If you’ve never heard of Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, check out this wonderfully macabre video for freak folksters Department of Eagles‘ “No One Doesn’t Like You”. Notice the ghosts in the background? Pure Dzama. Now Montrealers can see the in-demand wunderkind’s work for themselves, as earlier this month The Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal kicked off Marcel Dzama’s largest solo show.

While the video he co-directed with Patrick Daughters introduced plaid-adorned scenesters to this artist’s creative mind, austere, tie-wearing curators and gallerists already had him under their radar. After moving from Winnipeg to New York to get closer to David Zwirner (one of the top contemporary art galleries today) in 2003, his pieces are now featured in the MoMA collection and have been shown at the Whitney Biennale and all over Europe.

So it is with some excitement that Montreal welcomes this solo exhibit. Dzama’a ghosts and soul-searching amputees are there, as well as his armies of Napoleon-like figures and mini skirt dancing terrorists. Presenting a multitude of his drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and collages, the show gives an overview of the artist’s signature style; works with a muted palette, melancholic figures and eerie scenery that very often hide uncanny topics charged with sexuality and violence. To all our readers in Montreal: this show is not to be missed.

Marcel Dzama: Of Many Turns runs until April 25.

-Chloe Roubert