YVAN GENEST: Kaleidoscope

YVAN GENEST

An artist for 40 years, Yvan Genest paints in his Puerto Vallarta studio for 22 years, as well as in Montreal, his hometown, while remaining very active in the French and American art

scenes. His work attracts an international circle of collectors seduced by the contemporary and timeless strength of his iconography.

His career had unconventional beginnings. At first, his artistic temperament drove him to music. As a songwriter, musician, and singer, he toured throughout Europe for many years, until he discovered painting, where he found an unforeseen ground for his fertile imagination. A first trip to Mexico in 1985 led him to discover the profound spirituality of Mexican art.

Yvan’s maverick personality drove him to explore all paths of visual arts and develop his unique, shamanic, and timeless imagery. He has diverse influences, from Mexican popular culture and Expressionism to contemporary free-form figurative painting.