Free
About the series
The Preshow gives the public an in-depth preview of the Museum’s new exhibitions, as shared by those who brought them to life.
About the speakers
Born in Montreal in 1980, Allison Katz received her BFA at Concordia University before pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been shown widely in Europe and North America, including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Camden Art Centre (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), MIT List Visual Arts Center (US), Kunstverein Freiburg (Germany) as well as recent group exhibitions at Tate Modern (UK), Hayward Gallery (UK) and the 59th Venice Biennale of 2022. Katz created a billboard for the High Line at 18th Street in New York this past summer. In 2024, she curated a major exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum which featured her own work and over one hundred works of contemporary art alongside fragments of Roman frescoes, in collaboration with the archeological park of Pompeii, brought together for the first time in the United States.
Zhao-Ionescu Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 2020, Mary-Dailey Desmarais oversees a multidisciplinary team dedicated to enriching, sharing and preserving a collection of close to 47,000 art works and objects dating from antiquity to the present. Since joining the Museum in 2014, she has notably curated the exhibitions Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022), “How Long Does It Take for One Voice to Reach Another” (2021), Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together (2021), and Once Upon a Time... The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film (2017), whose accompanying catalogue won two awards. She has published widely in scholarly journals, exhibition catalogues and art magazines on subjects ranging from Impressionism to global modern and contemporary art. Originally from New York, she holds a PhD in Art History from Yale University, an MA from Williams College and a BA from Stanford University.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A Sherbrooke Street West
Please note that seat reservations are held until the beginning of the event. Once the activity has started, any unoccupied seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Exhibition
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Gouvernement du Québec
Official Sponsors
Air Canada, Air Canada Cargo, Denalt Paints
Media Partners
La Presse
Learning and community engagement
Major Patrons
Fondation de la Chenelière and Fondation Ariane Riou et Réal Plourde
Patron
The Molson Foundation
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Gouvernement du Québec
