Robert Cadot
PAINTER
Contemporary symbolist
approach
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- First degree certificate in painting, University of Quebec in
Montreal (UQÀM), 1981
- Bachelor in literature, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM),
1978
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
FLOWER POTS, WHIRLS AND OTHER EXTRAVAGANCES series :
- Pierre-Boucher Museum, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, april and may
2014
ENCOUNTER series :
- Frezza-Lesage gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, september 2009
CURVED LINES series :
- Frezza-Lesage gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, may 2008
TIME WILL TELL series :
- Maison de la culture Mercier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March
2005
THE SECRET DOORS series :
- Cultural centre of Verdun, Quebec, Canada, december 2002 to February
2003
- Creative centre of the Gésù, Montreal, Qc, Canada, November and
December 2000
THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND series :
- Cultural centre of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, May 1996
- Cultural centre of Tracy, Quebec, Canada, April 1996
- Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur, Montreal, Qc, Canada, March
1996
- La Maison des Arts de Laval (trio), Quebec, Canada, December
1995
- Chambly Library, Quebec, Canada, May 1995
- Cultural center of Val David, Quebec, Canada, September 1994
TAROKADO series :
- Montreal Central Library, Quebec, Canada, April and May 2002
- Bell amphitheatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 1993
- Centre national d’expositions, Jonquières, Quebec, Canada, February
1993
- Cultural centre of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, February
1992
THE FLYING GLASSES series :
- Cultural centre of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, September
1986
- La Malvas art gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1985
OTHER SELECTION
- Cultural centre of Maranhão State, Sao-Luis, Brazil, by invitation
of the state Secretary for culture of Maranhão, September 1993
- Saint-Denis art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 1983
- Saint-Denis art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, june 1981
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2017 Le Livart gallery, Hommage à Diane Frezza exhibition,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 2011 Le Beffroi gallery, Bruges, Belgium
- 2010 Auditorio municipal de Cangas, Spain
- 2010 BIJ Krepel gallery, Klarenbeek, Netherlands
- 2010 Maison de la culture de Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,
Canada
- 2010 Franciscan Monastery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (duo with
painter Gilles Caron)
- 2009 Le Beffroi gallery, Bruges, Belgium
- 2001 Creative centre of the Gésù, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1998 Vadreuil-Soulanges regional Museum, Quebec, Canada
- 1997 Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1997 Kolin Museum, Czech Republic
- 1995 Atelier del Arte, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1995 Ozias Leduc centre, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
- 1994 Fra-Angelico art gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1993 Centro cultural Santa-Maria dei Angeli, Assise, Italia
- 1993 Galleria Le Volte, Assise, Italia
- 1991 Az-Art, Alliance française, Vancouver, British-Colombia
- 1990 Jean Renoir art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1987 Orly-sud art Gallery, Paris, France
- 1986 Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) art gallery, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
- 1985 Arts Contemporains Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ILLUSTRATIONS AND OTHER
PRODUCTIONS
Illustrations for art magazines :
- Imagine
- Dixit
- Luminance
- Brèves littéraires, Société littéraire de Laval, Vol. 10, numéro 3,
Hiver 1995.
Murals :
- For Mont-Royal avenue’s SIDAC
- For Éco-quartier De Lorimier
3D artwork :
- For Mont-Royal avenue’s SIDAC, for SQDM and for the “ministère de
l’Industrie, du Commerce, des Mines et de la Technologie du Québec”
(8’x35’ artwork).
Publications :
- TAROKADO ; tarot illustrations, Éditions de Mortagne, Boucherville,
1990.
- TAROKADO ; poetic essay, coauthor with the poet José Acquelin,
Éditions de Mortagne, Boucherville, 1991.
Special projects :
- Maison de la culture du plateau Mont-Royal; pictorial performance,
with the painter Etienne Bédard, during a poetry-painting project on the
tarot theme, September 1998.
- Project Les Artistes à l’École of the Ministry of Culture and
Communications of Quebec.
GRANTS
- Subsidy from the Ministry of International Relations of Quebec, in
1993 and in 1997.
HONOURS
- Gold medal, Concours national des arts visuels, Montreal
(1988).
COLLECTIONS
Various private collectors and some corporations and state agencies
acquired my artworks among which:
- Matawinie MRC (2014);
- Trois-Rivières Pierre-Boucher Museum;
- La Laurentienne Générale;
- Chambre des notaires du Québec;
- Société Expo-Bible du Québec, OFM;
- Maranhão State of Brasil;
- Law firm Bélanger, Sauvé et associés of the Place Ville Marie;
- The Cabinet of the Ministry of Labour of Quebec (artworks renting
1997).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Le Collectionneur, no 16;
- L’Art actuel au Québec;
- Marché de la peinture au Québec;
- Guide ressources;
- Luminance magazine.