Carl Duplessis — Curriculum vitæ

Curriculum vitæ

Visual arts artist

Training

2007 The Spiritual Language of Art, Art Workshops, Steven Aimone, Atlantic Center for the Arts
2005 Design and Personal Style, Art Workshops, Alex Powers, Springmaid Beach
2004 The Art of Abstraction, Françoise Sullivan, Summer School for arts and crafts, Mont-Laurier
1993 Computer-assisted drawing course, Vieux Montréal College
1987 Painting workshop, Seymour Segal, Knowlton
1986-1987 Painting course, Saidye Bronfman Centre School of Fine Arts, Montreal
1980-1982 Painting certificate (1982), Concordia University, Montreal
1975-1980 Drawing and illustration course (live model), Ahuntsic College, Montreal
1979 Drawing and modelling course, University of Quebec in Montreal
1978 Watercolour course, McGill University, Montreal
1960-1964 Certificate in interior and industrial design and cabinetmaking (l964), Institute of Applied Arts, Montreal
1956-58-59 Drawing course, Montreal School of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Figures, Worlds and Atmospheres, Elgar Community Centre, L'Île -des-Soeurs. Cancelled due to censorship issues. See Press File: “Pas de nus dans les lieux publics à Verdun”
2009 Nudes and Portraits: a Personal Vision, Renée Blain Gallery, Socio-Cultural Centre, Brossard
2008 Drawing exhibition, Kaf Art Gallery, Montreal
2002 Art gallery designers, Montreal International Interior Design Show
2001 Peintre de “l’avant-peinture” (pre-painting sketch exhibition), Laval City Hall
2000 Peintre de “l’avant-peinture” (pre-painting sketch exhibition), Club Tremblant Hotel, Tremblant

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (WITH SELECTION JURY)

2004 Society of Canadian Artists, Tudor Hall, Ogilvy, Montreal
2004 Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, Tudor Hall, Ogilvy, Montreal
1999 La mémoire du temps (Memory of Time), Maison des Arts, Laval
1997, 96, 91, 90 Summer exhibitition, Maison des Arts, Laval
1995 The Créateurs associés de Val-David artists association
1995 Saint-Sauveur Valley Arts and Crafts Festival, Saint-Sauveur
1992 – 1995 Arts Week, Saint-Jovite
1995 Drawing, painting (live model), Georges-Vanier Cultural Centre, Montreal
1994 “Sympho-art,” Maison des Arts, Laval
1998 – 1989 Séquence II, Le personnage dans l’œuvre picturale (Sequence II: The Figure in Pictorial Works), Aline Dallaire Gallery, Longueuil and Laval
1989 Les Écores Community Centre, Laval
1989 Art de mai 89 (art of May ’89), Laval
1989 ALPAP Annuelle des Arts 1989 art show, Maison des Arts, Laval
1988 Séquence II, Le personnage (Sequence II: The Figure), Curé Antoine Labelle High School Art Gallery, Laval
1986 – 1987 André-Benjamin Papineau House, Laval
1986 – 1987 Touring exhibition of prints and drawings: Vaudreuil Soulanges Regional Museum, Pierre Boucher Museum, Trois-Rivières, Gatineau Exhibition Centre, Sherbrooke Municipal Library
1985 Opening exhibition, Maison des Arts, Laval
1980 Painting and drawing exhibition, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Expositon Croquis 45, Ecomusée du fier monde
2010 Salon du Dessin (drawing exhibition), Ars Longa Gallery, Montreal
2008 Arts Sutton Gallery exhibition, Christmas market
2007 Petits formats, Galerie Kaf Art, Montréal
2005, 06, 07 Petits formats, Espace Ars Longa, Montréal
1994 Nus, La Galerie Portrait International, Montréal
1984 – 1985 Les artistes de l’atelier de dessin
Bibliothèque Saul-Bellow, Lachine et Centre Multi-Ethnique Saint-Louis, Montréal

AWARDS AND HONOURS

1995 Grant, Saint-Sauveur Valley Arts and Crafts Festival, Saint-Sauveur

COLLECTIONS

2001 Maison des Arts, Laval
1992 Caisse Populaire, Saint-Jovite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1983 – 1999 Instructor, interior and industrial design, Vieux-Montréal College
  Carl Duplessis & Associés Inc. interior design office, Laval

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

1965 to present Association Professionnelle des designers d’intérieur du Québec (Quebec professional association of interior designers)
1999 to present RAAV (Québec visual artists’ association)

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

2000 Jury member, Town of Saint-Eustache, Claire Depelteau, Head
1997 – 2000 Participation as an artist-painter in Culture Days, Laval

PUBLICATIONS

2012 Magazine, Décover Le Festival d’Art Érotique  de Montréal, page 26. 
2010 Cover page, Brèves littéraires literary magazine, no. 81, Literary Society of Laval
2001 L’Art dans la ville (Art in the City), exhibition catalogue, selected works, City of Laval
2000 – 2007 Artists of Laval calendar, Laval
1986 Cover page, Le Bulletin, Atelier de Gravure de Laval Inc., Laval

PRESS FILE

2010 Le Devoir, Friday, January 22, 2010, page A1. “Pas de nus dans les lieux publics à Verdun” (no nudes Verdun’s public places)
2009 La Presse Montréal, mercredi 23 décembre, 2009, page A 8  Actualités «Tout le monde tout nu» 
2001 Courrier Laval, arts and entertainment, Claire Varin, Laval
2001 Courrier Laval, Sainte-Dorothée, Geneviève Fortin, Laval
2001 Quoi faire-voir-lire-entendre, vol. 2, no. 5, Laval
1995 Journal des Pays-d’en-Haut, La Vallée, Laurentians

Most of the works are available;
if you are interested to acquire one, please contact-me.

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