Board of Directors and Governance

Louise Provencher is an independent curator, art critic and philosophy professor. Director of the collection Lieudit (CDD 3D), in the last years she has been interested in an archeological approach to the research of medias/technologies. She has spoken at a number of conferences and has published texts on this subject in many journals and catalogues. She has also curated a number of exhibitions, including: Porter le mur comme le masque by Michel Goulet and Montréal/Télégraphe : le son iconographe; the international colloquium Electre et Magnete on electromagnetism and the arts (UQAM 2003, OBORO 2004 et 2005); and Corps Électromagnétiques in collaboration with Nina Czegledy.

Nadia Myre is a visual artist from Montreal (Quebec) whose multi-disciplinary practice is inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, longing and loss. She is a graduate from Concordia University (M.F.A., 2002) and a recipient of Les Elles de l’art (2011), CALQ’s Prix à la création artistique pour la région des Laurentides (2009), and an Eiteljorg Fellowship (2003). Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and has received accolades from the New York Times and Le Devoir, as well as features in American Craft, ARTnews, Canadian Art, C Magazine and Parachute. Myre’s work is found in numerous collections, including: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Eiteljorg Museum, Fonds régional d’art contemporain (FRAC) de Lorraine, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Gallery of Canada, and Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Artist Chantal Dumas explores the medium of sound through the production of radio documentary fiction or fiction, electro-acoustic music and sound installations. She has written and produced more than twenty-five radio pieces, many of which have been broadcast in Canada and abroad, including several in Germany, of which three were singled out at France’s Phonurgia Nova competition. You may have noticed the peculiar blue car on the orange line of the Montreal metro recently. It was actually Rose-Marie Goulet’s project POINT DE FUITE, for which Chantal Dumas created an audio environment. Her love of experimentation brings her to question the relationship between mobility, sound, space and the listener through interactive sound installation.

Anne Marie Valenti runs a tax and estate practice that helps private clients achieve their overall tax goals. She has over twenty years of diverse accounting, management and tax experience in practice and in industry. Anne Marie has devoted more than twelve years to the field of taxation. She is a member of CPA Québec and is currently pursuing the T.E.P. designation.   Throughout her life, Anne Marie has created art—painting, sculpture, engraving, drawing, ceramics, photography, and collage. She has participated in group shows with the Westmount Visual Arts Center and the Beaconsfield Artists Association. Anne Marie is continuously developing her skills and loves experimenting with new media.   

Alice Ming Wai Jim is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories. She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. An art historian and curator, her research on diasporic art in Canada and contemporary Asian art has generated new dialogues within and between ethnocultural and global art histories, critical race theory, media arts, and curatorial studies. Jim is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and a Board Member of the College Art Association(CAA). She has been a core exchange scholar of the NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) since 2014. 

Eddy Firmin is a decolonial practitioner-researcher from the French Caribbean who holds a Diplôme National Supérieur en Expression Plastique and a Master's degree in Faculté des arts de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. He participated in group exhibitions Nous sommes ici, d’ici – L’art contemporain des Noirs canadiens, initiated by the Royal Ontario Museum and presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and at the exhibition, D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? ongoing until February 2020 at the Musée National des Beaux arts du Québec. His career is punctuated by exhibitions and residencies in France, Spain, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Japan and Canada. Firmin is involved in the research group, Minorit'Art, and acts as an expert consultant for the new wing of Cultures du monde et du vivre-ensemble of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Analays Alvarez Hernandez is an art historian, independent curator and assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. Alvarez Hernandez is interested in contemporary artistic practices, primarily those taking place in the public space, which she explores in the framework of postcolonial, decolonial and diasporic studies. With the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), her main research projects focus on "domestic galleries" in (post)socialist societies, as well as on artists of the Latin American diaspora in Canada.