The MAC invites you to take part in an intimate gathering with Montreal-based artist François Morelli, who accompanies the artists of the first cohort of the Habiter le MAC program throughout their journey.
It will take place on Wednesday, June 10, and will offer an in-depth look at the artist’s practice, whose mural Le chant de l’aube is currently presented at Place Ville Marie. This activity will be conducted in French with an interpretation in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ).
“Born in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), François Morelli earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1975. From that point on, his practice has been informed by interdisciplinarity, performativity and relationality. Between 1981 and 1990, Morelli lived and worked in the greater New York area, where he completed a master’s degree at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (New Jersey), in 1983. He began teaching in 1981 and retired from Concordia University in 2019 after 22 years of teaching. The recipient of numerous grants and residencies, he has performed and exhibited his work since 1977. His gallery representation has been provided in Montréal by Christiane Chassey from 1991 to 2004 and Joyce Yahouda from 2006 to 2017, by the Horodner Romley Gallery in New York from 1993 to 1995, and by Chiguer Art Contemporain in Québec City and Montréal since 2022. He was the recipient of the Prix d’excellence de la Biennale de dessin et d’estampe d’Alma in 1993 and received the Louis-Comtois Award in 2007, the Ozias-Leduc Award presented by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan in 2021, and the Paul-Émile-Borduas Award in 2024. He shares his life with art and design historian Diane Charbonneau, author and artist Didier Morelli, and art and architecture historian Arièle Dionne-Krosnick.”
This biographical notes is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist.
Credit: Joanie Fortin
