Rusdi Genest

Education and teaching

Genest earned an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He studied art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art (ENSAAMA) in Paris, and at the California State University, Long Beach. He was a professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Saguenay and at the Sadie Bronfman School of fine arts in Montréal. He has taught courses at the California State College at Sonoma, at the Boston and the Cambridge Centers for Adult Education.

Genest has realized monuments of architectural integration and has been awarded creation subsidies and research grants by the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications.

Honors and awards

In June 2013, Genest was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has received awards from the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Italy, from Art Credo, Toronto, Canada, from the Governor of the Province of Ravenna, Italy; he earned a Medal from the Salon des Arts et des Lettres de Paris Sud, France, and from the Monterey and the Mill Valley Festivals of the Arts, Ca., USA.

Art integration to architecture

Works in public collections

Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Museo Dantesco of Ravenna in Italy, State Museum of Berlin, the British Museum of London (Medals), Museum of Wroclaw in Poland, Residence of the " Délégué Général du Québec " in Paris, the Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, National Archives and National Library, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, Canada and AMSA in New York.

Artworks

Genest 's works have been exhibited in Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, United States, Sweden and Switzerland. He designed a medallion for the American Medallic Sculptural Association.

Summary of solo exhibitions