Contemporary Art

Born in Montreal, Canada in 1943, as a young boy, Jean-Pierre Lafrance quickly established himself as a child prodigy in the visual arts - showing technical skill and creative sophistication far beyond his years. At the age of sixteen, he studied drawing and painting at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal. He then went on to study at the Salette Studio and with Jordi Bonet (one of Canada's greatest sculptors and muralists) and at l'Atelier de l'Ile at Val-David where he learned to understand and master the complicated techniques of etching and lithography.

Jean-Pierre Lafrance has established himself as a multi-disciplinary artist who creates visual communication which is based upon incommensurable structures, governed by the thrust of the real and the unreal, and in which the unlimited order of his dreamlike universe remains the material impulsion of a purely metaphysical language.


A member of the "artistes en arts visuels du Quebec society," Jean-Pierre has taken part in many individual and group exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, and many other foreign countries. In addition to his paintings, he has created numerous widely acclaimed sculptures which can be found in public places, industrial parks, and commercial buildings. He has been the subject of numerous articles written in magazines and newspapers, and has been interviewed on a host of television and radio shows.


The works of Jean-Pierre Lafrance are to be found in a large number of public and private collections throughout the world. Recently, Lafrance received formal recognition as one of Canada's ten most prominent artists. ...

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