Gilles Boisvert

Gilles Boisvert (born February 16, 1940) is a Canadian artist and sculptor.

Early career Gilles Boisvert was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, starting in 1958, and later studied etching and engraving under Albert Dumouchel.

Artistic experience Gilles Boisvert has spent periods of residence in Mexico, California and Paris, France and has held over forty solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad. He has held major solo exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. His works are included in major collections in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Japan. His is one of the founding members of Atelier de l'Ïle located in Val-David, Québec.

Style and technique Gilles Boisvert is of the generation of artists of the sixties, on the verge of the formalists and plasticians and just after the automatists. While in the U.S. Action Painting was just finishing and Pop-Art starting, Boisvert chose to be one of the pioneers of an original art form, closer to people, that would later come to be known as the Quebec Pop-Art movement. Highly prolific and avantgarde, Gilles Boisvert has worked at engraving, lithography, photography, drawing, painting, cinema, installations and sculpture. In addition, in the 1990s, he developed an interest in computer graphics and website design, leading to work in the multimedia field. He has also created more than a dozen monumental works that are on public display at buildings in Canada and the U.S.

Major works 1966, Candide, installation 1968, Opération Déclic, serigraphy on paper 1969, The BP. Snow Tire, acrylic on canvas, transfer 1972, Oui, je me cache, (part of the album Les Oiseaux) serigraphy 1973, Radio Canada, mural, 10’ X 90’, Montreal, Quebec 1978, Québec Provincial Police Building, 8 murals, Quebec City, Quebec 1982, Centre d’Accueil Dante, 5 murals, copper relief, Montreal, Quebec 1983, Centre Eloria Lepage, mural, copper relief, 8' x 38' Montreal, Quebec 1984, The Terrace at Turnberry, mural, zinc and steel relief, 13’ x 7’ x 2" Miami, Florida 1986, Vanier College, polychrome wood relief, ±25’ x 8’, St. Laurent, Quebec 1986, Vive l'eau, Nordic Prince, cruise ship (home port: Miami, Florida), mural, acrylic on canvas, 3’ X 16’ 1988, Théâtre La Licorne, sculptured intervention on doors, 9’ x 3.5’, Montreal, Quebec 1988, Vire au vent, painted steel and raw steel, Lachine, Quebec 1989, L’homme Volant, Raymond Lacombe Transport, sculpture, painted copper and wood, 8’ x 9’ x 3’, Montreal, Quebec 1994, Grand geste-couleur, Ste-Thérèse High School, polychrome wood relief, 8’ x 25’, Ste-Thérèse, Quebec 1987-95, L'Arbre des generations, sculpture, painted steel, Lachine, Quebec 2006, Le presse-oiseau, sculpture, Tinted wood, 13' x 6' x 3', symposium on sculpture Ombre et lumière, Saint-Faustin, Quebec