Fernand Toupin is a Québécois

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 painter best known as a member of the avant-garde

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 movement Les Plasticiens. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada

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Solo exhibits

1959 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal

1962 Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal

1965 Galerie Camille Hébert, Montreal

1967 Retrospective, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

1970 Galerie Arnaud, Paris

1970 Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal

1972 Galerie Arnaud, Paris

1972 Retrospective, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris

1974 Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal

1974 Suite d'automne, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

1976 Galerie Arnaud, Paris

1976 Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal

1976 Olympic Stadium, Montreal

1977 Place des Arts, Montreal

1977 Les jeunesses musicales du Canada, Mont-Orford

1979 Galerie Frédéric Palardy, Saint-Lambert

1979 Claude Gadoury Art moderne, Montreal

1980 Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal

1980 Dominion-Corinth Gallery, Ottawa

1981 Retrospective, Collège André-Grasset, Montreal

1982 Galerie Lacerte Guimont, Sillery

1983 Galerie Frédéric Palardy, Saint-Lambert

1984 Galerie Présence, Montreal

1985 La Galerie, Montreal

1986 Galerie Frédéric Palardy, Saint-Lambert

1986 Retrospective, Musée d'art de Joliette

1988 Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal

1990 Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal

1995 Riverin-Arlogos art contemporain, Eastman

2001 Galerie Bernard, Montreal

2003 Retrospective, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup

2004 Retrospective, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau

2005 Galerie Bernard, Montreal

2005 Retrospective, Galerie Renée-Blain, Brossard

2006 Retrospective, Musée régional de la Côte Nord, Sept-Iles

2008 Retrospective, Colline Gallery, Edmundston, New Brunswick

2009 Galerie Bernard, Montreal

2009 Retrospective, Maison de la culture Villeray, Montreal

2010 Retrospective, miniature works (1968–1992), Galerie Bernard, Montreal

2011 Retrospective (1952–2001), Galerie Lamoureux Ritzenhoff, Montreal

Group Exhibits (selection)

1954 Petit salon d'été, Librairie-galerie Tranquille, Montreal

1955 Les Plasticiens, L'Échourie, Montreal

1956 Toupin et Belzile, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery XII

1956 Young sculptures, Sainte-Hélène Island, Montreal

1956 Duo exhibition, exhibition exchanges Canada/USA, Parma Gallery, New York

1958 Salon de la jeune peinture, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (winner of the first prize)

1959 Abstract Art, École des beaux-arts de Montréal

1962 Two Worlds Festival, Spoleto, Italy

1966 Canadian Art, travelling exhibit across Canada from the Sayde and Samuel Bronfman collection

1970 Quebec Pavillon, Osaka World Expo, Japan

1972 Fourth international paintings Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (winner of the national prize for Canada)

1973 Galerie Cazevane, Paris

1975 Canadian canvas, travelling exhibit of large paintings to nine Canadian museums

1976 Randall Galleries, New York

1977 Jauran et les premiers plasticiens, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

1980 Art Expo, International Art Exposition, New York Coliseum, New York

1980 Dix ans de propositions géométriques, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

1980 Randall Galleries, New York

1987 Accents de la collection Lavalin, Galerie Lavalin, Montreal

1991 Tokyo Central Museum, Japan

1992 Les Plasticiens, National Gallery of Canada / Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec / Winnipeg Art Gallery

2005 Les Plasticiens, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal

2005 Les Plasticiens, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke

2008 Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia

2011 Quiet Mutinies: Art in Québec in the 1950s, The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta

Miscellaneous (selection)

1970-72 Tapestries, ateliers Pierre Daquin, Paris

1971 "Germinal", mural for the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

1974 Set creation for "Au-delà du temps/Time out of mind", Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

1975 "Errances", art book on poems by Fernand Ouellette including seven lithographs

1977 Set creation for "La Scouine", Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

1977 "Hochelaga", mural for the Wilfrid-Pelletier Concert Hall at Place des Arts in Montreal

1978 "Procain épisode", art book on the novel by Hubert Aquin including 14 lithographs and one etching

2005 Participates in the documentary of André Desrochers, "L'intuition intuitionnée" on the first movement of Plasticiens

Public Collections (selection)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke

Musée d'art de Joliette

Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup

Place des Arts, Montreal

University of Montreal

City of Montreal (Saint-Laurent district)

City of Brossard

City of Gatineau

Selection Reader's Digest

Loto-Québec

Banque Nationale du Canada

University of Lethbridge, Alberta

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Statische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany

Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris, France

External links

• Biography on the website of the Gallery 2000
  • Gallery of work on the website of the Gallery 2000
• http://www.galerielamoureuxritzenhoff.com Lamoureux Ritzenhoff Gallery
  • 2011 Exibition Retrospective Exhibition 2011 at Lamoureux Ritzenhoff Gallery
    • Toupin's work for sale Lamoureux Ritzenhoff Gallery