Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts was followed by a second series Contretemps at Galerie Art Mûr in 2004. In 2010 Tremblay's photographs of windows in abandoned buildings were exhibited as Les tanneries at Association Artmandat in Barjols, France, and as Windows in 2011 at Galerie Division in Montreal. That year Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator Diane Charbonneau organized a Tremblay photographic retrospective Tête-à-tête: Portraits of Artists, with 20 images from the museum's collection, including those of Francine Simonin, Michel Goulet, John A. Schweitzer, Manon de Pauw, and BGL. To coincide with the exhibition, a monograph of his work written by André Lamarre Richard-Max Tremblay. Portrait. was published by Éditions du passage. A Tremblay retrospective was also held in 2011 at the Maison des arts et de la culture de Brompton. In 2014 he was artist-in‐residence at the Canada Council for the Arts' Paris Studio. In 2018 Tremblay lived and worked in Montreal. Style and philosophy Known for his photographic portraits of artists, Tremblay's early images of Martha Townsend and Fernand Leduc feature face and hands. By 1986 his photographs of Betty Goodwin, John Heward and Pierre Soulages include studio shots to "introduce the work of the artist in the portrait." Other photographic series include windows of derelict buildings and empty, stacked boxes, a comment on the disappearance of archival records in a digital era. Tremblay described photography and painting as preservative, "acts of resistance against time", which are also "consequential acts that lead elsewhere, that sweep us forward." He also described his use of photography as either "a step in the creation of a photographic work" or as a "painting which is inconceivable without the photographic juncture". Also known for figurative art, Tremblay's early painting series Têtes (1985) was described as "anti-portraits", while later compositions of "heads and gestural blurrings" link photographic realism to abstract-lyricism. Recent paintings of Paris, Berlin or Venice also reference as metaphors mirrors or windows and the comcept of hidden and revealed. In 1975 Tremblay wrote, "I am fond of the theme of the black curtain... about showing what prevents you from seeing." His sources of inspiration include Renaissance art, philosophical novels such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, as well as works by Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and W. G. Sebald. Recognition An elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, Tremblay is the recipient of the 2015 RCA