🌟 Get to know our crits' guests during the studio 2024 residency! 🌟

Their shared expertise, comments and feedback will greatly contribute to the artistic development of our resident artists. Thank you!

We are grateful to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montreal, and Pop Montreal for their support in making this residency possible. 💌

Dayana Matasheva

Dayana Matasheva is a visual artist based in Montreal, whose eclectic body of work spans photography, video, digital collage, and writing. Originally from Uzbekistan, she has been exploring the narrative potential of visual art for more than ten years. Her work is heavily influenced by internet culture, particularly its slang and meme aesthetic. Dayana's academic background includes Bachelor's degrees in philology (2015) and film production (2020), which have shaped her storytelling sensibilities and imbued her creative process with a deep appreciation for the power of narrative.

Sophie P-Voyer

Sophie P-Voyer, founder of Atelier Retailles, discovered papermaking during her Bachelor of Studio Arts at Concordia University, completed in 2016. Her exploration of the integration of handmade paper into a contemporary art practice led her, in 2018, to found a company that would support her research. At Atelier Retailles, she teaches, accompanies artists working with paper and offers expertise in transforming various materials into paper pulp. As an expert in papermaking, she has collaborated with artists such as Nicolas Lachance, Luce Meunier and Tammi Campbell. Works created under her tutelage have been exhibited at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Danse Macabre, 2021, Nicolas Lachance), in Los Angeles (Princess Diana Exhibition, 2021, Pauline Loctin), at the Foire d'art contemporain de Saint-Lambert (Ton sur ton series, 2018, Véronique Buist) and in several Montreal galleries and exhibition centers. Using collaboration as a driving force for creation, Voyer is also teaming up with artists Maia C Donnelly and Véronique Buist for the outdoor creation of a giant leaf exhibited at the Livart during the Aire de jeux event in 2020. Voyer and Donnelly also created the cover for the International Association for Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) 2022 annual newsletter, under the theme Freedom. At the heart of the artist's mission: the use of fabric scraps from the local fashion industry. For Voyer, stretching the life cycle of reclaimed raw materials and reflecting on the properties of paper in our work as artists is essential.

Aaron McIntosh

Aaron McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist and fourth-generation quiltmaker whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently Entanglements at Northeastern University, and Radical Tradition: Quilts and Social Change at the Toledo Museum of Art. He is a 2020 United States Artist Fellow in Craft, and other honors include a 2017 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and two Windgate Fellowships in 2006 and 2015 from the Center for Craft. His current research-creation project, Hot House/Maison Chaude, has been supported by a 2020-2023 SSHRC Insight Development grant. He has held residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Banff Centre, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. His critical writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the Surface Design Journal, and the Journal of Modern Craft. He currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada, where he is an Associate Professor and Coordinator in the Fibres & Material Practices program at Concordia University.

eunice bélidor

eunice bélidor is an independent curator and researcher, art critic, and writer. Her practice currently looks at questioning as a methodology for curating, writing as creating curatorial auto theory, and at the intersection of letter writing with care, feminism, and racial issues. She holds an MA in Art History with a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies from York University, where she looked at the curating of contemporary Haitian art in international cultural exhibitions after the 2010 earthquake. eunice bélidor won the prestigious Emerging Curator award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation in 2018.