Carlos Sanchez (b.1976, Canada) and Jason Sanchez (b.1981, Canada)
Education
2000-2001 Interdisciplinary Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, CA (Jason)
1998-2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, CA (Carlos)
Select Solo Exhibitions
2022 New Work, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016 Recent Works, Centre d’exposition Léo-Ayotte, Shawinigan, CA
2016 A backstage fuck and other curiosities, Espacephos Photography Festival, Matane, CA
2015 Recent Works, Séquence, Chicoutimi, CA
2015 Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Parisian Laundry, Montréal, CA
2010 Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, CA
2009 Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, US
2009 Carlos and Jason Sanchez, DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2008 Natural Selection, Galerie Good Friday, Brussels, BE
2008 Selected Works 2002 – 2007, Maison des arts de Laval, Quebec, CA
2008 Buried Alive, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Reality Interrupted: The Cinematic Work of the Sanchez Brothers, Houston Center for Photography, Texas, US
2007 New Photographs, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York City, US
2007 Recent Works, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, CA
2007 Photo España, Galería Begoña Malone, Madrid, ES
2007 A Walk Through Life, VU, Quebec City, CA
2007 Recent Works, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Between Life and Death, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
2006 A Walk Through Life, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Photographies, Espace F, Matane, CA
2005 Photoworks & Filmblurbs, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Disruptions, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 The Young, Dazibao, Montreal, CA
2003 New Works, Galerie LAB, Strasbourg, FR
2003 Model Citizens, The Kyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, CA
2002 Model Citizens, Espace 306, Montreal, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 The Empty Church, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2019 The Created Image, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2018 Of individuals and Places, Photographs from the Lazare Collection, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CA
2017 Leonard Cohen, A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2017 VOYONS VOIR la Collection de la Ville, maison de la culture de Côte‐des‐Neiges, CA
2017 Contaminaciònes/Contaminations, Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, MX
2017 Dialogues. La collection de photographies Luc LaRochelle, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, CA
2017 Contaminaciònes/Contaminations, Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, MX
2017 Contaminaciònes/Contaminations, El Museo de la Cancilleria, Mexico City, MX
2016 From Ferron to BGL; Contemporary Art in Québec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, CA
2015 Humble Me, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
2015 Nouveautés et autres obsessions / New Discoveries and Other Obsessions, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, CA
2014 Dark Room: On Melancholy and Depression, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, BE
2014 Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences, Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, CA
2013 Disco, Flatland Gallery, NL
2013 Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences, National Gallery of Canada, CA
2013 Quebec and Canadian Art, 1980-2010 – New Acquisitions, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CA
2012 Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, US
2012 Portraiture Post Facebook, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, US
2011 Metropolis – City life in the urban age, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, NL
2011 Beauty, Humor and Social Justice, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
2011 New Faces of the Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, US
2010 Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, CA
2010 Orange Coast College, Frank Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, US
2010 Masion de la Culture Côtes des Neiges, Montreal, CA
2010 Art at Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today, Art Gallery of Mississauga, CA
2010 Péripéties, Masion de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal, CA
2009 Stan’s Eye, Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas, US
2009 Canadian Cameras at Work, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, CN
2009 Mayhem, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, CA
2009 The Unforgettable Fire – 25 Years of TORCH Gallery, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
2008 Water-Currents, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, GR
2008 Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, CH
2008 Start, Zaum Projects Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT
2008 Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, The Quebec Triennial 2008, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2008 Intruders, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, CA
2008 Tangled Up in You, 21c Museum, Louisville, US
2008 Spectacle + Artifice, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, CA
2007 Enfants Du Cartier, photographie canadienne contemporaine, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, FR
2007 Antennae, Houston Center for Photography, Texas, US
2007 AMERIKKA, The Artist Network, New York City, US
2007 Group Photo Show, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, US
2007 Contact Tickler, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Recent Acquisitions, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, CA
2006 Art Fiction, Art Mur, Montreal, CA
2006 Plan Large, Darling Foundry, Montreal, CA
2006 Les Convertibles, Musée national des Beaux-arts du Québec, CA
2006 Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York City, US
2006 Art Vs. Real Life, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City, US
2006 Darkness Ascends, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
2006 Doubletake, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York City, US
2006 20th Anniversary Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 Recent Acquisitions, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, CA
2005 Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, New York, US
2005 Oracle of Truth, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, BE
2005 The Space of Making, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, DE
2005 The Space of Making, Städtisches Museum, Zwickau, DE
2005 The Flayed Land, Galería Begoña Malone, Madrid, ES
2005 The Space of Making, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, DE
2005 Group Show, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York City, US
2005 Surface Tension, Gallery 500, Portland, US
2005 Carlos and Jason Sanchez & Dieter Mammel, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 The Space of Making, Neuer Berliner Kuntsverein, Berlin, DE
2004 Fabulation, Vox, Montreal, CA
2004 XXX… The Summer Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 Recent Acquisitions, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, CA
2003 Persona Grata, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
2003 The Photography Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 Persona Grata, ArtSutton, Sutton, CA
2003 Young Fiction, Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, CA
2002 Too Big to Stay Small, Milk Bedroom Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001 Out of Order, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, CA
Art Fairs
2023 Photo London, UK
2022 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2020 ZonaMaco Foto, MX
2015 Untitled Art Fair, Miami, US
2015 Papier Art Fair, Montreal, CA
2011 Art Rotterdam, NL
2010 Pulse New York, New York City, US
2009 Art Miami, Miami, US
2009 Pulse Miami, Miami, US
2009 Photo Miami, Miami, US
2009 Photo Madrid, Madrid, ES
2009 Next Art Fair, Chicago, US
2009 Pulse New York, New York City, US
2008 Pulse Miami, Miami, US
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, CA
2008 México arte contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX
2008 Art Chicago, US
2008 Scope Art Fair, New York City, US
2007 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2007 FIAC, Paris, FR
2007 ArtDC, Washington DC, US
2007 DC Dusseldorf Contemporary, Dusseldorf, DE
2007 Art Chicago, US
2007 Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, CA
2006 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2006 Paris Photo, Paris, FR
2006 Art Brussels, Brussels, BE
2006 Scope Art Fair, New York City, US
2006 Works on Paper, New York City, US
2006 ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2005 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2005 Paris Photo, Paris, FR
2005 Art Fair Cologne, Cologne, DE
2005 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, CA
2005 Scope Art Fair, New York City, US
2005 ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2005 Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, US
2004 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2004 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, CA
2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, CA
2003 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, DE
2003 Le Salon du Printemps, Montreal, CA
2002 Scope Art Fair, Miami, US
2002 The Armory Photography Art Fair, New York City, US
Publications
2010 “Images D’une Collection” Published by le Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi
2008 “Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed” Published by Fotomuseum Winterthur/ Steidl
2008 “Intrus / Intruders”, Published by le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, CA
2008 Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, The Quebec Triennial 2008, Published by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2007 Deux Relèves, ETC 1987-2007, Published by Revue d’art contemporain ETC inc., CA
2007 The Moment of Rupture, Co-Published by Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto), Torch Gallery (Amsterdam) & Uma, La Maison de l’image et de la Photographie (Montreal)
2007 Enfants de Cartier, photographie canadienne contemporaine, Published by Theatre de la Photographie et de l’image, Nice, FR
2006 Ecotopia – The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, Published by the International Center of Photography, New York, USA / Steidl, DE
2005 Afinidades – Electivas / Elective – Affinities, Published by ARCO / IFEMA, Madrid, ES
2005 The Flayed Land, Published by Galería Begoña Malone/Christopher Cutts Gallery, Madrid, ES
2005 Zeitgenossische Fotokunst aus Kanada, Published by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
2005 The Space of Making, Published by VOX, Montreal, CA
2004 Fabulation, Published by VOX, Montreal, CA
2004 Disruptions: Subversion and Provocation in the Art of Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Published by Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
Bibliography
2015 Dubois, A-M., Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Parisian Laundry, Esse, 08/04/15
2015 Clément, E.: Carlos et Jason Sanchez: Hautes Tensions. La Presse, 05/04/15
2015 Delgado, J.: Carlos et Jason Sanchez, Nos Maîtres de L’horreur Sont de Retour. Le Devoir, 29/03/15, Cahier E, (Reproduction)
2015 Hunter, L.: The Cliffhangers: Carlos and Jason Sanchez, National Gallery Magazine (Reproduction)
2011-2010 Granjon, É.: La mort rôde Vie des Arts, n°221 (winter 2010-2011), p. 79
Lepage, J.: La hantise : La mort, encore!, La Presse, 13/09/10, Arts et spectacles, p. 7. (Reproduction)
2010 Charron, M-E.: Présences Magiques, Le Devoir, 25/09/10, (Reproduction)
2010 Sandals, R.: Torn from the Headlines and Then Set on Fire, National Post, 13/05/10 (Reproduction)
2010 Whyte, M.: Contact Festival: Pleanty of Eye Candy in the Brothel Without Walls, Toronto Star, 28/04/10 (Repro.)
2010 Whyte, M.: It Begins – Contact 2010, Toronto Star, 29/01/10, (Reproduction)
2008 Lavoie, V.: Le Cri, Vie des Arts, no. 212 Fall 2008, p. 51 – 58 (Reproduction)
2008 Gessell, P.: Artists Pull Out All the Stops at Quebec Triennial, Ottawa Citizen, 18/06/08
2008 Sandals, L.: Not so Hidden Treasures, National Post, 14/06/08 p.22 (Reproduction)
2008 Goddard, P.: Photographs are as Real as Real Gets, Toronto Star, 07/06/08, p.E5 (Reproduction)
2008 Dault, G, M.: A Hair-Raising Portrait of the Man in the Mirror, Globe and Mail, 25/05/08 p.24 (Repro.)
2008 Johnson, A.: Buried Alive and Other Obsessions, Canadian Art online, (Reproduction)
2008 Viau, R.: Collection Lazare, Portraits et Paysages, CV, n.78 p. 28 – 36 (Repro.)
2008 Campbell, D. J: Montreal Collects: The LaRochelle and Taillefer Collections, CV, n.78 p. 38-41 (Repro.)
2008 Campbell, D. J: Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 95, p. 40-41 (Repro.)
2008 Tucker, Anne W.: Reality Interrupted, SPOT Magazine, Fall 2008, p. 8 – 13 (Reproduction)
2008 Dykstra, J.: Exhibition Review, Art in America, February 2008, (Reproduction)
2008-2007 Samson, A.: The Sanchez Brothers, HotShoe International, Dec/Jan 2007/08, p. 32-41 (Repro.)
2007-2002 Campeau, M.: Oeuvres Choisies (2002 – 2007), CV, n.82 p. 74 – 75 (Reproduction)
2007 Crager, J.: Emerging Artists 2007, American Photo, Nov/Dec 2007, p. 62-63 (Reproduction)
2007 Sánchez C.J.: Made in Quebec, View Magazine Issue # 8, 2007 (Reproduction)
2007 Tousignant, I.: Narratives of Nastiness, Hour, 08/30/07 (Reproduction)
2007 Díaz-Guardiola, J.: Fotógrafos, ABCD las artes y las letras, 06/30/07, p. 33-34 (Reproduction)
2007 Yale, M.: Antennae, SPOT Magazine, Summer 2007 (Reproduction)
2007 Laffont, N.: Les Enfants de Cartier au théâtre de la photographie, Nice-Matin, 6/17/07 (Repro.)
2007 Côté, N.: L’instant Photographique, Le Soleil, May 12 2007, p. A20 (Reproduction)
2007 Pelizzari, M-A.: Ecotopia, CV/Ciel Variable, Issue 75, May 2007, p.28 (Reproduction)
2007 Balzer, D.: Play Frère, Eye Weekly, April 26 2007, p. 20-21(Reproduction)
2006 Zamudio, R.: Darkness Ascends, Flash Art, November 2006, p. 57
2006 Baillargeon, S.: Une Maison de la photo à la dent longue, Le Devoir, 14/09/2006 p. B8 (Repro.)
2006 LeBlanc, B.: Une autobus acidenté par l’art des frères Sanchez, Courier Laval, 14/09/06, p.13
2006 Sanac, E.: The Sanchez Brothers, Bant, Issue 21, p.15-18 2006 (Reproduction)
2006 Fricke, K.: Recent Works, Beautiful / Decay, Issue N 2006, p.64-69 (Reproduction)
2006 Somzé, C.: Digital Backdrops and Drop-outs of Daily Life, Eyemazing 01-2006 p.12-23 (Repro.)
2005 De Jongh, X.: Sanchez Brothers / Torch Gallery, Kunstneeld, N ̊ 9 p. 54 07/09/2005 (Repro.)
2005 Sánchez, S.: La Tierra Desollada, art.es International Contemporary Art N ̊ 9 01/07/2005 (Repro.)
2005 Carpio, F.: Los Modernos Prometeos, ABCD las artes y las letras, 07/7/2005 (Reproduction)
2005 Goddard, P.: Snap To Attention, Toronto Star, 03/10/05, (Reproduction)
2005 Grande, John K.: The Space of Making, Vie des arts, No. 198, Spring 2005
2004 Campbell, D. J: Virtual Angst, Border Crossings, November 2004, p. 28 – 35 (Reproduction)
2004 Gladman, R.: Rewind, Canadian Art, Fall 2004, p.154, (Reproduction)
2004 Zeppetelli, J.: Fabulous, Hour, 09/09/04, p.24 Goddard, P.: Capturing the Cinematic in Real Life, Toronto Star, 5/20/04, (Reproduction)
2004 McLeod, S.: Portfolio: Selected Works, Prefix Photo, 01/5/04, p.48 – 49 (Reproduction)
2004 Leith Gollner, A.: The Sanchez Brothers soak it all in, Maclean’s, 10/05/04, p.53 (Reproduction)
2004 Crevier, L.: Frères de Sang, Ici, 27/11/04, p.34 (Reproduction)
2003 Delgado, J.: Carlos et Jason Sanchez Forment un Jeune Collectif Explosif, La Presse, 14/12/03
2003 Lamarche, B.: Scènes de Genre, Le Devoir, 13/12/03, p. E6 (Reproduction)
2003 Tousignat, I.: Wonder Boys, Hour, 04/12/03, p.30 (Reproduction)
2003 Sanford, J.: Even Better Than the Real Thing, The McGill Daily, 01/12/03, p. 24 (Reproduction)
2003 Musgrave, S.: Young Offenders, Montreal Mirror, November 20, 2003, p.34 (Reproduction)
Leith Gollner, A. & Webster, D.: Young Bloods, Maisonneuve, 01/10/04, p.66 – 71 (Repro.)
2003 Carpentier, J.: Inter-Urbains, Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, 11/10/03, p.1C
2003 Milroy, S.: Summer 2003: Photo Based Works, Globe and Mail, 08/16/03, p.r18
2003 D. Sellers, G. After Babel, Maisonneuve, spring 2003, p.36 (Reproduction)
2003 Shinn, E.: Clicking Kitsch, Hour, 10/30/03, p.30 (Reproduction)
2003 Mavrikakis, N.: Squelettes dans le Placard, Voir, 16/05/03, p.46 (Reproduction)
2003 Gollner, A.: See You In Court, Montreal Mirror, 02/05/03 p.43
2002 Shepherd, S.: What Lies Beneath, Pursuit Magazine, Summer 2002 p.24 – 25 (Reproduction)
2002 Paiment, G.: Sordid Themes into High Art, Montreal Mirror, 03/01/02, p.36, (Reproduction)
Black, B.: Fine Art Students Sweep the Quebec du Maurier Awards, Thursday Report, 06/12/01
Awards & Grants
2014 Research and Production Grant, CALQ
2010 Long Term Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2008 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2007 Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2006 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2005 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2004 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2004 Travel Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2004 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2003 Type B Grant, Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec
2003 Du Maurier Arts Council Grant
2001 Du Maurier Arts Council Grant
Selected Public Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Canada
Collection d’oeuvres d’art de la Ville de Laval
Collection d’oeuvres d’art de la Ville de Montréal
Collection de l’université de Sherbrooke
Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum Helmonds, The Netherlands
- Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Canada
Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Selected Corporate Collections
Fasken Martineau Dumoulin Montreal, Canada
Giverny Capital, Montreal, Canada
McCarthy Tétrault, Montreal, Canada
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, Canada
Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago, USA
Weinstein Law, New York, USA
White-Young Engineering BV, Den Hague, The Netherlands
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, USA
Selected Private Collections
Phoebe Greenberg Collection
Chaney Family Collection
Jasmine Herlt and Douglas Steiner Collection of Contemporary Canadian Visual Art
Lazare Family Collection
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Various other private collections in Canada, United States and Europe