ESTHER CALIXTE-BEA VISUAL ARTIST
Exhibitions & More
Solo Exhibition
2024-2025
Welcome to the Garden is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Esther Calixte-Bea. Curated by Cecilia Bracmort, the exhibition delves into topics such as healing, freedom, restoration and community. The immersive exhibition consisting of paintings, drawings, garments, poetry & photography illustrates a fictional tribe of women called Fyète-Souhou. Within this tribe a group of women called the Kea-nin are tasked to travel outside of the island of Tè to gather information from the outside world. While some return from their trip, others stay and settle in strange lands. The offspring of these women called ‘The Lost’ are illustrated wearing white t-shirts and their quest for identity is unfolded across the exhibition. Searching to understand who they are after growing up in a land that wasn’t their own, the descendance go on a journey to return to the island and create a new hybrid identity.
2023
To Be & To Belong, Chiguer Art Contemporain, Montreal
2021
Creation of an Ethereal World, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
Group Exhibition
2024
Chlorophylle et Mélanine, Place du Marché Atwater, Montreal
2023
The 2023 Art Volt Collection, Le Livart, Montreal
We do not dream of labour, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Hors-Piste Basculement, Atrium Métro Longueuil- Université Sherbrooke, Longueuil
2022
Imaginaires Souverains, Maison de la culture Janine Sutto et Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal
J'habite le territoires, Maison de la Culture de Longueuil Marcel-Robidas, Longueuil
ARTCH, Dorchester Square, Montreal
Stanley Février's MAADI, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Art.Écran, Place de la Création, Montreal
Entre, La P'tite Porte, Montreal
Aynalem: L'oeil du monde, Centre d'Art Diane-Dufresne, Repentigny
Dos à Dos, Face à Face, Institut National Art Contemporain, Montreal
Vues d’Afrique-Rallye Expo : Union Urbaine, Boutique Espace Urbaine, Montreal
What is the Future of Canadian Afro Descendant Art, Black Wealth Club X Gallea Digital Exhibition, Montreal
2021
Af-Flux Biennale Transnationale Noire: Monde Bossale, Art Mûr, Montreal
Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Wild Trails, Jano Lapin Gallery, Montreal
Opening a Dialogue, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Quebec City
(collaboration with The Womanhood Project)
Musée d’Art Actuel Département des Invisibles (MAADI), Université de Sherbrooke, Campus Longueuil
2020
This is what Compels me to Compel them, Le Livart, Montreal
HUMA-I-N, Galerie Rad Hourani, Montreal
New Legacies : Untangling the Collective Conscience (online exhibition), Repos Anxieux, Montreal
Black History Month Takeover, Concordia University EV Building, Montreal
2019
Vocation en Art, Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
Reclaiming My Place (student exhibition), Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal
Le Salon, Atelier 2112, Montreal
Body; Language, VAV Gallery, Montreal
L’Environment c’est Intersectionnelle, Librarie Racine 2.0, Montreal-Nord
SPACE Exhibition Perspectives, Warren G Flowers Gallery, Montreal
2018
Vocation en Art, Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
SPACE Exhibition “En-tropy ”,Warren G Flowers Gallery, Montreal
26 ème édition du Salon des Arts Visuels, Centre Socioculturel Alphonse Lepage, Brossard
Vocation en Art 2nd part, Maison des Citoyens Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
2017
Vocation en Art, Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
25 ème édition du Salon des Arts Visuels, Centre Socioculturel Alphonse Lepage, Brossard
SPACE Exhibition “Glitch”, Warren G Flower Gallery , Montreal
Vocation en Art 2nd part, Mayson des Citoyens Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
2016
Vocation en Art, Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi Saint-Hubert, Saint-Hubert
The Global Art League, Montreal Art Center, Montreal
Apis (End of Year Exhibition), Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Dawson College,Montreal
SPACE Exhibition “Visions”, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal
2015
SPACE Exhibition “Trans”, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal
Collections
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec
The St. Claire Collection
Rad Hourani
Art Volt
Private
Grants
Conseils des Arts et Lettres du Québec, 2022
ARTCH Creation Grant, 2022
Conseils des Arts du Canada, 2021
Artist Residency
Développement de carrière à l’international, Artch x NYC Crit Club, 2023
Instagram Residency at L’Imagier, 2022
Awards
Visual Artist of the Year Finalist, Gala Dynastie, 2023
Salon Des Arts Visuels De Brossard 25 ème Edition “Jeune artiste prometteur” 2017
Vocation En Art Exhibition “Relève Jeune Artistes” 2016
Auction
Parle moi d’amour- Les Impatients, 2023
Trait d’Union- Festival International du Film sur l’Art, 2022
Publication
The Trans-Exhibition, Edited By Mulvey Frank, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Montreal, Catalogue de l’Exposition, Page 52, 2015, ISBN 978-1-55016-643-9
Visual Arts Graduating Class Apis 16, edited by Smith Stephanie, Meredith Colin J., Vu Caroline, Minh Le Tina Thu Ngo, Dawson College, Montreal, Catalogue de l’Exposition, page 16, 2016
Visions, edited by Mulvey Frank, Warren G. flower Art Gallery, Montreal, Catalogue de l’Exposition, page 80, 2016, ISBN 978-1-55016-996-6
Glitch, edited by Mulvey Frank and Beattie Amanda, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Catalogue de l’Exposition, page 12, 2016, ISBN 978-1-55016-325-4
Entropy, Edited By Beattie Amanda, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Montreal, Exhibition Catalogue, Page 10, 2018, ISBN 978-1-55016-931-7
Perspectives, Watson Sarah, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Catalogue de l’Exposition, Page 14, 2019, ISBN 978-1-55016-798-6
Lalonde, Chloe " Lavender Project" Yiara magazine, 18 Mar 2020. p.24-25 PRINT https://issuu.com/raissapaes/docs/yiara_volume8
Zavaro, Adele. "Esther Calixte-Bea" L'Organe 'Periple', Mar 2020. p. 20 PRINT https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z1Z2BQqDJz2etpdVKz8RR4Almi_MWVoo/view?fbclid=IwAR3xyhfN4C7ssX7rTuQWm_-YjT05NXdwZQIFh-x55zYkaRnO7QZju08M6iA