Medium: Aluminium, Bronze, Steel, Concrete, Wire, Coaxial Cable

Daniel-Vincent Bernard was born in Québec City in 1956.

He studied visual arts at the University of Québec in Montréal. Bernard worked as an apprentice for five years under the artist Jordi Bonet, up until Bonet’s death in 1979. Bernard’s work manipulates and transforms various materials, ranging from bronze to found objects. The Beauchamp Art Gallery carries his bronze horses permanently, ‘Exploration Hippique’ a serie which he debuted in 2009-2010. Bernard views animals as a “son of death and mystery, from the bowels of the earth, the archetypal horse carries both a life and death. They relate to fire and chaos, under the action of erosion. I see artefacts as sedimentary sculptures: one that is left petrified by the elements. An enduring legacy.”

Daniel-Vincent Bernard is credited with twenty solo exhibitions and roughly thirty group shows with his paintings and sculptures. Notably he has exhibited in Montréal, Toronto, Regina, New York, Miami and around Europe. Moreover, Bernard created sculptures for the Walt Disney film Veritas as well as several integration projects for art and architecture.

Projects:
2008: Design and manufactured seven decorative aluminium panels for the residence of Guy Laliberté, in Montréal
2007: Metal Sculpture exhibition, Hector Charland Theatre, L’Assomption
2006: Design of three totem poles, twenty feet high for the residence of Guy Laliberté, in Mont-Saint-Bruno
2003-2000: Design of a hundred sculptures for the International Mosaiculture, Montréal (Gold Medal)
2000: Participation in the ‘Ocean Sea’ Symposium, Magdalen Islands