Inaugural exhibition of 2028

Mojeanne Behazdi

Mojeanne Behzadi joined the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal as curator in 2023. She is responsible for the Museum’s exhibition and event programming. Recent projects include the 60th anniversary edition of Les Nocturnes du MAC in May 2025, an extensive event of performances, music, DJs and workshops titled A Saturnalia. In 2024 and 2025, she curated mural commissions by Mara Eagle and Caroline Monnet, as well as an outdoor exhibition, Graphic Worlds, highlighting artists working at the intersection of comics, illustrated narratives and contemporary art.

Prior to joining the MAC, Behzadi was assistant curator at the National Gallery of Canada, where she conducted research contributing to Kapwani Kiwanga’s representation of Canada at the 60th Venice Art Biennale. From 2016 to 2023, she was director of Art Speaks, an international speaker series on contemporary art. She managed the Lillian and Billy Mauer art collection from 2015 to 2023 and was curator of research and programming at Artexte from 2020 to 2023. Independently, she worked with numerous institutions including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where she conceived Trajectories, a contemporary art podcast produced in 2022 about notable artists from Montreal. In 2023 she curated Toward Freedom at Projet Casa in Montreal. The exhibition response to the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran. She sits on the board of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain.

Source: Mojeanne Behzadi

Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush

Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush is Onkwehonwe/French Canadian from Oshahrhè:’on (Chateauguay), Quebec. They received their BA in Linguistics from Concordia University in 2017. Since then, Kat has worked as a radio DJ, as teacher in Tasiujaq, Eastmain and Kahnawake, as a cultural mediator, as an independent curator, and an artist.

As a writer, they have completed residencies at Artexte (2023) and The Banff Centre (2024). Between 2024 and 2026, Kat was the Indigenous art and design curatorial intern at the MBAM, while being part of MOMENTA’s 2025 educational team. They are currently a board member at the CACPA and at MOMENTA biennial.

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Joséphine Denis

Haitian curator and writer based in Toronto, Joséphine Denis is Co-Director and Director of Curatorial Initiatives at Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) Gallery, where she develops programs and exhibitions rooted in experimentation, collective research, and exchange. Her work engages with diasporic practices by attending to material culture, ritual, and sound, tracing how historical narratives and other forms of memory circulate, persist, and transform across geographies and generations.

She previously contributed to curatorial and public programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Tkaronto) and SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal). Selected exhibitions include Other Territories (Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris), Amartey Golding: In the Comfort of Embers, and Sandra Brewster: By Way of Communion (The Power Plant). She has written and edited for various contemporary art publications. Raised in Port-au-Prince and later in New York, she grounds her work in the guidance of her kin.

Source: Joséphine Denis

Mark Lanctôt

Before being appointed curator in charge of the collection at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2023, Mark Lanctôt, as curator of exhibitions at the MAC, organized over thirty solo and group exhibitions of Quebec, Canadian, and international artists since 2006, and contributed to the production of more than a dozen exhibition catalogues.

Concurrently, in collaboration with artist and independent curator Jonathan Middleton, he developed a series of exhibitions and events entitled The Troubled Pastoral, presented at the Or Gallery (Vancouver and Berlin). He has served on numerous juries and selection committees for, among others, the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Montreal’s Public Art Bureau, and the Sobey Art Awards.

More recently, in the MAC’s temporary location at Place Ville Marie, he curated the exhibitions of Nelson Henricks and Lili Reynaud-Dewar and inaugurated an exhibition of recent MAC acquisitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, entitled Comfort and Indifference, which features works by some twenty Quebec artists.

Source: Mark Lanctôt

François LeTourneux

François LeTourneux is Curator and Head of Cultural Programming at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He has curated monographic exhibitions devoted to the artists Etienne Zack (2010), Jon Pylypchuk (2011), Lynne Cohen (2013–2015), and Janet Werner (2019–2020); and co-curated the exhibitions La Triennale québécoise (2011), Zoo (2012), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence (2018, in collaboration with SFMOMA), and La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux (2021), a survey of recent practices bringing together more than thirty artists and contributors around questions of embodied language. More recently, he presented at Place Ville Marie (Montreal) a group exhibition titled Skyscrapers by the Roots: Perspectives on Late Modernism (2025), which included a major commissioned work by Canadian artist David Hartt.

As Head of cultural programming at the MAC, he oversees the museum’s program of major lectures, conversations, and artist talks, as well as the annual Max and Iris Stern International Symposia. Among the latter, he curated Manufacturing Exhibitions parts 1 and 2 (2011–2012), Abstraction (2013), and (in collaboration) Remontage/Remixing/Sharing: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics (2014), Topographies of Mass Violence (2017), and Troubling Representation (2023).

François LeTourneux holds a PhD in Art History from the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, where he was a visiting professor from 2014 to 2016.

Source: François LeTourneux

Valentine Umansky

As Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, Valentine Umansky oversees the museum’s time-based media programme and co-chairs its photography and European acquisition committees. She held positions at the International Center of Photography and Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and co-curated the 2025 Gjon Mili biennial in Kosovo, 2025 EMAP x Frieze Film in South Korea, and 2018 LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria.

At Tate, recent exhibitions and projects include Ana Mendieta’s retrospective (opening July 2026), and displays of works by Belkis Ayón; Dawoud Bey; Roy DeCarava; Nikita Gale; Cinthia Marcelle; Buhlebezwe Siwani; Dineo Seshee Bopape and Rosa Barba. Since 2022, Umansky sits on the selection committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival. She also translated Roger Caillois’s prose and poems into English (Stones & Other Texts, DittoDitto).

Source: Valentine Umansky