Pierre Coupey

1942 Pierre Coupey was born in Montreal in 1942. He graduated from Lower Canada College (SM), McGill University (BA), the University of British Columbia (MA), and studied drawing and printmaking at the Academie Julian and the Atelier 17 in Paris. Since 1964 he has published five books of poetry and exhibited paintings and prints in over 40 solo and group shows in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Tokyo and Dublin. His work is represented in over 100 private, corporate, and public collections, including those of the Evergreen Cultural Centre, the Seymour Art Gallery, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His most recent solo exhibitions were at the Canadian Embassy Gallery in Tokyo (1998) and at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam (1999). He was a Founding Co-editor of The Georgia Straight in 1967 and the Founding Editor of The Capilano Review in 1971. His work - writing, printmaking, painting - has received numerous grants, commissions and awards, including grants from the Conseil des Arts du Québec, the Canada Council, the British Columbia Arts Council, as well as the recent commission for the Visions Millennium Print Project from the North Vancouver Arts Council. He has been a faculty member in the English Department at Capilano College since 1970, and a member of the Capilano College Art Institute (Printmaking) since 1990. [photo:Richard Montagna]