[2] He completed his formal education at Ecole des beaux-arts de Montreal[3] and Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (1970).
[1] In the late 1960s de Courcy joined the Intermedia Society,[3] an artist collective active in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1967 to 1972.
[3][6] de Courcy's 100 randomly stacked photo-boxes Untitled (1970), was presented in the Museum of Modern Art's Photography into Sculpture (1970) exhibition.
[9] In Mary Statzer's book "Conversation with the Curator, Peter Bunnell said, "...Michael's whole point was that the placement was random.
[13] In 1972 de Courcy, Taki Bluesinger, Gerry Gilbert and Glenn Lewis created a photo-mapping project, Background / Vancouver.