Claude Tousignant (b. 1932)
Education
1948 -1952 Studied at the School of Art and Design of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Select Solo Exhibitions
2017 Tousignant: A Selection, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016 Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2014 La vierge au lit, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, CA
2012 Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2009 Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2006 Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2005 Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal. Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, CA
2004 Claude Tousignant – Paintings: 1953-2003, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US
2004 Poèmes aérosolaires, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, CA
2002 Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, CA
2000 Introspective, Winchester Galleries, Victoria. Paul Kuhn Fine Art, Calgary, CA
1999 Espaces-Tensions 1955-1998, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, CA
1998 Installation of seven works from the permanent collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. CA
1995 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1995 Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal, CA
1994 Monochromes Galerie des Arts contemporains, Musée du Québec, Montreal, CA
1978-1993 15-year retrospective; travelling exhibition: Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, CA
1996 Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, CA
1991 Drabinksy Gallery, Toronto, CA
1990 Heffel Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
1989 Galerie Waddington & Gorce, Montreal, CA
1987 49th Parallel, New York, US
1985 Polychromes, Galerie Graff, Montreal, CA
1982 Sculptures, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Galerie Graff, Montreal, CA
1981 Les esquisses des diptyques 1978-1980 travelling exhibition, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1980 Claude Tousignant: Diptyques 1978-1980, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal.
1979 Galerie Graff, Montreal, CA
1977 Deux sculptures Windsor Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Windsor, CA
1976 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, CA
1976 Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, CA
1975 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
1973-1974 National Gallery of Canada, retrospective (itinerary: National Gallery of Canada; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; Vancouver Art Gallery; Centre culturel canadien, Paris; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; Memorial University, St. John’s; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown; Edmonton Art Gallery; University of Sherbrooke; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto), CA
1973 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (circulating exhibition). Galerie B, Montreal, Galerie Joliet, CA
1972 Galerie Moos, Toronto, CA
1970 Galerie Joliet, Joliet, CA
1969 Galerie Sherbrooke, Montreal, CA
1968 Galerie du Siecle, Montreal, Gallery Moos, Toronto, CA
1966 Galerie du Siècle, Montreal, East Hampton Gallery, New York, US
1965 East Hampton Gallery, New York, US
1964 Galerie du Siècle, Montréal, CA
1963 Dorothy Cameron Gallery, Toronto, CA
1962 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montréal, CA
1961 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (with Guido Molinari), CA
1957 L’Actuelle, Montréal, CA
1956 L’Actuelle, Montréal, CA
1955 L’Échourie, Montreal, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2016 Abstracta Delecta: The Quebec Painters, Fondation Guido Molinari, L’Actuelle, galerie d’art non-figuratif Winchester Galleries, Victoria, CA
2015-2016 L’oeil et l’esprit (curated by Geneviève Cadieux), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2014 The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955-1970 The Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ontario, and Quebec City, Musée national des beaux-art du Québec, CA
2010 The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ontario, CA
2009 Off the Wall (curated by Pierre Dorion), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
2001 Pleasures of Sight and States of Being, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, US
2000 Heavy Metal, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, US
1999 Claude Tousignant—Charged Spaces, retrospective, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, CA
1998 Peinture, peinture, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, CA
1995 Recent Acquisitions, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA
1994 Monochromes, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992-1993 La crise de l’abstraction au Canada . Les années 1950, Musée du Québec, Quebec City, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, etc., CA
1992 La sculpture au Québec 1946-1961 : naissance et persistance, Musée du Québec, Quebec City, CA
1942-1992 L’anarchie resplendissante de la peinture : Montréal, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, CA
1990 Abstract Practices, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1987 Elementae Naturae Galerie Waddington & Gorce, Montreal, Maîtres québécois, Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, CA
1986 20 Ans de Graff, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1985 Les Vingt Ans du Musée à travers sa collection, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, CA
1984 Reflections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1982 Situation de la peinture et de la critique d’art à Montréal en 1962, Musee d’art de Saint- Laurent, Saint-Laurent, CA
1980 Quebec 80 a la Rochelle, Musee du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, FR
1979 Frontiers of Our Dreams, Quebec Painting in the 1940s and the 1950s, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
1978 Tendances Actuelles au Québec, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1976 Trois Générations d’Art Québécois, 1940-1950-1960, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1974 Recent Canadian Painting, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1972 Twelve by Twelve, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, CA
1971 Chicago, 49th Parallels. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, US
1971 New Canadian Art, 3-D — Into the 70’s, travelling exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1970 Panorama de la Sculpture au Québec 1945-1970, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA (also shown at the Musee Rodin, Paris)
1970 Grand Formats, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1969 Form-Colour, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (circulating exhibition), CA
1968 Canada 101 Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts, Edinburgh, UK
1968 Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne; Palais des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, Canada : Art d’aujourd’hui
1968 Seven Montreal Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Hayden Gallery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Washington Gallery of Modern Art
1968 7th Biennial of Canadian Painting, Canadian Artists ’68, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1967 Canadian Painting, Expo ’67, Montreal, CA
1967 Artists from Montreal, Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, CA
1967 Trois cents ans de peinture canadienne, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,CA
1967 Perspective ’67, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1967 Nine Canadians, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
1967 Panorama de la peinture au Québec, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, CA
1940-1966 Espace dynamique, Galerie du Siècle, Montreal,
1966 Constructions de Montréal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, travelling exhibition, Hilton Hotel, New York, Phoenix Museum, Arizona
1965 Op from Montreal, University of Vermont, Burlington.
1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of modern Art, New York (circulating exhibition).
1965 Canada at Sao Paulo, VIIIth Biennial, São Paulo. BR
1965 The Deceived Eye, Fort Worth Art Center, Texas. Retina Painting, University of Texas, Austin and Houston. US
1965 Optical Painting, Fordham University, Iowa and Southern Illinois University. US
1965 Optical Art, Fordham university, New York. US
1965 Purity and Vision, Southampton Collage, New York. US
1965 Color Motion, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York. US
1965 Perceptions in Op Art, University of Southern Florida, Florida. US
1965 Op Art, University of Toronto, Toronto. CA
1965 Artistes de Montreal, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. CA
1965 Constructions From Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (circulating exhibition).
1964 Color Dynamism: Now and Then, East Hampton Gallery, New York. US
1963 5th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1962 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal.
1962 La Peinture Candadienne Moderne, Palazzo Collicola, Spoletto. IT
1960 The Non-Figurative Artists Association of Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1959 Art Abstrait, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, CA
1957 The Non-Figurative Artists Association of Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA
1956 Winchester Galleries, Victoria, Abstracta Delecta: The Quebec Painters Fondation Guido Molinari, L’Actuelle, galerie d’art non-figuratif, CA
Prizes/Recognitions
2024 Valleyfield Arts Festival Organizing Committee Award (first participation)
2023 Autumn Salon Mont St-Hilaire Museum of Fine Arts Mention
2023 Mascouche Arts Festival
3rd Jury Prize – All Categories, Professional Artists
2022 Autumn Salon Mont St-Hilaire Museum of Fine Arts Mention
2022 AAPARS Autumn Expo-Competition 1st Jury Prize – Figurative
2022 Gatineau Symposium in Colors 2nd Prize for Public Favorite
2022 Mascouche Arts Festival, Caisses Desjardins favorite award
2022 AAAVT Symposium Jury Award
2022 Rose-Art Corporation Expo-Competition 2nd Jury Prize
2021 Signatory member of the Institute of Figurative Arts IAF Professional artist
2019 Mascouche Arts Festival 1st Jury Prize – Figurative Style – Semi-Professional
2019 AAAVT Terrebonne Symposium, MP Pierre Fitzgibbon Award
2019 Saint-Anne-des-Plaines Visual Arts Exhibition 3rd Jury Prize
2018 La Prairie Expo-Competition 5th Jury Prize
2018 Artists on the Field (Chambly) 1st Jury Prize
2018 Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Visual Arts Exhibition, Municipal Council Award
2017 Rose-Art Corporation Distinguished Artist
2016 Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Visual Arts Exhibition
1st Prize Jury’s Choice 2015 Bois-des-Filion Symposium 1st prize public choice
2015 Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Visual Arts Exhibition Honorable Mention
2014 La Prairie Expo-competition 1st prize from the jury for non-professional artists
2013 Bois-des-Filion Symposium 2nd prize public choice
2013 ALPAP group exhibitions special mention at the annual arts festival
2012 St-Eustache Patriots Symposium 1st prize public choice
2010 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
1989 Prix Borduas
1976 Named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
1973 Prize of the Canadian Institute in Rome.
1967 First Prize, painting section, at Perspective ’67, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1962 First Prize: Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal.
