JOURNEY
A self-taught artist, Adeline Benhammouda began her artistic practice in 2005 when she made a major life decision to transition from her legal career to become a professional mosaic artist, shifting her focus from the legal field to the visual arts and crafts. She learned her craft by working alongside master mosaic artists from Canada, Italy, and France.
A Franco-Quebecker of Kabyle and Polish descent, she focuses her work on a geocultural understanding of individuals from second-generation and subsequent generations of diaspora communities, regardless of their origins.
Her approach is expressed in particular through Berber and Slavic symbols, as well as inspiration drawn from primitive art.
Adeline is passionate about natural materials, the sedimentation of stone, marble, and limestone. Each tessera may reveal a fossil or a geode, or break in an unexpected way. This unexpected, unknown element fuels her creative process and her inspiration, which is always tied to the passage of time.
Furthermore, since 2014, she has made it her mission to promote the visual arts to a broad audience by offering mosaic art workshops to students in schools, creating murals with the participation of citizens in green alleys, and opening a mosaic art school for children in Haiti. The medium’s potential in art therapy also leads her to work with young people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. The goal is to stimulate each individual’s creative potential, encourage openness toward oneself, one’s inner self, as well as toward others, and offer an alternative means of expression.
ABOUT
EXHIBITIONS
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RESIDENCES
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2026 : Collective exhibition XL7- Maison de la Culture -Outremont Gallery - July 8 - August 30.
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2026 : Solo exhibition « Entre d’Eux » Maison de la Culture NDG- Monkland Gallery– May 28 – August 23.
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2025 : Symposium de la mosaïque contemporaine - Timnay Midelt, Maroc, Ksar Timnay, June 2025.
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2025 : Collective exhibition « Abstraction », rallye-expos Vues d’Afrique and Nouvim Arts Expos, La Cenne Gallery, Montréal, June 2025.
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2025 : Résidence « Regards Croisés », collaboration Québec-Côte d’Ivoire, Afromusée, Montréal, May 20 to June 15.
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2024 : Collective exhibition « Fantastiques mosaïstes », Centre culturel Marie-Fitsbach, Saint Georges (Québec) August 29 - November 10 2024.
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2024 : Symposium Bromont en Art, 26e édition, Bromont (Québec), August 23 to 25.
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2024 : Exhibition 1775 – sur les Plaines d’Abraham, Plaines d’Abraham Museum (Québec), June 7 2024 to December 11 2025. Artwork in the Museum's permanent collection.
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2024 : Collective exhibition « Poèmes de verre – 5e édition », Ecomusée du Fier Monde (Montréal) du 12 au 23 juin.
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2023 : Collective exhibition Canadian mosaicists : Mc Millan Art Centre (Vancouver, BC) July 1- August 27 – Winner of the best 3D artwork for the piece « Transmutation ».
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2023 : Symposium d’art de la mosaïque à Nabeul (Tunisie) May 10 - May 23.
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2023 : Permanent exhibition of the piece « Antonine Maillet, mes pensées flottantes » Pays de la Sagouine (Bouctouche, NB).
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2022 : Lilian Broca'exhibition « Mary Magdelene resurrected » Vancouver Italian cultural Centre (Vancouver,BC) March 31 - August 15, then at Galerie JD Carrier (Toronto, ON) September 15 - October 20 . Production credits for the mosaic series.
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2018: Collective exhibition organized by Art Cible (September)
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2018: Talking Windows - Montreal
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2017: Artist in residence in Kamouraska, Kollaboration; followed by the exhibition-auction in June.
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2017: Collective exhibition, Livart gallery, The timelessness of the human body (March).
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2016: Collective exhibition at the Galerie du Viaduc entitled Poisson d'Avril - April fool (April).
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2016: Collective exhibition Art Cible at L'Espace Cercle Carré (January)
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2015: Collective exhibition at the Simon Bolivar Center, organized by Image de Femmes (March).
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2014: Exhibition at SIDIM 26th edition, winning work Greta Garbo selected by a jury composed of members of the management of the Artxterra Agency, SIDIM and INTÉRIEURS Magazine.
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2014: Behind Closed Door exhibition, Hotel Zéro, Montreal, silent auction for the benefit of the Bouclier d'Athéna association.
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2013: Collective exhibition at La Cenne, Montreal, organized by Art Cible (September)
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2013: Collective exhibition at the Galerie du Viaduc, Montreal (01 to 13 April)
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2009: annual collective exhibition Mosaique Surface, Montreal (July)
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2008: group exhibition Mosaique Surface, Montreal (June).
APPEARS IN
February 2016: Portrait of the artist with video by Pelicula Film. Screening of the portraits at the Phi Center in Montreal on April 1, 2016.
April 1, 2016: article in the daily Le Devoir