“I regard the human figure as the most significant nucleus for a painting. I am interested in the relationship of the human being to his interior surroundings.”

(Graham Coughtry)

Graham Coughtry was born in 1931, in St. Lambert Quebec . He studied at the School of Art and Design of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under Goodridge Roberts, Gordon Webber and Jacques de Tonnancour 1948/49, then at the Ontario College of Art from 1949 to 1953.

He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including 14 solo exhibitions at the Isaacs Gallery , Toronto , during the years of 1956-90, and Contact-Coughtry Works On Paper, a travelling exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario (1984-84).

He has been involved in group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe, including The Artists’ Jazz Band, The Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (1978), Toronto Painting 1953-1965, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1972), the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York (1963), Contemporary Art of the Americas and Spain, Madrid (1963), the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (1962, 1971), New Acquisitions, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1961), the Venice Biennale (1960), the San Paolo International Biennial (1959), the Guggenheim International, New York (1958, 1965), the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1956, 1959), Modern Painting in Canada, the Edmonton Art Gallery (1978), Face To Face - The Figurative, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1984), the Art Gallery at Harbourfront (1983, 1982, 1981, 1977), the Mackenzie Art Gallery(1976), the Windsor Art Gallery (1972), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia (1969), Commonwealth Exhibition, London, England (1962).

Graham Coughtry’s work can be found in many public and private collections in North America, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Detroit Institute of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the

Vancouver Art Gallery , the Canada Council Art Bank, the Department of External Affairs, the Albright-Knox Museum of Modern Art, Buffalo , the Philadelphia

Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, B.C., the Windsor Art Gallery, the London Regional Art Gallery, the Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, the Regina Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, the Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, the University of British Columbia, the University of Manitoba, Concordia Art Gallery, Ottawa, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario, Gulf Canada, Moore Corporation, Canadian Industries Ltd.