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Michèle Thériault is a curator, writer and editor who is currently director of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montréal. She is interested in translational issues in art, reflexive frameworks, knowledge in art and in the context of exhibition. As director of the Ellen Art Gallery she has developed a program that reflects critically upon contemporary artistic production and curatorial activity often in relation to the recent history of contemporary art. She has curated many exhibitions with Canadian and international artists such as Timelength (2004); Claude Tousignant. 3 paintings, 1 sculpture, 3 spaces (2005); Walid Raad, The Atlas Group (2006); Harun Farocki: One image doesn't take the place of the previous one (2007); Kent Monkman: My Treaty is With the Crown (2011), and Olivia Boudreau: Oscillations of the Visible (2014). She was also a co-curator of Traffic, Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965-1980 (2010-2014, with Catherine Crowston, Grant Arnold, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Théreiault, Jayme Wark, Vincent Bonin). She is the editor of numerous publications and the author of many essays.