Bio
Contact
richardibghy@gmail.com
mariloulemmens@gmail.com
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens create sculptures, videos, installations, public artworks, and artist books. Combining rigorous research with a material exploration that is specific to each project, their practice questions issues at the intersection of ecology, economy, epistemology, and history.
For several years, they have examined the history of science and other forms of knowledge, including the language of economy, the magic of statistics, the capacity for models to impact the future, the aesthetics of data visualization, and the design of laboratory experiments. More recently, their work seeks to expand concepts of hospitality, care, and interspecies communication.
Their solo exhibitions include: Land is not a mat to be rolled up and taken away, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada (2023), In the Milk of Facts, There Always Lands a Fly, Guido Molinari Foundation, Montreal, Canada (2022), Look, it's daybreak, dear, time to sing, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA (2021), Two fleas quarrelling over who owns the dog they live on, Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Canada (2020-21), Look, it's daybreak, dear, time to sing, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA (2019), An Alert Rabbit Breathing Purified Air, VOLT, Visningsrommet USF Gallery, Bergen, Norway (2019), When the Guest Are Not Looking, Audain Gallery, Vancouver (2018), The Golden USB, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada (2017); VOX, Montreal (2014), Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (2017), Putting Life to Work - La vie mise au travail, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada (2017); Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal (2016), Measures of Inequity, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2016), Real failure needs no excuse, Esker Foundation, Calgary (2016) and Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (2012).
Ibghy & Lemmens have participated in group exhibitions including Pour demain | Our Time on Earth, Musuem of civilization & Barbican Centre, Quebec City, Canada (2023-2024), Extended Present, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (2022), Eco-Urgency: Artists Make The Case, Wave Hill, Bronx, USA (2021 & 2019), 1st Fiskars Biennale, Finland (2019), Soulèvements, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (2018), A Measure of Humanity, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA (2018), The Prophets, Pictures for an Exhibition, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2018), 2nd OFF-Biennale, Budapest (2017), To refuse/ To wait/ To sleep, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2017), On Documentary Abstraction, Art Center South Florida, Miami (2017), XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2016), I stood before the source, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga (2016), 14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2015), La Biennale de Montréal: L’avenir (Looking Forward), Montreal (2014), Manif d’art 7: Quebec City Biennial (2014), Faire et à faire + Voir et revoir, La Filature, Scene Nationale and La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France (2013), Arbeidstid, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2013) and Sharjah Biennial 10, UAE (2011).
In 2020, they received the Grand Prix de recherche of the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment and, in 2019, the Prix Giverny Capital. They were awarded residencies at Les Récollets & Cité internationale des arts, Paris, HIAP, Helsinki, Fogo Island Arts, Canada, the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, Fondation Christoph Merian, iaab, Basel, The Banff Center, Canada, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow.
They live in Durham-Sud, Quebec, Canada
