Michel Goulet (b. 1944, Canada)

 

Education
1969-1971 University of Quebec in Montreal, BA in sculpture

1968-1969 Montreal School of Fine Arts 1968 Sherbrooke University, BA

 

Teaching

University of Ottawa, 1974-87

University of Quebec in Montreal, 1988-2004

 

Select Solo Exhibitions

2021 Delicacy , Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2021 Les Délices du langage, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2018 Faire surface, Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA
2017 The order of things. Selected works from 2000 to today, Quebecor Headquarters Museum Space, in collaboration with Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2013 From Convenience to Knowledge, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2013 (In) Common, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2012 Alchemy of Elsewhere, Musée Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières, FR
2008 Items of my mind, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Christmas Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Dépaysements, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2006 We know what you are up to (Michel Goulet, Manières, manœuvres et manèges) , Circa Exhibition Centre, Montreal, CA
2004 Part Life, Part Game: A critical incursion into the graphic and sculptural work of Michel Goulet, [Part … incursion into the graphic and sculptural work of Michel Goulet.], Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CA
2004 A Round, A World, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 Circus , La chambre Blanche, Quebec, CA
2002 Michel Goulet: Jeux de nombres , Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, CA
2002 Michel Goulet, Gallerie Silex, Trois-Rivières, CA
2002 Wearing the wall like the mask, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Quebec, CA
2000 Wearing the wall like the mask, Galerie Occurrence, Montreal, QC
2000 Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, FR
1998 New Sculptures, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1998 Enjeux, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal, CA
1998 A sign of the hand, Cultural Centre of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA
1997 A sign of the hand, CIAC, Montreal, CA
1997 Good Intentions, Circa Gallery, Montreal, CA
1995 Recent Work, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992 Profiles-Exils, Vertical Gallery, Laval, CA
1990 Eloquent Perspectives, Delegation génerale du Quebec, Paris, FR
1990 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, US
1990 Les places communes, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York City, US
1990 Les lessons d’époque, Christine Chassay Gallery, Montreal, CA
1990 Cultural Center, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA
1988 Canada House, London, UK
1988 Venice Biennial, representing Canada, IT
1988 Horace Gallery, Sherbrooke, CA
1988 Christine Chassay Gallery, Montreal, CA
1986 Le Lieu, Quebec, CA
1985 Matane Art Gallery, Matane, CA
1985 Jolliet Gallery, Jolliet, CA
1983 Jolliet Gallery, Jolliet, CA
1982 Jolliet Gallery, Jolliet, CA
1980 Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1979 Algonquin College Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA
1978 L’Anse-aux-Barques Gallery, Quebec, CA
1977 La Salle Gallery, Ottawa, CA

 

Select Group Exhibitions
2021 Speak to me of love, Les Impatients Auction, Montreal, CA
2020 Mending, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA
2019 Milles-feuilles, Maison des arts de Laval, Salle Alfred-Pellan, Laval, CA
2019 In all letters, Galerie Bellemare Lambert, Montreal, CA
2018 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 Mapping (375th of Montreal), Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2016 Two is better!, Benefit Exhibition 2016, CIRCA, Montreal, CA
2016 At the Tour de Cozic, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2016 From Ferron to BGL, Art Contemporary Quebec, Gallery of the Cultural Center of the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA
2016 Installations. Large scale, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, Quebec, CA
2016 Tracing Paper III, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, Quebec, CA 2016 Exhibition, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2015 John Rea-Music View, SMCQ, Maison de la Culture de Côte des Neiges, Montreal, CA 2015 Multiple artists. Tracing Paper 2, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2014 1989 An improbable exhibition, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2013 Anagram of a chair, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, CA
2012 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2012 The Law of Numbers, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2012 The Question of Abstraction, MACM, Montreal, CA
2012 The Collection on view: Sculptural installations from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, CA
2011 The Coexistence of Traits, Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, CA 2011 Déjà – Grand Deployment of the Collection , Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2010 The Forms of Time, TraficArt 2010, Chicoutimi, CA
2010 These Artists Who Print , Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montreal, CA 2010 Expansion , Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA
2010 Vancouver 2010.com/CODE, by Screen 2010, Vancouver, CA
2009 Favorites 2nd state: 20 Years of Contemporary Art, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2009 The Encounter, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, CA
2009 Recent Acquisitions from the Collection, Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, CA 2009 Landscape Ideas/Landscapes of Idea 2, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA 2009 States of Materiality/États de la matière , Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, CA
2009 The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, National Gallery of Canada, CA 2009 EntreVoir, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA
2007 Public Art in Montreal, CIRCA, Montreal, CA
2006 Arts: Le Havre
2006 Contemporary Art Biennial, Le Havre, FR
2006 National Biennial of Contemporary Sculpture, Trois-Rivières, CA
2006 20th Anniversary, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Sculpture Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Acquire to Grow, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, CA
2004 Artefact 2004-Urban Scultures, Parc Mont-Royal, Montreal, CA
2004 Occur (Blur), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, CA
2004 Recent Acquisitions , Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, CA
2003 Contrepoints, Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Centre, Valcourt (Curator: Gilles Daigneault) (catalogue)/Maison Hamel-Bruneau, CA
2003 Manières et matières, The collection of Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA
2002 15 Year Anniversary, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 2000, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 Ligne abstraite, Musée d’Art contemporain de Montréal, CA
2000 The Hand, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1999 The Hand, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1999 Les bouches ouvertes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy. Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, CA
1998 Absolut secret, McKee Gallery, New York, US
1998 New Sculptures, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1998 Manúuvres, La Galerie d’art d’Ottawa, Ottawa, CA
1998 Rouge, CIRCA, Montréal, CA
1998 Temps composés, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, CA
1997 Points de suspension… CIRCA, Montréal, CA
1997 Dictons et proverbes : une comédie de moeurs, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montréal, CA
1997 Thèmes et variations, Galerie Port-Maurice, St-Léonard, CA
1997 Salon des professeurs et professeures, UQAM, CA
1996 L’úuvres du collectionneur, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (conservatrices : Paulette Gagnon et Yolande Racine) (catalogue), CA
1996 Promenade, l’art dans la ville, CIAC, Montréal. (catalogue), CA
1996 La collection : úuvres-phares, peintures et sculptures majeures, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, CA
1996 Art public : modèles réduits, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme, CA
1995 Libres échanges, Musée d’art de Joliette, CA
1995 Art sans frontière, Ecole du Versant, Larouche, CA
1995 Les lieux incertains, Galerie UQAM, Montréal (catalogue), CA
1995 Legs René Payant, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal /Centre National d’exposition, Jonquière, CA
1994 De causis et tractabibus, Axe-Néo 7, Hull, CA
1994 Legs René Payant, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal/Centre National d’exposition, Jonquière, CA
1994 De causis et tractabibus, Axe-Néo 7, Hull, Québec, CA
1993 Louise Robert, Michel Goulet, CIRCA, Montreal, CA
1993 Chambres d’hotel, La Chambre blanche, Montreal, CA
1992 Sculpture and Installation, Art Gallery of Concordia University, Montreal, CA
1992 Legs Rene Payant, Art Gallery Edouard-Montpetit School, Longueil, CA
1992 Art actuel, Presences quebecoises, Chateau de Biron, Dordogne, France / La Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-vallee, FR
1992 Violence, Pieges du regard, C.Chassay Gallery and University of Quebec of Montreal, CA
1992 La collection, Tableau inaugural, Montreal Museum of contemporary art, Montreal, CA
1992 Singulier Pluriels, UQAM Gallery, Montreal, CA
1992 Expo-dessins, Lacerte Gallery, Quebec, CA
1991 Un archipel de desirs, Quebec Museum, Quebec, CA
1991 Quindicesima Biennale Internazionale del Bronzetto Piccola Scultura Padova 1991, Palazzo della Ragione, Padoue, IT
1990 Language in art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, US
1990 Dukewitch, Gould, Goulet, Christiane Chassay Gallery, Montreal, CA
1989 A good read, Barbara Toll fine arts, New york, US
1989 L’histoire et la memoire, Montreal Museum of contemporary art, Montreal, CA
1989 Pataphysique, UQAM Gallery, Montreal, CA
1989 Series Kompakt, Lavalin Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
1989 Teknologia, Graff Gallery, Montreal, CA
1989 Les temps chauds, F.R.A.C. Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France / Museum of moderns art of Liege, Belgium / Museum of fine arts of mons, BE
1988 Innovations in sculpture, Aldrich Museum of contemporary art, Ridgefield, US
1988 David and Goliath, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US
1988 Voies/voix intimes, Lavalin Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
1988 Le temps chauds, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1988 Quebec ’88, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1987 A Hundred Days of Contemporary Art: Stations, CIAC, Place du Parc, Montreal, CA
1987 La Rencontre d’un Lieu, MACM, Old Port, Montreal, CA
1987 De fer et d’acier, Lavalin Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
1987 Connexions ’87, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, FR
1987 Historie en quatre temps, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1986 Images/memoire, Museum of Quebec, Quebec City, CA
1986 La galerie du Musee: 1976 a 1986, Museum of Quebec, Quebec City, CA
1986 Fictions/installations, Graff Gallery, Montreal, CA
1986 Du poetique de la maquette et de ses repliques, Christine Chassay Gallery, Montreal and Art Gallery of Matane, CA
1986 Cycle recent et autres indices, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1986 L’Art pense, Montcalm Gallery, Hull, and Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, Toronto, CA
1986 Toronto, and Cultural Centre, Rimouski, CA
1985 Les vingt ans du musee a travers sa collection, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1985 Artists of the Gallery, Rene Bertrand Gallery, Quebec, CA
1985 Graff Decembre, Graff Gallery, Montreal, CA
1985 L’Art pense, Art Gallery, Cultural Centre, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA
1985 Regard oblique sur deux generations, Jolliet Gallery, Montreal, CA
1984 Rendez-vous international sculpture ’84, Saint-Jean Port-Joli, CA
1984 Nouvelles acquisitions de la collection de prets d’ouvres d’art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1984 L’Art pense, University of montreal, Montreal, and Jolliet Gallery, Montreal, CA
1983 50 Years of Collecting, Museum of Quebec, Quebec City, CA
1982 Quebec, Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1981 Contemporary Sculpture, Museum of Quebec, Quebec City, CA
1981 Sculpture Court Yard, Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Montreal, CA
1980 Sculpture in Quebec, Saguenay Museum, Chicoutimi, CA
1979 Biennial 11 of the artists in Quebec, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, CA
1979 Tendances actuelles au Quebec, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
1978 Sculpture vivante, Cours Le Toyer, Montreal, CA
1978 Contradiction ’77, American Centre, Paris, FR
1977 Ducquet, Goulet, Poulin, Ladouceur, Art Gallery, Cultural Centre, U of S Sherbrooke, CA
1977 1976 Art and Culture, Art for the Olympic Games, Montreal, CA
1977 Exhibition, Murry Street, Ottawa, CA
1977 Luminescence, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, CA
1975 Format, Salon des metiers d’art, Montreal, CA
1975 Arts Centre of Mont-Royal, finalist for national SOCT-Intelsat, Montreal, CA
1974 Plastiques, Art Gallery, University of Quebec in Montreal, CA
1974 Salon Comparaison, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
1973 Expo-Fraicheur, Art Collection, University of Quebec in Montreal, CA
1972 Le moins de 35, Space Gallery, Montreal, CA
1972 Prime Minister Competition, Complex J, CA
1967 Art Gallery of the Cultural Centre, Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, CA

Art Fairs
2019 Art Paris, Paris, FR
2018 Papier Montreal, Montreal, CA
2016 Papier Montreal, Montreal, CA
2009 Art Chicago, US
2009 Scope Basel, CH
2009 Scope New York, New York, US
2009 Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
2004 Scope LA, Los Angeles, US
1998 Art Forum Berlin, DE


Awards & Distinctions
2012 Member of the Order of Canada
2010 Ambassador of UQAM, UQAM 40th anniversary
2010 Prix Gascon-Roux du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde for the best set design
2010 Honorary Doctorate, University of Sherbrooke
2009 Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
2008 The Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2003 Nomination, Académie québécoise du théâtre. Masque for best scenography (La Bibliothèque)
1999 Prix de l’Académie québécoise du théâtre, Le Masque de la meilleur scénographie (Urfaust, tragédie subjective)
1997 Prix Gascon-Roux du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde pour la meilleure scénographie (Le Passage de l’Indiana)
1994 Prix de l’Académie québécoise du théâtre, Le Masque de la meilleure scénographie. (Roberto Zucco)
1992-93 Prix du public étudiant, Nouvelle Compagnie théâtrale, meilleure scénographie, saison (Roberto Zucco)
1993 Prix de l’Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre, (AQCT), meilleure scénographie (Roberto Zucco)
1990 Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, Gouvernement du Québec

Public Collections
Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art , Montreal, Quebec
Ville de Chicoutimi, Quebec
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec
Ville St-Léonard, Quebec
Collection de Prêt d’œuvres d’art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Musée de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec
Exterior Affairs of Canada.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec
Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent, Rivière du Loup, Quebec
Musée Régional de Rimouski, Quebec
Centre canadien d’Architecture, Montreal.
The New Museum, New York, N.Y.
UQAM Gallery

Other Activities
2014 Original stageset for theater. Albertine en cinq temps, de Michel Tremblay; directed by Lorraine Pintal. Creation of Théatre du Nouveau Monde, Montreal and Le Trident, Quebec. Created at Le Trident, Quebec, January 14. (programme)
2012 Original stageset for theater. Le plus court chemin entre l’école et la maison, Jean-Rock Gaudreault; directed by Jacinthe Potvin and Yves Dagenais. Creation of Mathieu, François et les autres… Created at Festival Les Coups de Théâtre, at Théâtre Rouge du Conservatoire d’art dramatique, Novembre 19. (programme)
2011 Original stageset for theater. Agamemnon, Sénèque Le Jeune; directed by Denis Marleau. Production of La Comédie-Française, Paris. Created at La Comédie-Française, May 21 to July 23. (programme)
2010 Original stageset for theater. Huis clos, Jean-Paul Sartre; directed by Lorraine Pintal. Production of Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. Created at TNM, March 9  to April 10. (programme)
2008 Original stageset for theater. Ce qui meurt en dernier, Normand Chaurette; directed by Denis Marleau. Coproduction UBU compagnie de création and   Espace GO, January 15- February 9. (programme)
2007 Original stageset for opera. Bluebeard’s Castle, Béla Bartok; directed by Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin. Production of Grand Théâtre de Genève, Suisse. Created at Grand Théâtre de Genève, june 2007. (programme)
2006 Collaboration to the publication Edmund Alleyn, Indigo sur tous les tons, Les Éditions du Passage, creation of an original Work :  Babil (pour E.A.)
2005 Original stageset for theater. Les Reines, Normand Chaurette; Directed by Denis Marleau. UBU, compagnie de création (programme)
2003 Original stageset for theater. La Bibliothèque, directed by Gilles Maheu, Carbone 14. (programme)
2000 Original stageset for theater. Le Petit Köchel, Normand Chaurette; Director : Denis Marleau.  Théâtre UBU. (programme)
1999 Original stageset for theater. URFAUST, tragédie subjective, Goethe/Pessoa; Director: Denis Marleau.  Théâtre UBU. (programme)
1998 Scénographie de théâtre. URFAUST, tragédie subjective, Goethe/Pessoa ; mise en scène de Denis Marleau. Une création du Théâtre UBU (programme)
Création d’une affiche originale. Carrefour Internationnal de Théâtre de Québec.
1997 Theatre scenography. Nathan the Wise, by GE Lessing; directed by Denis Marleau. A co-production of the Avignon Festival and the Théâtre UBU, presented in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes. (program) Cover illustration Nathan the Wise, French text by Denis Marleau, Éditions Actes Sud-Papiers, Paris. Books and artists’ stamps, International Centre for Contemporary Art of Montreal. Editions of works of the CIAC, International Centre for Contemporary Art of Montreal. The spaces of scenography, the Jean-Paul Mousseau Foundation, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. 1996 Theatre scenography. Le Passage de l’Indiana, by Normand Chaurette; directed by Denis Marleau. A co-production of the Théâtre UBU and the National Arts Centre of Canada, presented for the first time at the Avignon Festival. (program) Theatre scenography. The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac, by Claude Gauvreau; directed by Lorraine Pintal. A creation by Chants Libres. (program) 1995 Theatre scenography. Merz Variétés, by Kurt Schwitters; directed by Denis Marleau. A production by Théâtre UBU presented for the first time at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (program) 1993 Theatre scenography. Roberto Zucco, by Bernard-Marie Koltès directed by Denis Marleau. A co-production of the Nouvelle Compagni Théâtrale, Théâtre UBU and the Festival de théâtre des Amériques. (program) Hotel Rooms, La Chambre blanche, Quebec. (catalog) 1991 Creation of an original poster. Théâtre UBU (Les Ubs, text by Alfred Jarry). 1986 Fictions/Installations. Marcel Labine/Michel Goulet, NBJ edition, Montreal. 1980 International Symposium of Environmental Sculpture in Chicoutimi, Quebec. (catalogue) 1971-73 Research Assistant, University of Quebec in Montreal. Production of Phares, a synthesis work 1966 Design and production (in collaboration) of Babelus as part of Arts Week, University of Sherbrooke.