Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne

Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne (March 28, 1928 – October 29, 2012) was an artist born in Quebec City, Quebec who later moved to Ottawa, Ontario and is known for her significant contribution to arts administration. She was responsible for developing Art Bank, the Canada Council's art collection program in 1972. Rivard-Lemoyne became a Visual Arts Officer for the Canada Council in 1970 and started the art collection and leasing system for government offices, offering regional artists support and those interested in collecting access to local art. Rivard-Lemoyne won the 2003 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding Contribution in arts support.

Education and early work Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne trained at the École des beaux-arts de Québec, as well as with André Lhote in Paris in 1957. She was also on the board of the Ottawa Arts Centre Foundation. Rivard-Lemoyne started making large-scale monochromatic encaustic paintings in 1991, and prior to that in the 1980s, painted expressionistic landscapes with the later works in this series making use of simplified colour fields.

Rivard-Lemoyne won the First Grand Prize of the Concours artistique de la province de Québec in 1958. Concordia Art Gallery, and private collections in Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, and Paris.

Exhibitions 1952, Concours artistiques de la province de Québec, Musée du Québec 1955, La matière qui chante, Galerie Antoine, Montréal 1957, Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada 1959, The Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 1961, Canada Council Award-Winners, Canadian Conference of Arts, St-Lawrence Centre, Toronto 1988, Montréal Women Artists of the 1950s, Concordia Art Gallery 1990, Silences, The Gallery at Arts Court, Ottawa 1992, Picture a Place: Art contemporain d'ici, The Gallery at Arts Court, Ottawa