Alan Glass

Alan Glass was a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and teacher.

Biography

Born in Montreal on 30 June 1932, Glass studied at the École beaux-arts de Montréal from 1949 and 1952 and worked in the studio of Alfred Pellan. He received a scholarship from the French government in 1952 and lived in Paris while traveling through Central Europe and the Middle East. During this time, he exhibited at the Galerie Le Terrain Vague, where he met André Breton. From 1968 to 1969, he journeyed through India and Nepal, particularly in the state of Sikkim. In 1962, he first traveled to Mexico. In the 1970s, he began living through Mexico and Quebec.
Glass died in Mexico City on 16 January 2023, at the age of 90.