Michael Kiré

Not just something to hang. Something to look into.
Michael Kiré’s drawings are the result of four decades of searching. Moving back and forth through successive stages, he learned from past masters and grew out of each, with the subconscious as his basis, his guide and his belief.

Each work begins in rapid, unplanned marks in the Surrealist tradition of automatic drawing. The flowing line carries the flourishes outlines of Art Nouveau, and Chinese-calligraphic asemic gestures move through it without carrying language. Then, as if a figure were being freed from marble in the Renaissance spirit of Michelangelo, a quiet face is drawn out of the tangle. The figures have no mouths, turning attention from speech to wordless empathy.

The search is still alive. For collectors who want substance and a practice still developing, each drawing is an original and a step in that journey.

BFA (visual arts Hon) University of Victoria

Artrium, Gallery 501, Sherwood Park, Canada 10-12/2026
Art Gallery of Alberta, travelling exhibition 2025-27
`Boundaries II'
Yates Memorial Theatre in Lethbridge - Jan - April 2025
`Boundaries I'
Crowsnest pass Art Gallery November 2024

L'automatisme with a cultural identity
Calgary Central library August 2024
Spotlight artist Jordan Art Gallery 2024
FLOW exhibition Stanley A Milner Library Gallery 2023
ART VANCOUVER FAIR Vancouver, Canada 2023

CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (GRANT RECIPIENT) 2022

CANADA 150 in 150 AWARD (Visual Arts category)
Edmonton 2017


LOTUS GALLERY Edmonton Canada 2018/19/20

EDMONTON ARTS COUNCIL billboard exhibition 2017

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY Spruce Grove Canada 2013

HARRIS WARKE GALLERY Red Deer, Canada 2013

ST. ALBERT ART GALLERY St. Albert, Canada 2012

PHILIPPE CHARRIOL FOUNDATION MODERN ART EXHIBITION Hong Kong 1996

2ND ANNUAL ART INSTALLATION EXHIBITION
Hong Kong 1995

HK VISUAL ARTS CENTRE Hong Kong 1994

NORTH PARK GALLER...