Yves Thrace, artiste peintre, artist painter

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Biography

Early Years

Born in Montréal, Yves Thrace was passionate about art at a very young age. As a child, he converted the family shed into an art studio and worked with oil and charcoal. By the age of 16, he discovered the American poet Walt Whitman and a number of French poets including Arthur Rimbaud. Later, he became keenly interested in oriental mysticism as well as in Chinese and Japanese art and poetry. In the 1960's he studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts with Umberto Bruni, Luigi Bartolini, Louis Archambault and Guiseppe Fiore.

Career

Thrace has had more than 30 solo and group exhibitions in Montreal and abroad. His work has been exhibited in a number of Montreal galleries, including Diagram Art Gallery (2000), l'Imprévue Gallery (1991 and 1992), and l'Informelle Gallery (1987, 1988 and 1989). His work has also been displayed in Martinique at the Bakoua Hotel (1975), in Bolivia at the La Paz Café (1973) and in Peru at the San Martin Plaza (1972).

Création

Yves Thrace has participated in numerous group exhibitions : in New York at Rockefeller Center (1993) and in Montreal at ELLAC (2000 and 1990). In 1989, he participated in the second Biennial of Canadian Painting where he received a prize for excellence in composition accorded by René Huyghe, (The Louvre, Paris). His work was also selected by the Quebec Art Council (Conseil de la peinture du Québec) for their exhibition entitled "Plurality" This show was presented in numerous museums and Art Centers throughout Quebec (1997-1998).