In connection with the exhibition Comfort and Indifference, the MAC invites you to a guided tour with artists Sorel Cohen and Lorna Bauer, presented in the exhibition spaces of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Please note: to attend this exhibition walkthrough, you must hold a general admission ticket to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in addition to reserving your place here.
Sorel Cohen
“Sorel Cohen has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over thirty years. She has been invited as guest lecturer to many Canadian universities and was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (1988). Her master’s thesis examined feminist art in the 1970s, while her art practice, which is largely autobiographical, weaves original links between photography, painting, and film. Cohen creates works that directly reference the historical and social context of the artist, especially through depictions of gender and the body. Her work is found in major collections, such as the Bibliothèque Kandinsky; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and the National Gallery of Canada. In 1986, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosted an extensive exhibition of her work; a catalogue, Divans maudits (“Cursed Couches”), was published for a solo show at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris (2003), and in 2021–22, a retrospective, Métaphores conceptuelles (“Conceptual Metaphors”), accompanied by a monograph, was presented at Vox, centre de l’image contemporaine de Montréal. She lives and works in Montreal.”
This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist
Photo: with the kind permission of the artist
Lorna Bauer
“Bauer lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal; her work has been featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad: the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Franz Kaka (Toronto), and Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery (Athens). She has been an artist-in-residence at Despina (Rio de Janeiro), The Récollets (Paris), the Quebec-New York Residency, Banff Centre, and the Atlantic Centre for the Arts. Her works are present in public and private collections, notably at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Most recently, Bauer was awarded the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for contemporary Canadian photography (2019); in 2021, she was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award, representing Quebec, and in 2024, she was awarded the Gattuso Prize. In the spring of 2025, Bauer opened her first European solo exhibition, titled Lotte, at a Kunstverein in Dresden curated by Marie-Charlotte Carrier.”
This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist
Credit: John Paul, with the kind permission of the artist
