2010 ‘NEXT: Chicago’ Projex-Mtl Galerie, Chicago, IL
'Portrait of a Patron: The Duksta Collection' UTAC, University of Toronto Art Center, Toronto, Canada
2009 'Summer, Summer' Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montreal, Canada
2008-2009 ‘Toronto International Art Fair’ Projex-Mtl Galerie
‘Carl Ostendarp | Peter Schuyff | Yves Tessier’ Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montreal, Canada
2006 “Draw_drawing_2” The Foundry, (in the context of the London Biennale 2006), curated by Giacomo Picca, London, UK
1998 ‘Group Show’ Galerie Luz, Montreal, Canada
1997 ‘Merrill | Romani | Tessier’ Galerie Luz, Montreal, Canada
1995 ‘Lush’ Galerie Articule, curated by Michael Merrill and Andrea Szilasi, Montreal, Canada
1995 ‘Merrill | Ruschiensky | Szilasi | Tessier’ Galerie Local 906, Montreal, Canada
1994 ‘Misrule at the Apollo’ Temperance Space, curated by Jennifer Mc Mackon and Oliver Girling, Toronto, Canada
1994 ‘Systems of Exchange’ The Toronto | Montreal exchange arts project, Toronto, Montreal, Canada
1991 ‘Peinture’ Galerie Clark, curated by David Blatherwick, Montreal, Canada
1990 ‘Imposter | Impasto: Curatorial Laboratory Project number 2’ The Art Gallery of Hamilton, curated by Oliver Girling and Ihor Holubizky, Hamilton, Canada
1987 ‘Profils: Onze artistes québecois à New York’ Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, curated by Jean Paquin, Montreal, Canada
1986 ‘Small Works’ Garnett Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1986 ‘The Isis Show’ Virgil Gallery, New York, NY
1984 ‘Four Painters’ Gillespies Space, New York, NY
1982 ‘Aspects de la peinture montréalaise contemporaine’ Quebec Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
1976 ‘FORUM 76’ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Leo Rosshandler, Montreal, Canada
BILBLIOGRAPHY
*catalogue
2009 Leah Sandals, National Post : 'Do as the Etruscans do' (11/12/09)
Canadian Art: 'Jewels of the present' (online edition) 11/12/09
Le Vadrouilleur Urbain http://levadrouilleururbain.wordpress.com/2009/11/
Béatrice Chassepot, Art in Asia Magazine, 'Contemporary Art in Canada' oct./nov. 2008 www.be-art-website.com/index.php?in=10097
Crevier, Lyne, “Instants volés”, Ici Montréal, 30 January – 6 February, 2008, p. 41.
Delgado, Jérôme, “Une Manif et bien des doublés” Le Devoir, Montreal, 19 January – 20 January 2008, p. E11.
Delgado, Jérôme, “Le Monde en 80 tableaux” Le Devoir, Montreal, 26 January – 27 January 2008, p. E6.
Hatayama,Risa “From Montreal : Galerie 10, Optica un centre d’art contemporain”, http://www.from-montreal.com/galerie/galerie.html.html, 01 February 2008.
Redfern, Christine “Good Things, Small Packages” Montreal Mirror, 24 January – 30 January 2008, p. 46.
Tousignant, Isa “Arts 2008 winter Cultural Guide,Hear Them Roar Galleries and Museums are just getting started”, Hour, Montreal, 10 January 2008, p.14.
Tousignant, Isa “Akimbo: Akimblog, Montreal”, www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=171, 06 February 2008.
Catchlove, Lucinda, “Culture Wars | The Year in Review”, Hour, Montreal, 4 January 1995.
Catchlove, Lucinda, “What is Art”, Hour, Montreal, 23 – 29 June 1994.
Duncan, Ann, “Art or Kiddy Porn? It might depend on which city you see it in”, Montreal Gazette, 18 June 1994.
Girling, Oliver and Mc Mackon, Jennifer “ Misrule at the Apollo”, Toronto, May 1994.*
Holubizky, Ihor and Girling, Oliver, “Imposter | Impasto : Curatorial Laboratory Project number 2”, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1993. *
Cron, Marie-Michéle, “À la recherchedu temps présent”, le Devoir, Montreal, 31 August 1991.
Gravel, Claire, “L’art québecois s’exile”, Le Devoir, Montreal, 5 December 1987.
Dion, François, “ Un dialogue esthétique”, Montreal Campus, November 1987.
Bélanger, Judith “Croquer la pomme”, Voir Montreal, 12 – 18 November 1987.
Paquin, Jean, “Profils: onze artistes québecois à New York”, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Ville de Montréal, 1987. *
Rosshandler, Leo, “Forum 76”, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, 1976. *
ARTIST TALK
2009 UQÀM: Université du Québec a Montéal, conférences 'ICI' organized by Stephen Schofield, Montreal, Canada
Concordia University, organized by Éric Simon, Montreal, Canada
GRANTS
1993 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – project grant
1992 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – project grant
1991 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – project grant
1990 Canada Arts Council – short term project grant
1982 Canada Arts Council – short term project grant
1981 Canada Arts Council – short term project grant
1977 The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation – one year grant
1976 The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation – one year grant
EDUCATION
1975 Diploma in Cinematography, School of Art and Design, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
YVES TESSIER - STATEMENT
All my paintings since 2001 are part of an ongoing series depicting a variety of situations that could be happening simultaneously around the globe and beyond.
I use drawing and painting to bring out the salient features of what I've seen, or imagined, to describe the essential qualities of human life, articulated in a formal language drawn as much from Archaic periods of art history as from the aesthetic of comic books. I propose to delineate, in as candid a vision as humanly possible, the spirit of humanity in our time.
