Biography

1966- Born to Lise and Jean-Guy Senecal June 9th in Montreal.

1969- Stomach pumped for a potentially fatal aspirin overdose.

1971- Featured eating french-fries in a television commercial for the Montreal Expos baseball franchise.

1976- Family owned business is burnt to the ground, the loss is not covered by insurance. The family is forced to move into a cramped rented cottage.

1977- The cottage is flooded and the family is homeless for over 10 weeks. He spends that summer with his cousins in a “suburban” development called the West Island.

1980- Family moves to the West Island.

1981- Senecal gets drunk at school dance and vomits on principal’s desk. He is prohibited from high school events for that year as well as the next.

1982- Starts smoking

1983- Gets his first job; a mascot for a suburban shopping mall. Senecal entertains patrons for 8 months dressed as a bumblebee.

1984- His grandfather, Fernand Senecal, a French Canadian landscape artist whom studied at l’Ėcole Des Beaux Art de Montreal in the late 1920’s suddenly dies on Christmas morning.

1988- Studied fine art for 4 years in Montreal at Dawson college and Concordia University.

1993- Senecal moves to Nova Scotia and formally studies fine art for the next 4 years.

1996- 8 months in New York City.

1998- Senecal curates an exhibition that features art on the ice surface of an arena: Halifax Metro Center, home of the Moose Heads. Visitors were encouraged to rent skates.

Kent Senecal presently resides in Sydney, Cape Breton Nova Scotia where he continues his ongoing interest in the arts.