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Website: www.richard-tetrault.ca
Address: Vancouver, British Columbia
Phone: 604-215-4492

Richard Tetrault is a Vancouver-based painter, printmaker and muralist. Tetrault’s work has been exhibited extensively in numerous solo and group exhibitions both locally and worldwide, and he is represented in many civic, corporate and private collections. His wood and linoleum prints have been incorporated into posters, graphics and artist’s books, as well as published in books of poetry. Signs of the Times (2005), with poet Bud Osborn, and Painted Lives and Shifting Landscapes (Anvil Press Publishers, 2004) contain some of his prints and paintings of the past thirty years.

Tetrault has initiated a number of large-scale mural projects and collaborations. These include as coordinator and artistic director for Eastside Mural Projects (2009), resulting in a series of four large murals in Vancouver’s East Side, including the historic Russian Hall. In summer 2010, he collaborated with urban aboriginal artists on an 8000 square-foot mural for Vancouver Native Housing Society. Called Through the Eye of the Raven, this enormous mural is located on the Orwell Hotel in Downtown Vancouver. Additionally, Tetrault has taught workshops as an Artist in Residence with various schools, and he is a founding member of Vancouver’s Eastside Culture Crawl.

Internationally, Tetrault has worked on murals and collaborative projects in Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, The United States, Thailand, and other parts of Canada. In 2008,Tetrault was honoured with The City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for his contributions to public art.

"In east-side Vancouver, there are three kinds of wall painting - commercial, graffitti and Tetrault." Globe & Mail March 9, 2011

“Tetrault’s murals don’t replicate grim reality. Mind you, neither do they sanitize it. Let us say, instead, these portraits of the city are both true and transformative.” The Vancouver Sun