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    COZIC

    A key figure in contemporary art in Quebec, Cozic is a two-headed, four-dimensional artist born of the imaginations of Monic Brassard and Yvon Cozic, nourished by a tangible reflection on the use of unusual materials. At the end of the 1960s, when they decided to work under the single name of COZIC, the two artists wanted their creations to question their artistic ego. The gleaning, accumulation and amalgamation of found objects infuses a new semantics, a new meaning to the language of art. Through his attitude and practice, Cozic is a trailblazer, an opener of doors. Some fifty solo exhibitions, over two hundred group shows and some twenty public artworks bear witness to his exceptional creative vitality and his importance to the visual arts.

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    Monic Brassard was born in Quebec in 1944. She received her Bachelor of Arts from UQAM in 1970. Yvon Cozic was born in France in 1942. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1963.

    The couple are recipients of numerous awards and bursaries, including the prestigious Bourses de carrière Jean-Paul-Riopelle 2012, and the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas 2015.

    His work can be found in the following collections:

    Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
    Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
    Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
    Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette
    Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentide
    Musée d’art contemporain de Baie
    Musée d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul
    Windsor Art Museum
    Glenbow Museum, Calgary
    Canadian Art Bank
    Collège Édouard-Montpetit
    Air Canada Loan of works of art from the Musée du Québec
    Tout l’art du monde (Min. des communautés culturelles du Québec)
    Bibliothèque et archives du Québec
    Bibliothèque de Longueuil
    Bibliothèque Multi-Média Limoges, France
    Library and Archives of Canada
    Hydro-Québec Collection
    Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec Collection
    Collection de la Ville de Longueuil
    Giverny-Capital Collection

     As well as several private collections in Canada and Europe

    Œuvres de l'artiste