Roy Kenzie Kiyooka
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (1926–1994) was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He was a Canadian artist, painter, and poet, who explored various art disciplines, including sculpture, photography, filmmaking, music and writing.
From 1946 to 1949, Kiyooka studied with Jock Macdonald at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art) in Calgary. In 1956, he spent 8 months in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, which later Influenced him to make mosaics on the south and west exterior walls of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Kiyooka returned to Regina that fall and began teaching at the Regina College (now the University of Regina). He was a fine art teacher at various art departments from the 1960s to the 1990s, including the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design), Sir George Williams University in Montréal (now Concordia University), and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Kiyooka became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1965. In the same year, he also represented Canada in Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, and won the Silver Medal. In 1975, the Vancouver Art Gallery organized a twenty-five-year retrospective of his work. Three years later, Kiyooka was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.