Rémi Belliveau
Rémi Belliveau's artistic approach is rooted in an Acadian culture, caught between an identity-based past and a current social commitment. Stories and customs coexist with social struggles, language and popular culture. Through these postures, their artistic work strives to deconstruct and reprogram the foundations, structures and
imaginaries of the Acadian culture in order to cultivate capacities of (self) analysis and critical sense.
Belliveau seeks to problematize Acadian culture by confronting it with its multiple contradictions, linked to its hybrid status, which oscillates between folkloric and contemporary. They explore these contradictions through an interdisciplinary approach that blurs the boundaries between the creative posture of the artist and that of the more institutional archivist.
Rémi Belliveau’s studio is sponsored by the generous support of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and The Ouellette Family Foundation in 2023-2024.
Biography
Rémi Belliveau is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on music, installation and sculpture. Since 2012, their work has been featured in numerous events, group and solo exhibitions, including the Sobey Award at the National Gallery of Canada, for which they were a finalist in 2021, and the Momenta Biennial in 2023. Rémi Belliveau holds a bachelor's degree from the Université de Moncton and a master's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM.
Recent exhibitions
| 2023 | Mascarade, Momenta I Biennale de l’image. Vox, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, CA |
| 2022 | Bird[s] in [cyber]Space, duo with Djinn Proxy, Atelier d’estampe Imago, Moncton, CA Radiant Rural Halls 1, group exhibition, multiple locations, organized by This Town is Small, Prince-Edward-Island, CA |
| 2021 | Exposition du prix Sobey pour les arts 2021, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, CA |
| 2020 | Hier semble si loin / Chapitre 4 / Jean Dularge, Group Exhibition, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, CA |
| 2019 | Dissonances rurales, solo exhibition, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton University, Moncton, CA Les histoires nécessaires, group exhibition, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen et Musée acadien, Université de Moncton, Moncton, CA Un ailleurs toujours présent, group exhibition, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, CA |