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[NEWS] Eunice Bélidor Becomes First Black Curator in Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’s 161-Year History
The
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has named Eunice Bélidor its new curator of
contemporary art, making her the first, full-time Black curator in the
institution’s 161-year history.
“This is something that happens in all the institutions I go
through,” Bélidor told the Montreal Gazette. “Wherever I have been hired
before, it always sends that message (of change), because I’m usually the first
Black person holding that position.” A Montreal native, Bélidor established her
career as an independent curator, critic, and researcher. Over the past decade,
she has organized exhibitions and projects in Montreal, Toronto, and Berlin.
Since 2019, she has served as director of FOFA Gallery at Concordia University
in Montreal. She joins the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on April 12.
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Bélidor’s
exhibitions and projects have included “IGNITION 16” (2020), an online exhibition organized with Michèle
Tériault at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery at Concordia University; “Over My Black
Body” (2019), co-curated with Anaïs Castro at the
Galerie de l’UQAM at the University of Quebec in Montreal (and first presented
in Berlin with Spike Art Quarterly); and “Future Memories” (2016) and “Code: Body” (2018), both presented at Articule as part of
Montreal’s HTMlles Festival, which is dedicated to media arts and digital culture
produced by women, trans, and gender non-conforming artists.
“This opportunity will allow me to pursue my work of supporting
artists and promoting Quebec and Canadian contemporary art in Montreal, Canada,
and abroad,” Bélidor said in the Gazette interview. MMFA is Canada’s largest
and most popular art museum, with over 1 million visitors in 2019.
In a
statement, chief curator Mary-Dailey Desmarais said that Bélidor’s “experience
coupled with her interest in stimulating dialogue and in focusing on themes and
discourses that are too often marginalized make her a tremendous asset for the
MMFA.”
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