1. Greg Curnoe was a Canadian painter known for his role in the Canadian art movement labeled London Regionalism, which, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important centre for artistic production in Canada.
10 Facts About Greg Curnoe
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Greg Curnoe is remembered for brightly coloured works that often incorporate text to support his strong Canadian patriotism, sometimes expressed as anti-Americanism, as well as his activism in support of Canadian artists.
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Gregory Richard Curnoe was born on 19 November 1936, at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario.
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For most of his life, Curnoe lived within five kilometres of this home in Southwestern Ontario, a peninsula surrounded by water and the United States.
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Greg Curnoe found meaning in popular culture and his own cultural roots that addressed the disillusion he felt with established culture after leaving art school.
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Greg Curnoe founded Region magazine in 1961 and Region Gallery in 1962.
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Greg Curnoe co-founded the Canadian noise band the Nihilist Spasm Band in 1965.
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Greg Curnoe co-founded the Forest City Gallery, an artist-run centre, in 1973.
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Greg Curnoe represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1976 and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1981, which subsequently toured across Canada.
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Greg Curnoe was killed and six others were seriously injured and taken to hospital.