Jérome Nadeau
Working with and against analogue and digital photographic tools, the work of Jérôme Nadeau explores the sprawling structures of technology by looking into its infinite potential for reconfiguration. The photographs produced by the artist act both as information and raw material. They suggest that a hypertextual structure is operating in the fabrication and circulation of images. Oscillating between macroscopic and microscopic, between abstraction and figuration, between object and data, motifs are echoed and his work evolves intuitively through a vast network of visual and conceptual interconnections.
Based on an approach that questions the various stages of image production and distribution, Jérôme Nadeau’s practice scrutinizes the tangibility of photography through cyclical processes of reproduction and appropriation. His work, filtered through distinctive photographic mechanisms, incongruously exploits the possibilities allowed by digital devices and darkroom apparatuses. The errors, failures and mishandling of these machines become the image intimate expression of its material essence. Disruption, (de)compression, (re)conversion, (re)construction: the residues of the multiple transformations are both a veil and a revelation. These metamorphoses allow new figures to emerge, suggesting a cryptic symbiosis of technology and the organic body.
Born in Lévis (QC), Jérôme Nadeau lives and works in Montréal (QC). He has an MFA in photography from Concordia University (2016). His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions notably at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2020), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Galerie René Blouin (2018), Occurrences (Montréal, 2016), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (2016), Battat Contemporary (2016), Parisian Laundry (2016), Gallery 44 (2014) and Gallery Monitor (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014). He is the recipient of the Mildred Lande and Margot Lande Fellowship in Photography (2013) and Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photography (2015). Jérôme Nadeau is also the founder and co-director of soon.tw, a publishing house and contemporary art space.
Recent exhibitions
Jérôme Nadeau - Silent Songs
From October 23 to November 27, 2021
Jérôme Nadeau - Poor Healer
From September 7 to October 12, 2019
Selected Artworks
+ CV
EDUCATION
2016 - MFA, photography, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
2014 - MA2 - Photography, Akademin Valand, Göteborg, Sweden
2011 - BFA with distinction - Major in photography, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
RESIDENCIES
2018 - 2020 Artist in residency, Concordia University, Montréal (QC)
GRANTS AND DISTINCTION
2016 Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photograph, Concordia University
2013 Mildred Lande and Margot Lande Graduate Scholarship in Photography, Concordia University
COLLECTIONS
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
+ Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Upcoming: Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
2020
- A Reasoning Abyss, Galerie Nicolas Robert (QC)
2019
- Poor Healer, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
- Poor Healer (A prequel), Galerie Beau Travail, Montréal (QC)
2016
- Still Statues, Occurrence, Montréal (QC)
2014
- Portraits, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden
- That innate and ineradicable craving for what is out of the common proves how glad we are to have the natural and tedious course of things interrupted, curators: jake moore & Jennifer Dorner, Galerie FOFA, Montréal (QC)
- RUINS, as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Gallery 44, Toronto (ON) curator: Noa Bronstein
2012
- Around the House, Listhus i Fjallabyggis, Iceland curator: Alice Liu
- A-B, Les Territoires Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal (QC)
+ Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
- La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Museée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (QC) curators: Mark Lanctôt and François LeTourneux
- Salon d'août, Montréal (QC) curators: Léa Grantham and Béatrice Côté
2018
- Du côté de chez Soon, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (QC)
- Episode Laurier, Montréal (QC)
2017
- Simon Belleau, Jean-François Lauda, Jérôme Nadeau, Georges Lauda, Galerie Beau Travail, Montréal (QC)
2016
- RBMA, Centre Phi, Montréal (QC) curator: TRUSST,
- Sans Titre – Untitled, Battat Contemporary, Montréal (QC) curator: Daisy Desrosiers,
- Ignition 12, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal (QC) curator: Michèle Thériault & Katrie Chagnon,
- Collision 12, Parisian Laundry, Montréal (QC) curator: Jeanie Riddle & Megan Bradley,
- Loose Ends, TYPOLOGY, Toronto (ON) curator: Noa Bronstein,
2015
- Vasagatan 33, Gothenburg, Sweden, curator: Flemming Ove Bech, Jonas Esteban Isfält & Simon Rydén
+ Art Fairs
2020
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
- Papier, Montréal (QC)
- UNTITLED, art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
+ Press and publications
2019
- CORMIER, Raphaëlle (2019). « Jérôme Nadeau, Galerie Nicolas Robert », Canadian Art, [Online], published on October 30, https://bit.ly/2Wxtp7u
- DESLOGES, Josianne (2019). « Foire en art actuel de Québec: morceaux d’identité à collectionner », Le Soleil, [Online], published on May 26, https://bit.ly/32deKjm
2018
- CHARON, Marie-Ève (2018). « Ruines et survivance dans le faire de quatre artistes », Le Devoir, [Online], published on June 9, https://bit.ly/2Ny2iW0
2017
- CLÉMENT, Éric (2017). « Regard sur la relève arts visuels : les choix de Geneviève Cadieux », La Presse, [Online], published on January 7, https://bit.ly/2pooV7m
2014
- Identity, catalogue du Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, page 160.