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MAI’s Neighbours Pop-Up Exhibition
Submission deadline: November 10th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EST
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) invites emerging and established artists, duos, and artistic collectives based in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood to submit their visual arts proposals for MAI’s first Neighbour Pop-up Exhibition, which will take place from December 5th, 2025 to December 7th 2025. The Milton-Parc quadrangle is bounded by Sherbrooke Street and Pine Avenue, and Saint-Laurent Street and University Street. We encourage projects that explore multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, reflecting the diversity and interculturality that are fundamental values of our mission. We give priority to creations by artists who are part of communities that are systematically excluded or invisible in the Canadian multidisciplinary arts scene: artists from Indigenous, Black, and various diaspora communities, as well as artists who are part of the disability diversity community and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
For more information about our artistic vision, see our 2025–2026 programming.
Deadline for submitting your application: November 10th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Artists may submit proposals for exhibitions in the medium(s) of their choice: video art, sound art, installations, sculptures, textiles, painting, etc., which can be presented in the MAI gallery. Projects may be presented in the language(s) of their choice.
PLEASE NOTE:
– The exhibition will open on Friday, December 5, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and will be open from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7, 2025.
– Artworks must be dropped off on Friday, December 5, 2025, between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. If you need to speak to the technical director, please do so at the drop off. Any work delivered outside of the scheduled time may not be displayed. Works may be picked up on December 8, 2025, between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
– The MAI is the exhibition curator and will therefore be responsible for setting up the artworks.
– Priority will be given to artists who have never exhibited at the MAI.
– The project must be completed at the time of application.
– We do not offer production or co-production budgets.
– Please ensure that your project can be adapted to the MAI gallery space. Please read the technical specifications and floor plan carefully.
SUPPORT PROVIDED:
-Honorarium of $200;
-Project promotion: handled by MAI.
NOT INCLUDED:
-All exhibition production costs: collaborators’ fees, civil liability insurance costs, equipment purchases, artwork production costs.
YOUR APPLICATION MUST INCLUDE:
1) Your full contact details (postal and email address, phone number);
2) A description of the project (detailed text outlining the project, listing the materials used, physical characteristics, and technical requirements);
3) A description of the link between your project and the MAI’s intercultural mandate (max. 350 words);
4) A description of the artistic approach of the project (max. 350 words);
5) Short biography of the artist (and of each artist in the case of a collective project, max. 150 words per bio);
6) Curriculum vitae including website/social media accounts of the artists/curators and other project collaborators;
7) Dimensions of the artwork, desired hanging method, and how it should be presented;
8) Any other relevant documents (floor plan, press kit, etc.);
9) Visual portfolio of up to ten (10) digital high-definition images and/or videos (Vimeo or YouTube links) representing the submitted project.
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION: You must complete the form and submit your digital images through the form.
Candidates who have difficulty providing the materials in the requested format may contact Anne-Audrey Remarais, Community Liaison Coordinator, at [email protected] or by phone at 514-982-1812 (ext. 223) to arrange a customized agreement for submitting their application.
Only selected projects will be contacted.