Past Activities
April 64 to April 21, 2023 — For its 4th edition of the exhibition Les jeunes s'exposent, the Grantham Foundation welcomed over 200 young people from the region.
Photo credit : Villedepluie / André Rainville, 2023.
December 7, 2023 — The Grantham Foundation announces the 2024 winner of the Grant-Residency of Creation/Research in Architecture
November 11 to November 26, 2023 — Exhibition: New Horizons
Organized as part of its scholarship program for Students Enrolled in 2nd Cycle Visual Arts at a Quebec University, the exhibition featured works by Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Laetitia de Coninck, Julie Desrosiers, Catherine Gagnon, Katia Gagnon et Flavie Goyer-Villeneuve.
Photo credit: Pierre-Uric Gagné
September 9 to November 5, 2023 — Exhibition Inhabiting the Site
Exhibition by architect Pierre Thibault
Curator: Lesley Johnstone
September 15, 2023 — The Foundation announces the winners of its 2024 Call for Projects
May - June 2023 — First edition of Gardens Without Walls
Online platform dedicated to presenting performative artists : Rachel Echenberg, Cynthia G.Renard, arkadi lavoie lachapelle, Pascale Théorêt-Groulx and Eve Tagny.
Co-curated by Ji-Yoon Han and Didier Morelli
Access to online platform Gardens Without Walls
March - April 2023 — For a 3rd consecutive year, the Grantham Foundation associated with FIFA has co-presented two films: Pour l’art et l’environnement by filmmakers Alain Baril and Ginette Petit and Dans les bois de Walden avec Henry Thoreau by Marie-Eve de Grave.
December 2022 — Estelle Zhong Mengual, researcher-in-residence at the Foundation.
September 24 to November 27, 2022 — Exhibition: Exercices in Reciprocity
In this exhibition, curator Ji-Yoon Han has brought together seven artists from different backgrounds to exhibit their works that explore the dynamics of sharing and gift-giving, hospitality and confidence that are at the core of how things work at the Grantham Foundation.
View Group Exhibition — Exercices in Reciprocity
View Cahier 05 — Exercices de réciprocité / Exercises in Reciprocity
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
Photo credit: Zoé Fauvel
March 2022 — Residence of Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude (Ælab)
November 17, 2021 — The Foundation announces the winners of its 2022 Call for projects.
May 7 to June 27, 2021 — Exhibition « Querelle entre deux puces pour savoir à qui appartient le chien sur lequel elles vivent »
Exhibition by artists and researchers Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, winners of the 2020 Grantham Foundation’s Grand Prize for Research Research.
December 2020 — Artist’s residence of Andreas Rutkauskas
September 27 to October 6, 2020 — Exhibition of artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens. Due to the pandemic, the exceptional exhibition entitled Querelle entre deux puces pour savoir à qui appartient le chien sur lequel elles vivent will only have been presented for ten days in the fall of 2020.
February 6, 2020 — Announcement of the winners of the 1st call for projects of the Grantham Foundation at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
View the Press Release
Until December 1, 2019 — Call for Projects
Residencies for artists and researchers in 2020
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
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.
View the presentation (in French only)
April 30, 2019 — Education
The Foundation welcomes the graduates in Visual Arts of the Cégep de Drummondville.
April 25, 2019 — Partnership
First grant – the Caisses Desjardins of the Drummond region, first leading corporate partner of the Foundation.
March 2024 — For a 4th consecutive year, the Grantham Foundation associated with FIFA has co-presented two films: Green Over Gray : Emilio Ambasz by Francesca Molteni and Mattia Colombo and Habiter le lieu by Edgar Fritz.
December 6, 2023 — Conference at the MBAM: Ce qui mérite d’être vu/What Is Worth Seeing
View Cahier 08 — Ce qui mérite d’être vu / What Is Worth Seeing
Photo credit : Richmond Lam
November 17, 2023 — The Grantham Foundation announces the 2023 winner of the Prize for Students Enrolled in the 2nd Cycle in Visual Arts at a Quebec University
Photo credit : Manu Groussard
October 26, 2023 — Conference by French architect and urban planner Philippe Madec at Canadian Centre for Architecture
Photo : Pierre Letarte
October 7, 2023 — In addition to the exhibition Inhabiting the Site, Richard Séguin gave a conference Retour à Walden, sur les pas de Henry David Thoreau.
Throughout each weekend of September 2023, the islands of Drummondville's Woodyatt Park has been the scene of the Fête des arts !
Local artists from a variety of artistic disciplines offered performances inspired by Pierre Thibault's installation and the spirit of the site.
May 11 to May 28, 2022 — Exhibition-laboratory Devenir-Hêtre
Exhibition-laboratory by Ælab, the duo made up of Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude.
View Cahier 06 — Exposition-laboratoire/Exhibition-laboratory Devenir-Hêtre Ælab
April 6 to April 23, 2023 — For its 3rd edition of the exhibition Les jeunes s'exposent, the Grantham Foundation welcomed over 250 young people from the region.
January - February 2023 — Micro-residence, in turn, of five performance artists : arcadi lavoie lachapelle, Rachel Echenberg, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Ève Tagny, Pascale Théoret-Groulx.
September 18, 2022 — The Foundation announces the winners of its 2023 Call for Projects
May 7 to June 26, 2022 — Exhibition Troubled Garden: Study for Migratory Roots
Exhibition by artist Anahita Norouzi, winner of the 2021 Grantham Foundation’s Grand Prize for Creation.
Curator: Bénédicte Ramade
April 7 to April 24, 2022 — Exhibition Les jeunes s’exposent 2022
As part of its annual "Les jeunes s’exposent" event, the Grantham Foundation was very pleased to welcome this year more than 700 students to exhibit their works at the Foundation.
January 2022 — Heather Davis, researcher-in-residence at the Foundation.
September 26 to November 28, 2021 — Exhibition Refuge: après l’incendie / After the Fire.
Exhibition by artist Andreas Rutkauskas, winner of the 2020 Grantham Foundation’s Grand Prize for Creation.
April 8 to April 25, 2021 — Exhibition « Les jeunes s’exposent »
More than 200 young people participated in this event as part of the collaboration agreements between the schools of the Drummond region and the Foundation.
January 30, 2021 — The Foundation announces the winners of its 2021 Call for Projects.
September 26, 2020 — Inauguration of the exhibition by the artist duo Richard Ibghy / Marilou Lemmens in accordance with the constraints related to the pandemic.
July 1 to July 31, 2020 — Residency of artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Winter 2020 — Léna Mill-Reuillard's stay at the Foundation
From Septembre 22 to December 8, 2019 — Inaugural exhibition « Apparaître – Disparaître », curated by art historian Bénédicte Ramade
View the artists represented, the presentation text and the photos of the exhibition
View the exhibition catalog Apparaître – Disparaître, in French only
From May 15 to July 5, 2019 — Exhibition « Vacance des lieux ». Curator : Johanne Lamoureux, Professor in the Department of Cinematographic Studies and Art History, Université de Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Civic Museology.
May 15, 2019 — Research
Conference by art historian Bénédicte Ramade « Jardiner à l’heure de l’anthropocène »
View the conference (in French only)
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 Montréal.
Visit Léna Mill-Reuillard website (in French only)