Bruno Côté

Bruno Côté (1940–2010, Québec City) was a Canadian painter celebrated for his vibrant depictions of the nation’s landscapes. Trained in his family’s advertising firm before turning fully to painting in the 1960s, he later settled in Charlevoix, where the region’s rugged beauty became central to his art. From the 1980s onward, he travelled extensively across Québec and Canada, creating bold, colourful works that capture the vitality and spirit of place.Bruno Côté (1940–2010, Québec City) is a Canadian artist renowned for his landscapes. At the age of 17, he entered the family advertising firm as a lettermaker and gradually climbed up the ranks. Around the sixties, he began painting, devoting himself entirely to it in the years that followed. He moved to the Charlevoix region in 1978, where he painted the landscapes tirelessly and gained an important place in the artistic history of the region. In the early 1980s, Bruno Côté traveled through many regions of Québec and the rest of Canada to paint his colourful landscapes.

Côté’s paintings are held in private, corporate and public collections including the Musée D’Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Musée de Charlevoix, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Musée Marc-Aurèle Fortin, the Canadian Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown.