Past Exhibitions

Experimenting with mediums as varied as painting, sculpture and photography, Rajni Perera expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects exist in dystopian realms. From June 15 to September 8, 2024.

The concept of the monument is at the heart of this group exhibition featuring works from our permanent collection. It draws on our impetus to commemorate collective myths that have been deemed important and whose legacy is sometimes contested, as we see today. From July 4 to September 8, 2024.

Since the 1990s, Mark Lewis has made films that explore the language of cinema and the mechanisms of image construction. Their minimalist narratives often allow room for the artist to explore different video recording techniques. From June 15 to September 8, 2024.

The Musée d’art de Joliette, in collaboration with the Centre d’amitié autochtone de Lanaudière, has invited the artist Marie-Claude Néquado to create a mural that will be presented in the large glass room at the front of the Museum.

For its winter programming, the Musée d’art de Joliette has chosen the theme of the body and its stories. From February 10 to May 12, 2024.

Meryl McMaster is a leading voice in art today, making large-scale photographic self-portraits that explore her ancestry. While some of her earliest works, included here, infuse historical representations of Indigenous peoples with contemporary aspects, others suggest a sort of imaginative repossession of the land, articulated in dreamlike scenarios. From February 10 to May 12, 2024.

The Musée d’art de Joliette is proud to present Emma Waltraud Howes’ first solo museum exhibition, The Time it Takes. It features a dialogue between recent and earlier works dating from 2012 to 2024. From February 10 to May 12, 2024.

Vigils, meditations, daydreams—these are forms of half-slumber that nourish our days and give us time to experience out-of-sync perceptions, discordant thoughts, and suspended judgments. From February 10 to April 28, 2024.

This autumn, the Musée d’art de Joliette has chosen ecologies as its theme. The subject is explored through different definition of the term in each of this season’s temporary exhibitions. From September 30, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

This exhibition brings together artists from Quebec, Canada and abroad. It explores our relationship with nature from the particular angle of desire and its ambivalence. From September 30, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

The first solo exhibition since 2018 dedicated to the recent work of Québec artist Julie Favreau, Les intuitions [The Intuitions] brings together video, photo installations, and sculptural works, most of which are being presented in Québec for the first time. From September 30, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

The Musée d’art de Joliette invites the public to take part in the Corbeil Project, a community exhibition, by lending works that they own or have in their keeping. From September 30, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

As a complement to the exhibition Projet Corbeil, the collections team at the MAJ is highlighting approximately twenty newly acquired prints by the artist Marie-Anastasie. From September 30, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

Each in their own way, the exhibitions presented this summer at the MAJ urge us to sharpen our sensitivity to the human and non-human realities around us, with the goal of helping us better understand ourselves and therefore live better lives, and it does so without adopting a moralistic or imperative tone.

The group exhibition Dissolving your ear plugs presents projects by twenty-two artists who address the core principles behind the work of Pauline Oliveros. At the MAJ from June 11 to September 4, 2023.

Through small group experiments, knowledge-sharing activities, and a series of interviews, Anne-Marie Ouellet examines how groups, whether informal or organized, generate a feeling of belonging, and how these groups influence our activities, behaviours, emotions, and ideas. From June 11 to September 4, 2023.

Oscillating between the individual and the collective, between listening and speaking, HOMING PROJECT is like a quilt that displays the heterogeneous histories that, when placed in relation to one another, allow us to address social issues and envisage a harmonious and inclusive coexistence. From June 11 to September 4, 2023.

After nearly forty years spent exploring the possibilities of figuration up to its most abstract expression, Montréal artist Marian Dale Scott (1906-1993) addressed, over the last thirty years of her life, the potential of non-objective art. A Peek at the MAJ Collection on display from June 17 to September 4, 2023.

We are all the product of our environment, but what about the link between the context of an artwork’s production and the final result? What happens when that context changes? Does the work change just as much? For this programming period, we’ve decided to look at the links, influences, and incidences between contexts and artworks.

A Place of Memory: Contexts of Existence is an exhibition that reflects on what a context is, what it means, and how it creates the conditions for artists to manifest new views of the world we live in. From February 11 to May 14, 2023.

Often defined by artists as a space of one’s own, a cave or a laboratory, the studio is a constantly evolving entity. Creation is linked to the imagination, the mind, and to thought, but it takes place in a physical environment. From February 11 to May 14, 2023.

Active for over fifty years on the Canadian art scene, Irene F. Whittome has long made the museum—its tools, systems, and functions—the centre of her creative process. From February 11 to May 14, 2023.