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SYLVAIN COUSINEAU (1949 - 2013)

Sylvain P. Cousineau was born in Arvida, Québec in 1949. He studied Communication Arts at Loyola College in Montréal, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. In 1974 he obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Cousineua taught photograph at the University of Ottawa’s Visual Arts Department from 1975 to 1988, this period being when some of his most fruitful works were produced.

Cousineau was known primarily for his whimsical assemblages and his often colourful and imaginative paintings, but black and white photography is also an ongoing and engaging aspect of his creative life. Cousineau passed away in 2013 in England.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
Musée de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec.
Musée du Québec, Prêt d’oeuvres d’art, Québec, QC
Musée de la Baie-Saint-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON City of Ottawa Collection of Art, Ottawa, ON
Téléglobe, Montreal, Quebec Lavalin, Montreal, QC
Collection Heenen Blaikie, Montreal, QC
Air Canada, Montreal, Quebec Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, ON
Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC
Perley-Robertson, Panel, Hill and Mcdougall, Ottawa, ON

Selected Solo Exhibition

2008 Colors of India, EspacePink, Montreal, QC
2007 Démochaud, EspacePink, Montreal, QC
2006 Painting & photography, gallery Page 22, Barjols, France.
2005 Shadow of a Doubt, Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Montreal, QC
2004 Du coq à l’âne, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1997 Recent Paintings, Galerie Charles et Martin Gauthier, QC
Boats From Below, Galerie Pink, Montreal, QC
1995 Tower of Pisa, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1994 Recent Paintings, Galerie L’Autre équivoque, Ottawa, ON
Paintings and Photographs, Galerie Pink, Montreal, QC
1993 Les soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée, Canadian Embassy, Paris, France Sylvain P. Cousineau, Galerie Pink, Montreal, QC
1992 Sylvain P. Cousineau, Passages, Troyes, France
1991 Les cartes de Tarot, Galerie Verticale, Quebec
1990 Recent Works, Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Objects, Galerie Verticale, Quebec
1989 Tarot, Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal, QC
Recent Paintings, Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1988 Titanic, Robertson Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1987 Flower Pots, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Pots de fleurs, Galerie Graff, Montreal, QC
Sylvain P. Cousineau, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1986 Recent Paintings, Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1985 Photographs and Paintings, Yajima Gallery, Montreal, QC
Sylvain P. Cousineau, Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1984 Photographs et Paintings, Yajima Gallery, Montreal, QC
1983 Peintures et sculptures, Gallery Ann Doran, Ottawa, ON
1982 Peintures et sculptures, Quan Gallery, Toronto, ON
1980-82 Sylvain Cousineau: Photographs and Paintings, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Centre Culturel, Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick; Acadia University, Wolfville, NS; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB; Centre Culturel, Sherbrooke, QC; Dalhousie University Gallery, Halifax, NS; McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
1979 Photographs et Paintings, Yajima Gallery, Montreal, QC
1974 Photographies, Galerie d’art de l’université de Moncton, NB

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Governor General’s selection, Rideau Hall, Ottawa, ON
2006 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2005 Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Montreal, QC
2003 The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2001 Les Ateliers s’exposent, Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal et Cobalt art, Montreal, QC
The Other Ufundi, Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Artcité, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
2000 Culbutes: Works of Impertinence, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1999 Recent Aquisitions, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1998 Fin de siècle: Contrordre, Optica, Montreal, QC
Temps Composés, Musée de Joliette, QC
Symposium International de la Nouvelle Peinture, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC
1994 Lavalin Collection, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1993 L’art Québécois, Les Carroz, France
1991 Université d’Europe, Bruges, Belguim
1990 Figures of Accumulation, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1987 Histoire en quatre temps, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1986 Galerie Graff, Montreal, QC Canada-Israel Foundation, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
1985 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1984 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.
1982-83 Menues Manœuvres: Sylvain Cousineau, Jana Sterbak, Serge Murphy, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, San Diego, CA
University Gallery, State University of Arizona, Phœnix, Arizona
1981 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1980 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1979 Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
1975 Discoveries, Time-Life Publications, New York

Selected Grants

2005, 2002, 2000, 1987, 1984, 1980 Canada Council for the Arts
2002 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
1980Special Projects Grant, National Gallery of Canada

Selected Links

The Canadian Art Database
sylvaincousineau.co.uk