Virginia Christopher Fine Art

 

Marcel Barbeau

Artist Biography

 

Main Awards, Grants and Honors
1962  Canada Council Grant
1963  Zack Award, Canadian Painting Biennale, Canadian Royal Academy
1964  Canada Council Grant
1965  Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs
1969  Canada Council Grant
1971  Canada Council Grant
1973  Lynch-Staunton Fellowship, Canada Council
1985  Sculpture Prize, McDonald Restaurant's Canada Art Competition
1988  Mention, International Art Competition, New York
1989  Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs
1989  Guest of honor at the Quebec Painting Council fund raising evening, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1990  Guest of honor at Symposium de la jeune peinture de Baie Saint-Paul
1993  Inivited to join Canadian Royal Academy of Arts
1995  Canada Order as an Officer
1998  Publication of a stamp by Canada Post as a part of the collection on the Automatists painters signatory of the manifesto "Total refusal", Montreal
2001  Marcel Barbeau was awarded the fifth prize in painting at the Art Biennale Internationale Del Arte Contemporaneo, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
2001  Official disclosure of a memorial late on his former studio and residence in Montreal located at 1637 Amherst Street
2002  Invited to join Académie Européenne des Arts et des Lettres, France
 
Main One Man Shows
1952  Wittenborn and Shultz, New York
1953  Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
1955  Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
1955  Marcel Barbeau, Palais Montcalm, Quebec (paintings and monumental drawings)
1955  Galerie Actuelle, Montreal
1957  Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
1961  Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1962  Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1962  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1963  Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1963  Barbeau-Tousignant, Dorothy Cameron Gallery Ltd, Toronto (April 13 to April 30)
1963  Barbeau, Dorothy Cameron Gallery Ltd, Toronto (September 21 to October 8)
1964  Barbeau and Hurtubise, Jerry Morris Gallery, Toronto
1964  Marcel Barbeau - La quatrième dimension, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris
1964  Marcel Barbeau - OEuvres récentes, Galerie du Siècle, Montreal (March 31 to April 12)
1965  Marcel Barbeau - OEuvres récentes, Galerie du Siècle, Montreal (October 18 to October 31)
1965  East Hampton Gallery, New York (January)
1965  East Hampton Gallery, New York (December)
1965  Two Painters from Quebec: Barbeau and Hurtubise, Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto (February 4 to February 20)
1966  East Hampton Gallery, New York (July 2 to July 8)
1967  East Hampton Gallery, New York
1967  Marcel Barbeau- OEuvres récentes, Galerie du Siècle, Montreal (February)
1967  Carmen Lammana Gallery, Toronto
1968  Carmen Lammana Gallery, Toronto
1969  Nouvelle Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1969  Barbeau, retrospective exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; Montreal Contemporary Art Museum and Scarborough College, Scarborough, Ontario (Catalogue)
1971  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres post-automatistes 1959-1962, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (Catalogue)
1971-72  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres sur papier, Relais culturel, Aix-en-Provence; galerie St-Georges, Lyon; galerie Le Point d'or, Grenoble; Hôtel de ville de Poitiers (A traveling exhibition organized by Canada Ministry of External Affair)
1972  Galerie III, Montreal
1972-73  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres sur papier, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and North Africa (A traveling exhibition organized by Canada Ministry of External Affairs)
1973  Marcel Barbeau: Paintings and Sculptures, Canada House, Londres
1975-76  Marcel Barbeau: peintures et sculptures - Paris-Montreal 1971-1975, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec and Montreal Contemporary Art Museum (Catalogue)
1977  Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
1977  Marcel Barbeau: dessins 1957-1961, Prints and Drawings Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Catalogue)
1981  Galerie Pierre Bernard, Hull
1981  Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal
1981-82  Galerie Dresdenere, Toronto
1982  Marcel Barbeau, Drummond Gallery, Drummondville Cultural Centre (Catalogue)
1984-85  Galerie Esperanza, Montreal
1987  Marcel Barbeau: une peinture de la lumière, HEC Gallery, École des Hautes Études Commerciales University of Montreal, Montreal (October)
1987  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres choisies 1960-1986, Galerie d'arts contemporains
1988  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres choisies 1960-1986, Galerie d'arts contemporains
1988  Marcel Barbeau: 1976-1986, Grand Théâtre de Quebec Art Gallery, Quebec
1989  Marcel Barbeau: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from 1957 to 1987, Kaspar Gallery, Toronto (Catalogue)
1990  Marcel Barbeau: Monumental Drawings, Owen Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New-Brunswick
1990  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres récentes, Michel-Ange Gallery, Montreal
1991  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres récentes, Michel-Ange Gallery, Montreal
1991  Galerie Estampe-Plus, Quebec
1991  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres sur papier, Chicoutimi Sociocultural Centre
1991  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres sur papier, Vieux Presbytère Art Centre, Saint-Bruno
1991  Marcel Barbeau: dessins et sculptures, Galerie Trois C, Henri Lemieux Cultural Centre, LaSalle
1991  Marcel Barbeau: peintures et sculptures récentes, Galerie Donguy, Paris
1991  Marcel Barbeau: dessins de grands formats 1954-1978, Plateau Mont-Royal, Cultural Centre Montreal
1992  Marcel Barbeau: 1987-1991, Artists Centre Bishop University, Lennoxville
1992  Marcel Barbeau: les années quatre-vingt, Pavillon des arts, Sainte-Adèle
1992  Marcel Barbeau: 1991-92, Canada House, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris
1993  Marcel Barbeau, Westbridge Gallery, Vancouver
1994  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres récentes, Michel-Ange Gallery, Montreal
1994  Marcel Barbeau: peintures et sculptures récentes, Galerie Donguy, Paris
1994  Marcel Barbeau: new murals, Stock Exchange Tower Main Hall, Montreal
1995  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres choisies 1960-1986, Galerie d'arts contemporains
1998  Marcel Barbeau: oeuvres récentes, an exhibition by François Rabelais University, Maurice Mathurin Gallery (Tours, February)
1998  Marcel Barbeau: Mastering the accidental, Churchill College Art Gallery, University of Cambridge, England (October-November, Catalogue)
1998  Marcel Barbeau: Mastering the accidental, Loughborough University School of Art and Design, Leicester, England (November-December, Catalogue)
1999  Marcel Barbeau, Le fleuve en escales/Episodes along the river - 1953-1990, an exhibition organized by Bas Saint-Laurent Museum, Rivière-du-Loup (June 20 to October 20: Frontenac Cultural Centre; Simon Fraser, Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; Nickle Art, Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary; Franco-Manitoban, Winnipeg; Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario. Catalogue)
1999  "Marcel Barbeau en filigrane - 1945-1999 ", Between the line: the graphic aspects of the artist's works, Domaine Cataraqui Museum and Garden, Quebec City, Canada (September-December)
2000  Marcel Barbeau: Dérives et variations - 1995-2000, Galerie Montcalm, Maison du Citoyen, Hull (May to June, Catalogue. Also presented at the Côte-des-Neiges Cultural Centre, June to August, 2000)
2002  Marcel Barbeau: Vertiginous limits, Galerie Bernard, Montreal (May 1 to June 8)
2003-2004  Marcel Barbeau: Dérives et variations II - 1995-2003, Baie Saint-Paul Exhibition Center (September 2003-March 2004)
2003  Marcel Barbeau: 1953- 2003, Contemporary Arts Gallery, Montreal and Prince-Arthur Gallery, Toronto (October-December)
2006  Marcel Barbeau: Vertiginous limits, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver (April 6-30)
 
Main Group Shows
1945  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1945  The Montreal Contemporary Art Society, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1945  Drawings by The Montreal Contemporary Art Society Members, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal and Eaton Fine Arts Gallery, Toronto
1946  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1946  The Montreal Contemporary Art Society, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1946  The Montreal Contemporary Art Society, Dominion Gallery, Montreal (December)
1946  Ouvrez les yeux, 1257, Rue Amherst, Montreal (April, first exhibition by the Automatists group)
1947  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1947  Automatists' group second exhibition, 75 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal (February-March)
1947  Les Automatistes, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris
1947  International World Democratic Youth Festival, Prague
1949  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1950  Les Rebelles, Montreal
1951  Les étapes du vivant, Montreal
1952  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1952  Painting by Paul-Émile Borduas and by a Group of Young Montreal Artists, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Montreal
1953  Artistes de Montréal, Sainte-Adèle Art Centre, Sainte-Adèle (April-May)
1953  Salon des indépendants, Place des artistes, Montreal
1954  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1955  Women Committee Annual Art Sale, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto
1956  Canada Art - Quebec Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (August)
1957  La matière chante, Galerie Antoine, Montreal
1962  Women Committee Annual Art Sale, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto
1962  DELLOYE, Charles, La peinture canadienne moderne: 25 années de peinture au Canada français, Fith Two World Festival, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy (Catalogue)
1962  Automatistes, Einaudi Gallery, Rome (Summer, Catalogue)
1963  Women Committee Annual Art Sale, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto
1963  Five Quebec Artists, Pogliani Library and Gallery Gallery, Rome
1964  Montreal Show: Barbeau, Beauchemin, Bellefleur, Comtois, Dumouchel, Lacroix, Lebkovitz, Letendre, Sullivan, Tousignant, Vaillancourt, Dorothy Cameron Gallery Ltd, Toronto (June 11 to June 29)
1964  Canadian Painting Biennale, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1965  Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1965  8th Annual Canadian Art Show and Sale, Montreal Fine Arts Museum (January 13 to January 21)
1965  August Art Festival, East Hampton Gallery, New York (August 23 to September 10)
1965  Quebec Annual Art Competition Show, MACM (October)
1965  Two aspects of Canadian artists: their works and their portraits by Gaby, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Montreal (July 15 to August 15)
1965  Canadian Painting Biennale, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1965  Color Dynamism: Then and Now, East Hampton Gallery, New York
1965  Op from Montreal, Flemming Museum, Vermont University, Burlington (April 10 to May 5)
1965  The Deceived Eye, Fort Worth Art Centre, Fort Worth, Texas (Catalogue)
1965  Penthouse Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965  Op Art, Foley's Gallery, Houston, Texas
1965  Op Art (A traveling exhibition organized by University of Ohio, Catalogue)
1965  International Artists' Seminar, Empire State Building Gallery, New York (Catalogue)
1965  Purity and Vision, Southampton College, New York
1965  Spring Exhibition, Walter Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts (Spring)
1965  1+1=3: Retinal Perception, University of Texas, Austin (Catalogue)
1965  Op Art Seminar Show, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey and Riverside Museum, New York
1965  Young Canadian Painters, O'Keefe Centre for the Arts, Toronto (March)
1965  Artists from Montreal (A traveling exhibition organized by National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Catalogue)
1965  Selection of Optical Art from the International Artists' Seminar at Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Art Gallery, Douglas College at Rutgers, The State University Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1965  Emphasis Optic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (Catalogue)
1965  Op Art, The Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
1965  Optical Illusion and Color Motion, Albrigh College Library and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania
1966  Sixth Canadian Painting Biennale, National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
1966  Selection from the Permanent Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (Catalogue)
1966  An Exhibition of Retinal and Perceptual Art, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin (Catalogue)
1966  Optical' 66, Argus Gallery, Madison, New Jersey
1966  International Exhibition, Hilton International Hotel, New York
1966  Whence O, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York State
1966  The Selective Eye, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1966  Vingt ans d'art affranchi, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec
1966  Color Motion, Fine Art Foundation of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut
1966  Montreal collectionne: dernière décennie, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Catalogue)
1966  Visual '66 - The Critics' Choice, Fairview Centre, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
1967  Centennial Exhibition: Québec and Ontario Painters (A traveling exhibition organized by the Centennial Commission Visual Arts Grants Program and Ontario Art Council)
1967  Nine Canadians, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Catalogue)
1967  Panorama de la peinture du Québec de 1940 à 1966, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal (Catalogue)
1967  Canadian Art, Canadian Pavillon, Expo 67 - Terre des Hommes International Exhibition, Montreal
1967-69  Ontario Centennial Exhibition (A traveling exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario)
1968  Marcel Barbeau, Ron Martin, Jean Noël, Carmen Lammana Gallery, Toronto (July-August)
1968  Seven Montreal Artists, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Catalogue)
1968  Canada 101, Edinburg International Festival, Edinburg, Great Britain (Catalogue)
1968  Canada Council Collection (A traveling exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada)
1968  Artist of the Gallery: Small works, Carmen Lammana Gallery, Toronto (December)
1969  Two Hundred Years of Quebec Painting, Douglas Hall, McGill University, Montreal
1969  Form and Color, an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada (Catalogue)
1970  Peintures grands formats, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal
1971  Borduas et les Automatistes: Montreal - 1942-1955, Galerie nationale du Grand Palais, Paris and Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal (Catalogue)
1972  Quatrième festival de peinture, Château-Musée, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (Catalogue)
1972  Création Québec (A traveling exhibition organized by Quebec Ministry of Cultural, Catalogue)
1972  Les arts du Québec, Quebec Pavillon, Terre des Hommes, Montreal
1974  Salon de Mai, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris (May)
1974  Les arts du Québec, Quebec Pavillon, Terre des Hommes, Montreal
1974  The Green Heritage, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada
1976  Cent onze dessins du Québec, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal (Catalogue)
1976  Spectrum (A traveling exhibition organized by Canadian Royal Academy Montreal Olympic Games, Catalogue)
1976  Trois générations d'art québécois: 1940-1950-1960, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal
1976-77  De la figuration à la non-figuration (A traveling exhibition organized by Montreal Contemporary Art Museum)
1977  Abstract drawings and prints, Prints and Drawings Room, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1977  Images of the Seventies, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
1978  Modern Painting in Canada, The Edmonton Art Gallery (Catalogue)
1978  Frontiers of Our Dreams: Quebec Painting in the 1940's and 1950's, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (Catalogue)
1978  Total refusal's 30th Anniversary, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal (Catalogue)
1978  Tendances actuelles, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum (Catalogue)
1979  Total refusal's 30th Anniversary, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (Catalogue)
  La révolution automatiste (A traveling exhibition organized by Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Catalogue)
1980  The Contemporary Arts Society: Montreal 1939-1948 (A traveling exhibition organized by The Edmonton Art Gallery, Catalogue)
1981  The Contemporary Arts Society: Montreal 1939-1948 (A traveling exhibition organized by The Edmonton Art Gallery, Catalogue)
1981  Five Years as an art collector, Shell Canada Gallery, Calgary
1982  The Essential Line, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (Catalogue)
1983  Montreal Non-figurative Painters Association: 1952-1961 (A traveling exhibition organized by Concordia Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Catalogue)
1983  500 oeuvres choisies: cinquantième anniversaire, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (Catalogue)
1985  Les vingt ans du musée à travers ses collections, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum (Catalogue)
1986  Point, ligne, plan, Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal
1986  The Automatists: Then and Now, Dresdnere Gallery, Toronto (Catalogue)
1986  Dessins et estampes canadiens 1999-1956, Drawing and Print Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1987  La peinture québécoise en mutation, National Poetry Festival, Cultural Centre, Trois-Rivières (Catalogue)
1987  Vingt ans de peinture: choix d'artistes, Montreal Contemporary Arts Centre, Montreal (Catalogue)
1988  Opening exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1988  Borduas et ses contemporains, Galerie Waddington-Gorce, Montreal
1988  Dessins Montréalais, Drawing and Print Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1988  Refus global et ses environs, Quebec National Library, Montreal
1988  Refus global: quarante ans déjà, La Petite Patrie Cultural Centre, Montreal (Catalogue)
1988  Dimensions: peintures de la collection Teleglobe Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Cultural Centre
1989  Une histoire de collection: dans 1984-1989, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
1990  La collection Union-Vie (A traveling exhibition organized by Drummond Cultural Centre, Drummondville, Catalogue)
1990  Art and Steel (A traveling exhibition organized by Via Rail, Montreal, Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver)
1990  Automatists, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
1990  Montreal Abstraction in the Sixties, Kaspar Gallery, Toronto
1990  The Automatists: papers and canvases, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
1991  Conseil de la peinture du Québec: vingt-cinquième anniversaire, Notre-Dame de-Grâce Cultural Centre
1991  Abstraction, Michel-Ange Gallery, Montreal
1991-93  Oeuvres de la collection permanente, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1992  Canadian art tour - A Fresh Look at Canadian Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1992  La sculpture au Québec: naissance et persistance: 1946-1961, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (Catalogue)
1992  Robert Ayre: the critic and the collection, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
1992  La collection des Editions Gaétan Morin, Michel-Ange Gallery, Montreal
1992  La collection: tableau inaugural I et II, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
1992  Montreal: 1942-1992: l'anarchie resplendissante de la peinture, UQAM Gallery, University of Quebec, Montreal (Catalogue)
1992  Une ville, un musée, une collection, Lachine Museum
1992  8th international print exhibition, Istituto per la Culturale l'arte, College Capizzi, Catania-Bronte, Italy
1992  Présent Laurentides, Palais Exhibition Centre, Laurentians Contemporary Art Museum, Saint-Jérôme
1992-94  The Crisis of Abstraction in Canada: the fifties (A traveling exhibition organized by National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Catalogue)
1992-94  Achieving the Modern: Canadian Abstract Painting and Design in the 1950's (A traveling exhibition organized by Winnipeg Art Gallery, Catalogue)
1993  Nouvelles acquisitions, Joliette Museum of Art
1993  Quinzième anniversaire de la galerie, Drummond Exhibition Centre, Drummondville Cultural Centre
1993  The permanent collection, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1993  Agnès Lefort Gallery: 1950-1960, Leonard & Biba Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
1994  Montreal painting 1930-1960: An Era of Change, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
1997  Les Automatistes et le Mont-Saint Hilaire, Mont-Saint Hilaire Museum of Art
1997  Symposiums de Sculpture au Québec 1964-1997, Lachine Museum, Lachine
1997  Itinéraire '97, Levalois-Perret City Hall, France (September; Guest of Honor)
1998  Éternel présent: 50 ans après "Refus global", Mont-Saint Hilaire Museum of Art (May-September, Catalogue)
1998  Borduas et l'épopée automatiste, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal (June-September, Catalogue)
1998  The Permanent Collection: 1915-1970, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (June-September)
1998  La Donation Maurice Forget, Joliette Museum of Art, Joliette (June-September)
1998  The Objective mysteries - a selection of Quebec art works from the permanent collection - 1948-1998, , Leonard et Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal (May-September)
1998  Montreal: The Forties, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Summer)
1998  Canadian Artists and Human Rights the Thirties and the Forties, National Gallery, Ottawa (Ausust-October)
1998  Paintings of "Total refusal" Fiftieth Anniversary Stamps Collection (A traveling exhibition organized by Canada Mail and Civilizations Museum, Gatineau Hull, August; Canada High Commission, London, September; Canada Embassy, Washington, December)
1998  Les automatistes et "Total refusal", Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (Catalogue)
1998  Les automatistes hier et aujourd'hui, Exhibition Centre, Baie Saint-Paul (Fall)
1998-99  Dreaming in colors, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (June-May)
1999  Regionalism reconstructed, Mc Inzie Art Gallery, Regina (June-August)
2000  Entrée en matière, Espace d'art contemporain, Morsang-sur-Orge Cultural Centre, Morsang-sur-Orge, France (May)
2000  Dérives et variations, 1995-2000, Montcalm Gallery, Maison du Citoyen, Gatineau, Hull, Quebec and Côte-des-Neiges Cultural Culture (May 11-June 8 and June 28-August 18)
2000  Pass'art, Rouyn-Noranda Exhibition Centre, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (May 3-September 3)
2000  Art and science, McIntosh Gallery, Western University Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario (June 2-July 2)
2000  Je me souviens: Vingt artistes au XXe siècle, Hôtel des Postes, Laurier Museum, Victoriaville, Québec, Canada (June 8-September 17)
2000  Real Life, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario (July 1-August 2)
2001  Les passeurs de l'an 2000 - Témoins du XXème siècle, Jean-Claude Bergeron Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (March 4-18)
2001  Les passeurs de l'an 2000 - Témoins du XXème siècle, Chapelle du Bon Pasteur Cultural Centre, Montreal (March)
2001  Salon de Mai, Espace Auteuil, Paris
2001  A Selection of Sculpture, Galerie Bernard, Montreal, Quebec (June 12-July 14)
2001  Biennale Internationale Del Arte Contemporaneo, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy (December 7-16, Catalogue. Marcel Barbeau was awarded a fifth prize in painting)
2002  Fair for Prints and Works on Paper, 2, Place du Colonel Fabien, Paris, France (March 25-April 14)
2002  Abstraction et figuration: 20 artistes oeuvres choisies, Galerie Bernard, Outremont, Montréal (June 11-July 13)
2002  1972 ou l'origine réinventée d'une collection inaugurale, les 30 ans de la collection du Musée régional de Rimouski, Musée régional de Rimouski, Québec (June 16-September 2)
2002  Triennale internationale d'art contemporain, Grande Arche de La Défense, Paris, France (September 17-October 12)
2002-03  Place à la Magie, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art de Montréal, Montreal (July-August)
2003  Infiniment bleu, Musée de la Civilisation, Québec City
2004  University of Montreal Art Gallery (January-March)
2004  Canada - The Sixties, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (February-April)
2005  Des oeuvres en série: Acquisitions récentes, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Québec (June-October 23)
2005  Penser en grand, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette (October 23-January 20)
2005-06  Dessins et oeuvres sur papier de la collection permanente, MACM (October 26-January)
2006  Boîtes de cigares peintes - Collection de Claude Bouchard, Galerie d'art de l'Alliance française, Ottawa (March 7-31)
2006  Art reach (A traveling exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, March)
2006  Explosion of Forms and Textures: Quebec Art of the 1960s from the Bas-Saint-Laurent Museum, Triangle Gallery, Calgary (June-July)
2006  Quebec Connection (Summer Art Stroll coordinated by the Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Summer)
2006  Children's Corner/Le coin des enfants, Galerie Bellemare, Montreal (December 16-23)
2006-08  Art and Society in Canada: 1913-1950 (A traveling exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada, starting at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, March 17-June 4, To be also shown at: Yukon Art Centre, March 22-May 13; Mc Michael Canadian Art Collection, June 29-September 23; Kamloops Art gallery January-March)
2007  Children's Corner/Le coin des enfants, Galerie Bellemare, Montreal (January 9-27)
 
Public Collections
Acadian Art Museum, University of Moncton, New Brunswick
Agence de coopération culturelle et technique de la Francophonie, Paris, France
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Archives de l'UQAM - Fonds Marcel Barbeau, University of Quebec Archives, Montreal, Quebec
Quebec National Archives, Audiovisual Archives, Quebec City, Quebec
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Arthothèque de Montréas, Montreal Art Loan Collection, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Art Bank, Canada Art Council, Ottawa, Ontario
Baie Saint-Paul Exhibition Centre, Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec
Montreal Public Library, Montreal, Quebec
Jaques Doucet Library, Paris, France
National Library, Paris, France
Quebec National Library, Montreal, Quebec
British Museum, London, U.K.
Canada Art Council, Ottawa, Ontario
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Cobourg Museum, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Quebec Art Bank Loan Collection, Quebec
National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Quebec
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.
Churchill College, University of Cambrige, U.K.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
École des hautes études commerciales, University of Montreal, Montreal
Greater Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
UQAM Gallery, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal
Hart House, University of Toronto, Ontario
Hôtel des Postes, Laurier Museum, Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada
Canadian Institute, Bibliothèque Gabrielle Roy, Quebec
Cultural and Art Institute, Catania, Sicily, Italy
Joliette Museum of Art, Joliette, Quebec
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Newfoundland and Labrador Museum, Saint-John, Newfoundland, Canada
Lamton Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
La Vielle Pulperie, Saguenay-Lac St-Jean Museum, Chicoutimi, Quebec
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University (Montreal)
Lethbridge Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
London Art Gallery and Museum, London, Ontario
Loughborough University Art Gallery, Loughborough, U.K.
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
McIntosh Art Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario
Mc Inzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
Ministry of External Affairs of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Montreal Fine-Arts Museum, Montreal
Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Museum of Art, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Civilisation Museum, Quebec, Quebec
Lachine Museum, Lachine, Quebec
Quebec North Shore Museum, Sept-Îles, Quebec
Lyon Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Bas St-Laurent Museum, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
Lachine Sculpture Park, Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Louis-Émond Museum, Péribonka, Quebec
Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Quebec
Charlevoix Regional Museum, La Malbaie
Rimouski Regional Museum, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Onatario
National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Library, Ottawa, Ontario
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Nova Scotia Art Gallery and Museum, Halifax
Nickel Art Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Owen Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Robert McLauglin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Rodman's Hall Arts Centre Collection, Saint-Catherine, Ontario
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
Simon Fraser Museum, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Stratford Art Gallery, Stratford, Ontario
The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Toronto City Corporation, Hôtel de ville, Toronto, Ontario
University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
City of Joliette (Joliette, Quebec)
City of Lachine, Lachine City hall, Lachine district, Montreal, Quebec
City of Saint-Laurent Collection, Saint-Laurent City Hall, Saint-Laurent district, Montreal, Quebec
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario
 
Corporate Collections
Aird and Berlis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alcan, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Banque Nationale, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Bombardier Inc., Montréal, Québec, Canada
Château Saint-Ambroise, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Deloitte & Touche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Esso Resources, Calgary, Alberta and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin SENCRL SRL, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Fédération des caisses populaires et d'économie Desjardins, Lévis, Québec, Canada
Gaz Métropolitain, Montréal, Québec, Canada
General Electric Canada Limitied, Mississauga, Ontario and Ville Saint-Laurent, Québec
Gottlieb & Parson, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harel, Drouin et Associés, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Hydro Quebec, Montréal, Québec, Canada
INCO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Loto-Quebec, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Industrielle-Alliance, Montréal, Québec, Canada
McDonald's Restaurants Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Norcen Resources Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Power Corporation du Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Reader's Digest Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Richard Brown-Baker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Union-Vie, Drummondville, Québec, Canada
Shell Canada Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Téléglobe Canada Inc., Montréal, Québec, Canada
École des hautes études commerciales, University of Montreal, Montreal
Via Rail, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Vasco Design, Montréal, Québec, Canada
 
Public Art Works
Pipes' Dreams 3, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I. (painted polyvinyl chloride tubing, 555 cm high, Paris 1973)
"Nadia" ou "Le saut du tremplin", Collection Lavallin, Montreal Old Harbour Society Headquarter, Montreal (painted aluminium tubing, 600 cm, Paris Montreal, 1973-1976)
Don Quichotte, Collection Ville de Joliette (painted aluminium, Renaud Park, Joliette, 1976)
La Piedmontaise 2, Music Pavillon, University of Sherbrooke (wood and painted steel, height: 600 cm, 1977-1989)
Liberté, liberté chérie, Marina de Lachine (painted steel, 500 cm high, 1985-87)
La piémontaise, Lachine Museum (274 x 213,5 x213,5 cm, 1988)
Les portes du regard 1, City Hall Park, Montreal-Est, Montreal (painted steel, 369 cm high)
Laurentide, Collection TransCanada, Via Rail (painted aluminium mural, 1990)
Les margelles du regard, private collection, Fingers Lake, Peterborough area, Ontario (painted steel)
1992: Windows on the Future, McLennan Library Terrace, McGill University (painted steel, 492 x 369 x 246 cm, 1989-1992)
Dialogue à contre-jour, Bas Saint-Laurent Museum, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec (cedar and steel bolts, 370 cm)
Colonne de lumière, private collection, Piedmont (cedar and steel bolts, 350 cm high)
Maison de Lumière 2, Charlevoix Regional Museum, La Malbaie, Quebec (213,4 x 200 x 124 cm)
Échelles de lumière, Charlevoix Regional Museum, La Malbaie, Quebec (224 cm high)
 
Website
http://www.marcelbarbeau.com
 
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