Combine 2014

Tricia Livingston is an Indigenous artist from northern British Columbia. Currently based in Montreal, she recently graduated with a BFA from Concordia University. Mainly interested in photography as well as the reclamation of traditional practices, her work highlights the ways in which urban Aboriginal youth access culture through various media.

Born in Vancouver, Sophia Borowska’s fascination with textiles and architecture stems from early travels in Europe and Asia. Her affinity with fibre-based processes led her to Capilano University’s Textile Arts Diploma program, completed with distinction in 2013, and to Concordia’s Fibre and Material Practices BFA. She organizes and curates alternative art exhibitions and promotes fibre arts.

Freelance spy, B. Lalonde spends the majority of his time between Moscow and Washington.

Originally from Montreal, Laurence Pilon is in the final year of her BFA in visual art at Concordia. As a multi-disciplinary artist she is interested in the perception and conflictual potential of artistic mediums. Her current explorations drift between painting, print media and installation.

Kaeten Bonli is a Saskatchewan-born multidisciplinary visual artist. His studio practice serves as a material investigation of minimalism and portraiture, as informed through the visual language of virtual media. Kaeten graduated from Concordia’s Studio Arts Program in the spring of 2014, and continues to live and work in Montreal.

Alexandre Pepin is currently completing his BFA at Concordia. Sparked by the re-appropriation of banal objects and situations, his practice extends beyond painting into installation, textile and electronics. He studies his own life in search of absurd moments and obsolete phenomena.

Laurent Viau-Lapointe is a musician and multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture, video and performance art. His ongoing involvement in the eccentric death metal band TRIBUNAL feeds his exuberant and subversive approach to art making. Self-proclaimed “Rock & Youth Artist”, Laurent Viau-Lapointe currently lives and works in Montreal.

David Bellemare completed his bachelor degree from Concordia University in 2014.  He is originally from Gatineau, Quebec, but now lives and works in Montreal.  In recent years, he has shown artworks in multiple group shows locally and internationally.  His practice plays in between the traditional borders of painting, sculpting and installation.  David Bellemare is a magician.

Zoë Wonfor and Thomas Quail are both originally from Calgary, AB. Zoë is in her fourth year at Concordia University in the joint program of Art History and Studio Art. Thomas Quail is a PhD student at McGill University where he studies problems at the intersection of mathematics and biology. He is also an active violist.

Sonia Halpern-Bazar is a native Montrealer. After completing her DEC in Liberal arts at Dawson College, she pursued a philosophy degree at Concordia. Sonia eventually switched to photography, and filmmaking in order to better expand on concepts and themes that had been introduced in her pervious academic experience.

Véronique Sunatori is a Montreal-based visual artist. Born from a Québécois mother and Japanese-born father in Gatineau (QC), she moved to Montreal to complete a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her multidisciplinary practice ranging from painting to interactive sculpture focuses mainly on the process of discovering, learning, and evolving.

Fabien Seguin is a visual artist and a writer. He grew up in France where he completed studies in literature and ancient philosophy. He spent seven years in China before settling in Canada. He has shown his work in various festivals, including ACP (Atlanta, USA), Pingyao (China) and Arles (France).

Megan Moore is a Montreal based photography and video artist. A Dawson College Photography program graduate (2006), she is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University. Her work focuses on spaces linked to memory and draws attention to the familiar elements within domestic settings.

Julien Bouthillier is currently enrolled in Concordia University’s Intermedia/Cyberarts program while simultaneously completing a minor in Classical Studies at the University of Quebec in Monreal. He actively contributes to events in film, performance, poetry and video-art. His areas of interest include mysticism, alchemy, and lobsters.

Born in Alès, France in 1988. Raised in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Mainly self-taught, Lucino has been drawing since childhood and painting since 2013.His interests include bicycles, music and romantic strolls on a moonlit night. Pisces, single.

Chloé Bourdages-Roy attended the Saint-Laurent CEGEP’s dance and social science programs where she was initiated into the choreographic process, creating many solos and group pieces. Her growing desire to create pushed her to pursue these studies at Concordia University, from which she graduated in 2014. Déracinement represents her latest collaboration with filmmaker Francis Binet.