Our team

Board of Directors 2025

Florence Chapdelaine-Deslauriers holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Museology from Université de Montréal. She is pursuing a graduate diploma in Cultural Organization Management at HEC Montréal. After eight years at 1700 La Poste, she is now Philanthropy Coordinator at the McCord Stewart Museum Foundation.

Based in Montréal since 2020, artist-researcher Lynn Kodeih explores image politics, space, and borders within a colonial world. Her practice—at the crossroads of text, auto-theory, video, and installation—examines materiality, accident, and the impossibility of representation.

Laurie St-Onge Dostie, an artist and educator from Québec City, lives in Montréal. A master’s student in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, she studies care and eco-responsibility. Her work connects domestic space and community action in the garden. She has served on La Centrale’s board since 2019.

Louise Campion, a Paris-born artist and writer based in Montréal, explores resistance, emotional survival, and ecology within power structures. Through painting, drawing, and text, she examines the tension between vulnerability and authority. She holds a BFA from Concordia and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.

Ari Randjbar (i.elle) is a community organizer & artist based in Tiohtià:ke. Formerly a journalist and documentary filmmaker, they currently make perfume, wearables, field recordings, and write about grief and borders. They newly joined La Centrale's team as our General Co-director & Operations. 

Board of Directors 2023

• Amy Chartrand
• Florence Chapdelaine Deslauriers
• Aaliyah Crawford
• Dulce Pinzón
• Mélissa Sahertian Hamel
• Cristel Silva
• Steco (Stéphanie Chabot-Nobert)

2023-2024 Comittees

Programming Committee

• Nicole A. Lee
• Rihab Essayh
• Aaliyah Crawford
• Liliana Gonzalez-Jarquin
• Marcella França
• Robie Schuler

Revamp committee

• Marcella França
• Rosemarie Laporte
• Marie-Laure S. Louis
• Annik St-Arnaud

2022-2023 Committees

Member Exhibition Committee

• Cristel Silva
• kimura byol-nathalie lemoine

Equity-seeking committee

• Laura Acosta
• Karina Arbelaez
• My-Van Dam
• Maria Ezcurra
• Maryam Izadifard
• Sarah Mohammed

Communication Committee

• Karina Arbelaez
• Cristel Silva
• Julia Piccolo

Moving Committee

• Yen Chao Lin
• Diyar Mayil
• Clara Painchaud
• Cristel Silva
• Laurie St-Onge Dostie
• Mattia Zylak