Bernard Lamarche

Curator of Contemporary Art (after 2000)

Trained as an art historian, Bernard Lamarche has been Curator of Contemporary Art at the MNBAQ since 2012. He also served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Musée régional de Rimouski from 2005 to 2011. For close to ten years, he was an art critic and a cultural affairs reporter for the Montreal daily Le Devoir. Mr. Lamarche has curated numerous exhibitions, including Happiness and Pretence (2003) for the second Manif d’art de Québec, and Riopelle : Impression sans fin (2005) for the MNBAQ. He is the author of many exhibition catalogues on figures as diverse as Sylvain Bouthillette, Lynne Marsh, Nicolas Baier, Bonnie Baxter and Jacques Hurtubise. His articles have appeared in Canadian Art, Parachute, Espace art actuel, esse art + opinion, Etc and Para-Para. In 2009, he co-authored, with Pierre Rannou, the exhibition catalogue Photography Haunted by Spirit Photography. In October 2008, he was awarded the Prix de la Relève of the Société des musées du Québec (SMQ). His exhibition Les Matins infidèles : L’art du protocole, at the MNBAQ, was awarded a prize for the best exhibition mounted in a museum, university gallery or foundation (irrespective of category) at the 2014 Visual Arts Gala. He is also the curator for the inaugural exhibition of the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion of the MNBAQ, in 2016.