ARTIST - Leo Labelle

Leo LaBelle has worked as an artist for over forty years. Showing from the West Coast of British Columbia Canada to the East Coast of the United States in New York. His work is found in both local and international, private and public collections.

Among the many awards Leo has won for his work are a First Prize Award( shared with the late Jack Shadbolt) in a juried show at the Burnaby Art Gallery and First Place Prize & Award in the sculpture category in the New York Art Horizons International Art Competition juried at the New York City Art 54 Gallery.

With an art education from the Minneapolis School of Art and hands on experience of owning-operating the Avelles Gallery in Vancouver, he has held many curatorial positions including, Art Director for the prestigiuos Bau Xi Gallery in Vancouver, Art Director for the Vancouver Children's Centennial Theater as well as original Assistant Curator and Director for the City of Vancouver's LIP Gallery and Art Program.

Curatorial Positions

1974-75

Director - Artists Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1972-73

Director - Bau-Xi Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1970-72

Director - Avelles Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1968-69

Director - Olympus Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1967

Art Director - Children’s Centennial Theatre, Vancouver, BC

Awards/Prizes/Grants

1988

First Place (sculpture category), Art Horizons International Art Competition - Art 54 Gallery, NY NY

1983

Honorable Mention - Valley Fine Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1975

Local Industries Projects (Arts) Grant

1974

Local Industries Projects (Arts) Grant

1973

Local Industries Projects (Arts) Grant

1972

Local Industries Projects (Arts) Grant

1967

First Prize (shared with Jack Shadbolt) - Juried Art Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC

  • Solo
  • 2 Person
  • Group
  • Event

Collections

*City of Vancouver * Imperial Oil * Simon Fraser Art Gallery *

*Numerous other private Canadian, American, And International Collections*

*City of Vancouver * Imperial Oil * Simon Fraser Art Gallery *

Television Coverage

1995

CKVU, ‘U’ TV, Vancouver, BC

1994

CKVU, ‘U’ TV, Vancouver, BC

1993

CKVU, ‘U’ TV, Vancouver, BC, NHK TV, Japan

1992

BCTV, Vancouver, BC, CBC TV, Vancouver (local), CBC TV, Canada,

CKVU, ‘U’ TV, Vancouver, BC

Solo Exhibitions

2001

New Icons for the Collective Unconsciousness, Downstairs Gallery, Chilliwack , BC

1997

Griffin Art Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1996

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1992

Gallery Alpha West, West Vancouver, BC

1985

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1983

Harrison Festival of the Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1982

Agassiz Centennial Theatre, Agassiz, BC

BC Arts Club Theatre Vancouver, BC

1980

Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC

1976

BC Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, BC

Artists Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1975

Contemporary Royale, Vancouver, BC, 3 Exhibitions

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC

1972

Avelles Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Free Space, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1969

Olympus Gallery, Burnaby, BC

1967

Zig Zag Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Two Person Exhibitions

1997

Griffin Art Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1995

Chilliwack Music Academy, Chilliwack, BC

1989

Graceland, Vancouver, BC

1972

Avelles Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1971

Avelles Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1967

Simon Fraser Co-op, Burnaby, BC

Vancouver Free University, Vancouver, BC

1966

Slater's Studio, New Westminster, BC

Group Exhibitions

2008

"Fugitive Visions" A Selection of Works by Five BC Painters (John Haig, Chris Blades, Gregg Simpson, Alvin Jang, Leo Labelle) at "Falcioni's" European-style Cafe-Gallery, located at 1391 Richards Street in Vancouver

2003

25th Anniversary of the Harrison Festival of Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

2002

Surrealists Harrison Festival of the Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

2001

Self-Portrait Exhibition, Artropolis Art Extension, Vancouver BC

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs

City Hall. Chilliwack

2000

Down Stairs Gallery, Chilliwack

Freeman Gallery, Chilliwack

The Miniature Show: 4th, the Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs

Canada\Korea International Exchange Exhibition. Korea Times Gallery, Toronto

Miniature Show. Rec. Center, Chilliwack

1999

The Miniature Show: 3rd, the Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs

Down Stairs Gallery, Chilliwack, BC

1998

Harrison Festival of the Arts 20th Annual Art Show, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Juried Art Exhibition, Port Moody Arts Center

White Rock & South Surrey Art Society Juried Exhibition, White Rock, BC

Works in 3-D 8th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, City Hall, Port Coquitlam, BC

The Miniature Show: 2nd, the Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

 

1997

The Mask Show Griffin Art Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Tri Artist Show, Griffin Art Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1996

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Exhibition Centre, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1995

Torres Gallery, Vancouver, BC

A Walk Is Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Festival of the Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1994

Festival of the Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Down Stairs Gallery, Chilliwack, BC

A Walk Is Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1994

Torres Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1993

Art Clothing for the Body and Spirit, Claudia Chapline Gallery, San Francisco

Sorting Through the Seventies -Permanent Collection- Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Interior Design Show, Hong Kong Bank Building, Vancouver, BC

Black Orpheus Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Hot Springs Art Fair, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1992

Black Orpheus Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Harrison Art Walk, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Art Fair, Harrison Hotel, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Wearable Art Show, Cecil Green House, University of British Columbia

1991

Brute Primitive, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC

Geometric Expressions, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC

Fertility Rites, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC

Black Orpheus Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Art Metamorphos, Black Orpheus Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1990

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1989

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1988

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1987

Festival of the Arts, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1986

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

1984

The Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC

7th Annual Fraser Regional Arts Council Juried Exhibition, BC

1983

6th Annual Fraser Regional Arts Council Juried Exhibition, BC

Fraser Regional Arts Council Traveling Exhibition, BC

‘Images and Objects’, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, BC

1981

Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC

1980

Drawing Exhibition, Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1976

Gallery Royale, Vancouver, BC

1975

Traveling Collage Show, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa , Ont.

Traveling Show, British Columbia Prisons, BC

‘Pacific Coast Consciousness’- Touring Show of Eastern Canada 

-University of Guelph, Ontario

-Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, NS

-Gallery Stratford, Ontario

-Thames Theatre And Arts Center, Chatham, Ontario,

-Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby, BC,

-Bayard Gallery, Seattle, Washington, -Vancouver East End Cultural 

Center, Vancouver, BC (3 Exhibitions), -Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver, BC

(2 Showings), -Contemporary Royale Gallery, Vancouver, -Galerie Royale, Calgary, Alberta, -Galerie Royale, Edmonton, Alberta,

-Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC 

1974

Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Open Space Gallery, Victoria BC

1973

Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver, BC

‘Fine Arts as the Forum’ Vancouver, BC

‘Art-Latch’, City of Vancouver

1972

Microprosophus International Show of Visual Poetry, Avelles Gallery,

Vancouver, BC (2 showings)

Mythodromos Group of Twelve Artists, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver, BC

BC Sculpture and Print Exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

BC Drawing and Watercolour Exhibition, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

‘The Private Patron’ Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

1971

Group of Twelve Artists Exhibition, Theatre Gallery, Burnaby, BC

1970

Group of Twelve Artists Exhibition, Theatre Gallery, New Westminster

Public Library, New Westminster, BC

1969

First Annual of Art, New Westminster, BC

1966

First Annual Fall Art Exhibition of the Art Activity Association, Bau-Xi

Galley, Vancouver, BC

1964

Little Gallery, New Westminster, BC

Event Exhibitions

1999

Canada Day /Art Exhibition. Evergreen Hall, Chilliwack, British Columbia.