Contact

+1-514-914-3319
felix.bernier@gmail.com

Bio

Félix Bernier is an interdisciplinary artist from Montreal now based in Halifax, with a background in software engineering. His work explores the impact of digital technologies to our physical environment and human interactions. Using photography, installation, sculptural elements and digital technologies, Félix presents the complex inter-relations of the physical and the digital as sources of interrogation. Félix completed his Master of Fine Arts at NSCAD University in 2021.

Education

2019-2021 Master of Fine Arts at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2018-2019 Visual Arts Certificate at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2003-2007 Bachelor in Software Engineering at École de technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada

Professional Practice

2022 Individual Course Appointee for Digital Fabrication course at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2022 Individual Course Appointee for “Basic Sound” course at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2020-2022 Research Assistant for professor Kim Morgan, Halifax, Canada
2020-2021 “Unpunctuated” MFA annual exhibition organisation
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant in photography and Visual Culture at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2015-2018 Photo Club 3e oeil Dark room teacher
2013-2018 Photo Club 3e oeil, Member of the management board

Selected Exhibitions

2023-10 D’après mesures at Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, St-Jerôme
2023-10 D’après mesures at Galerie University of Montréal, Montréal
2022-08 Invisible Environments at Art in the Open, Charlottetown, juried art festival
2021-09 The Surface of Data at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Solo exhibition
2021-09 Littoral Transmissions at The Craig Gallery, Halifax, Collaborative exhibition
2021-01 The Altar on Windsor Street, Halifax, Collaborative exhibition
2021-01 unpunctuated at Ecology Action Center, Halifax, Group exhibition
2020-11 2454 Agricola St. on Agricola Street, Halifax, Solo exhibition
2019-12 Not Everyone* is a Painter at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Group exhibition
2018-06 A Person’s Vulnerability at Studio Argentique, Montreal, Group exhibition
2017-12 How to Bend Stone at ROOT Studio for The Print Swap juried exhibition, Brooklyn, Single photo
2017-09 Versus at Galerie 1040, Montreal, Group exhibition
2017-05 Study on Human Impact Over Nature at Galerie Carte Blanche, Montreal, Group exhibition
2016-06 Residual Memory at Gravy Studio & Gallery for Living Image juried exhibition, Philadelphia, Single photo
2016-05 The Time Shift Project at Ilse de Garde, Montreal, Collaborative exhibition
2015-09 Fulfilment in Empty Spaces at Galerie Luz, Montreal, Group exhibition
2015-04 Off-Season at Galerie AUX VUES, Montreal, Solo exhibition
2014-06 Fulfilment in Empty Spaces at Galerie du Plateau, Montreal, Group exhibition

Awards and Scholarships

2023 Canada Arts Council Grant, Component Explore and Create, Concept to Realization for an exhibition related to the 2022 Research-Creation Residency
2020 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Graduate Scholarship
2019 Joan Catherine DeWolfe Graduate Fellowship
2019-2021 NSCAD Graduate Scholarship

Nominations

2021 Nominated for International Sculpture Center's 2021 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
2017 Selected for The Print Swap (Feature Shoot) exhibition curated by Gabriela Landazuri, Photo Editor at The Huffington Post
2017 Honorable Mention in Landscapes Category of MonoVisions Photography Awards
2016 Selected for The Halide Project juried exhibition - Living Images

Residencies

2024 TO COME: Sporobole: Chantier IA, Quebec, Canada 1 month.
2023 SÍM Residency, Iceland, 1 month.
2022 Research-creation residency at the Station Biologique des Laurentides, Quebec, Canada, 3 weeks.
2017 Burren College of Art, Clare County, Ireland, 1 month

Publications

2018 Hexagramme 20, Winter 2018, Club 3e oeil
2017 Hexagramme 36, Autumn 2017, Club 3e oeil

Media

2023 Inspirer l’art par la science, Journal Le nord, Saint-Sauveur, July 12 2022
2019 D’art et de science en fôret, Le Devoir, Montreal,July 23 2022
2017 The View: 2454 Agricola St., Unravel Halifax, Mar/Avr 2022, p.19

Collections

2023 Private Collection, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2019 NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia College or Arts and Design printmaking archive
2017 Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania