Ron Bloore was born in Brampton, Ontario, on May 29th, 1925. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Archaeology from the University of Toronto (1949), and after two years at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts he completed a Master of Art in Art and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1953). He remained there as an instructor until 1955 when he left to study at the Belgian- American Art Seminar in Brussels and Antwerp and the Courtault Institute, University of London, England.

Bloore moved to Saskatchewan in 1958 to become the Director of the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery and to teach Art and Archaeology for Regina College. Although brief, Ron Bloore's stay in Regina has been described as a catalyst for the arts community. As Director of the Mackenzie, Bloore assisted in putting the Saskatchewan arts community in contact with new developments in modern art and attracted national and international attention to the Gallery. He generated a great deal of attention in 1961 by sponsoring an exhibition of the works of fictional artist "Win Hedore", that utilized used car parts, beer bottle caps, and pails of sand. The artist's name was derived from the names of three of the Regina Five (Ted Godwin, Ken Lochhead, and Ron Bloore).

As a practicing artist and a member of the Regina Five, he is best known for his white on white paintings. His works have been exhibited and collected nationally. Bloore left Regina for York University to teach visual art and art history. He retired in 1999 and continues to maintain a studio in Toronto.