Artist Statement/ Biography

Guillaume Adjutor Provost is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator who experiments with forms of exhibition, collections, text, and curation. His artistic practice is motivated by a desire to update what has long existed on the periphery of dominant historical discourses: class consciousness, counter-culture, vernacular imagery — notably folklore and Quebec applied arts —, and experiences of queerness. His practice regularly takes the form of curated installations; by working with collaborators, these encounters influence the materialization of interdisciplinary works hybridizing collections, sculptures, drawings, photographs, performances, video or textual works.

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Recipient of grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman scholarship, as well as a finalist for the Pierre-Ayot prize of the city of Montreal in 2016/2019, and for the Sobey Art Award in 2021, the projects of Guillaume Adjutor Provost have been presented in individual and group exhibitions in Canada, France, Austria, Scotland, Germany, Lithuania, Belgium and Spain.