Past Exhibitions

This season, our exhibitions address the mechanics of the visible; they invite us consider the relationships between vision and cognition, which have transformed themselves through time.

A group exhibition where the artists each defy, in their own ways, conventions and prescribed norms. From February 5, 2022 to May 15, 2022.

The Musée d’art de Joliette is hosting the installation A Forest Song (2019) along with a new painting and mural intervention by the Canadian artist duo DaveandJenn. From February 5, 2022 to April 24, 2022

Derek Liddington is interested in perception, more precisely in memory and its effects on our perceptions. How can we make them tangible in a work of art? How to make them come alive for visitors? From February 5, 2022 to May 15, 2022.

This group show of artists from Quebec, Canada, and abroad addresses the role and nature of emotions in the world of work and, more generally, throughout our capitalist technological culture. From October 2, 2021 to January 9, 2022.

The exhibition Revival: Printmaking in Nunavik (2014-2019) brings together some sixty linocuts produced during touring workshops given in nine Nunavik communities. From October 2, 2021 to January 9, 2022.

The pieces exhibited in Constellation exhibition present the authenticity, the aesthetic originality, and all the anthropological, sociological, and heritage potential that characterizes the Impatients collection itself. From October 2, 2021 to January 9, 2022.

We would like to pay special tribute to this generous donor by presenting some of the works he left us. From January 8 to 16, 2022.

Sabourin invites herself into your world through her deeply sensitive text, objects, and a collection of scents, all brought together in a box that can be borrowed from the Musée d’art de Joliette to experience at home. From October 2, 2021 to May 15, 2022.

Three works from the MAJ collection that resonate strongly with the group show Smile! Emotions at Work are on display this fall. These mechanized or electrified works encourage visitors to reflect on the development of technologies, their impacts on human beings, and their integration into the art world in the twentieth century.

By setting up a dialogue between the exhibition Smile! Emotions at Work and artworks from the Impatients collection exhibited in the museum’s common areas, we want to emphasize the importance of the care and support work of the artists who lead these workshops and the social workers who contribute to the project as a whole.

Every year, the Fondation du Musée d’art de Joliette (FMAJ) organizes a benefit auction to finance the Museum’s educational activities and its developing programs. Come see to artworks that will be at the auction.

Choosing the Musée d’art de Joliette’s (MAJ) collection for a summer thematic exhibition is like reaching into a gift bag. It means discovering its strengths and weaknesses. It also means noting that these collected works, even the most recent ones, stem from the issues of the day and the influence of individuals who gravitated and … Continued

Salvific proposes to break away from the clutches of our screens and tech gear in order to reconnect with the experience of the art object and the ampleness of its physical qualities, subtle in some cases and emphatically assured in others.

Standardizing: The Portraits presents twelve paintings in the process of acquisition.

Dark Matter highlights several issues relevant to museum practices. That is why the MAJ has invited the artist to pursue his reflection with a creative residency in the Museum’s spaces.

On the MAJ’s invitation, Chloé Desjardins is making the curiosity expressed by others the point of departure for her own reflection a first in her art practice.

An interest in language and philosophy permeates Carl Trahan’s art practice, which deals, by turns, on shifts of meaning in translation, on the weight of words, on the power of their articulation, and on the meandering passage between thought and experience and its expression and transmission.

The text “In Dialogue” is an overview of the programming season at the Musée d’art de Joliette.

This exhibition brings to light a collection of bronzes that were generously offered to the Musée d’art de Joliette by Mr. A.K. Prakash, and presented in the midst of an extensive installation by artist Nicolas Fleming. From October 3 2020 to May 23, 2021

This exhibition features Joseph Tisiga’s most recent efforts to push the cultural boundaries of what it means to be a person of First Nations decent in the twenty-first century. From October 3, 2020 to May 23, 2021

The MAJ invited Philippe Allard to invest all spaces at the museum, with a new body of work to be developed from residual plastic materials. Outdoor intervention: August 15 to April 18, 2021. / Indoor Intervention: October 3, 2020, to April 18, 2021