Michel Goulet attended the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal (1969-1971). Alongside his teaching career, he produces artwork in which everyday objects are organized, compared and totaled, at times placed side by side or stacked on top of one another; he takes inventory of these “cultural acquisitions” in a disconcerting process of collection that causes viewers to rethink their perceptions. In addition to numerous exhibitions both in Canada and abroad (notably the 1990 Venice Biennale), his work features an impressive body of public sculptures, including Complément axial at the International Environmental Sculpture Symposium in Chicoutimi (1980); Sans toit/Sans toi at the Rendez-vous international de sculptures in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (1984); Les leçons singulières at Place Roy in Montreal (1990); and Rêver le nouveau monde, presented to the people of Quebec City in honour of its 400th anniversary by the City of Montreal (2008). He has also created theatre scenographies, the most recent being Albertine en cinq temps, directed by Lorraine Pintal in 2014. His many awards include the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (1990), the Prix de l’Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (1993), the Prix de l’Académie québécoise du théâtre (1994), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2008) and an honorary doctorate from the Université de Sherbrooke (2010). He was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2012.
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« L’espace réconcilié » by Louise Letocha, ESPACE, vol. 6, n° 3, p. 21.
« La place Roy : Point de vue d’un architecte paysagiste » by Pierre M. Valiquette, ESPACE, vol. 7, n° 4, p. 31.
« L’in situ et Les lieux communs de Michel goulet » by Véronique Rodriguez, ESPACE #17, p. 12.
« Michel Goulet : Crossed Trajectories » by Louise Robert, ESPACE #30, p. 12.
« Lachine : Récentes acquisitions », ESPACE #34, p. 40.
« Michel Goulet : Chasseur de vide et détecteur de grands fonds » by Louise Provencher, ESPACE #40, p. 10.
« Public Art in the Era of Cultural Democracy » by Jean-Philippe Uzel, ESPACE #49, p. 15.
« Michel Goulet : Portrait de groupe » by Gaston St-Pierre, ESPACE #53, p. 32.
« Michel Goulet : Jeux de constructions » by Bernard Lamarche, ESPACE #73, p. 34.
« 1990, Michel Goulet, Les Leçons singulières » by Jérôme Delgado, ESPACE #81, p. 14.
« Rêver le Nouveau Monde » by Michel Goulet, ESPACE #85, p. 21.
« États de la matière » by Lise Lamarche, ESPACE #85, p. 41.
« E-Dialogue on the Passage of Time. Take Two » by Michel Goulet & Lise Lamarche, ESPACE #87, p. 9.
