artist lecture: richard mongiat

Art and Art History Presents Richard Mongiat
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Richard Mongiat has been exhibiting his paintings in public galleries, commercial spaces and collective exhibitions for the last 25 years. An artist/curator in the painting collective From*A*Pit, Mongiat brought together 17 painters for the True to Form exhibition at the Dufferin Mall in 1995 and organized 9 Painters and a Magazine at College Park in 1997. In 2000, Mongiat and artist Catherine Beaudette co-founded Loop Gallery on Queen Street West in Toronto. In 2008, he completed the first part of The Underpass Project, a mural under the bridge at Bloor Street West and Lansdowne in Toronto. Part two is scheduled for 2009.

Mongiat is represented by Delong Gallery in Toronto. He also works in the theatre, painting backdrops and scenery for Opera Atelier, Canstage and the The National Ballet of Canada and has been teaching scenic painting at Ryerson University.

For more information visit www.delonggallery.com , www.loopgallery.ca , www.ccca.ca