Jacques Hurtubise

b. 1939

Jacques Hurtubise was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1956, at age seventeen, he enrolled at École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal where he studied under Albert Dumouchel, Jacques de Tonnancour and Jean Simard. Even though Hurtubise did not yet have his diploma, he started exhibiting at the Spring Exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal as soon as 1957 and was awarded a prize in painting the following year. He completed his studies in 1960 and was awarded the Max Beckmann Scholarship to study in New York City, which he did for a period nine months.

Hurtubise’s first exhibition was held in 1961 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In the years that followed, he held regular one-man shows at various galleries in Montreal such as Galerie Denise Delrue (1962, 1963), Galerie du Siècle (1964, 1965, 1966) and Galerie Nova et Vetera (1965). He also participated at many group exhibitions including the fifth and sixth Biennials of Canadian Art and a joint exhibition with Canadian artist Marcel Barbeau in 1965. He exhibited abroad at various exhibitions and international art shows such as the Sao Paolo Biennials of 1965 and 1967. In 1965 he won first prize at the Province of Quebec Competition and in 1966 he attracted much attention in New York City while exhibiting at East Hampton Gallery, where he also exhibited the following year. In 1967, he spent a year as Resident Artist at the Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA.

In the early seventies Hurtubise held his first major exhibition, shown first at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (1972) and then at the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal (1973), where he exhibited again in 1981. During the next decades, many other important shows followed and in 1998, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In 2000, Hurtubise was awarded the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize by the Government of Quebec. He is still active today.

Collections:

- National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON)
- Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Quebec City, QC)
- Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (Montreal, QC)
- Musée d’Art de Joliette (Joliette, QC)
- Musée du Bas St-Laurent (Rivière-du-Loup, QC)
- Musée de Lachine (Lachine, QC)
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, QC)
- Musée Laurier (Victoriaville, QC)
- Musée Régional de Rimouski (Rimouski, QC)
- Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
- Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, AB)
- Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, ON)
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS)
- Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, ON)
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC)
- Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery (Owen Sound, ON)
- The Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, MN)
- MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK)
- Agnes Etherignton Art Centre (Kingston, ON)
- Museum London (London, ON)
- Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, PEI)
- Canada Council (Ottawa, ON)
- Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, USA)
- Massa¬chusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- Peter Stuyvesant Art Foundation (Amsterdam, Nether¬lands)
- Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
- University of Alberta (Calgary, AB)
- University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)
- Université de Montreal (Montreal, QC)
- La Pulperie de Chicoutimi (Chicoutimi, QC)
- Toronto Dominion Bank (Toronto, ON)
- Power Corporation of Canada (Montreal, QC)

Affiliations:

-Royal Canadian Academy