Richard-Max Tremblay (born 1952) is a Canadian artist and photographer. Known for painting and photographic portraits, Tremblay's artistic approach is described as "a dialogue between two media, photography and painting". He is the recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts' 2015 RCA Trust Award, the 2003 Prix Louis-Comtois, and, as cinematographer of Gugging, the 1996 Special Jury Prize, International Festival of Films on Art and Pedagogy (UNESCO Paris). Tremblay's work is found in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Musée d’art de Joliette, the City of Montreal and the Canada Council for the Arts' Art Bank. Career Richard-Max Tremblay was born in the Eastern-Township community of Bromptonville, Quebec. As a young art student a viewing of a painting by Pierre Soulages at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art made a lasting impression. He moved to Montreal to study art in 1972 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1975. He continued art studies in London in 1979-80 and received a post-graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College of Art and Design (now Goldsmiths, University of London). On his return to Montreal, Tremblay continued to paint and exhibited a series on London-deckchairs Les chaises in 1984 and portraits Têtes in 1985 at Galerie 13. At this time Tremblay began to explore photography and his images of artists Guido Molinari, Yves Gaucher, and Betty Goodwin were exhibited as Portraits 1983-1987 at John A. Schweitzer Gallery. In 1987 he was commissioned by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec to photograph recipients of the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas for the 1988 exhibition L'art au Québec depuis Pellan: une histoire des prix Borduas. Solo exhibitions of his work were held in 1994 at the Musée d’art de Joliette and Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montreal). From 1993-9 he was cinematographer, editor, and co-writer of the video Gugging (1996), on artists at the Gugging psychiatric residence near Vienna, Austria. By 1999 Tremblay's practice also included painting installations exhibited as Hors-Champs at the Montreal Telegraph Building. He also exhibited there with Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Raymond Gervais, and John Heward in the 2000 multi-media exhibition on sound Montréal Télégraphe: le son iconographe which he co-curated with Louise Provencher. In 2001 an exhibition of black and white paintings Entre noir et blanc at