Bill Vazan

Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933; lives and works in Montreal.

Internationally acclaimed for his conceptually based practice, Bill Vazan has specialized in land art, painting, sculpture and photography for more than forty years, seeking to elucidate humans’ relationships to the environment and to the cosmos. Bill Vazan’s works have been extensively shown in North America and abroad, and can be seen in many public and private collections. In 2001, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec mounted a major show of his works entitled Bill Vazan: Ombres cosmologiques. It was subsequently presented at the Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia (2002), the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, (2003), the Nickel Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta (2004), the Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal (2004), and the Musée régional de la Côte-Nord, Sept-Îles (2005). In May 2007, VOX has mount a retrospective exhibition of his work from the 1960s and ‘70s. Bill Vazan teaches at Université du Québec à Montréal. [Source: VOX, 2009]