective fetishism in books and deliciously printed images or illustrations. My first crush as a toddler was the Infanta Margarita – ‘nuff said.

So by the time it was my turn in life to decide what career to choose, there was no doubt in my mind about what I wanted to do, the only hitch-glitch remaining was: how? How does one go about doing Art? The question still haunts me. But now, with a good ten years of working in arts, I’m happy to say I don’t have an answer. Which is just another way of saying: it’s only the work that matters, the time invested, the feeling involved, and ultimately, the daily discipline…

+++Current curator of Centfeux+++

+++Founding Member+++

Born in Montréal, Québec in 1985.

His artistic journey began in the world of cinema. After having taken on many roles within the field, he has added to his artistic acumen, work in the fields of drawing, photography and music (Amateur PG).

“Art is an adventure that I cannot do without, a movement that I must share. »

Virtual space for the diffusion and archiving of independent artistic work. This multidisciplinary platform encourages networking by forging links between artists from here and all over the world.

Each month, a new artist is invited for a virtual residency allowing them to present their body of work while creating new and exclusive content for the platform. Over time the role of the curator in charge of the platform is destined to change hands amongst founding and resident members. Making it possible for multiple points of view to coalesce, while still maintaining a human and personal approach.

Born from the ashes of the Nesto Cienfuegos film collective founded by Emmanuel L. Jean,

Virtual space for the diffusion and archiving of independent artistic work. This multidisciplinary platform encourages networking by forging links between artists from here and all over the world.

Each month, a new artist is invited for a virtual residency allowing them to present their body of work while creating new and exclusive content for the platform. Over time the role of the curator in charge of the platform is destined to change hands amongst founding and resident members. Making it possible for multiple points of view to coalesce, while still maintaining a human and personal approach.

Born from the ashes of the Nesto Cienfuegos film collective founded by Emmanuel L. Jean, Federico Cuartas Aristizábal and Alexandre Prieur-Grenier.

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