Yves Gaucher, artist (born 3 January 1934 in Montréal, Québec; died 8 September 2000 in Montréal) specialized in printmaking and abstract geometric painting. His work is kept in the collections of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and other institutions. Yves Gaucher studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from 1954 to 1956, when he was dismissed from the institution. Despite this setback, the young artist continued his studies with printmaker Albert Dumouchel until 1960.  In 1964, Gaucher turned from printmaking to painting and to colour as well. As a painter he played with coloured fields, juxtaposing them through the interplay of chromatic energy, symmetry, asymmetry and blank space. In 1966, he participated in the 33rd Venice Bienniale and became assistant professor of fine arts at Montréal’s Sir George Williams University (which became Concordia University in 1974), where he taught graphic arts and painting until 2000. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Gaucher participated in numerous North American collective exhibits, some of which were dedicated to the great avant-garde artists of the 1960s. Abandoning questions of structure and order, his paintings from the 1980s explore the luminous effects of various colour palettes and tones. In the early 1990s, after several decades devoted to painting, Gaucher returned to printmaking. After his death in September 2000, retrospective exhibits were organized across the country in honour of his career.