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Primary venue dedicated to showcasing artistic and research practices of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
🕚 Mon–Fri: 11am–6pm

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Join us this Thursday, September 10, from 4:30 to 7:00 PM for the vernissage of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮.

Remarks will begin at 5:30 pm, with welcoming words by Elder Sedalia Kawennotas Fazio and a performance by Moe Clark.

After months of carrying (and caring for) projectors, stones, screens, prints, computers, salt, curtains, corn, baskets, and solar batteries (amongst other materials), I’m so pleased to invite everyone into the gallery and celebrate what we were able to achieve together!

This event is part of La Rentrée Concordia, which also includes exhibitions opening at the FOFA Gallery’s vitrine, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and the VAV Gallery. Check them out!

If you cannot make the reception, no worries! The exhibition will be on display until November 20, 2026.

Thank you again to the participating artists, the many techs who made the impossible possible, the supporting organizations, and, of course, the FOFA Gallery team for all their time and support <3

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✨ Three exhibitions. Two galleries. Une soirée à ne pas manquer.

September 10. 2026 @ 4:30 p.m.
@fofagallery + @leonardbinaellengallery

Save this for your fall culture list.
Send to a friend. Discover something new.
Quelle exposition découvrirez-vous en premier?
#ConcordiaUniversity #ConcordiaGalleries #MontrealArts #CultureMTL #ThingsToDoMTL

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🎨 Two galleries. Three exhibitions. ONE night.

La Rentrée Concordia is back — and the fall gallery season is officially here! 🍂

Join us September 10, 4:30–7 p.m. as Concordia’s arts community comes together at the FOFA Gallery and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

Here’s what’s waiting for you 👀

🌲 FOFA: Kandis Friesen
Where you have not first of all to uproot a whole forest
Exile, displacement, memory and the traces left behind.

🌎 FOFA: The Earth We Carry
Curated by Hanss Lujan Torres, this group exhibition brings together six Indigenous artists exploring land, body and technology.

🍚 Ellen Gallery: FOODWAYS
Curated by Zoë Chan, 12 artists explore food as culture, memory, identity, community and knowledge.

Three exhibitions. Three perspectives. One evening to explore what’s happening across Concordia’s galleries.

📅 September 10 | 4:30–7 p.m.
📍 FOFA Gallery + Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

Come for the art. Stay for the conversations. ✨

📖 Full story at the link in bio.

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🎨 Deux galeries. Trois expositions. UNE soirée!
Le 10 septembre, de 16 h 30 à 19 h, venez célébrer la rentrée artistique à la Galerie FOFA et à la Galerie d’art Leonard & Bina Ellen.

Trois expositions, trois perspectives, une soirée pour découvrir la programmation automnale de nos galeries. ✨ 🍂

Image 1: If Time Had Listened, by Taylor McArthur, 2025. | AR, unity, blender, digital print.
Image 2: Photograph From the Personal Archive of Saule Bultrikova, by Kandis Friesen, 2023.
Image 3: 엘리 허경란 / Ellie Kyungran Heo, ご飯、たべましたか? / Did You Eat Rice?, 2017. HD video (still). | Courtesy of the artist and Lux Distribution

@fofagallery @concordia.alumni @leonardbinaellengallery

#ConcordiaFineArts #LaRentréeConcordia #FOFAGallery #ArtMontreal #ContemporaryArt

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Week 49:

Vernissage: An Assembly for the Cosmos
September 3rd (5:30pm) - Galerie de l’UQAM

Vernissage: Dystrophe
September 3rd (5:30pm) - Galerie de l’UQAM

Vernissage and Performance: Lineas de fuga/Lignes de fuite
September 8th (5pm) - Galerie de l’Université de Montréal

Vernissage: Denis Juneau: D’espace et de couleur
September 9th (5pm) - Galerie Simon Blais

Vernissage: Homebody
September 9th (5pm) - La Galerie d’art d’Outremont

Vernissage: FOODWAYS
September 10th (4:30pm) - Leonard & Bina ellen Art Gallery

Vernissage and Performance: The Earth We Carry
September 10th (4:30-7pm) - FOFA Gallery

Vernissage: Where you have not first of all to uproot a whole forest
September 10th (4:30-7pm) - FOFA Gallery

Vernissage: Minor Figures by Erin Shirreff
September 10th (5-8pm) - Bradley Ertaskiran

Vernissage(s): La Rentrée de Gaspé
September 11th (5pm) - Pôle culturelle de Gaspé

Vernissage: Echo d’un solstice
September 11th (5pm) - Bande Passante

Performance: Tiny Bubbles Make Me Happy
September 12th (1pm) - Dye Jardin Papillon

Book Launch/Artist Talk: Erin Shirreff & Taylor Walsh
September 12th (1pm) - Bradley Ertaskiran

Vernissage: Triangulations by Ginette Legaré
September 12th (3-5pm) - Art Mûr

Vernissage: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Brigitte Radecki
September 12th (3-5pm) - Art Mûr

Vernissage: Water, Water, Everywhere | Nor Any Drop to Drink by Jessica Houston
September 12th (3-5pm) - Art Mûr

Vernissage: Pictura 2026, The Unspeakable Compromise - Studio 101
September 13th (2pm) - Stewart Hall Gallery

See you around.

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This past winter semester, I exhibited my sculpture ‘Magenta’ at the FOFA Gallery in their winter exhibition ‘Grieving Reveries’ along with some very talented artists✨

I’m extremely grateful to María Andreína Escalona @lulu_escalona and the FOFA Gallery team for taking such great care in displaying, promoting, and going the extra mile for our artworks.

🌟Our exhibition was advertised in Esse Magazine

🌟A full catalogue was made including essays created by multiple writers for our artworks, as well as featuring our artist statements, bios, and photos of our work. Rebekah Walker beautifully wrote an essay covering my work and the work of two other lovely artists (Cat Lipiec and Geneviève Bouthot). The essay is called ‘The Influence of Materiality on Recollection & Memory.’ The full publication can be viewed on the FOFA Gallery Website!

🌟I was invited to speak at an artist talk with several skilled artists, expertly moderated by Kate Bursey.

🌟Our exhibition was written about in the newspaper, The Concordian

🌟Now you can find my work on the Concordia University website!

#artist#montrealartist#sculpture#ceramics#textiles

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ÉVÉNEMENT À VENIR | UPCOMING EVENT

Le jeudi 10 septembre, la Galerie FOFA et la Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen vous invitent à célébrer, dès 16 h 30, l’ouverture de leurs nouvelles expositions d’automne.

Trois expositions, deux galeries, une seule soirée.

Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen

À 16 h 30, joignez-vous à la commissaire Zoë Chan pour une visite guidée de « PRATIQUES ALIMENTAIRES ». La visite sera suivie d’une réception d’ouverture jusqu’à 19 h, avec bouchées thématiques, rafraîchissements et rencontres avec plusieurs des artistes de l’exposition.

Galerie FOFA

Célébrez l’ouverture de deux nouvelles expositions : « The Earth We Carry », commissariée par Hanss Lujan Torres et réunissant les artistes Skawennati, Taylor McArthur, Destiny Chescappio, Moe Clark, Amanda Lickers et Kite, dans l’espace principal et la boîte noire; ainsi que l’exposition solo de Kandis Friesen, « Where you have not first of all to uproot a whole forest », dans les vitrines York et la cour extérieure. À 17 h 30, une performance de Moe Clark sera présentée dans le cadre de « The Earth We Carry ».

À bientôt !

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On Thursday, September 10, the FOFA Gallery and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery invite you to celebrate the opening of their new fall exhibitions, starting at 4:30 PM.

Three exhibitions, two galleries, one evening.

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery

At 4:30 PM, join curator Zoë Chan for a guided tour of “FOODWAYS.” The tour will be followed by an opening reception until 7 p.m., with themed bites, refreshments, and opportunities to meet several of the artists featured in the exhibition.

FOFA Gallery

Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions: “The Earth We Carry,” curated by Hanss Lujan Torres and featuring artists Skawennati, Taylor McArthur, Destiny Chescappio, Moe Clark, Amanda Lickers, and Kite, presented in the Main Space and Black Box; and Kandis Friesen’s solo exhibition, “Where you have not first of all to uproot a whole forest,” presented in the York Vitrines and outdoor courtyard. At 5:30 pm, Moe Clark will present a performance as part of “The Earth We Carry.”

See you there!

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 is an exhibition that brings land-based practices and digital technologies in conversation. Why are nature and technology often seen as separate? We are composed of the same matter, minerals, water, and stardust. Similarly, our phones, circuits, and satellites are constructed from extracted metals and earthly elements. We carry the earth within us and bear a responsibility for the technologies produced from its resources.

While the theme is expansive, I am approaching it through a relational curatorial framework grounded in dialogues and past exchanges with artists whose work I deeply admire and with whom I’ve had the privilege of sharing time these last few years. I am so grateful that they trusted me with their work.
Putting this exhibition together over the last few months has been such a thrill. It has been a dream to work with the FOFA Gallery team, a group whom I have so much respect for. Their sustainability initiative has meaningfully shaped the approach to this exhibition, and their openness to and willingness to entertain my ideas have made the process even more joyful.

This exhibition would not be possible without the collaboration and support of the many research ecosystems that make work like this possible at Concordia University, including The Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture, the Indigenous Futures Research Centre, Voltage, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, as well as the many people who have lent their time, knowledge, and hands to different parts of this project.

I hope this exhibition starts good conversations and brings new and old ways of thinking about our relationships to land, technology, and one another.

September 8 to November 20, 2026
FOFA Gallery, Concordia University

See you there!

Image: Taylor McArthur, 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥, 2025.

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A beautiful catalogue was created for the Grieving Reveries exhibition by the FOFA Gallery I took part in this past winter semester!✨

Included in this publication, besides our own artist statements and bios were essays created by multiple writers for our artworks. Rebekah Walker beautifully wrote an essay covering my work and the work of two other lovely artists (Cat Lipiec and Geneviève Bouthot). Also, included are some pics from the launch party!🌟

The full catalogue can be viewed on the FOFA Gallery Website!

#artist#artexhibtion#youngartist#sculpture#montrealartist

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As part of the FOFA Gallery’s Grieving Reveries Exhibition, I was invited to speak at an artist talk with several skilled artists, expertly moderated by Kate Bursey.

As artists, we had a chance to share deeper meanings and anecdotes behind our works while relating to and learning from one another. I’m honoured to have been apart of this shared space and conversation🌟

#artisttalk#youngartist#montrealartist#artexhibition#sculptor

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ÉTUDES-TRAVAIL | WORK-STUDY

La Galerie est présentement à la recherche d’étudiant·e·s bilingues (français/anglais) pour pourvoir des postes de préposé·e·s à l’accueil. Les étudiant·e·s doivent être admissibles au programme Études-travail (projet catégorie Q et C). La préférence sera accordée aux étudiant·e·s inscrits·e·s à la Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia.

Date limite pour postuler : 19 août, 2026
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Description complète en ligne

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is currently seeking bilingual students (English/French) for the position of Gallery Attendants. Students must be eligible to Work—Study Program (project category Q and C). Preference will be given to students enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University.

Deadline to apply: August 19th, 2026
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Complete description⁠ online

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Thank you to curators Amber Berson and Juliana Driever for inviting me and Kerri-Lynn Reeves to write in response to The Let Down Reflex's 10th anniversary exhibition, currently on view at FOFA Gallery in Montreal. Rather than draft our own manifesto, we thought it would be interesting to try a more multivocal format by reaching out to friends and colleagues at all stages in their “creative caregiving” journey, whether that is well into empty nesting or just getting initiated into this very special club/conundrum. :)

Our request was simple. Inspired by Zoe Leonard’s ‘I want a president’ (1992), we asked over 65 arts-working parents how they might complete a new version of this sentence in light of their own experiences in Art x Parenting:

“I want an artworld…”

We recognized that the reference material might be all too real and sobering at the moment — but hoped the opportunity would be taken in the spirit in which it was offered — as a chance to voice wishes as an expression of hope in the belief that a better (art)world is possible. Or at the very least, as an opportunity to publicly lodge those complaints we so often keep to ourselves about the impossibility of it all. :}

The response was tremendous, and we now have a beautiful, bilingual open edition of ‘I want an artworld’ available for anyone to take at the gallery in Montreal, as well as two sets of monumental posters that are bigger than we are (just as this topic is)!

Through this process we wished to make space for diverse individual perspectives while advancing a multivocal, yet largely unified vision that does justice to the source of our inspiration. Zoe Leonard’s ‘I want a president’ is a trenchant, sharp, and flinty thing that does not merely diagnose, demand, complain, or compromise but rather bespeaks and actively envisions a generative, passionate, and righteous desire for a world that is indeed possible — if we can only move beyond speaking to making, doing, and being — together. As with all human endeavour, this remains a work in progress — messy, imperfect, and incomplete — but not inconclusive and replete with transformative potential.

Scan QR to join the chorus for v2! a plinth with two piles of paper is positioned next to the entrance wall of a gallery; red banners of various sizes are visible beyond

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PROJET SATELLITE | SATELLITE PROJECT

빨리 빨리 (hurry, hurry)

Un projet de Sam Lee

Impression numérique sur vinyle, 391,2 cm × 492,8 cm

La présentation du projet de Sam Lee se poursuit dans la cour extérieure de la Galerie FOFA, au 1515, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, jusqu’en août 2026. « 빨리 빨리 (hurry, hurry)
» [vite, vite] est un projet satellite spécial présenté en collaboration avec la Galerie FOFA dans le cadre d’IGNITION 21.

L’artiste présente une enquête photographique sur la culture de la productivité au travail et de la surmarchandisation en Corée du Sud, façonnée par l’industrialisation rapide et la forte croissance économique du pays. L’œuvre réfléchit au fragile équilibre entre des forces qui semblent s’opposer, comme la productivité et le repos, l'agitation et la paix, ainsi que le béton et la nature.

Lire la suite sur notre site web.

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빨리 빨리 (hurry, hurry)

A project by Sam Lee

Digital print on vinyl, 391.2 cm × 492.8 cm

Sam Lee's installation remains on view in the FOFA Gallery’s outdoor courtyard at 1515 Ste-Catherine St. W., through August 2026. "빨리 빨리 (hurry, hurry)" is a special IGNITION 21 satellite project presented in collaboration with the FOFA Gallery.

The artist presents a photographic investigation into South Korea's culture of worker productivity and over-commodification, shaped by the country's rapid industrialization and economic growth. The work reflects on the fragile balance between seemingly opposing forces, including productivity and rest, turmoil and peace, and concrete and nature.

Read more on our website.

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