Richard Lanctot is a Canadian artist born october 15th 1949 in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. He attended drawing classes with painter-architect Z. Zadac in Vancouver 1971, l'École du Musée Des Beaux-Arts de Montréal(1972-73), Art History classes Université du Québec in Montreal (1977-78) MFA program in painting Concordia University in Montreal (1983-85). Influenced by the works of Piet Mondrian,Max Bill, Joseph Albers,Gene Davis, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Lanctot emerged in the early-1970s as a Geometric-Abstract artist. It is mainly through associating the image to a series that Lanctot elaborated his pictorial themes. Mantra paintings (1972-73), Spiral paintings (1973-78), Diagonal paintings (1974-78), 24 Variations (1978-80), Six Dispositions (1980-81), Ridges paintings (1981-82), Devotion paintings (1981-83), Painted Constructions (1984-85), Vine paintings (1985-86), Glint paintings (1986-87), Douze Mois drawings, Le Tableau de la Montagne (1988-89), After Glint (1992-93),Garuda paintings (1996-98), Enonces (2003-05), Interstices (2006-07), l'Effet Contraire (2009-10), Daily Characteristics (2011), Depictions (2012), Accentuations (2013-2018), Ballpoint Drawings (2016), Réflexologie Le Plan, Numbers, Juxtapositions (2018).