Untitled - Sculptor

Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926 - January 4, 1994) was a Canadian arts teacher, painter, poet, photographer, and multi-media artist of national and international acclaim. was born in Moose Jaw, SK and raised in Calgary, AB. From 1946 to 1949, he studied with Jock Macdoonald and Illingworth Kerr at the Provincial Institute of Art and Technology. With a scholarship, he was able in 1955 to go to Mexico for eight months to study under James Pinto at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende. In 1956 he began teaching at the Regina College of Art. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1965. In the same year he represented Canada in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and won a Silver Medal at the Eighth Sao Paulo Biennial. In 1975, the Vancouver Art Gallery organized a twenty-five-year retrospective of his work. Kiyooka's work is included in numerous collections, such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Council Art Bank, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Musee des beaux-art de Montreal, Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 1978 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.