Free of charge
About the speakers
Nabi-Alexandre Chartier is a Montreal-based cultural journalist who has worked for Radio-Canada’s Service de l'information since 2012. He began his career as a VJ at MusiquePlus in 1999, before turning to journalism. A graduate in fine arts from Concordia University and in management from HEC Montréal, he is known for his keen interest in culture in all its forms. Passionate about art, he enjoys sharing his knowledge, exchanging with the public and making art accessible to as many people as possible.
Eve Katinoglou holds degrees in art history and museum studies. Specialized in collections management and the related teams, she has nearly 15 years of experience working in Quebec museums. She is interested in the impact of contemporary art on museum practices and her master’s thesis explored the integration of contemporary art in museums that do not have a contemporary focus. In addition to piloting several curatorial projects over the years, she served as curatorial assistant at the Musée de Lachine and as registrar at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal prior to joining the team at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as Head of Collections Management and Registration in 2021.
Richard Gagnier has served as head of the Conservation Department at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since fall 2007. Trained in chemistry and art history, he developed an early interest in the restoration of contemporary art. From 1984 to 2007, he held the position of assistant conservator and conservator of contemporary art, all practices combined, at the Restoration and Conservation Laboratory of the National Gallery of Canada. As a researcher, he participated in the activities of the DOCAM Research Alliance from 2005 to 2010, in addition to joining a group of art historians led by Francine Couture (UQAM) interested in the re-exhibition of contemporary art. His publications include “Les ‘impermanences’ de la matérialité en art contemporain” (2013).
Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 2020, Mary-Dailey Desmarais oversees a multidisciplinary team dedicated to enriching, promulgating and preserving a collection of some 47,000 art works and objects dating from antiquity to the present. She joined the Museum in 2014. Notable among the exhibitions she has curated are 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 Ph.D. in Art History from Yale, an M.A. from Williams College and a B.A. from Stanford.
A curator and art historian, Iris Amizlev has a doctorate in Art History and Anthropology and a Master’s in Art History from Université de Montréal. She has worked in the curatorial departments of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). Amizlev previously led the Volunteer Guides program in the Learning and Community Engagement Division at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and served as guest curator in the realization of the Stephan Crétier and Stéphany Maillery Wing for the Arts of One World. She is currently Curator of Special Projects at the MMFA.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Reservation terms: Please note that seats will be reserved until the event begins. Once the activity has started, any seats still available will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
