Gary Slipper

BIO

Gary Peter Slipper RCA  (1934)

Gary Peter Slipper is a painter who was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  He's lived in Hamilton, Ontario (1960 - 65); Toronto, Ontario (1965 - 1988); and presently in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  His mediums are oils, tempera, pencil, ink, mixed mediums, and grisaille. His subjects are fantasy, dreams, spiritual, mythology, still life, portraits, nudes and figures.  His style is surrealist.

He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta (1948); the Vancouver School of Art, B.C. (1950); the American Academy of Art, Chicago (1951 - 1952); the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (1953) and in Florence, Italy (1954).  

Gary Slipper lives and works with his wife sculptor Annemarie Slipper in San Miguel de Allende (Mexico).

His work is in the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Queen’s University, the Canada Council Art Bank, as well as in many other galleries and public and private collections across Canada and the United States including:

2000 "Mannerism Revisited" Museo de la Cuidad Santiago de Queretaro (large catalogue)

1999 Galleria Pedro Friedeberg, San Miguel de Allende

1996 Casa de Cultura, Morelia

1995 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende

1992 Canadian Embassy, Mexico City 

1985 Galerie Basmadjian, Paris

1984 Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY

Repeat shows:

Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

Roberts Gallery, Toronto

David Mitchell Gallery, Toronto 

Gerhard Habarta Gallery, Vienna

Private collections in Argentina, Mexico, Europe and the US.

Public collections including:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

McCord Museum, McGill University, Montreal

McMaster University

Canada Council Art Bank

Vancouver Art Gallery

Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor

1977 Elected to Royal Canadian Academy.

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