Daniel Hanequand

I am born and educated in Paris,France in 1938.
I was 7 years in boarding shool (1945/1952) then went to a professional school of design,but my heart wasn't in the art at this time,I emigrate to Canada in 1962 at age 24 and moved on as an emigrant to the United States,living and worked in New York City in 1963,then I start to pay attention to the visual art scene,my first job being a messenger and delivering cablegram's to some known names including Richard Avedon and S.Dali.

A surrealist artist of true nature,my intimate instinct is dictating me a forthright need to express myself as freely as possible within an urgent call for freedom and using the visual input as the best vehicle that permits or allows my soul to expand, delivering my quest to counter balance "The fear of the unknown" My motivation can be associated with genes that are biologically beneficial to the source of my creativity and it bears no explanation to why and how it ooze-out to better deeds, again the pursuit of discovery is probably best expressed when it comes to nurture an overall " brain massage" that leads me to a blissful gratification,as well as loosing myself to oblivion!

My artistic education was really made by being aware of my environment while living in New York when a young man,back in 1963.Then on my return to Paris in late 1964 I went to live in Montreal, Canada,where I enrolled in the Fine Art Dept of the Sir Georges Williams University in 1968 (Now Concordia)but my style and artistic language was already well installed before in my brain,therefore I started to exhibit my burgeoning art work in 1967,my first group show was an eye opener then moved to Toronto in 1969 and had my first solo exhibition showing my new large colored pencil drawings in an advertising agency and becoming part of the Walter Engel gallery in 1970 starting to exhibit with fine and well known surrealist artists,then I was represented by Gadatsy gallery where I had my first official solo exhibition in 1974 after my first "early retrospective" exhibition in 1973 at Hart House gallery, part of the University of Toronto,then had few more solo exhibitions and groups with the Gadatsy's then was represented by Robert Saxe with whom I had some fine group and solo exhibitions as well as establishing my style and language which, unfortunately, never was the toast of Toronto at the time,then moved away to New York in 1983 having...