Born in Montreal, Jean-Pierre Larocque holds a Master of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (New York, USA). He then taught at several universities in the United States, Canada and Italy. He has been living in Montreal since 2000. Between 2009 and 2017, he served as Head of the Ceramics Department at Concordia University (Montreal, QC). Through the years, he has exhibited in numerous group shows. In 2006, he had a major exhibition at the Gardiner Museum (Toronto, ON) and a retrospective at 1700 La Poste (Montreal, QC) in 2019. Recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ministère de la Culture du Québec, his work can be found in many public and private collections.
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