Birth Place
Bassano, AB

Residence
Medicine Hat, AB

Education

• Workshop (Flowers in Acrylic and Watercolour with Brent Laycock)
  2004
• Workshop (Water Media with Jean Pederson)
  2003
• 2 month Artist's Residency at The Mill Atelier & Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  2002
• Workshop (Horses in Motion with John Farnsworth, Taos, NM)
  2002
• Workshop (The Creative Process with George Glenn)
  2002
• Workshop (Painting in the Landscape with David More, Series, Red Deer College)
  2001
• Workshop (Watercolour with Donna MacLean)
  1999
• Workshop (Life Drawing with Bev Tosh)
  1989
• RN, Foothills School of Nursing
  1972

Awards

• First Prize at Agricultural Shows and Fairs Convention (Poster for Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede)
  2008
• Lillian Nunn Memorial Award (through the University of Alberta)
  2002 and 2003
• Best Drawing in Show, Stockmen's Memorial Foundation Show
  1983

Affilliations
Hat Art Club
Mad Hatters Art Club

Website

www.genalacoste.com

www.artsincanada.com

Solo Exhibitions

• Terra Cotta Dudes
  Black Diamond, AB
  2008, 2007 2006, 2005
• West of the New Millennium
  Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery
  2003
• Gifts of the Prairie Landscape
  Framing & Art Center, Medicine Hat, AB

Group Exhibitions

• Ranchlands & Badlands Show
  1996 - 2004
• Sagebrush & Porcelain
  two person show with Anne Page
  Medicine Hat Cultural Centre Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
  2000
• Stockmen's Memorial Foundation Shows
  1980, 1981, 1983

Representation
Terra Cotta Dudes, Black Diamond, AB
Prairie Winds Gallery, Fort MacLeod, AB
Prickly Pear Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
John Farmsworth Gallery, Santa Fe and Taos, NM