françois morelli

Tuesday April 26 to Saturday, June 11, 2016

Opening Thursday, April 28 at 17:30

Biography

François Morelli was born in Montreal. He completed a BFA at Concordia University in 1975 concentrating on drawing. He lived in the New York area from 1981 to 1991, and received an MFA in installation and performance art from Rutgers University in 1983. He has taught in universities and art schools since 1980, has received numerous grants and has exhibited his work locally and internationally since 1976. He has been professor at Concordia University since 1996 and part of the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montreal since 2006. In 1993 he was awarded the prix d'Excellence by la Biennale de dessin et d'estampe d'Alma and in 2007 received the Prix Louis Comtois from the Conseil des arts de la Ville de Montréal.

He pursues a trans-disciplinary practice (in drawing, installation, performance, print media and sculpture) often questioning the status of an artwork through its creative process and its reception. He is interested in notions of passage, circulation and transformation. His art often echoes a past action or event while examining relationships between artists, society and contexts.