JULIEN CHAMPAGNEVisual artist and composer

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Julien Champagne has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans the fields of media arts and experimental music. His work explores the malleability of sound, landscape and everyday objects, while often referencing 20th century canonical artworks. By merging, hybridizing or hijacking technological components, natural features and artifacts from everyday life, he builds environments, images or sounds that tend to highlight the complementarity or contradiction between the materials he uses. Tensions between noise and silence, nature and technology, appearance and disappearance, presence and absence are thus frequently represented in his work. Champagne holds a Master's degree in Art History, and his research also focuses on the appropriation of the cinematographic medium in contemporary art. As a musician, he participates in various musical improvisation groups and occasionally collaborates with video artists and filmmakers to create a dialogue between sounds and moving images.

His work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Some of his works are distributed by Vidéographe. He lives and works in Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke, Canada.

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Solo shows

2022 | Pieces for Instruments | Skol, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 | Cycles and Cycles | Clark Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 | Écrans | Occurrence (collaboration with Vidéographe), Montreal, QC, Canada
2013 | Printed Erased de Kooning Drawing | Praxis Art Actuel, Ste-Thérèse, QC, Canada

Group shows

2024 | Atlas, nébuleuses du Sphinx | MAC LAU, Saint-Jérôme, Canada
2022 | AQB Open House | Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2019 | Timeshare | Lakewood cultural center, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
2019 | Traverse vidéo - Exhibition section | Prép’Art, Toulouse, France
2019 | RVQC - Digital art | Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, QC, Canada
2016 | Bandes-Passantes | Daïmôn and City of Gatineau, QC, Canada
2015 | Festival Chromatic | Mount Royal Chalet, Montreal, QC, Canada
2014 | Anti-corps | Espace Projet, Montreal, QC, Canada

Residencies

2024 | Artist and studio-apartment residency exchanges (CALQ) | BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
2022 | Artist-In-Residence program | Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2015 | Research and creation residency | La Déviation, Marseille, France
2015 | Creation/Distribution residency program | Vidéographe, Montreal, QC, Canada
2013 | Research and creation program | Daïmôn, Gatineau, QC, Canada

Lectures and interviews

2021 | Data String Oscillations - Interview | Artexte, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 | Cycles and cycles - Lecture | Clark Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
2017 | Baccam/Champagne/Chayer/Godbout - Lecture | Possibles Worlds, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2016 | Die Pod Die - Lecture | Phi Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
2015 | Écrans - Lecture | Vidéographe, Montreal, QC, Canada
2014 | Artist in residence - Interview | « Les voies du retour », ICI Radio-Canada Première
2014 | Artist in residence - Lecture | Daïmôn, Gatineau, QC, Canada
2013 | Mardi Praxis - Lecture | Praxis Art Actuel, Sainte-Thérèse, QC, Canada

Collaborations (Audio)

2022 | 60 X44, Various artists, Vinyl LP, Cuchabata Records
            Track title : Ampersand  (as Julien Champagne)
2019 | Tu ne te retourneras pas, Hazy Montagne Mystique, Vinyl LP, Jeunesse Cosmique Records 
            Featuring on 慟哭 - Lamentation (Exploiter le sens de la création de l'esprit)
2018 | Guet-apens, Jonathan Lachance, Audio cassette, Flora Tapes
            Featuring on Deuxième piège, 1 de 3
2018 | Waiting For The Next Timeless Tuesday, Installation from Charlotte Clermont
            Sound design (as Julien Champagne)
2018 | TokyoMontréal, Baccam/Chayer/Godbout/Champagne, Audio cassette, Jeunesse Cosmique Records
            Musician credited on every tracks
2016 | Snake Whiskey, Snake Whiskey, Vinyl LP, Jeunesse Cosmique Records
            Musician credited on every tracks
2015 | Deep Wireless 11, Various artists, Online streaming, New Adventures in Sound Art
            Track title : 4’33’ (Cave) (as Julien Champagne)
2015 | Gradients EP, Ylang Ylang, Mini CD, Revolving Door Records
              Featuring on Like the end of the world

Collaborations (Video)

2018 | 514-835-9658 (co-directed with Charlotte Clermont)
           Screenings
                 2021 | Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse, France
               2019 | VFP 2019, Montreal and Gatineau, Canada
                 2019 | Festival de la poésie de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
                 2019 | Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Montreal, Canada
                 2018 | La Bête Rousse, Touring festival, France
                 2018 | Les rendez-vous vidéo-poésie, Montreal, Canada
2018 | You’re a Plant Whisperer (co-directed with Charlotte Clermont)
           Screenings
                 2019 | CÓDEC Festival International de Cine Experimental Y Video, Mexico City, Mexico
                 2019 | Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris, France
                 2019 | Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
2015 | New Language (videoclip), from the album “No Exist” by YlangYlang, Carpi Records
          Director of the videoclip

Grants and awards

2024 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Studio-apartment residency grant
2022 | OBORO | Production Assistance Program
2021 | Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) | Arts Abroad : Residencies
2019 | Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) | Project grant : Concept to Realization
2019 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Travel Grant
2018 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Grant for research and creation
2018 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Grant for acquisition and marketing
2017 | SSHRC | Doctoral Fellowships in arts (for a Ph.D in art studies and practice)
2016 | FRQSC | Doctoral Research Scholarships (for a Ph.D in art studies and practice)
2015 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Travel Grant
2014 | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) | Grants for up-and-coming artists
2011 | FRQSC | Master’s Scholarship Program (for an MA in art history)
2010 | SSHRC | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship Program (for an MA in art history)
2010 | MIXARRT | Research grant for students working on “augmented reality” in art
2009 | UQÀM Faculty of Arts Foundation | Grant underlining outstanding academic achievement
2009 | AÉMAV | Financial help for the production of an artwork
2008 | McAbbie Grant for the Arts | Grant underlining the production of a remarkable artwork