Pierre Coupey is a Canadian painter, poet, and editor.
Overview
Pierre Coupey was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from Lower Canada College, received his BA from McGill University, studied drawing at the Académie Julian and studied printmaking at the Atelier 17 in Paris. He received his MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a Certificate in Printmaking from the Art Institute, Capilano University. He was a founding co-editor of The Georgia Straight and the founding editor of The Capilano Review. He currently serves on The Capilano Review Contemporary Arts Society Board. His work has received awards such as the Vancouver 2013 Distinguished Artist Award from FANS. Coupey has been given grants by the Conseil des Arts du Québec, the Canada Council, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Audain Foundation for the Arts, among others. In 2017, he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and he will be formally inducted in 2018. He has published several books of poetry, chapbooks. and catalogs, and exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally. His work is represented in private collections in Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe as well as numerous corporate, university and public collections across Canada. Major public collections include the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Kelowna Art Gallery, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, University of Guelph Collection, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the West Vancouver Museum. He recently completed major painting commissions for two new buildings, 745 Thurlow in Vancouver and Fifteen 15 in Calgary. A Coupey poem, "Study No. X" has been included in GCSE syllabuses in English schools.
Exhibitions
Solo (recent)
2017 New Work, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto
2016 Recent Work: RaptureRupture, Gallery Jones, Vancouver
2016 Requiem Notations I-IX, curator Darrin Morrison, West Vancouver Museum at West Vancouver Library
2014 Measures: Recent Work, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto
2013 Cutting Out the Tongue: Selected Work 1976-2012, curators Astrid Heyerdahl / Darrin Morrison, Art Gallery at Evergreen, West Vancouver Museum
The Georgia Straight, founding co-editor, 1967-1968
The Western Gate, founding co-editor, 1968
Anthologies
Actis, Andrea and Dylan Godwin, eds. For Jamie Reid: 1941-2015. ti-TCR: A Web Folio 13.
Ganter, Brian, ed. The Capilano Review: The Manifesto Issue 3rd ser.13.
Houglum, Brook, ed. The Capilano Review: The George Stanley Issue 3rd ser.14.
The Capilano Review: 40th Anniversary Issue 3rd ser.17.
Revisiting Roy Kiyooka’s Pacific Windows. ti-TCR: A Web Folio 12.
Kernaghan, Patti and Jenny Penberthy, eds. One More Once: for Pierre Coupey's 70th. North Vancouver: CUE, 2012.
Mahood, Aurelea, ed. Everything Is Deep Enough: Pierre Coupey at 70. ti-TCR: A Web Folio 5.
Nield, John, Graham Fletcher and Unsah Tabassum. AQA GCSE English: Skills for Language & Literature, Teacher Guide + CD. Deddington, England: Philip Allan, 2010.
Reid, Carol, ed. Can You Hear Me Now: A Tribute to Jamie Reid. North Vancouver: Blue Window, 2011.
Schermbrucker, Bill and Crawford Kilian, eds. The Dialogue Continues Tales from the Making of Capilano College. North Vancouver: Capilano Faculty Association, 2014.
Covers | Broadsides | On-Line
"The Big, Bad World of Public Readings." TCR Blog.
A Book of Days I . Cover. Jack Hannan, Rhythm to Stand Beside. Toronto: Cormorant, 2013.
"The Alphabet of Blood." Visual Writing: Documents in Concrete & Visual Poetry: Ubu Editions, 2011.
Field IV. Cover. One More Once: for Pierre Coupey's 70th. North Vancouver: CUE, 2012.
"The Night We Hijacked Leonard Cohen, with digressions." TCR Blog.
Notations 20: As If. Cover. Daniel Karasik, Hungry. Toronto: Cormorant, 2013.
Notations 25. Cover. Marilyn Gear Pilling, A Bee Garden. Toronto: Cormorant, 2013.
Notations 28. Cover. Amanda Jernigan, All the Daylight Hours. Toronto: Cormorant, 2013.
"On Editing the Pacific Windows Issue." ti-TCR: A Web Folio 12.
