EMILY SPOONER
emilyspooner96 (@) gmail.com
EDUCATION
BFA, Painting & Drawing Major, Distinction, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2026 — pendant que la lune s’éloigne, as the moon drifts away, PRÉSENCES project, Vaste et Vague; Curator: Noémie Fortin, Carleton-sur-Mer (QC)
2025 — Blue Sand, Wishbone Gallery, Montréal (QC)
2025 — Art Volt Annual Launch Exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, (QC)
2023 — Open Space, SÍM Hlöðuloftið, Reykjavík (IS)
2020 — FOOD NATURE, Unisex Studio, Rad Hourani, Montréal (QC)
2020 — Positions sur la matière, galerie atelier b, Montréal (QC)
2020 — Inconfort, Galerie Marc Gosselin, Montréal (QC)
2020 — CUCCR X ART MATTERS, VAV Gallery, Art Matters Festival, Montréal (QC)
2019 — ARTCH marché de l’art émergent, Montréal (QC)
2019 — knots that keep you there or here or -, VAV Gallery, Montréal (QC)
2019 — NOUS SOMMES, Le Livart, Montréal (QC)
2019 — Elements in Permutation, VAV Gallery, Montréal (QC)
2019 — Contre-Sens, Atelier Galerie 2112, Montréal (QC)
RESIDENCIES & PROGRAMS (SELECTION)
2027 — (Upcoming) Studio residency, with Spoonermann Collective, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, (NL)
2025 — Production residency, PRÉSENCES project, Centre SAGAMIE, Alma (QC)
2023 — Self-directed residency, SÍM, Reykjavík (IS)
2022 — Thematic residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto (ON)
2020 — CUCCR residency, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
2019 — ARTCH, in collaboration with Art Souterrain, Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Montréal Centre-Ville and Conseil des arts de Montréal, Montréal (QC)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026 — Micro-grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2025 — Concordia University Alumni Association Prize, Art Volt Collection, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
2023 — Travel funding, LOJIQ - Reykjavík (IS)
2022 — Jeunes Volontaires, Gouvernement du Québec, Montréal (QC)
2022 — Travel funding, LOJIQ - Toronto (ON)
2019 — Production grant, ARTCH art contemporaine émergent, Montréal (QC)
FILM SCREENINGS
2026 — (Requiem for a Fox) Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YT
2026 — (Requiem for a Fox) BIRTH 5, White Wall Studio, Montréal, QC
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & TALKS
2026 — Exposition sur l’écoféminisme et l’éloignement de la lune à Vaste et Vague, by Élyse Riverin, TVA Nouvelles, May 2026
2025 — “A Day in the Life” with: Montréal Visual Artist Emily Spooner, The Montreal Guardian, Montréal (QC), November 2025
2023 — Artist talk, SÍM Residency, Reykjavík (IS)
2020 — Issue 01, Archive 00 Magazine, Tokyo (JPN), print
2019 — Issue 13, Art Maze Mag, curated selection by Chris Sharp, Summer 2019, London (UK), print