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GUILLAUME KLOOTIER
b. 1982, Ottawa, Canada
lives and works in Montreal, Canada
 
EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Tarocchi, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal
2020 Cronos, Galerie Youn, Montréal
2019 La Planète KRAG, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada
2018 Lunae Lumen, Collège de Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada
​2017 L'Autre Versant, Galerie Marc Gosselin, Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Spirit of Togetherness, Galerie Youn, Montréal
2019 Fast Forward, Birch Contemporary, Toronto
2019 Exposition estivale, Galerie Youn, Montréal
2019 Papier, foire d'art contemporain, Montréal
2019 Artsida9
2018 Black & noir, Galerie Youn, Montréal
2018, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, États-Unis
2018 Exposition du sixième anniversaire, Galerie Youn, Montréal
2018 Performance, Le Livart, Montréal
2018 Artsida8
2017 Transformation, Le Livart, Montréal
2017 L’Intemporalité du corps, Le Livart, Montréal
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Cision Canada Ltd.
Leblond & Knobel SENC
DISTINCTION
2006 Cecil Buller - John J.A. Murphy Award in drawing
SELECTED MEDIA/PRESS
2019 Jaeborn by numbers (artworks for the film) Short film / 22 min Dir. Roger Gariépy 2018 Contre-jour, no. 44 (cover + 19 images)
2006 Ghosts of Things that are (exhibition catalogue) by David G. Taylor & Gallery Lambton, essay by Leopold Plotek
RESIDENCIES / DEVELOPPEMENT
2018 Practicum with painter Harold Klunder. Visual Arts Centre, Westmount, Canada.

bio

GUILLAUME KLOOTIER (1982-) is a contemporary artist and painter based in Montreal.

He graduated with distinction from Concordia University's Visual Arts Program. On his final year, he won the Cecil Buller - John J.A. Murphy Scholarship in Drawing.
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In recent years, he exhibited at Seattle Art Fair, Papier Art Fair, and several other group exhibitions in Quebec.

In 2018, literary journal Contre-Jour published his work alongside the work of poet Benoît Jutras (issue No.44).

G. Klootier painted the artworks for Jaeborn by Number, a mock documentary about the excess of the contemporary art market. Directed by Roger Gariepy, the film had its Premiere at the 37th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal (MAR 2019).
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G. Klootier presents his second solo exhibition at Galerie Youn from November 21 to December 23, 2020.​

about my work

My art comes from the need to go back to the essential questions. It allows me to think outside productivism.
 
Through painting, I can envision the world as a whole and see the commonalities of the past, present and future. It is like looking at the stars and feeling the human condition, in that it is overwhelming, grandiose and inexplicable.
 
I like to juxtapose contrasts, much like yin and yang: to represent in the same image the components of an opposite but complementary duality: strength-fragility, growth-degeneration, movement-immobility, hope-despair, tenderness-violence, empathy-selfishness, feminine-masculine, life-death, etc.
 
The figure and the body in action are central motives in my work. They are a means of visually expressing inner thoughts, emotions, and metaphysical questions.

More than anything, I want to expose the ability of the individual and society to overcome disruptive events and to cope with moments of uncertainty and intense change. My paintings invite us to rediscover meaning and continuity in what seems irreconcilable or broken.

News/events

MARCH - APRIL 2022
​TARROCHI - Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal

March 17 to April 17 2022
Opening reception March 17, 5pm to 7pm

DECEMBER 2020
CRONOS - Galerie Youn - Montreal

​https://galerieyoun.com/en/exhibitions/2020/guillaume-klootier

MARCH 2020
THE SPIRIT OF TOGETHERNESS - Galerie Youn- MONTREAL
group show

​https://galerieyoun.com/en/exhibitions/2020/group-show

APRIL 2020
galerie youn@papier art fair -montreal

https://www.papiermontreal.com/

JANUARY 2020
Jaeborn numéro par numéro / Festival pleins écran​s
interview (french only)

​https://voir.ca/balado/pleins-ecrans-la-baladodiffusion/jaeborn-numero-par-numero-du-mythe-a-la-realite/

OCTOBER 2019​​​
FAST FORWARD - Birch Contemporary - Toronto
group exhibition

October 3–6, 2019​
Opening reception Thursday October 3 from 6 to 9pm
www.birchcontemporary.com/exhibition/fast-forward

SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2019
LA PLANÈTE KRAG - Galerie Youn - Montréal
solo exhibition

12 SEPT - 17 NOV 2019 @ Galerie Youn
5226 St-Laurent, Montréal
www.galerieyoun.com
​​Info :
https://galerieyoun.com/fr/expositions/2019/guillaume-klootier