Paul Lofeodo b. 1994, Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada Paul Lofeodo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. Having grown up in Toronto and then Montréal, he pursued an undergraduate degree at Concordia University, where he studied Photography and Sociology. His work investigate the roles of normative systems, authority and violence in the formation and circumscribing of subjectivity. Research around images of violence, the representational practices that birthed them, and the process of abstraction are central to his process. His work has been exhibited in groupe shows including for the Art Matters festival (Body Works, 2017), Somewhere Gallery (Mementos of Self, 2020) and the Rad Hourani Foundation (WE, 2021), as well as a solo exhibition at the Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (Arrière-fond, 2023).
Paul Lofeodo n. 1994, Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada Paul Lofeodo est artiste interdisciplinaire basé à Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. Ayant grandit à Toronto et ensuite Montréal, il a poursuit des études à l'université Concordia, où il a étudié la photographie et la sociologie. Son travail examine les roles de systèmes normatifs, de l'autorité et de la violence dans la formation et circonscription de la subjectivité. La recherche autour d'images de violence, les pratiques de représentation qui leur donnent naissance, et le processus d'Abstraction sont centrales à son processus. Ses oeuvres ont étés exposées dans des expositions collectives, incluant pour le festival Art Matters (Body Works, 2017), Somewhere Gallery (Mementos of Self, 2020) et la Fondation Rad Hourani (WE, 2021), et une exposition solo à la Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (Arrière-fond, 2023).
CV
Education
2018 — Bachelor of Fine-Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2016 — Semester abroad, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Solo & Duo Shows
2023 — Arrière-fond, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
2018 — Apocolocynthosis, Concordia Photography Collective, Concordia University, Montréal
Group Shows
2021 — WE, Rad Hourani Foundation, Montréal, Canada
2020 — Mementos of Self, Somewhere Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2017 — Body Works, Galerie Gham and Dafe (Art Matters Festival), Montréal, Canada
2015 — A Political Subjectivity, Gallery X, Montréal, Canada
2014 — All at Once, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada
Curatorial Projects
2023 — Arrière-fond, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
Publications
2017 — Subversions, The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History
2017 — 3am issue, The Void Magazine
Grants and Prizes
2013 — Golf Entry Scholarship, Concordia University
Workshops
2021 — Désarticulation/Ré-articulation, Galerie UQO
Community Involvement
2017-present — Jury member for PARAMÈTRES Exhibition burseries, UQÀM
2014-2017 — Executive Member, Concordia Photography Collective
CV
Éducation
2018 — Bachelor of Fine-Arts, Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada
2016 — Session outremer, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Expositions solo et duo
2023 — Arrière-fond, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
2018 — Apocolocyntosis, Concordia Photography Collective, Université Concordia, Montréal
Expositions collectives
2021 — WE, Fondation Rad Hourani, Montréal, Canada
2020 — Mementos of Self, Somewhere Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2017 — Body Works, Galerie Gham and Dafe (Art Matters Festival), Montréal, Canada
2015 — A Political Subjectivity, Gallery X, Montréal, Canada
2014 — All at Once, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Canada
Projets curatoriaux
2023 — Arrière-fond, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
Publications
2024 — ESSE art + opinion, numéros 111
2017 — The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Subversions
2017 — The Void Magazine, 3am issue
2014 — The Concordian, Volume 32 issue 04
Ateliers
2021 — Désarticulation/Ré-articulation, Galerie UQO
Engagement communautaire
2023 — Membre du jury de sélection de bourses pour la résidence PHI Montréal, CALQ
2017-présent — Membre du jury de sélection de bourses pour les expositions PARAMÈTRES, UQÀM
2014-2017 — Member exécutif, Concordia Photography Collective
Reference Artists
Joseph Beuys
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Sorel Cohen
Samuel Fosso
Leon Golub
Eikoh Hosoe
Alfredo Jaar
Jannis Kounellis
Suzy Lake
Man Ray
David Milne
Édouard Manet
Zeami Motokiyo
Collier Schorr
Raoul Ubac
Bibliography
Berger, John — Ways of Seeing
Brecht, Bertolt — Brecht on Theatre
Breton, André — Manifeste du surréalisme
Derrida, Jacques — Spectres de Marx
Epstein, Charlotte — Surveillance, Privacy and the Making of the Modern Subject
Faure, Bernard — The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism
Foucault, Michel — The History of Sexuality (vol. 1)
Freud, Sigmund — Negation
Fricker, Miranda — Epistemic Injustice: Power and Ethics of Knowing
Hall, Stuart — Encoding, Decoding
Komparu, Kunio — The Noh Theatre: Principles and Perspectives
Motokiyo, Zeami — The Spirit of Noh: A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden