Background
Gilles Boisvert was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Gilles Boisvert
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He studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, starting in 1958, and later studied etching and engraving under Albert Dumouchel. While in the United States. Action Painting was just finishing and People’s-Art starting, Boisvert chose to be one of the pioneers of an original art form, closer to people, that would later come to be known as the Quebec People’s-Art movement.
Career
Gilles Boisvert has spent periods of residence in Mexico, California and Paris, France and has held over forty solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad. He has held major solo exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée d"art contemporain des Laurentides and the Musée du Québec. Gilles Boisvert is of the generation of artists of the sixties, on the verge of the formalists and plasticians and just after the automatists.
Highly prolific and avantgarde, Gilles Boisvert has worked at engraving, lithography, photography, drawing, painting, cinema, installations and sculpture.
In addition, in the 1990s, he developed an interest in computer graphics and website design, leading to work in the multimedia field He has also created more than a dozen monumental works that are on public display at buildings in Canada and the United States.
