2024 | JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOUCHARD
THE NEW CUBANS
MONTRÉAL
Oct 30 - Dec 22, 2024

**Jean-François Bouchard** | *Manuel and Friends*
Épreuve giclée sur papier d'archive/Archival Pigment Print
60” x 40”

Blouin Division is pleased to present The New Cubans, an exhibition featuring new works by Jean-François Bouchard.

Amidst the countless hardships of life in Cuba and despite the present-day migration crisis, the younger generation is shaping a new reality defined by nonconformity, gender diversity, and resilient creative expression. The New Cubans is a visual journey into this lesser-known Cuba, uprooting the cliché depictions of Cuban cigars, vintage cars, all-inclusive resorts, and Cold War echoes.

Jean-François Bouchard travels the world and seeks out people whose interests and lifestyles are out of the ordinary. He celebrates difference by focusing on marginalized, misunderstood, and often ostracized groups of people.

His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals in Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and France. Artnet selected the In Guns We Trust exhibition as a “Must-see show in NYC,” while ArtForum selected his Exile from Babylon exhibition as an “Editor’s Pick” in early 2023.

His photographs have been published in The Washington Post, Stern Magazine, The Guardian, Wired, The British Journal of Photography, and many others. He is a winner of the Nannen Prize in Germany.

Bouchard lives in New York City and Montréal.

Jean-François Bouchard | The New Cubans