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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
2024 Une idée de la destination, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
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
2018 Contre-jour, no. 44 (cover + 19 images)
2019 Jaeborn by numbers (artworks for the film) Short film / 22 min Dir. Roger Gariépy 
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 from Quebec and based in Montreal. He graduated with distinction from the Bachelor of Visual Arts program at Concordia University where he received the John J. A. Murphy/Cecil Buller Drawing Prize.

In recent years, his work has been presented at the Seattle art fair, at the Foire Papier and in several other group and individual exhibitions in Quebec and Canada, notably at the Youn gallery in Montreal, at Birch  Contemporary in Toronto and at the Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal.

In 2018, his work was published in Contre-Jour, cahiers littéraires (no.44), alongside texts by the poet Benoît Jutras.

He created the works that appear in the film Jaeborn by Number, a mock documentary about the excesses of the contemporary art market. Directed by Roger Gariepy, the film was presented at the 37th Montreal International Art Film Festival in March 2019.

about my work

My art starts from the desire to return to essential things. It allows me to act outside of productivism.
 
Through art, I can view the world as a whole and see the commonalities of the past, present and future. It's like looking at the stars and feeling the human condition, in all its overwhelming, grandiose and inexplicable aspects.
 
I like to juxtapose contrasts, a bit like yin and yang: representing in the same work the components of an opposite, but complementary duality: strength-fragility, growth-degeneration, movement-immobility, confidence-despair, gentleness- violence, empathy-egoism, feminine-masculine, life-death, etc.
 
The figure and the body in movement are the central motifs in my work. They serve as a basis for depicting the inner life and addressing metaphysical questions. In particular, I wish to represent the capacity of the individual and society to overcome disruptive events and to cope with moments of uncertainty and intense change.
 
My paintings are an invitation to rediscover the meaning and the common points in what seems irreconcilable at first glance.

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