Kenneth C. Lochhead
(1926–)
(–2006)
Kenneth C. Lochhead
1926–2006
Kenneth C. Lochhead (1926–2006) was a Canadian painter and academic, born in Ottawa. He was a part of the Regina Five, alongside Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Bloore, whose works were presented in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's circulating exhibition Five Painters from Regina.
Lochhead studied art at Queen’s University in 1944. From 1945 to 1948, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and furthered his studies at the Barnes Foundation from 1946 to 1948. Lochhead had a long teaching career ever since: he was appointed the director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan, at the Regina campus, in 1950 and remained until 1964. In 1955, he established the Emma Lake Professional Artist's Workshops. From 1964 to his retirement in 1989, he was a distinguished professor at several Canadian universities, including the University of Manitoba, York University, and the University of Ottawa.
Lochhead has explored a gamut of styles, known most for his Post-Painterly Abstraction in the 1960s, and later moved to landscapes infused with romantic surrealism in the 1980s. His last decade saw bold and vibrant figures and landscapes. His works have been exhibited in major institutions in Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. In 1996, Lochhead became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy. He was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2006.
