Nicolas Baier
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Born in Montreal, Nicolas Baier earned his BFA in studio arts at Concordia University in 1994. Very early on, his aesthetic research focused on photography, but in the digital era, this research implies a questioning of the technique. His interests thus turned towards the infinitely big and the infinitesimally small. Enter the metaphysical questioning of invisible spaces. It is in this context that Baier began making use of scientific imagery, attempting to make it accessible. His recent work, often sculptures, offers viewers the occasion to think about the human condition in relation to our capacity to understand the world in which we live. This is why the common thread in many of his pieces is the vanity of things and life.
Noteworthy among his recent exhibitions are Vases communicants, shown in 2016 at Blouin Division, Montreal, Nervure’s Path, shown in 2019 at Arsenal Contemporary New York, and Paréidolies, shown in 2010 at the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. His many collaborative exhibitions include En d’infinies variations, shown in 2023 at the Centre culturel canadien à Paris, France, Rêver l’univers, shown in 2020 at the Musée de la poste, Paris, France, Of Individuals and Places: Photographs from the Lazare Collection, shown in 2018 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Edge of the Earth, shown in 2016 at the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto; the Biennale de Montréal, shown at the Musée d’art contemporain in 2014; and Oh, Canada, which took place at the MASS MoCA in 2012.
Beginning in the 2000s, Baier also created a number of pieces as part of the art and architecture integration policy. He is also the author of a piece of public artwork in the City of Montreal, located at Place Ville-Marie, entitled Autoportrait (2012). Several of his pieces can be found in private and public collections, including that of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Harvard Business School’s Schwartz collection. In 2000, he received the Pierre-Ayot Award and, in 2015, the Louis-Comtois Award.
2023 | NICOLAS BAIER
Vases communicants
MONTREAL
Jan 21 - March 11, 2023
2020-2021 | GROUP EXHIBITION
QUARANTE
MONTREAL
Dec 2 - Feb 27
2020 | GROUP EXHIBITION
ART TORONTO
TORONTO
Oct 28 - Dec 19
2020 | GROUP EXHIBITION
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION
MONTREAL
July 14 - Sept 26
2018 | NICOLAS BAIER, PAUL BUTLER, PATRICK COUTU, MYRIAM DION, MICHAEL DUMONTIER & NEIL FARBER, SIMON HUGHES, SARAH ANNE JOHNSON, SCOTT McFARLAND, JULIE ROCH-CUERRIER
GROWTH
MONTREAL
July 7 - Sept 8
2017-2018 | NICOLAS BAIER
ASTERISMS
TORONTO
Oct 27 - Jan 13
2017 | NICOLAS BAIER, PATRICK COUTU, MANON DE PAUW, MIRUNA DRAGAN, ALEX MCLEOD, JOHN MONTEITH, CHARLES STANKIEVECH
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
TORONTO
Mar 11 - Apr 17
2016 | NICOLAS BAIER
ASTÉRISMES
MONTREAL
Sept 16 - Nov 15
2013 | NICOLAS BAIER
TRANSMISSION
MONTREAL
Oct 25 - Dec 21
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NICOLAS BAIER, MICHEL DE BROIN, JULIE FAVREAU, CAROLINE MONNET, CHLOE WISE I NEWS
Décennie 2010: arc-en-ciel sur les arts visuels
La Presse, by Éric Clément
Dec 8, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I EXHIBITION
Sīmurg - Curated by Muriel Quancard
Josée Bienvenu gallery
Nov 20, 2019 - Jan 4, 2020
ART TORONTO I NEWS
Nicolas Baier, Mike Bayne, Tammi Campbell, Patrick Coutu, Michel de Broin, Myriam Dion, Dumontier & Farber, Karel Funk, Simon Hughes, Sarah Anne Johnson, Wanda Koop, An Te Liu, Scott McFarland, Alex McLeod, Caroline Monnet
Oct 25 - 27, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
ARK Inc. and Nicolas Baier Receive an International Design Award
Canadian Architect
Oct 8, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
Ouverture officielle et exposition inaugurale
Fondation Grantham
Sep 22, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
Allison Hanes: I.M. Pei’s legacy stands tall on Montreal skyline
Montreal Gazette
May 21, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
Étude de cas : “Autoportrait” et la Place Ville-Marie
Chromatic Montreal
May 14, 2019
DALLAS ART FAIR 2019 | NEWS
Nicolas Baier, Sarah Anne Johnson, Wanda Koop, Alex McLeod
Dallas Art Fair
Apr 11 - 14, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER | NEWS
Nicolas Baier’s First U.S. Solo Show at Arsenal Contemporary
Whitewall
Mar 27, 2019
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
Collection AGAC 2018 — Faites l’acquisition d’une oeuvre de Nicolas Baier et soutenez l’Association des galeries d’art contemporain
Association des galeries d’art contemporain
NICOLAS BAIER I NEWS
Nicolas Baier À La Biennale: Une Éternité D'acier
La Presse
Oct 27, 2014
NICOLAS BAIER I REVIEW
Artist Nicolas Baier explores the ‘poetic potential’ of the cosmos
The Globe And Mail
Oct 24, 2013