Of Haitian and Québécois descent, Natacha Clitandre currently lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from UQAM (2000) and studied Graphic Design at the École de design de l’UQAM. In 2007, she completed a master’s degree in theory and practice of contemporary art and new media from Université Paris 8. She also studied, on scholarships, at both Brown University and RISD in the US.
Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, including at La Centrale galerie Powerhouse, Verticale artist-run centre, PHI, the Espace Culturel Séraphine Louis (Clermont, France), the Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto, the Centre des Arts de la Maison d’Haïti and the Musée de la civilisation. She has participated in several artist residencies, most recently at Ada X, Paradise (Nantes, France), the Cinémathèque québécoise and Diaphane (Clermont, France). In 2024 she won the Prix Powerhouse, an award recognizing two Montreal-based artists who demonstrate perseverance and commitment to their work.
For more than 20 years, Natacha has also worked as a cultural worker. From 2017 to 2022, she was Ada X’s Programming Coordinator, playing a pivotal role in developing the feminist artist-run centre’s Slow Tech approach.
Born in Vancouver in 1986, Salima Punjani is a self-taught multisensory artist who uses mediums like soft sculpture, vibrotactile, spatial sound, field recordings, digital video and photography and relational aesthetics. Her artistic approach is intertwined with her interest in trauma-informed care and disability justice. She is particularly interested in how multiple senses can be used to expand the possibilities for people to feel welcome in art spaces as well as to create artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as pleasure, grief, rest as resistance to systemic injustice and how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies.
She holds a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Master’s in Social Work from McGill University with research focusing on the intersection of the arts and care work.
She has shown work at many artist-run centres across Canada as well as the Phi Centre, Musée Regionale de Rimouski and the Spatial Sound Institute. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Montreal Arts Council, Quebec Arts Council, International Development Research Council and SSHRC.
She is currently enjoying playing with synthesizers and deep listening while getting lost in botanical gardens.
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