David Bolduc was born in Toronto in
1945. He attended the Ontario College of Art for one year
(1962-63) and studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
School (1964-65) with Jean Goguen. His first exhibitions,
several with groups, took place in Montreal galleries,
including a solo show at the Elysee Theatre in 1966. He
returned to Toronto in November 1966 where he worked in
the Royal Ontario Museum's conservation department. His
first solo show, at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in 1967,
featured groupings of shaped canvases with contoured
surfaces carrying simple geometric colour designs. He
subsequently abandoned colour to work with minimal
constructions of stretched white vinyl and then with
simple structures made of rope, wood, and mirrors.
A 1968 Canada Council grant allowed him to leave his ROM
job to travel in Europe, through Turkey overland to Nepal,
returning home via Uzbekistan and Moscow after eight
months abroad. In the ensuing 33 years he has seldom
remained at home for more than a year at a stretch. He
showed annually at Lamanna until 1976, when he began his
association with David Mirvish, and subsequently Alkis
Klonaridis, who had been the Mirvish Gallery's Director.
Bolduc's Watercolours and Drawings was featured at the
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, in 1976, and he also
showed at the Diane Brown Gallery in Washington, D.C.;
Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston Texas; Galerie Gilles
Gheerbrant, Montreal; Paintings 1975-1980 at the Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 1981; three exhibitions
at Art 45, Montreal between 1984 and 1991; three shows at
Paul Kuhn Fine Art, Calgary, between 1991 and 1996; and
the James Baird Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland. Ron
Moore in Toronto currently represents him.
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