Originally from Winnipeg, Kevin Ei-Ichi deForest obtained his MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. He has worked as an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Alberta, and the Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, and in 1997-99 he was a research student at Kyoto Seika University, Japan. DeForest has exhibited his work extensively in group and solo exhibitions across Canada, and in Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, U.S.A., and Germany. He lives and works in Montréal.