Pierre Bourgault

Pierre Bourgault (born 1942) is an abstract sculptor living in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec where he was born. In 2022, he won the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Early years and training Bourgault was born into a large family of wood sculptors. In 1992, he co-founded Est-Nord-Est, an international artist residence. He also has made small houses, sculptures which can be inhabited, what he calls places of refuge - walled spaces raised from the ground which can turn in a circle so that they form a place from which to observe as well as live. and at the Center d'artistes Vaste et Vague in Carleton-sur-Mer titled Time Tremor (2016). His sculpture is in such public collections as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

His many public commissions include Three Forms by the Sea (1984) in Gatineau, Quebec. From 1999, his public commissions may be related to Inuit String Games, as in Ayarak at the Palais de Justice of Saint-Jérôme in Saint-Jérôme, Laurentides, QC (1999); String Game (2012) at Centre de Recherche du CHUM; Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, 2022.