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Born in Saint-André-Avellin in the Outaouais region in 1950, Yves Louis-Seize lives and works in Montreal where he obtained a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1989. Active since the beginning of the 1980s, the artist divides his time between teaching and the studio. He is currently teaching sculpture and ceramics at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Centre de céramique Bonsecours (Montréal) and the cegep du Vieux-Montréal.
He has held many solo exhibitions in Montreal since 1981:
1997
CIRCA
1993
Galerie Trois-Points
1991
Galerie Trois-Points
1989
CIRCA
Galerie Trois-Points
1988
Galerie Noctuelle
1986
Galerie Noctuelle
1984
Galerie du centre de céramique Bonsecours
1982
Interaction
Centre d'art du Mont-Royal
1981
Galerie Don Stewart
He has also held a number of solo exhibitions in Ottawa (Hiberna Gallery, 1983) as well as in Faenza, Italy (Galeria Gaïa, 1988) and has taken part in nearly seventy group exhibitions in Quebec, across Canada and abroad (United States, France, Belgium and Italy). Throughout his career, Yves Louis-Seize has received funding from various levels of government such as the Canada Council for the Arts, the ministère de la Culture et des communications du Québec, and the Société de développement des arts et de la culture de Longueuil.
His work can be found in the public collections of several institutions including the Musée du Québec, the Musée d'art contemporain (Lavallin Collection), the Musée Marsil (Saint-Lambert), Expression (Saint-Hyacinthe), Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Longueuil), The Musée des Ursulines (Mâcon, France) and the Lemberk Foundation (Czechoslovakia), as well as in several private collections.
Louis-seize ranks amongst the minimalist artists whose works of pure form required (indifferent) space around them. He lays claim and tries to convey a thought as much as a feeling. Louis-Seize's work seeks dialectics rather than aporia and he is more preoccupied with the interior scene, with contemplating the somewhat disorderly worlds that sometimes engulf us.
