SHORT BIO

150 word bio:

One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer.
His iconic pop images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag celebrate Canada’s cultural heritage with wit and whimsy.
Pachter’s contributions to Canadian culture have been recognized with honorary doctorates from Brock University, OCAD University, the University of Toronto, and Lakehead University.
He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals.
Pachter studied at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne, and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA.
His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery.
He has held solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, India, and Bangladesh.
He is represented in public and private collections around the world. 

450 word bio:

ONE of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer.

Born in Toronto in 1942, he studied art history at the University of Toronto, French literature at the Sorbonne, and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Canada, and internationally. He has held solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, India, and Bangladesh.

He worked at Expo 67 in Montreal supervising the installation of 60 contemporary sculptures from around the world. He taught printmaking at the University of Calgary in 1969-70. He spearheaded Toronto’s Queen Street West revival in the 1970s and 80s by restoring 20 old buildings into facilities for arts usage.

He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, a member of the Order of Ontario, and holds honorary doctorates from Brock University, OCAD University, the University of Toronto, and Lakehead University.  He is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals.

His images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag are icons of Canadian contemporary art. McClelland & Stewart publications include an illustrated book on his life and work authored by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov. His murals of Hockey Knights in Canada can be seen in Toronto’s College Subway Station.

Mr. Pachter lives and works in downtown Toronto in an award-winning studio designed by Canadian architect Stephen Teeple. His work is on permanent display in his adjoining Moose Factory Gallery. From 2004-2014 in summer he painted in The ICE HOUSE, a waterfront studio converted from a 1920s ice storage depot on Lake Simcoe. His works are also displayed in MOFO – Moose Factory of Orillia- a former car repair garage he renovated in the heart of the historic Ontario home town of Steven Leacock, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Franklin Carmichael, and Gordon Lightfoot.

His paintings are in the Portrait Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Canada House in London, the Parliament Buildings, the Prime Minister’s residence, and the Embassy of France in Ottawa. His solo exhibition on “The Loyalist Legacy and the Creation of Modern English Canada” was installed in the Charterhouse in London, Aug-Sept 2016, and a retrospective, “Quintessential Canadian”, was held at the Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka, Feb 2018.

Pachter’s steel and granite moose sculptures have been installed across Canada.

His best selling children’s books, M is for Moose, and Canada Counts, and The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie, his celebrated collaboration with poet Margaret Atwood, are published by Cormorant Books, Toronto.

Leonard Wise’s biography “CHARLES PACHTER: Canada’s Artist” was published by Dundurn Press in 2-17

 

EN FRANÇAIS:

CHARLES PACHTER, l’un des artistes les plus éminents du Canada, est à la fois peintre, graveur, sculpteur, dessinateur, historien et conférencier.

Né à Toronto, il est diplômé de l’Université de Toronto, de la Sorbonne, et de la Cranbrook Academy of Art aux Etats-Unis. Il a reçu des doctorats honorifiques à l’Université Brock, à l’Université Ontario College of Art & Design , et à l’Université de Toronto. Il est officier de l’Ordre du Canada, et chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France, et  récipiendaire de l’Ordre de l’Ontario.

Les images de Pachter représentant la reine Elizabeth assise sur un orignal ou le drapeau canadien à la feuille d’érable sont considérés comme des icônes “pop” de l’art canadien contemporain.

Ses peintures ornent les murs de la Bourse de Toronto et des Ambassades du Canada à Washington et à Londres. Son oeuvre murale des deux équipes de hockey, Les Leafs et Les Canadiens, “Les Rois de l’Arène” décore une station de métro de Toronto.

La France, l’Allemagne, le Japon, l’Inde et le Bangladesh ont organisé des expositions rétrospectives de l’oeuvre de l’artiste.

Il a travaillé à l’Expo 67 à Montréal organisant l’installation de plus de 60 sculptures contemporaines venant du monde entier. Il a enseigné la gravure à l’Université de Calgary en 1969-70. Il a inauguré la renaissance de la rue Queen Ouest à Toronto dans les années 1970-1980 par sa restauration de plus de 20 bâtiments anciens pour l’utilisation des arts.

Les éditions McClelland & Stewart ont publié une biographie de Pachter ainsi que son livre d’artiste qui illumine le poème de Margaret Atwood, “The Journals of Susanna Moodie” acclamé comme une oeuvre canadienne classique.

Ses deux livres d’enfant, “M is for Moose,” et “Canada Counts” , publié par Cormorant Books, font grand succès dans les librairies canadiennes. Dundurn Press a publié une deuxième biographie sur M. Pachter en 2017: Charles Pachter: CANADA’S ARTIST 

Ses sculptures, des silhouettes de l’orignal en acier et granite, on été installées à travers le Canada. Il y en a deux situées au campus de l’Université de Toronto. En aôut 2001, il était artiste invité au Symposium International de la peinture contemporaine à Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec.

Il a créé le tableau SIDE BY SIDE montrant deux drapeaux – canadien et américain- ensemble au même mât, évoquant les évènements du 11 septembre, 2001 à New York.

M. Pachter vit et travaille au coeur de Toronto. Sa galerie Moose Factory située dans le quartier chinois, tout près de la Art Gallery of Ontario, offre une exposition permanente de ses oeuvres. Sa nouvelle résidence tout près conçue par l’architect canadien Stephen Teeple a reçu trois prix d’excellence.

Souvent  M. Pachter peint dans son deuxième atelier, MOFO – Moose Factory of Orillia, dans cette charmante ville historique parcouru par Samuel  de Champlain en 1615,  à 130 km au nord de  Toronto. 

site web: www.cpachter.com
courriel: pachterc@gmail.com
adresse: 22 Grange Ave
Toronto ON Canada M5T1C7
tel: 647 239 1700

Charles & Mackenzie King co

Charles with Prime Minister Mackenzie King in
the short documentary film, Johnny at the Fair
shot at the Canadian National Exhibition, 1947

VRCI Art Club 57

Art Club, Vaughan Road Collegiate, Toronto 1957,
Miss Hudgins, who gave him D- in Art, is in the middle,
Charles far right

CP Paris Oct 62 copy

At the Sorbonne, Paris 1962-3

NUDE Paris Nov 62

Drawing done at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Montparnasse Nov ’62

CP print Atwood Cranbrook 1966

Printing a folio of Margaret Atwood’s poetry, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1965

CP & Calder Expo 67

With Alexander Calder , Expo 67, Montreal

CP 907 Shaw & UC

Print studios – 907 Shaw St Toronto 1968, & University of Calgary 1969

CP Peggy Calg Feb 70 ALT

With Margaret Atwood at the opening of his exhibition at the Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Feb 1970

 

Other Shaw Festival June 73

“Monarchs of the North” First exhibition of Queen & Moose paintings
THE OTHER SHAW FESTIVAL, 1232 Shaw St, June 1973

1232 Shaw CP & Greg Curnoe Jun 73

Charles & painter Greg Curnoe, 1232 Shaw St , June 73

Rite de Passage 72

RITE DE PASSAGE, acrylic on canvas 1972

24 Ryerson ARTISTS ALlIANCE 1974 copy

ARTISTS ALLIANCE & ARTERY , 24 Ryerson Ave, 1974-82

CP 24R Artery & loft

ARTERY gallery & Charles’ 3000 sq ft loft, 1976

June Callwood M&J 24 R

June Callwood, Margaret Laurence & Joyce Wieland at Artists Alliance, 1976

Charles Pachter