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Sierra Barber

“Sierra Barber (she) is an Upper Mohawk / mixed-European artist from Port Dover, Ontario, registered at the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University (2025) and a BFA in Sculpture and Installation, with a minor in Indigenous Visual Culture, from OCAD University (2015). Her work has been shown at the Woodland Cultural Centre, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Rimouski Regional Museum and HOEA! Gallery (Aotearoa/New Zealand), as well as in the 7th Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA). Her recent solo exhibition, Carrying Stories, was presented at daphne, an Indigenous artist-run centre in Montreal.”

Miri Chek

“Miri Chek is a visual artist and filmmaker whose practice transcends borders. Born in Armenia and having grown up in Jerusalem, she now works between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) and Yerevan. Her work has been presented worldwide, at film festivals such as Tribeca (New York City), the IDFA (Amsterdam) and the New Images Festival (Paris), as well as in museums such as the Centre Pompidou and the Biosphère in Montréal. Her video performance “Being With” was showcased at the Phi Center during the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. 

The artist has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts du Québec (CALQ), the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC). She has also collaborated with the National Film Board of Canada alongside Edith Jorisch on Plastisapiens and received support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the production of her documentary Fresh Air Exhaustion in 2025.”

Marly Fontaine

“Marly Fontaine is an Innu woman from the community of Uashat Mak Mani-utenam. A graduate in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM, Fontaine focuses her creative work on raising awareness of the realities and histories of First Nations, which remain largely unknown. As early as 2017, her works sparked strong reactions. Since the publication of Ma réserve dans ma chair – l’histoire de Marly Fontaine, she has worked as a speaker, using her testimony to demonstrate both her community’s resilience and her own. She has since completed a master’s degree in Museology and Arts Practice at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), highlighting Innu oral tradition both in her artistic practice and in her research approach. She is the first person to submit a master’s thesis orally at UQO. She is continuing this approach through a PhD in Innu arts and oral culture, begun in fall 2025, with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec.”

Po B. K. Lomami

“Po B. K. Lomami (Pauline Batamu Kasiwa Lomami) is a non-disciplinary artist-researcher, educator and cultural producer. Born into the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, they have been living in Tiohtià:ke–Mooniyang–Montreal since 2017. Lomami’s artistic practice explores rage and failure, focusing on the displacement of work, becoming, subjectivity and possible collective futures. Interested in the space between action and inaction, they interrogate people, institutions and themselves through affect, strength, absurdity, the everyday and data.

Lomami holds a bachelor’s (2011) and master’s (2014) in Management Engineering from the University of Namur, a graduate diploma in Communication Studies (2022) and a master’s in Studio Arts – Intermedia from Concordia University (2025). However, their interventionist practice has developed outside of institutional educational contexts.”

Myriam Simard-Parent

“Myriam Simard-Parent is a visual artist working in wood sculpture. She was born in and currently lives in Montreal. She creates her works using traditional craft techniques such as direct carving, turning and various methods of joining wood. Her works, made from native wood species and recycled materials, reveal a sensitivity to the colours and textures inherent in the medium. With a stylized and often humorous approach, Simard-Parent depicts and reinterprets elements from everyday life and memory such as clothing, food, animals and more. Through her practice, wood becomes a space for reflection on our relationships with objects, living beings, popular culture and the role they play in shaping our identities.

Holding a master’s degree in Sculpture and Ceramics from Concordia University, Myriam Simard-Parent has exhibited widely in solo and group shows across Canada, France and the United States. Recent solo exhibitions include Parc à chiens at Caravansérail (Rimouski, 2024) and Mai(s) encore at Collectif Bonus (Nantes, 2024), following a creation residency.”

Sarah Toung ondo

“Of Franco-Gabonese origin, Sarah Toung ondo grew up in France and Gabon, which strongly shaped her artistic practice. After studying design and art history, she pursued studies in social and historical anthropology, completing a master’s degree at the University of Toulouse II. It was during her academic research that she discovered the artistic community in the Québec region – nionwentsïo territory – and decided to settle there. Also a graduate of the Maison des métiers d’arts de Québec in textile construction, Toung ondo is a versatile artist who enjoys exploring different mediums to examine the connections between art, intimacy and society through the lens of cultural hybridity.”

These biographical notes are in quotation marks, as they are signed by the artists.

François Morelli

“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.