Skip to navigation Skip to content
Visiteguideecommissaire boycepererasantos bg
Rajni Perera. I Couldn’t Wait Longer (detail), 2023. Polyester, acryl-gouache, chalk, charcoal, gel pen, gold metallic thread, polymer clay beads, glass beads, wooden beads, aluminum and wood frame. 243.8 x 365.8 cm. Photo by Mikhail Mishin. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery

Guided Tours with the Curator

  • Event
  • Past Event
  • Contemporary Art
Look up to address on google map

PHI Foundation 451 Saint-Jean Street
Montréal, Québec H2Y 2R5

Saturday, May 18, 2024 (in French)
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Saturday, August 10, 2024 (in English)
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Free admission
Reservations required

Send us an email at [email protected] to book your spot.

Cheryl Sim, curator of the exhibitions Sonia Boyce: FEELING HER WAY and Rajni Perera and Marigold Santos: Efflorescence/The Way We Wake, will conduct guided tours of the exhibitions for the general public. During these tours, participants will learn more about the works on display and the ideas that inspired the exhibition such as collaboration, female identity, and diasporic experience.

Biographies

Portrait sonia talk

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce DBE RA (b. London, 1962) is an interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation. In 2022, she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major commission for the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning British Black Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, however, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. Working across a range of media, Boyce’s practice today is focused on questions of artistic authorship and cultural difference.

In 2016, Boyce was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in 2023, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in Boston. Since graduating in the early 1980s, Boyce has consistently worked within the art school context. In 2014, she became a professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art and Design. A three-year research project into Black Artists and Modernism culminated with a 2018 BBC documentary Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain’s Hidden Art History, exploring the contribution of overlooked artists of African and Asian descent to the story of modern British art. In the King’s New Year Honours List of 2024, Boyce was awarded a Damehood.

Her work is in many UK and international museum collections including Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection of England, London; British Council, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; and Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris.

Portrait rajni talk

Rajni Perera

Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. Perera seeks to open and reveal the dynamism of the icons, beings, and objects she creates by means of a subversive aesthetic that counteracts antiquated, oppressive discourse, and acts as a restorative force. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the McMichael Gallery, PHI Foundation (Montréal), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Colomboscope (Sri Lanka), and Eastside Projects (UK) among others. She is in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the McMicheal Canadian Art Collection, and the Sobey Foundation. She was awarded the Sauer Art Prize at the Armory Show in 2023, was the recipient of the MOCA Toronto Award in 2022, and was the Ontario region finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2021.
Portrait marigold talk

Marigold Santos

Marigold Santos was born in the Philippines, and immigrated with her family to Canada in 1988. She pursues an interdisciplinary art practice that examines notions of heritage, folklore, motherwork, and decolonization presented within the otherworldly. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and tattoo work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation, and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada.

Related Exhibitions

PHI Fondation Boyce Web Thumb

Past Event

Foundation

Sonia Boyce: FEELING HER WAY

May 3 September 6, 2024

The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the North American premiere of FEELING HER WAY by Sonia Boyce DBE RA

Exhibition Contemporary Art

More Events

PHI Event Centre Myriade Chromatique Credit sylvain dumais V2

Free

Centre

Chromatic Myriad

August 15 July 31

The PHI Centre showcases a light installation with evolving content, adapting to the seasons and exhibitions

Installation Technology
PHI Event Horizon Kheops Experience COVER

Off-Site Location

The Horizon of Khufu

February 16 November 30

The immersive experience Horizon of Khufu, presented in the Old Port, is a unique VR expedition to discover the wonders of Egypt

Immersion
PHI Event Centre Espacesincarnes COVE Rv2

Free

Centre

Embodied Spaces

February 24 December 31

A monthly gathering of live performances where art comes to life

Performance Community
241009 Revescodes COVE Rv3

Centre

Coded Dreams

October 9 January 12

An immersive exhibition that encourages you to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) through two unique and captivating experiences

Exhibition Artificial Intelligence
Laure prouvost oma je thumb

Free

Foundation

Laure Prouvost: Oma-je

November 1 March 9

The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Oma-je, the largest North American exhibition to date by acclaimed French artist Laure Prouvost

Exhibition Contemporary Art
Myvandam pep thumb

Free

Foundation

My-Van Dam: Spaces of Resonance

November 2 March 9

The PHI Foundation is pleased to present Spaces of Resonance, a public engagement project by artist My-Van Dam

Installation Contemporary Art
Prouvost visitesquotidiennes thumb

Free

Foundation

Daily Guided Tours

November 20 March 9

Our Visitor Experience Coordination team offers guided tours in French and English of the exhibition Laure Prouvost: Oma-je during our opening hours

Event Contemporary Art