Saturday December 14th, 2 pm and 3:30 pm
CIRCUITS D’ATELIERS offers original tours of artists’ studios in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. A unique opportunity to get behind the scenes and immerse yourself in the working environment of our local artists!
The Guido Molinari Foundation, acting as a link between creation and art, invites you to take an exclusive look at the studio of the winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award 2024: Nico Williams! You’ll have the opportunity to learn more about his current projects, techniques and creative process during a tour of his studio.
Reservations are free but mandatory: places are limited!
Booking link: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/circuits-dateliers-nico-williams
Please note that this tour will be conducted primarily in English. A whispered translation option will be available on site for those who wish.
Nico Williams, ᐅᑌᒥᐣ (b. 1989) is a member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation (Anishinaabe), currently living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. In 2021, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Concordia University. He has a multidisciplinary and, often collaborative, practice that is centred around sculptural beadwork. Williams is active within the urban Indigenous Montréal Arts community and a member of the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork research team. He has taught workshops at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the McCord Stewart Museum, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and the University of Toronto.
In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. His work has been shown internationally and across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (2023), the MacKenzie Art Gallery (2022), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2021), Musée des beaux-arts Montréal (2019), PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art (2023), and the recent group exhibition, Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, at the Hessel Museum of Art.
Williams’ practice has been featured by National Geographic (2018) and CBC (2021) and is housed in prominent public collections, including Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Archives Nationales du Québec, the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, and the Royal Bank of Canada Art Collection. His first public sculpture, Monument to the Brave, was commissioned in 2020 by the Sick Kids Foundation.
His work has been supported by the Canada Council, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec Impetus Grant, The Ontario Arts Council and the Fluevog Artist Grant.
To learn more about the artist, visit his website.
This event is made possible by the Fonds d’initiatives artistiques of the arrondissement Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
