Alan Glass (30 June 1932 – 16 January 2023) was a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and teacher.[1]
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.[2] In the 1970s, he began living through Mexico and
Quebec.[3]
Glass died in
Mexico City on 16 January 2023, at the age of 90.[4]