Conquistador

Montreal-born painter Yvan Genest has developed a distinctive figurative language shaped by decades of practice between Montreal and Puerto Vallarta. After an early career as a touring musician in Europe, Genest turned fully to painting, drawing on Mexican visual culture and expressionist traditions. His works present enigmatic, mask-like figures—part icon, part talisman—rendered with vivid colour and gestural force. Genest’s paintings are held in collections across Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Europe.