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15-571: With painter Roy Kiyooka and architect Clifford Wiens, this group shared a common professional commitment and became a small but active artistic community in Regina. Having studied in central Canada, the United States, and Europe, before moving to Regina, the Regina Five combined the major currents of abstract expressionism in the context of 1950s Saskatchewan. In 1958, Ronald Bloore, then the director of

30-572: A set of values which challenged the other painters. Roy Kiyooka Roy Kenzie Kiyooka CM RCA (January 18, 1926 – January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher. A Nisei , or a second generation Japanese Canadian , Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta . His parents were Harry Shigekiyo Kiyooka and Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Roy's grandfather on

45-475: A twenty-five-year retrospective of his work. That same year saw Kiyooka publish his Transcanada Letters, a book project which weaved together photography, his own letters and experimental writing to examine his experience of the nation as a second-generation Japanese-Canadian. In 1978, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada . Kiyooka’s Pear Tree Pomes, illustrated by David Bolduc (Coach House Press, 1987),

60-683: The Provincial Institute of Technology and Art . In 1955, he studied at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende . From 1957 to 1959, Kiyooka took part in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops of the University of Saskatchewan , where he worked with famed art American critic Clement Greenberg and abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman . In 1956, Kiyooka began teaching at

75-613: The Regina College of Art . He moved to Vancouver in 1959, and began to shift his practice away from painting and towards photography and eventually filmmaking. In 1971-1972 he taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax; he documented his trip across the country to Halifax in the work Long Beach BC to Peggy’s Cove Nova Scotia, which formed part of his 1975 Transcanada Letters . From 1973 to 1991, he also taught at

90-807: The Fine Arts Department of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Kiyooka used the ellipse form in the Art Gallery of Ontario 's Barometer No. 2 (1964). In 1965, he represented Canada at the Eighth Sao Paulo Biennial . In 1969, he created the sculpture, Abu Ben Adam’s Vinyl Dream , for the Canadian pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan. In 1975, the Vancouver Art Gallery organized

105-669: The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP). The pavilion the institution occupies - its home to this day - only began holding the Bienal exhibitions starting with its 4th edition in 1957. Since 1951, 32 Bienals have been produced with the participation of 170 countries, more than 16 thousand artists and almost 10 million visitors, making direct contact possible between the Brazilian public and visual, theatrical and graphic arts, music, film, architecture, and other forms of artistic expression from around

120-623: The National Gallery of Canada, to select work of the five painters for a travelling exhibition titled Five Painters from Regina that appeared in 1961 in Ottawa. Simmins` essay in the Five Painters from Regina catalogue stressed the importance of Emma Lake Workshops run by the New York school and of Ron Bloore who acted as a catalyst. Simmins wrote that Bloore, who was from Toronto, brought to Regina

135-525: The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery (now MacKenzie Art Gallery ) in Regina, Saskatchewan , brought national and international exhibitions to Regina. These exhibitions underscored the originality of the Regina Five's work. The Regina Five's bold, nonfigurative paintings represented a new direction in abstract painting in western Canada and reflected influx of advanced ideas arriving through the channel of

150-572: The annual Emma Lake Artists' Workshops, especially the workshop held by Barnett Newman in 1959. The painters came to national attention when Bloore organized "The May Show" (1960), featuring five of the city`s most prominent abstract artists and architectural drawings and models by architect Clifford Wiens along with sculptures by Wolfram Niessen, to coincide with the meeting of the Canadian Museums Association. The exhibition inspired Richard B. Simmins, Coordinator of Extension Services at

165-522: The maternal side, a samurai Ōe Masamichi , was the 17th headmaster of the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū school of swordsmanship. Roy Kiyooka's brother Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka also became an abstract painter, a professor of art, and sometimes a curator of his brother's work. Roy's youngest brother Frank Kiyooka became a potter. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the family moved to Opal, Alberta. From 1946 to 1949, Kiyooka studied with at

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180-527: The world. The 1998 edition cost almost $ 12 million and drew nearly 400,000 visitors during a two-month run. The 25th biennial was originally scheduled for 2000 but was delayed to 2002 after a gigantic exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese was organized by former biennial president Edemar Cid Ferreira and booked into the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion. That year, for

195-501: Was designed by a team led by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Hélio Uchôa , and provides an exhibition space of 30,000 m . The São Paulo Bienal features Brazilian and international contemporary art and is one of South America's most important large-scale art exhibitions. After the completion of the 6th Biennial, the São Paulo Biennial Foundation was created to advance the exhibition, which until then had been organized by

210-666: Was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as its role model. The Biennial was founded by the Italian-Brazilian industrialist Ciccillo Matarazzo (1898–1977). Since 1957, the São Paulo Biennial has been held in the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion in the Parque do Ibirapuera . The three-story pavilion

225-1034: Was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award. While in Japan, he made the StoneDGloves: Alms for Soft Palms photographic series, shown at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. He also made 16 Cedar Laminated Sculpture series, shown alongside the Ottoman/Court Suite of silk-screen prints, at the Bau Xi Gallery in Vancouver in May 1971. Books published posthumously include: Roy Kiyooka: Accidental Tourist ( Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Ont), 17–22 March 2005. Roy K. Kiyooka: 25 Years ( Vancouver Art Gallery , Vancouver, BC), 21 November-16 December 1976. Sao Paulo Biennial The São Paulo Art Biennial ( Portuguese : Bienal de São Paulo )

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