Patrick De Coste : Three paintings

folio : Marsh Blue Violet: Queer Poetry from New Brunswick

Patrick De Coste is a visual artist based in Toronto and Lafontaine, Ontario. He studied Fine Arts at Mount Allison University and later Graduate Studies at OCAD University where he received the President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. His interdisciplinary art projects are rooted in Indigenous identity and colonial first-contacts. DeCoste descends from French settlers and Mi’kmaw people of Port Royal, Nova Scotia; the earliest Métis people of Canada. He has exhibited extensively across the country and has received many awards and reviews. His latest solo exhibition, 13 Moons and a Canoe, opened at J.B.Aird Gallery in Toronto, in 2017, and later travelled to the Thames Gallery and the Tom Thomson gallery. His next project is a love story set in Cape Breton in the 1700s.