Marianne Cloutier, new Artistic Director

Following a public call for applications, the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment is delighted to announce the appointment of Marianne Cloutier as Artistic Director.

Marianne Cloutier holds a Ph.D. in art history and is an independent curator, author, and professer. Her work focuses on the many issues surrounding life and the living in contemporary art, as well as the intersections between art, science, and technology. She has curated exhibitions for the McConnell Chair in Research-Creation on the Reappropriation of Maternity at Université de Montréal and for the Sociability of Sleep project, in addition to several independent curatorial projects. From June 2023 to October 2024, she served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Musée d’art de Joliette. She also teaches at Université de Montréal.

Her vision of the relationship between visual arts, architecture, and the environment is deeply informed by her research specialization on the living as a material for creation. Her most recent curatorial projects, centered on utopias and dystopias of the future, have also led her to explore these themes through the lens of future ethics and sensitive connections to place and territory.

The selection committee was composed of Ji-Yoon Han, independent curator and researcher in visual arts; Johanne Lamoureux, professor of art history at Université de Montréal; and Bénédicte Ramade, art critic and curator specializing in artistic approaches to environmental issues. The Foundation extends its sincere thanks to them.