Join us at Parquette on April 27th for a 5 à 7 with four, short artists’ talks in honour of current exhibitions at @fofagallery (@pobklomami and @abi.hodson ) and @warren.g.flowers.gallery (Josh Vettivelu and @alex.v.pouliot ). Together, the four artists’ practices chart material resonances through vast systems of power. Across methods including wood carving, ceramics, glass work, and digital media, these recent exhibitions examine overlapping architectures, inviting us to find and share in what can still be touched, counted, repaired, and destroyed.
Prize Talks I
With
Abi Hodson, Alex V. Pouliot, Josh Vettivelu & Po B. K. Lomami Presented by MFASASA & MFAs Against Genocide in collaboration with FOFA Gallery
@_parquette (1345 rue de Bellechasse) 5 à 7 Monday, Apr 27th
PrizeTalks is a series of artist-led events that highlight contributions from our strong community of artists, educators, and organizations who put action behind their beliefs and refuse to provide cover for artwashing of genocide.
@concordiamfa supports the boycott of the Stephen and Claudine Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. To sign the pledge and for more information, see @MFAs_Against_Genocide ’s FAQ at https://mfasagainstgenocide.cargo.site/de
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MAUREEN XI: Concordia Master of Fine Arts group exhibition at Parquette
May 21-25, 2026 | Vernissage: May 21st, 6pm
The 11th Concordia MFA annual group exhibition MAUREEN XI will be held at @Parquette (1345 Rue de Bellechasse) from May 21st to 25th, 2026. Vernissage: May 21st from 6pm to 11pm with a live set starting at 9pm.
MAUREEN XI is curated through a collaboration between the Concordia MFA Studio Arts Students Association and students from the inaugural Curatorial Studies and Practices Program. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic voices and mediums—from fibres and material practices, painting and drawing, intermedia, photography, sculpture and ceramics.
In these times of conflict, political uncertainty, and institutional meltdown, MAUREEN XI highlights the power of art to inspire and to enable difficult conversations, model collectivity, and encourage us to build better worlds. This year’s venue, Parquette, is described as “a raw, DIY space made by and for the community, full of care, character, and unexpected corners to explore.” This multi-use space is a success story of how art venues can be shaped by the needs of the communities they serve. Expect to see works that reflect this ethos of care through the distinct voices and sensibilities that make up the MFA program.
Named after Maureen Kennedy, our beloved arts administrator extraordinaire, this year’s edition is also a send off for Maureen, who after 30+ years of dedication to the program has retired.
Join us on May 21, from 6 to 9pm, followed by a dance party, until late!! It will be a dry celebration with delicious snacks, food and (non-alcoholic) beverages sold by Parquette.
Images by @n.e.zirk_co and @roseannajoynay
My MFA thesis exhibition is opening in one week on May 15th and I’m so excited to share this new work with you 🩶!
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨
Vernissage May 15 from 5-8 PM
May 16, 17, 19 from 1-5 PM + by appointment
MFA Gallery
1395 Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest
Visual Arts Building Concordia University
SKYKING II
SKYKING II is a radio cartography of american foreign military presence, compiling recordings from the US Air Force radios, overlayed onto satellite imagery, archival documents and personal reflections, this video installation is the second installment in the SKYKING series, continuing the research into radio as a tool of power projection.
Thank you to @nellyblanken and @ra08970 for sifting through my archival mess for this video🙏
Po B. K. Lomami is an indisciplinary and interventionist artist-researcher and teacher. They are a Congodescendant from Belgium based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal since 2017. Interested in the process between action and inaction, they question people, institutions, and themselves through affection, strength, the absurd, the everyday, and data.
Join us at Parquette on April 27th for a 5 à 7 with four, short artists’ talks in honour of current exhibitions at FOFA Gallery (Po. B. K. Lomami and Abi Hodson) and Warren G. Flowers Gallery (Josh Vettivelu and Alex V. Pouliot). Together, the four artists’ practices chart material resonances through vast systems of power. Across methods including wood carving, ceramics, glass work, and digital media, these recent exhibitions examine overlapping architectures, inviting us to find and share in what can still be touched, counted, repaired, and destroyed.
PrizeTalks is a series of artist-led events that highlight contributions from our strong community of artists, educators, and organizations who put action behind their beliefs and refuse to provide cover for artwashing of genocide.
Presented by MFAs Against Genocide and MFASASA in partnership with the FOFA Gallery
Images
Po B. K. Lomami
Credit: Noire Mouliom
Force and Form (performance)
Credit: Po B. K. Lomami
aksanti 33 (part 2) (performance & installation)
Credit: Po B. K. Lomami
Endling 05 (Tropopause) (photography)
Credit: Po B. K. Lomami
Prize Talks is almost here! Who are you going with? Bring a friend or two or three, and celebrate the end of the semester in community.
Joshua Vettivelu is an artist working within sculpture and installation. Their work explores how power materializes within interpersonal relationships.
Join us at Parquette on April 27th for a 5 à 7 with four, short artists’ talks in honour of current exhibitions at FOFA Gallery (Po. B. K. Lomami and Abi Hodson) and Warren G. Flowers Gallery (Josh Vettivelu and Alex V. Pouliot). Together, the four artists’ practices chart material resonances through vast systems of power. Across methods including wood carving, ceramics, glass work, and digital media, these recent exhibitions examine overlapping architectures, inviting us to find and share in what can still be touched, counted, repaired, and destroyed.
PrizeTalks is a series of artist-led events that highlight contributions from our strong community of artists, educators, and organizations who put action behind their beliefs and refuse to provide cover for artwashing of genocide.
Presented by MFAs Against Genocide and MFASASA in partnership with the FOFA Gallery
Poet, interdisciplinary artist, printer and bookmaker, Alex V. Pouliot’s practice seeks to conjure the powers at play within the making of the visual and sensorial experiences through which an individual forges oneself. Often created and shown in relation to site-specific contexts, his work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals, both locally and abroad.
Join us at Parquette on April 27th for a 5 à 7 with four, short artists’ talks in honour of current exhibitions at FOFA Gallery (Po. B. K. Lomami and Abi Hodson) and Warren G. Flowers Gallery (Josh Vettivelu and Alex V. Pouliot). Together, the four artists’ practices chart material resonances through vast systems of power. Across methods including wood carving, ceramics, glass work, and digital media, these recent exhibitions examine overlapping architectures, inviting us to find and share in what can still be touched, counted, repaired, and destroyed.
PrizeTalks is a series of artist-led events that highlight contributions from our strong community of artists, educators, and organizations who put action behind their beliefs and refuse to provide cover for artwashing of genocide.
Presented by MFAs Against Genocide and MFASASA in partnership with the FOFA Gallery
We’re less than a week away from our first edition of Prize Talks and are excited to introduce you to our speakers.
First up is transdisciplinary artist Abi Hodson. Through video, movement, textiles, sculpture, zine-making, and facilitation, they construct a language of sensory entanglements in order to research the real and manufactured space between ourselves and the rest of the material world (between the tongue and what it tastes, between our bodies and the environments we build).
Join us at Parquette on April 27th for a 5 à 7 with four, short artists’ talks in honour of current exhibitions at FOFA Gallery (Po. B. K. Lomami and Abi Hodson) and Warren G. Flowers Gallery (Josh Vettivelu and Alex V. Pouliot). Together, the four artists’ practices chart material resonances through vast systems of power. Across methods including wood carving, ceramics, glass work, and digital media, these recent exhibitions examine overlapping architectures, inviting us to find and share in what can still be touched, counted, repaired, and destroyed.
PrizeTalks is a series of artist-led events that highlight contributions from our strong community of artists, educators, and organizations who put action behind their beliefs and refuse to provide cover for artwashing of genocide.
Presented by MFAs Against Genocide and MFASASA in partnership with the FOFA Gallery.
𝑀𝐹𝐴 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 >>>
𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔
𝑶𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔
I am pretty excited - and nervous - to share what I have been working on ~ wood things, stuffed things, stitched things and drapy things
𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒍 𝟑𝟎𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝟓 𝒕𝒐 𝟕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒑𝒎
Opening hours: April 28 – May 2, 2026 12:00-5:00 & by appointment (except may 29th during my defense)
MFA gallery, Concordia VA, 1395 Réné-Lévesque Blvd W, Montréal, QC
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 @shabana_asthma 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟
Come see Salt Lick! 🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂👅👅👅👅👅👅
April 28 – May 2, 2026
1:00-6:00 + by appointment
Vernissage: April 30, 5:30-7:30
**Closed Apr. 29, 1-3 for MFA Defence
Concordia University
EV Building 4.525
1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine O
So excited to announce my upcoming MFA thesis show 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝘿𝙄𝘽𝙇𝙀, 𝙐𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥
And happy to finally share with you what I’ve been working on for the past couple of years
🧷Vernissage is on April 23rd from 6 to 9pm🧷
Other opening hours:
April 24th: 1-5pm
April 25th: 1-5pm
Location:
MFA gallery, Concordia VA, 1395 Réné-Lévesque Blvd W, Montréal, QC
See you soon!
Besitos
Flyer with the help of the best graphic designer @nina_seidel
