6/1/10 - "Smart Art Project #6" (solo show) at 962 Queen Street West (Toronto) until June 15, 2010

5/29/10 - "Titles VI" (group show) at le Musée d'art de Joliette until August 28, 2010

5/13/10 - "Art Montréal contemporain" (group) at the 2010 Shanghai World's Fair until May 19, 2010

4/30/10 - "Les objets secrets de l'atelier" (group show) at La maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal) until June 20, 2010

2/13/10 - "Continuum" (solo show) at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain until April 3, 2010

10/1/09 - "15th Anniversary Exhibition" (group show) at the Galerie d'art d'Outremont until October 25 2009

9/2/09 - "Discarded Beauty" (solo) at the Pretoria Art Museum (South Africa) until October 24, 2009

8/27/09 - "Le son a des jambes" (groupe show) at Centre Clark (Montreal) until October 3, 2009

5/29/09 - "Manoeuvre" (group), curated by Natasha Hébert, at Galeria Toni Tàpies (Barcelona) until September 25, 2009

Jérôme Fortin was born in Joliette in 1971, he lives and works in Montreal.

Since 1996 he has had more than a dozen solo exhibitions including shows in Prague, Pretoria, Tokyo, Paris, Toronto and Montreal. His work has been presented in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Paris, Cuba, Barcelona, Beijing and New York. Fortin has also actively participated in international artists' residencies, notably at the World Financial Center Arts and Events (New York), la Fondation Christoph-Merian (Basel), Fonca (Mexico D.F.), la Cité internationale des arts (Paris), the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (Havana) and Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo).

In 2007 Fortin had a major solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and in 2004 he was a laureate of the City of Montreal's Prix Pierre Ayot. His works can be found in several public collections including those of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, the Musée de Joliette, the Pretoria Art Museum, the National Museum of China, the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Montreal, and in several major corporate and private collections worldwide.

Yann Pocreau. "Métamorphosis" (exhibition review) Canadian Art Spring 2009
Cameron Skene. "Ingenious3" (exhibition review) Canadian Art Summer 2007
Link to overview of Jérôme Fortin's solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (February 2007)
Jérôme Delgado. "Rewind: Jérôme Fortin" (exhibition review) Canadian Art Spring 2003
Rose-Marie Arbour. “Jérôme Fortin : éloge de la fragilité et des croisements” Espace, no. 62, hiver 2002-2003 (in French)
Randy Kennedy. "Tunnel Vision; Plumbing a City's Curiosities in the Name of Art" The New York Times, 11 September 2001

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February 2010