Included with admission
About the series
As part of this series, the MMFA invites you to join us in an intimate setting for tea with a featured artist to learn more about their creative practice and what’s happening in the contemporary art scene.
About the Speakers
Nicolas Renaud is a filmmaker, contemporary artist and professor in First Peoples Studies at Concordia University, where he is also a member of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. He has been creating installations and directing documentary and experimental films since the 1990s. His film Brave New River won the award for best first feature-length documentary at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto in 2013. Since 2022, Nicolas Renaud has exhibited a series of works incorporating wampum, tubular beads made from shells. Of mixed Québécois and Indigenous heritage, he is a member of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake.
Léuli Eshrāghi belongs to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua, and the Persian diaspora, and lives and works in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Across their work, they prioritize Indigenous, Black and Asian sensual and spoken languages as well as artistic, ceremonial and political practices. As the inaugural Curator of Indigenous Practices at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Eshrāghi curated Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors (2025) with John Lukavic, and Rising Suns: Art from the Confederacies of the Great Lakes and Rivers (2025) assisted by Katsitsanoron Dumoulin Bush. Their recent curatorial projects include the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili (Finalist, Asia Pacific Arts Awards 2025, Creative Australia; Highly Commended, Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards 2023), as well as Oceanic Thinking: Season Two (2022), Mare Amoris | Sea of Love (2023-24), and How we remember tomorrow (2024) in collaboration with Peta Rake, Isabella Baker and Jocelyn Flynn at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Reservation terms: Free admission. No reservation required. First come, first served.
Access to the event: Enter via the main entrance to the Museum, located at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West. The conversation will take place in the Lounge Area on the 4th floor of the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Associated Programming
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal and Gouvernement du Québec
Major Patrons
Fondation de la Chenelière and Fondation Ariane Riou et Réal Plourde
Patron
The Molson Foundation
Exhibition
Major Public Partner
Gouvernement du Québec
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts de Montréal
Official Sponsors
Air Canada, Air Canada Cargo and Denalt Paints
Media Partner
La Presse
