Riverside Studio: Artists: Joe Fafard

Joe Fafard was born September 2, l942, in Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (B.S.A. l966), Pennsylvania State University State College (M.F.A. l968); was an instructor in sculpture, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, from l968 to l974; and visiting lecturer in sculpture, University of California at Davis, winter semester l980-8l. Fafard has exhibited in numerous Canadian art galleries including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and was the the subject of a retrospective entitled The Bronze Years in 1996 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has also shown internationally at such galleries as the 49th Parallel and the New York Cultural Centre in New York, le Botonique in Brussels, Belgium, and Canada House in London, England. His work is found in numerous public and corporate collections in Canada.
^{Source: Mira Godard Gallery}