Rick Rivet

A n I n t r o d u c t i o n t o
C o n t e m p o r a r y N a t i v e A r t i s t s i n C a n a d a

R i c k R i v e t

b. 1949, Aklavik, Northwest Territories
First Nations Affiliation: Métis

Richard James Rivet received a B.A. from the University of Alberta in Edmonton (1972), a B.F.A. from the University of Victoria (1980), and an M.F.A and B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan (1985, 86). From 1980 to 1981, he studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Throughout, Rivet received innumerable grants, scholarships, and awards including the Mungo Martin Award twice, in 1978 and 1983. Rivet is a painter who integrates Western and shamanistic art traditions into expressionistic depictions of historical events and contemporary issues revolving around colonialism. He has taught art in Newfoundland and Manitoba, served as a jurist for the Indian Art Centre, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (1983), the Canada Council (1995), and is a board member of the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA).

R E C E N T E X H I B I T I O N S

1999	Indian Summer. Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Rick Rivet and Jane Ash Poitras. Canadian Cultural Centre, Department of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France
1998	Journeys / Mounds. Gallery Gevick, Toronto, Ontario
1997	Group Show. Gallery Gevick, Toronto, Ontario Canadian Collection at APEC ‘97. Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre; University of BC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia Asia/Pacific Arts Festival. Department of Asian Studies, University of BC, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996-97	Topographies: Aspects of Recent British Columbia Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996	Mask Series. Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary, Alberta The Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Gallery Gevick, Toronto, Ontario
1995	The Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Recent Acquisitions. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario The Great Northern Arts Festival. Inuvialuit Corporate Centre, Inuvik, Northwest Territories
1994	Axis-North by Northwest. Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Prince of Whales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Matter, Space and Time. Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Discoveries ‘94. Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Arts From the Arctic (Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Scandinavian Lapland). Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
1993-94	Arts from the Arctic. Vancouver Inuit Art Society
1993	The Ethics Gesture. Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia Native American and First Nations Peoples Art. Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington Artopolis '93. The Woodwards Building, Vancouver, British Columbia
1992	INDIGENA. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec (travelling) Canada’s First People: A Celebration of Contemporary Native Visual Arts (travelling) National Arts Centre and Indian Art Centre Gallery, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia New Territories: 350/500 Years After. Les Maisons de la Culture, Montréal, Québec The Great Northern Arts Festival. Inuvialuit Corporate Centre, Inuvik, Northwest Territories Recent Acquisitions. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1991-92	Directions. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1991	Public-Private Gatherings: Recent Acquisitions. Indian and Inuit Art Gallery, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1990	Houston North Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Other Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Great Northern Arts Festival. Inuvialuit Corporate Centre, Inuvik, Northwest Territories

S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S

Alberta Energy Company, Calgary, Alberta
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
Chateau Champlain, Montréal, Québec
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Art Collection, Canadian Embassy, Moscow, Russia
Government of British Columbia Art Collection, Victoria, British Columbia
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Maltwood Museum and Art Gallery, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Memorial University Art Gallery, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland
Gordon Snelgrove Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, British Columbia

S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Clark, Janet. Directions: Recent Work by Rick Rivet. Preface by Sharon Godwin. Thunder Bay, Ontario: Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1992.

Lunn, Dr. John, et al. Canada's First People: A Celebration of Contemporary Native Visual Arts. Fort McMurray, Alberta: Syncrude Canada; Alberta Part Art Publications Society, 1992.

MacSwain, Jim, Joyce Chris, and Rick Rivet. "Other art." Halifax Chronicle Herald, 18 May 1990, p. D3. [Review]

McMaster, Gerald, and Lee-Ann Martin, eds. INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives. Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992./ INDIGENA: Perspectives autochtones contemporaines. Hull, Québec: Musée canadien des civilisations, 1992.

Richardson, Joan, Robin Metcalfe, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. "Full houses." Canadian Art 14, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 62-71. [Reviews of: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art '96, London Life Young Contemporaries '96, and Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art]

"Spiritual world grounds Rivet: Métis painter links role of artist and shaman (Profile)." Halifax Chronicle Herald, 7 June 1990, p. B6.

Tétrault, Pierre-Léon, Dana Alan Williams, Guy Sioui Durand, Alfred Young Man, et al. New Territories: 350/500 Years After: An Exhibition of Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Canada. Prefaces by Robert Houle, Tom Hill. Montréal, Québec: Ateliers Vision planétaire, 1992.

Vancouver Art Gallery. Topographies: Aspects of Recent British Columbia Art. Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996.

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