Activities
Past activites
May 2025 — Publication of 2024 Activities Report (in French only)
March 20 to April 3, 2025 — Foundation Benefit Auction as part of the 2025-2027 fundraising campaign (in French only)
March 2025 — 43rd International Festival of Films on Art
Co-presentation of 3 films as part of the FIFA (in French only).
March 13, 2024 — Conference Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies in the Museum and Archive
By Kirsty Robertson at Concordia University.
Photo credit: darin gregson
February 2025 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of cardinal dodginghorse, 2025 winner
Photo credit: Laure Bourgault
January and March 2025 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Laure Bourgault, 2025 winner
Octobre 29, 2024 — Launch of Cahier 09 : Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy
Launch of Cahier 09 at École de design de l’UQAM (in French only).
Septembre 28, 2024 — FIFA près de chez vous
For a second year, the Grantham Foundation has partnered with the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) and co-presented 4 short films as part of FIFA près de chez vous (in French only).
Septembre 26, 2024 — Table ronde, Cohabiter dans l’obscurité
At the Guido Molinari Foundation, interdisciplinary round table, moderated by Josianne Poirier (in French only).
Septembre 21, 2024 — Phosphos, Paul Chambers
An evening of performances at the Grantham Foundation (in French only).
July 2024 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Kirsty Robertson, 2024 winner
June 2024 — Creation and Research Residency in Architecture of Camille Lefebvre, 2024 winner
May 2024 — Publication of 2023 Activities Report (in French only)
March 2024 — 42nd International Festival of Films on Art
Co-presentation of 2 films as part of the FIFA at the Grantham Foundation (in French only).
December 6, 2023 — Conference at the MBAM: Ce qui mérite d’être vu/What Is Worth Seeing (in French only)
October 26, 2023 — Conference Philippe Madec
Conference by French architect and urban planner Philippe Madec at Canadian Centre for Architecture (In French only).
Octobre 7, 2023 — Conference Retour à Walden, sur les pas de Henry David Thoreau with Richard Séguin
Throughout each weekend of September 2023 — Fête des arts in the Islands of Drummondville’s Woodyatt Park
August 2023 — Creation and Research Residency in Architecture of Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy, 2023 winners
August 23, 2023 — L’été en musique
As part of L’été en musique, the Grantham Foundation welcomed the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra to the Foundation's gardens (in French only).
July 2023 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Karine Bonneval, 2023 winner
June 2023 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Josiane Poirier, 2023 winner
May - June 2023 — First edition of Gardens Without Walls
Online platform dedicated to presenting of 5 performative artists under curatorship of Ji-Yoon Han and Didier Morelli.
April 26, 2023 — Jardins sans mur at 11e Manif d’art | La biennale de Québec
As part of the 11e Manif d’art | La biennale de Québec, the Grantham Foundation presented the filmed performances of Jardins sans murs at Beaumont Theater.
March and April 2023 — 41st International Festival of Films on Art
Co-presentation of 2 films as part of the FIFA at Canadian Centre for Architecture (in French only).
January - February 2023 — Micro-residencies
In turn, five performance artists took over the premises of the Foundation for a micro-residency: arcadi lavoie lachapelle, Rachel Echenberg, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Ève Tagny, Pascale Théoret-Groulx.
January 25, 2023 — Table ronde à UQAM : Ligne claire et contours flous
Following the publication of Cahier 04, the Grantham Foundation organized a round table, in collaboration with the UQAM, Faculté des arts (in French only).
Photo credit: Benjamin Cayzac
December 2022 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Estelle Zhong Mengual, 2022 winner
9 novembre 2022 — Table ronde at ÉTS
The Foundation collaborated in the organization of a round table entitled Écologie et technologie: les approches créatives at École de technologie supérieure (in French only).
Octobre 1, 2022 — Launch of Cahier 04
Launch Cahier 04 at the table of the Collectif des éditeurs en art contemporain CÉAC, during the 5th edition of the Volume MTL fair at Society for Arts and Technology.
Septembre 18, 2022 — Un dimanche à la campagne 2.0
Launch of the 2nd three-year fundraising campaign 2022-2024 and preview of the group exhibition Exercises in Reciprocity.
Summer 2022 — Micro-residencies
Curator Ji-Yoon Han has invited seven artists to invest the Foundation's premises for a micro-residency.
May 11, 2022 — Conference at the MBAM: Temporalité des changements climatiques (in French only)
March 19, 20, 26 and 27, 2022 — 40th International Festival of Films on Art
Co-presentation of 3 films as part of the FIFA at Canadian Centre for Architecture (in French only).
Mach 2022 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude (Ælab), 2022 winner
January 2022 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Heather Davis, 2022 winner
August 2021 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Anahita Norouzi, 2021 winner
Summer 2021 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Clément de Gaulejac, 2021 winner
April 2021 — Publication of the virtual document La cueillette / The Foray
March 2021 — 39th International Festival of Films on Art
First participation of the Grantham Foundation at the FIFA (in French only).
December 2020 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Andreas Rutkauskas, 2020 winner
Winter 2020 — Léna Mill-Reuillard produce a video capsule during her stay at the Foundation
July 1st to July 31, 2020 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, 2020 winners
Septembre 22, 2019 — Official opening of the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment
June 16, 2019 — Education
The Foundation welcomes the participants of SéminArts, an educational program of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal offered in collaboration with the Foundation of the Family Claudine and Stephen Bronfman.
May 15, 2019 — Research
Conference by art historian Bénédicte Ramade Jardiner à l’heure de l’Anthropocène (in French only).
May 15, 2019 — Research
The Foundation welcomes the Spring Doctoral School of the Réseau international de formation en histoire de l’art in collaboration with the Department of Art History and Cinématographic Studies of the Université de Montréal (in French only).
April 25, 2019 — Partnership
First grant – the Caisses Desjardins of the Drummond region, first leading corporate partner of the Foundation.
March 2019 — Creation
Léna Reuillard-Mill, first invited artist. Léna Mill-Reuillard was awarded the « Prix du CALQ - Œuvre de la relève à Montréal, » in 2016 for her video installation video Machinari . In 2018, she was finalist for the « Prix Pierre-Ayot » of the City of Montreal.