Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Canada Council for the Arts
Walter Scott
Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across comics, drawing, video, performance and sculpture. Contemporary questions of representation, cultural production, popular culture and narrative construction are central to his practice. His comic series, Wendy, chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical version of the contemporary art world.
Walter Scott has exhibited work at Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; and Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, among others.
Walter Scott, Wendy Excerpt, 2011, digital image, 81/2 × 51/2 in. (21.59 × 13.97 cm)
Walter Scott, Narratives From Home, 2018, fabric, plaster, wood, wire, and string, 29 × 35 × 7 in. (73.66 × 88.9 × 17.78 cm)
Walter Scott, Slipping On The Missing X, 2019, installation view at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, dimensions variable
Walter Scott, Symbols of Paradise, 2015, digital print on vinyl, 35 × 55 × 4 in. (88.9 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm)
Walter Scott, Wendy, publication excerpt, 2014, Digital image, 211/16 × 25/16 in. (6.86 × 5.84 cm)
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2019: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Laura Põld
Laura Põld’s work deals with territory and place. She seeks to combine specific histories, or qualities of a given location, with her art. She works mainly with clay and ceramic sculpture, textile and embroidery, wood and painting, weaving them together with natural, context-specific and interdisciplinary elements, often engaging in collaborative endeavors.
Laura Põld has exhibited work at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia; le lieu unique; Nantes, France; and Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Laura Põld, Natural Shelter, detail, 2019, installation, dimensions variable
Laura Põld, Burrows. Flights, detail, 2019, clay, ceramics, wood, glass, and the book "Meeting the Universe Halfway" by Karen Barad, dimensions variable
Laura Põld, Burrows. Flights, detail, 2019, ceramics, 19 × 70 × 17 in. (48.26 × 177.8 × 43.18 cm)
Laura Põld, Dre Britton and Ingrid Allik, How to Live: Virtual Biographies, 2018, installation, dimensions variable
Laura Põld and Johna Hansen, Serving Makes Place, 2016, installation and performance, dimensions variable
Past Resident2019: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Chloé Grondeau
Chloé Grondeau is a Montreal-based curator and author. Her curatorial projects position art as critical discourse. In her work, she explores frameworks of art transmission and production, and creates contexts and situations of collaboration. Grondeau is director of Diagonale Art Center, a member of the International Association of Art Critics, and on the Board of Directors of Triangle Canada (Triangle Network).
Chloé Grondeau’s has presented curatorial projects at Mains d’Œuvres, Paris; La BF15, Lyon; Maison des Arts de Laval, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Chloé Grondeau, AUTEURS PRÉSUMÉS, 2015, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, AU LOIN UNE ÎLE, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, Jeu et diversion, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, CONVERSATIONS Montréal/Lyon, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, PATTERN, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable