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 sixties he studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts with Umberto Bruni, Luigi
Bartolini, Louis Archambault and Guiseppe Fiore.
Career
A
Montreal artist, Thrace has had more than 30
solo and group exhibitions in Quebec and abroad. His work has been exhibited in a number
of Montreal galleries, including Artus Gallery (2003), Commensal
Gallery (2000), Diagram Art Gallery (1998), l'Imprévue Gallery
(1992 and 1991), and l'Informelle Gallery (1987, 1988 and 1989). His work
was also 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).
