Ron Moppett lives and works in Calgary. Born in England in 1945, he immigrated to Canada in 1957. He attended the Alberta College of Art (now Alberta University of the Arts) from 1963 to 1967, and the Instituto de Allende in Mexico in 1968. He was the curator at the Alberta College of Art in 1969, from 1975 to 1978, and from 1988 to 2004 was Director/Curator of the Illingworth Kerr Gallery of the Alberta College of Art + Design.
His career has garnered many honours, exhibitions, publications and awards, including the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1997), the Alberta Centennial Medal (2005), and the Alberta College of Art + Design Board of Governors’ Alumni Award of Excellence (2013).
Important solo exhibitions include: Ron Moppett, Recent Work at the 49th Parallel, N.Y., in 1988 and two retrospective exhibitions: Ron Moppett at the Walter Philips Gallery, The Banff Centre, 1982; and Ron Moppett, Painting Nature with a Mirror, 1974-1989, Glenbow Museum, 1990. In 2015 his sculpture and installation work were the subject of a large survey curated by Christine Sowiak for the Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, entitled Ron Moppett:Sculptur(al).
In 2016, selections of his artwork and artwork by his son Damian Moppett, also a prominent contemporary artist, were shown in Damian Moppett + Ron Moppett (Every Story Has Two Sides), shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta. The exhibition was shown in 2017 at the National Gallery of Canada as Masterpiece in Focus: Ron Moppett and Damian Moppett. Glenbow Museum presented Ron Moppett: Do You Remember/ Snow & Stars in 2020 as part of its One New Work series. This exhibition presented a monumental 22-metre-long wrap-around painting.
In the fall of 2012, Ron Moppett unveiled THESAMEWAYBETTER/READER, a monumental mosaic tile wall work measuring approximately 110 feet long by 13 feet high in Calgary’s East Village.
His paintings are represented in major corporate, private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Glenbow Museum, Mackenzie Art Gallery, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
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