Explore Lorna Bauer's Art: Comfort & Indifference Exhibit

Three decorative glass containers with wire frames displayed on a white wall.

Quebec multidisciplinary artist Lorna Bauer’s works are in the group exhibition 𝘓𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘦𝘵 𝘭’𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦́𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, featuring the most recent acquisitions of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

Three sculptural objects displayed on a white platform against a plain wall, featuring unique shapes and wire frames with varying colors and textures.

The exhibition brings together works acquired by the MAC between 2020 and 2025 that explore notions of comfort and indifference in the face of the state of the world, across a wide variety of subjects.

📸Top two images: Exhibition view(s) of Comfort and Indifference presented by Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal from November 4, 2025, to May 3, 2026. Jean-François Brière

An indoor art gallery featuring a minimalist design with a polished concrete floor and wooden ceiling. A collection of colorful wire baskets with glass tops is arranged throughout the space. — From the exhibition Air is Where Effort Goes at Galerie Nicolas Robert (source)

Lorna Bauer uses photography and sculpture to examine the relationship between humans and their environment. Her most recent works involve kiln-fired, hand-mirrored glass (below, from 2025.)

A shiny metallic plate featuring abstract, organic shapes resembling fingers, with a small black square in the upper right corner.

A shiny metallic rectangular object with three circular indentations, featuring a small square in the center, against a white background.

Above: Left, Orchid, 2025, kiln-fired glass, hand-mirrored, inkjet pint, 36″ x 24″ / Right, Radiolarian, 2025, kiln-fired, hand-mirrored glass, 36 x 24″

Bauer’s sculptures (at the museum) continue her exploration of the materiality of glass. The blown glass gives tangible form to the air it contains — and which was used to create it — evoking both the process and the gesture of the artist – Galerie Nicolas Robert

An art gallery featuring a display of colorful glass bottles on a sculptural white podium, with framed photographs of nature and interiors on the walls. — Bauer’s glass works, from the exhibition for Sobey Award finalists at the National Gallery of Canada, 2022

Bauer lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad: the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Darling Foundry (Montreal), Franz Kaka (Toronto), and Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery (Athens).

Portrait of a woman with medium-length brown hair, looking thoughtfully at the camera in a creative workspace with bookshelves and artworks visible in the background. — From Instagram, here.

Bauer has been an artist-in-residence at Despina (Rio de Janeiro), The Récollets (Paris), the Quebec-New York Residency, Banff Centre, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her works are present in public and private collections, notably at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Most recently, Bauer was awarded the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for contemporary Canadian photography (2019); in 2021, she was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award, representing Quebec, and in 2024 she was awarded the Gattuso Prize

Lorna Bauer’s website, here.

Her Instagram, here.