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Don Jean-Louis
was born in
Hull
,
Quebec
in 1937. He has been exhibiting in
Canada
and internationally since 1960, and most recently in a 3 year touring exhibition (2006-09
Don Jean-Louis
| Silver Works, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery & Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria
), in a three-person exhibition at the Douglas Udell Gallery in Vancouver (2001), and in a group exhibition at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia. Jean-Louis is represented in many public collections in Canada including the National Gallery; Art Gallery of Ontario; University of Toronto Art Centre; MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Musée d'art contemporain. In 1978 he was made a member of the
Royal
Canadian
Academy
. Based in
Toronto
for many years, Jean-Louis has lived on the east side of
Vancouver Island
since 1996, a location that has provided him with a new and important source of inspiration.
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The exploration of new media and technologies is a hallmark of Jean-Louis' practice, always within a directed and coherent vision. In the mid-1960s he created vacuum-formed uvex and neon objects; staged one of the first interactive video installations in
Canada
in 1969; and beginning in the 1970s, worked with transformative installations, painting, photography, and digital images. Jean-Louis has also created two major permanent public art works for the Government of Canada, Joseph Sheppard Building in North York (a neon and cloth site-responsive work originally installed in 1976 and reconstructed in 1999), and an aluminum sculptural work for the atrium of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, installed in 1993.
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