Next solo shows: Montreal, Gallerie de Bellefeuille June 20, 2008 (new show catalogue "Hozho"), Edmonton, Peter Robertson Gallery October 25, 2008. Shows are scheduled (but no exact dates yet) for Toronto and Seattle in 2009.

NEW* Read the transcript of a 2008 interview between Marchessault and Sandra Fraser (curator at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario).

2008: Bau-Xi Galleries in conjunction with Foster/White Galleries will be publishing a 96 page hardcover book in 2008 celebrating 30 years of painting by Robert Marchessault. Shows in 2009 at Toronto, Vancouver and Seattle will accompany the book launch. The artist will attend each opening. Plublication will be near the end of 2008. Check back for more details.

2008: Les Éditions du Boréal, 4447, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal has purchased the right to use a 2008 painting by Marchessault (SND Again, 30x30 oil/panel) for the cover of a new book of poetry by Hélène Monette. To be published in the fall of 2008, the book is titled Thérèse Pour Joie et Orchrestre.

2007: One of Marchessault's large paintings features prominently during the first 10 minutes of the film Shattered. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Emma Karwandy, Desiree Zurowski.
Directed by: Mike Barker , Produced by: Pierce Brosnan, Mel Gibson, Beau St. Clair. Over the last 10 years many of Marchessault's paintings have appeared in over 9 feature films and many TV dramas.

 

 

 

Marchessault travelled in Italy in the fall of 2007 (Tuscany, Venice, Florence, Rome). New paintings are begining to reflect some of the wonderful things seen there (for example: "Hidden Forces" 48x48, 2008).

Robert Marchessault is married to the painter Teresa Cullen with whom he has collaborated on several new paintings. Teresa is show here in New Mexico (2004) where she was an artist in residence and a fellow at the Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos.

 

Robert Marchessault was born in Montreal in 1953. His early years (until 1969) were spent in the USA, (Philadelphia and Syracuse, NY). In the late 1960s his family relocated to France before returning to Canada in 1970 where he completed his fine arts studies at Concordia University (Montreal). He married the Canadian painter Teresa Cullen in 1977 and the couple settled in Toronto. There they painted professionally from a downtown studio until building a country studio in 1983 near Owen Sound, ON. In 1997 Marchessault completed a Master of Arts at the University of Toronto and the couple subsequently relocated and built two new studios close to Barrie, Ontario where they currently reside and work.

Marchessault continues to paint and exhibit nationally and internationally producing several exhibitions a year. His work is avidly collected and can be found world wide in many respected collections. The main galleries that represent his work are located in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, Santa Fe, Calgary and Edmonton.