Web | Nicolas Baier
2009
13 x 21 inches (29.25 x 22 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Baier’s sombre, deep black expanse, shorn of landscape details such as a horizon line, lures the viewer into providing her own meaning. Baier’s work presents voids that reflect back onto viewers their own ways of perceiving the world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1967 in Montreal
Lives and works in Montreal
Nicolas Baier is known for his overt manipulation of a vast and personal collection of images that, though “real,” are transformed into a completely fabricated reality. Baier studied at Concordia University in Montreal and his artwork first gained recognition through his inclusion in the 2000 Montreal Biennial. He has won the Prix Louis-Comtois (2015), the Prix du public Loto-Québec (2014), and the Prix Pierre-Ayot (2000), and his public artwork Network was unveiled at York University in 2017. Baier presented a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2001.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Astérismes,” Galerie Division, Montréal (2016); Galerie Division, Montreal (2014); Division Gallery, Toronto (2013); Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (2012); “Paréidolies,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Paréidolies,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2009); “Tableaux de chasse,” the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2006)
Selected group exhibitions: “Documenting, Speaking, Lying,” Museo de la Cancilleria, Guadalajara, and Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico (2017); “The Edge of the Earth,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “Eternity,” the 2014 Montreal Biennale; “Oh, Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012); “Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed,” the Québec Triennial (2008)
Selected public collections: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Val-de-Marne, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2009
13 x 21 inches (29.25 x 22 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Baier’s sombre, deep black expanse, shorn of landscape details such as a horizon line, lures the viewer into providing her own meaning. Baier’s work presents voids that reflect back onto viewers their own ways of perceiving the world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1967 in Montreal
Lives and works in Montreal
Nicolas Baier is known for his overt manipulation of a vast and personal collection of images that, though “real,” are transformed into a completely fabricated reality. Baier studied at Concordia University in Montreal and his artwork first gained recognition through his inclusion in the 2000 Montreal Biennial. He has won the Prix Louis-Comtois (2015), the Prix du public Loto-Québec (2014), and the Prix Pierre-Ayot (2000), and his public artwork Network was unveiled at York University in 2017. Baier presented a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2001.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Astérismes,” Galerie Division, Montréal (2016); Galerie Division, Montreal (2014); Division Gallery, Toronto (2013); Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (2012); “Paréidolies,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Paréidolies,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2009); “Tableaux de chasse,” the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2006)
Selected group exhibitions: “Documenting, Speaking, Lying,” Museo de la Cancilleria, Guadalajara, and Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico (2017); “The Edge of the Earth,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “Eternity,” the 2014 Montreal Biennale; “Oh, Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012); “Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed,” the Québec Triennial (2008)
Selected public collections: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Val-de-Marne, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2009
13 x 21 inches (29.25 x 22 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Baier’s sombre, deep black expanse, shorn of landscape details such as a horizon line, lures the viewer into providing her own meaning. Baier’s work presents voids that reflect back onto viewers their own ways of perceiving the world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1967 in Montreal
Lives and works in Montreal
Nicolas Baier is known for his overt manipulation of a vast and personal collection of images that, though “real,” are transformed into a completely fabricated reality. Baier studied at Concordia University in Montreal and his artwork first gained recognition through his inclusion in the 2000 Montreal Biennial. He has won the Prix Louis-Comtois (2015), the Prix du public Loto-Québec (2014), and the Prix Pierre-Ayot (2000), and his public artwork Network was unveiled at York University in 2017. Baier presented a solo exhibition at Gallery TPW in 2001.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Astérismes,” Galerie Division, Montréal (2016); Galerie Division, Montreal (2014); Division Gallery, Toronto (2013); Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (2012); “Paréidolies,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Paréidolies,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2009); “Tableaux de chasse,” the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2006)
Selected group exhibitions: “Documenting, Speaking, Lying,” Museo de la Cancilleria, Guadalajara, and Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico (2017); “The Edge of the Earth,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2016); “Eternity,” the 2014 Montreal Biennale; “Oh, Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012); “Nothing Is Lost, Nothing Is Created, Everything Is Transformed,” the Québec Triennial (2008)
Selected public collections: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Val-de-Marne, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa