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