Montreal, September 16, 2025 – Vie des arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal are pleased to announce the three finalists for the Polygone Award. This award shines a spotlight on underrepresented artistic practices with the potential to raise both esthetic and social benchmarks. From more than 50 applications, the jury (composed this year of My-Van Dam, Eric Giroux, Jean-Michel Quirion and Dominique Sirois-Rouleau) selected three artists for their unique visions of the world and their contributions to the Montréal and Québec communities. Congratulations to our three finalists!
Andes A. Beaulé
Andes A. Beaulé is a non-binary visual artist, author, friend, researcher, lover, teacher, enthusiast of everything living and cultural worker residing in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Qc). The fluidity between work and life, feminine and masculine, and gentle and radical is not binary, but rather an expression of the beauty and complexity in everything that vibrates.
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Yen-Chao Lin
Yen-Chao Lin 林延昭 is a multidisciplinary artist born in Taipei and based in Montréal. Growing up in a multi-faith family, where she attended Sunday mass, Buddhist ceremonies, energy healing sessions and New Age conferences at her mother’s side, she is interested in spirituality, the divinatory arts, dowsing, the occult sciences, alchemy and invisible forces—anything that can be perceived without necessarily being seen.
Marion Schneider
Marion Schneider is a non-binary digital artist with a master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM (Montréal) and in Digital Design from École nationale supérieure Olivier de Serres (Paris). Her artistic research focuses on the poetic and socially engaged potential of technological tools. Her practice is positioned in the deviant space between queer artistic practices, environmental art and digital art.
AWARD CEREMONY
The award ceremony will be held at Fonderie Darling on Thursday, October 2, starting at 5 p.m., as part of the professional meetings held during the 19th edition of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, In Praise of the Missing Image. The event will start with a welcome cocktail in a casual setting that encourages guests to mingle and chat.
The winning artist, to be announced during the ceremony, will receive a $10,000 grant and be featured in an article appearing in the next issue of Vie des arts magazine.
ABOUT THE POLYGONE AWARD
The arrangement of the angles that make up the polygon, the bases that serve as its foundations and the many ways in which it unfolds are infinitely diverse. The Polygon Award was created in its image to support the many origins, modes and methods of artistic creation.
Created in 2024 at the initiative of the Conseil des arts de Montréal in cooperation with the magazine Vie des arts, this award is intended for artists and artists’ collectives in the visual arts field whose professional practice fosters the acquisition of multiple types of knowledge and who show originality and consistency in their artistic intentions. The artists and collectives may be at any stage of their career and must have artistic achievements whose quality deserves to be showcased and more widely recognized. Their work must have been rarely or never presented in the Montréal professional visual arts milieu. Whether they are self-taught artists or hail from atypical backgrounds, they must have achieved some form of recognition from their peers. The Polygone Award also aims more broadly to promote and highlight the practices of the finalists and the winner while providing tangible support for their careers.
The 2025 Polygone Award marks its second edition. The call for applications for the third edition will be issued in spring 2026. Further details to come.
