Canadian Artist - Marion Perlet
Biography
Born in Munich, Germany and trained at Montreal's L'Ecole des Beaux Arts during the early 1960's, Marion Perlet is a Canadian artist who lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Since her first exhibition at age 22 in Montreal in 1962, she has had over thirty solo shows.Most recently, Mexico City Canadian Embassy, Bellas Artes, El Instituto Allende and Museo Icongrafico del Quixote, Mexico.
Perlet's paintings range from naive representations of great charm and simplicity to visceral symbolist works that tap the deeper eastern religion and the mysterious nature of the creative process. “My art is my poetry," she says, "and people who see it and feel it, understand it”.
Her vibrant works of art range from small and delicate paintings to the large and powerful, and each piece is marked by a richness of colour and a subtlety of texture. She has been called a symbolic painter in the like of Henri Rousseau, one of her favourite artists.
SELECTED MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2008 Toller Cranston Studio, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2008 GalerIa Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2007 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2006 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2005 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2004 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2003 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2002 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2001 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2000 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2000 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1999 Hotel Sierra Nevada, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1999 Galeria Izamal, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1999 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1998 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1997 Canadian Consulate, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1995 80 Spadian Avenue , Toronto, Canada
- 1995 Canadian Consulate, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1994 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1992 Tudor Hall, Montreal, Canada
- 1992 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1991 Canadian Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico
- 1990 Museo Iconogrfico de Don Quixote, Guanajuato, Mexico
- 1989 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1989 The McGill Club, Toronto, Canada
- 1987 The McGill Club, Toronto, Canada
- 1985 First Canadian Place
- 1985 The McGill Club, Toronto, Canada
- 1983 La Galerie d'Art de l'Alliance Francaise, Toronto, Canada
- 1975 Victoria College, Toronto, Canada
- 1972 Martal Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 1971 Martal Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 1967 Arts Club, Montreal, Canada
- 1967 Martal Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 1966 Place Royale Gallery, Montreal Canada
- 1962 Corstophine Gallery, Montreal, Canada
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
- 2007 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1996 Cante, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 1997 La Mesa Redonda Panamericana de Celaya, Mexico
- 1994 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
- 1993 Instituto Allende, San Migue de Allende, Mexico
- 1990 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
- 1988 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
- 1987 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
- 1987 Brampton Library and Gallery, Brampton, Canada
- 1986 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
