Erik Volet (b. 1980) is a painter & illustrator from Canada who has exhibited in Canada, the US & Europe. As well as producing paintings he has published art books, made zines, illustrated books, and maintained a consistent involvement with painting murals on the street and in the public sphere. Influences, which continue to be important to his art practice are comic book art, graffiti, hip hop culture as well as surrealist theory and practice.

Solo & Two Person Shows: 

2014 Scene from the Yiddish Theatre, MoCL,

Victoria BC

2015 Garden of Masks, the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective,

Victoria BC

2015 Somnambulists, The Gam Gallery, Vancouver

 2016 Kukeri, with Jean-Paul Langlois, Trounce Alley Gallery, Victoria BC

2016 Collaborative Drawings, with Noah Becker, Trounce Alley Gallery, Victoria BC

2017 Urchin Research, Weird things, Toronto

2018 The Mime, the Monk, the Prince & the Chessplayer, Four Horsemen, Victoria BC

2023 Creation Blues with Bailey Rasmussen, Space, Vancouver BC

2023 from the Margins, with Ron Sakolsky, Sheila Nopper, Jordan Zinovich & Prince Shima, the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria BC

Group Shows:

2019 Surrealist Drawing in 2019, La Maison Andre Breton, St-Cirq-Lapopie, France

and Galerie Amarrage, Saint-Ouen, France

2021 Crypto Socialites, a Group Show in the Metaverse, Curated by Noah Becker

2023 Small Press Fest, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria BC