MADISON STRIZIC




TKARONTO/TORONTO  //  TIOHTIA:KE/MONTREAL
strizic.madison@gmail.com 

Madison Strizic (b.1996) is an artist, researcher, and baker whose work offers participatory and experimental methods of coming together and (be)coming a/part (of) through storytelling, cooking, and play. 
Born in Tkaronto (Toronto) and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), they graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fibre and Material Practices from Concordia University (2024). 
Drawing from a decade of experience in the hospitality and restaurant industry, their practice combines food traditions with unconventional exhibition models to explore material cultures, queer(ing) spaces, and histories of debt, labour, and value. 

CONTACT
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Education
2016-2024
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Fibres and Material Practices 
Concordia University
Montreal, QC. 




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Exhibitions &
Performances
UPCOMING

August 2026-June 2027
MODULAR KITCHEN
Articule, Montreal, QC


PAST

2025
MODULAR KITCHEN; 
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.12&13 [parchment]; 
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.12&13 [linen]
2025 artch Festival
Place Ville Marie, Montreal, QC

2025
UNTITLED [table]; 
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.2, no.4-8, o.o.s. no.1&2 [parchment]; BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.4&5 [linen] 
Nourrir la Nostalgie
Galerie Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, 
Montreal, QC

2025
UNTITLED [table]
Manifesting Gardens
Undergraduate Student Exhibition
FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC

2024
UNTITLED [table]
Syntheses
RIPA - Rencontre Interuniversitaire de Performance
La Sala Rosa, Montreal, QC

2024
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.4&5 [linen]
Premiere Impression
Arprim Centre d’essai en Art Imprime, Montreal, QC

2021
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.2&3 [parchment]
At Hand/Out of Reach
Webster Library, Montreal, QC

2021
BAKER’S MONOTYPE no.1,2&3 [parchment]
Something About Glitches
VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC




Awards & Grants 2025
Recipient - artch Grant for Emmerging Artists

2025
Recipient - Microgrant for Creative or Cultural Exploration
The Museum of Jewish Montreal

2024
Shortlist - Prix Albert-Dumouchel 




Publications & Writing 
2025
NEEDLEBOUND vol.2
ED: Hayley Mortin
“Handiwork: A Brief Comparison of Different Needle Arts”
[Submission Writer]

2024
YOU ARE ELSEWHERE 
Exhibition Catalogue 
[Editor and Copywriter]

2022
THE SUM OF OUR SHARED SELVES
“Unexpected Infrastructures of Care in the Industrial Environment“ 
Exhibition Catalogue 
[Submission Writer]

2021
At Hand/Out of Reach
Exhibition Catalogue
[Copywriter] 




Professional Experience
2024-ON GOING
Production Assistant for Swapnaa Tamhane
Montreal, QC

2018-2020
Food History Fellowship
The Museum of Jewish Montreal
Montreal, QC

2018
Oral History Fellowship
The Museum of Jewish Montreal
Montreal, QC

2015
Research Assistant for 
Nancy Jain
Sotheby’s Institute of Art
London, England




Press2025
“artch for Art: Montreal’s emerging contemporary art festival“ by Kasi Peri

2025
“Montreal’s artch festival returns with 150 works by emerging artists,” by Johanie Bouffard

2025
“Collective Creativity at artch 2025,” by Andrew Burlone

2025
“Top 5 Montreal Vernissages Edition XXVI” in Best Kept Montreal

2025
“Rebuild. Reshape. Reimagine.“
by Zoe Heffring

2025
“Art as activism and reflection in FOFA’s annual undergraduate exhibition“ by Maya Ruel
                

















MODULAR KITCHEN (2025)

Performance-sculpture
Wood, hardware, wood finisher, linen, cotton, kitchen goods 



Credit: Atlas Documentation.
Inspired by steamer trunk wardrobes and the hyper-designed domestic kitchens of the modernist era, Modular Kitchen is a compact cabinet on wheels that opens up and expands into an unconventional—mostly functional—kitchenette.

Initially conceived for the 2025 artch Festival, this project was designed as a playful attempt to disrupt business-as-usual while on display in the lobby of Place Ville Marie. Over the course of the festival, the kitchenette served as a hospitality post where passers-by were invited to stop and chat, rest, have a coffee, tea, or snack, and were invited to help cook and share meals prepared on site with produce donated by local farming co-operatives.  






UNTITLED [Table] (2023-2024) 

Performance-sculpture
Flat reed, linen ribbon, cotton yarn, metal hardware, plywood, glue, natural stain, food 



Credit: Josh Jenson.
Untitled [Table] consists of four separately woven pieces of a tabletop that, when activated by four different participants, become a singular, self-supporting surface. 

The nature of the table requires participants to negotiate with and listen to each other in order to balance the surface between them. An exercise in unity, and a metaphor for community, this work provides participants with playful and experimental ways of sharing space and coming together.





3. Test Project 
Sol Lewitt, A Melodrama
Postcard
John Weber Gallery, 1980

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4. Test Project
Ian Hamilton Finlay, An Urn for Novalis
1997/98

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5. Test Project
Joseph Beuys, Laßt Blumen sprechen
1974
5-7/8 x 4-1/4 inches
offset lithograph on paper

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