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Guillaume Adjutor Provost is a Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Visual Arts within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick. An interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator, Provost experiments with exhibition forms, collections, text, and curation. His artistic practice centers around reactivating forms and narratives often relegated to the periphery of dominant discourses, with particular focus on class consciousness, counterculture, and vernacular imagery.
Provost's research interests explore the logic of visibility and concealment in exhibitions, questioning how cultural objects are simultaneously selected, ordered, prioritized, and revealed. His work investigates the relationship between material and imaginary archives, and how popular forms circulate or resist within art institutions. His projects frequently take the form of exhibitions where collaboration with other creators and thinkers plays a key role, creating immersive spaces that challenge viewers to reconsider historical narratives and contemporary social structures.
Provost's recent artistic output demonstrates a consistent engagement with themes of economic systems, social class, and historical representation. His work spans multiple media including sculpture, installation, drawing, video, and publication, with exhibitions presented internationally across Canada, France, Spain, Austria, Lithuania, Germany, and Switzerland. His 2024 exhibition 'Soif d'illusion / Illusion of the Self' at the Keillor House Museum explored domestic space as a site for the projection of fabricated identities, while his 2022 'Table of Contents' series examined class consciousness through anthropomorphic rat imagery.
- Recipient of grants from Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
- Recipient of grants from Canada Council for the Arts
- Recipient of Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Grant
- Finalist for Pierre Ayot Prize (2016, 2019)
- Finalist for Sobey Award (2021)
Provost is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau in Montreal and has presented more than twenty solo exhibitions and an equal number of group exhibitions internationally. His teaching practice at the Université de Moncton informs and is informed by his active artistic research, creating a dynamic relationship between his pedagogical and creative work.
