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About Gregg Simpson
A prolific and
critically
recognized artist and
musician, Gregg
Simpson has exhibited his
paintings,
drawings, and works
on paper throughout Canada, the
US, Europe, South America and Asia. His work is
included in several
academic studies,
art history books and journals
published in Canada,
Europe, and Australia and has been exhibited in several
historical
surveys on surrealism and
abstraction. His studio is on Bowen Island, BC, near
Vancouver.
Simpson is included in several
museum, university and other public collections in Canada, Europe, U.S.A. , South
America
and Asia.
The
artist, who has been included in several academic
studies in addition to many art history books and periodicals,
has received
numerous grants
and
awards and been active
in
starting several art
and music organizations. Simpson's works have also been used in
several television
and film productions
Nicole Donnely, a curator in
Mexico City, wrote
that Simpson's
paintings flux between the solid, rooted world and the
ethereal. Writer and
Surrealist historian, José
Pierre, a colleague of André
Breton in the Surrealist Group, wrote that
Simpson
knows how to
add pyramids and clouds, geometry
and the breeze, the
palpable
and the
impalpable, the visible
and the invisible.
Past Exhibitions
2017
* The Colour of Dreams,
Galeria Arte Borgo, Rome (solo)
* The Colour of Dreams,
Galerie Metanoia, Paris (solo)
2016
* Spring in Rome,
Flyer Art Gallery, Rome, Italy (group)
* ARS in
Milan, Spaziarti
art ungallery, Milan, Italy (group)
* Racconti di viaggio,
Galleria Spazio 40, Rome, Italy (group)
* Les
Llaves del Deseo, Cameleonart
Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica (international
survey show)
* A Luz Dos Castelos Evidracados, Collage
Exhibition, Figueira
da Foz, Portugal (international invitational show)
2015
* Eye
Candy, Loreta
Larkina Gallery, Venice, Italy (two person with Prienne)
* Torre
Guelfa, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
* Kunst
2015, Berlin Art
Platform, Germany (group)
* Floral
Immemrsions, BIAC Gallery, Bowen
Island, BC
(two person with Jeanne Sarich)
2014
* Cornucopia
(collective works with Rik Lina and John Welson), Llianelli
Library, Llianelli, Wales, UK
2013
* Sentinelles, Espace
Kaméléon, Paris, France
(with Guy Ducornet)
* The Luminous Dance,
Rouges en Vert, Soligny-la-Trappe, France (solo)
*
The
Atlantean Years,
1970-1975
Fundacion-Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(solo retrospective)
2012
* The
Atlantean Years,
1970-1975, Museu
Municipal Dom Dinis, Estremoz and the Regional Museum de Beja, Beja,
Portugal
(solo retrospective)
* Surrealism
2012,
Goggle Art Centre, Reading,
Pennsylvania (international survey show)
2011
* Out of
the Woods, Evergreen
Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC (solo)
* Collaborations (with
Rik Lina and John Welson), BIAC Gallery, Bowen
Island, BC
2010
- Totems
Personelles, Espace Kaméléon, Paris, France
(solo)
- Dream
Totems,
Colorida Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Cross
Connections: Four Decades of Contemporary Art in the
Pacific Northwest, Legacy
Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC,
(Works from the Coast Art
Trust Collection) - Momentum: 25 Artists
From Past to Present, Leighdon Studio
Gallery, Vancouver (group)
2009
- El
Umbral
Secreto: Ecuentro Internacional de Surrealismo
Actual, Museo Soledad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile;
Valpraiso
and Talca,
Chile
(international survey show)
- Exposiçäo
de Surrealismo actual
Illuminaçöes Descontinuas,
Convento de S. Jose, Lagoa, Portugal (group)
- S.A.M.
2009,
Salle de l'Orangerie, Chateau d'Auvers,
Auvers-sur-l'Oise, France (invitational survey show)
- Coast
Art
Trust, New and Recent Works, Evergreen Cultural
Centre, Coquitlam, BC (group)
2008
- El
Surrealismo como fenómeno colectivo, Fundacion- Museo
Granell,
Santiago
de Compostela, Spain (show of the permanent collection)
- West
Coast
Mediterranean, paintings, drawings, and mixed media
works, BIAC Gallery, Bowen
Island, BC (solo)
- Reverso
Do
Olhar: Exposiçâo Internacional de
Surréalismo Actual,
Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal (international survey show)
2007
- Gallery artists, Montserrat Gallery, New York
(group)
Viagem
a
Arcturus, Um
Postal Para Mario Cesariny, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz,
Portugal (group)
2006
- Salzburg Art Fair (with Galeria d’arte Gaudi,
Madrid),
Salzburg,
Austria (art fair)
- Abstractions,
with Amy Ernst & Jenny Davis, Carteret Gallery,
Morehead City, NC
- Selected
Drawings, 1976-2006, Seymour Art Gallery, North
Vancouver, BC (solo)
- Early
Works
from the Coast Art Trust Collection, North Vancouver Museum,
North
Vancouver, BC (group)
2005
- West
Coast
Surreal: A Canadian Perspective, Fundacion,
Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (group)
- Island
Passages, BIAC Gallery, Bowen
Island, BC (solo)
- Abstractions
et Figurations, Maison des Artistes, Château
Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (group)
- Summer
2005,
Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain (group)
2004
- Summer group exhibition, Art Domain, Port
Andratx,
Majorca,
Spain
2003
- Euloge
du
petit format, Christiane Puegeot Cultural Center, Paris
(international survey)
- Selected
Works 1999-2003, Bfly Atelier, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
- Une
Nouvelle
Arcadie, Salle des Artistes, Colomars, France (solo)
- Una
Nuevo
Arcadie, Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
- Convergency,
Art-Domain.com Gallery, Port Andratx, Mallorca,
Spain (group)
- Abstra,
Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (group)
2002
- Europ’Art
2002, Palais des Expositions, Geneva,
Switzerland (art fair)
- Summer
2002,
Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain (group)
- Inaugural Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Salona
Barna,
Barcelona,
Spain (group)
- West
Coast
Dreamers, Exhibition Centre, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
(group)
- Three
Painters (with Richard Bond and John Haig), Evergreen
Cultural Center, Coquitlam, BC (three person)
2001
- Une
Nouvelle
Arcadie, Aérport Nice-Côte d’Azur,
Nice, France
(solo)
- Selected
Drawings 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy (solo)
- A
New
Arcadia,
Ontario Art and Light Gallery, Innsbruck,
Austria (solo)
- Artropolis
2001, CBC Building, Vancouver, BC (group)
2000
- Déssins
Selectionées 1978-1999, Salle du Couvent,
Seillans,
France (solo)
- A
New
Arcadia,
paintings and pastels, Fortezza di Montalcino,
Italy (solo)
- Phantoms
of
Light, digital art/ pastels/ paintings, Studio 10,
Vercelli, Italy (solo)
- Gotcha!
Digital Images, Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
Vancouver, BC (group)
1999
- Continental
Drift, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1998
- Binario
Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata - toured
Italy, (group)
- Art
98,
Convention Centre, Vancouver (International Art Fair)
- Electrica
Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy (group)
- Maldoror
Park, Diversité Surréaliste,
Université de Québec,
Montréal (international survey show)
1997
- Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
(group)
1996
- il
Cielo
Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento,
Italy (group)
- Aprés
Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
(solo)
- Le Dessin
Automatique 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay,
Portrieux and Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (international survey show)
1995
- Vancouver:
1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery (group)
- Le Dessin
Automatique 1945-95, Phases
Group,
College Camille Claudel; St.Quay,
Portrieux,
Brittany, France (international survey show)
- Phases
of
Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New
York (group)
- Currents,
L’Atelier, Vancouver, BC (group)
1994
- Constellations:
Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton
University Art Gallery, Ottawa (international survey show)
- Permanent Collection, Richmond Art Gallery,
Richmond,
BC
(group)
1993
- Lyric
Landscapes, Richmond Art Gallery (solo)
- Three
Vancouver Artists, Community Arts Council Gallery,
Vancouver, BC (three person)
1992
- Lumière
du Jour/Lumière Noir, Galerie
Lumière Noir, Montreal,
Quebec (international survey show)
- Head/Hunter/Simpson with
Kevin Head and Miles Hunter, Gallery
Alpha, West.Vancouver (three person)
1991
- Tribal
Dynamics, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver (solo)
- Rainforests
of the Mind (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West
Vancouver, BC (group)
- Fertility
Rites (also Curaator), Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver,
BC (group)
- Geometric
Expressionism (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West
Vancouver, BC (group)
- Fantastic
Visions (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West
Vancouver, BC (group)
1990
- Artropolis
90,
The Roundhouse,Vancouver (group)
1989
- Waterfall
Series, Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver, BC (solo)
- Western
Patterns, Sinclair Centre (also Curator)
- The Ferry Building Gallery (solo)
1988
- Cellular
Mosaics, Sinclair Centre, Vancouver (solo)
1987
- Modern
Ghosts,
Vancouver East Cultural Center (solo); Savage,
NeoArtism Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1986
- Modern
Ghosts,
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (solo)
- Paintings and Watercolours, New Westminster Art
Center, New
Westminster, BC (solo)
- Exposicao
Internacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantástica,
Teatro
Iberico, Lisbon, Portugal (international survey show)
- Open
Cages,
Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver, BC (group)
- Contemporary
Living, Park Place, Vancouver (solo)
1985
- West
Coast
Surrealists, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby,
BC (group)
1984
- 12-Year Retrospective, Art Gallery of Algoma,
Sault
Ste.
Marie,
ON (solo)
- Paintings from the 1980s, New Art Gallery,
Toronto,
ON
(solo)
- Gallery Artists: New Art Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
(group)
1982
- Paintings and Collages, Galerie Surrealiste,
Toronto,
ON
(solo)
- Mixed Media Works, Forest City Gallery, London,
ON
(solo)
- Arteder
82:
Bilbao, Spain ( (international survey show)
- Melmoth Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1981
- Cellular
Mosaics, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC (solo)
- Paintings and Mixed Media, Music Gallery,
Toronto, ON
(solo)
- Associations,
Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (group)
1980
- West
Coast
Surrealists, Gallery Move, Vancouver (group)
- On
Canvas:
Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (group)
- Insights,
Preparatory works for On Canvas Exhibition Simon Fraser
University Gallery (group)
- Gallery Artists:, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC
(group)
1979
- A Survey of Paintings, Gallery Move, North
Vancouver,
BC
(solo)
- West
Coast
Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich: Bayard Gallery,
Seattle, Wash., USA (group)
- West
Coast
Surrealist Group, Hindenberg
Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
- WashArt
‘79,
Pyramid
Gallery, Washington, DC, USA (group)
- Gallery Artists: Gallery Move, North Vancouver,
BC
(group)
1978
- Helix Series, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC (solo)
- Surrealism
Unlimited, Conroy
Maddox and Friends, Camden Arts Centre, London,
England (international survey show)
- Other
Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art, Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House, London,
England ; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France (group)
- West
Coast
Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver
(group)
1977
- From
This
Point of View, Vancouver Art
Gallery (group)
- West
Coast
Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver (group)
- Paperworks,
BC Government Collection, Canadian Cultural Centers:
Paris, London, Brussels (group)
1976
- Pacific
Rim
Consciousness, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur;
Bogota, Colombia (group)
1975
- Pacific
Rim
Consciousness, Simon
Fraser University Gallery,
Burnaby, BC (group)
- Multi-Media Performance, Agnes Etherington Art
Centre,
Kingston,
ON (solo)
1974
- Canadian
West Coast Hermetics, The Metaphysical Landscape, McMaster University,
Hamilton,
Ontario; McIntosh Gallery,
- University of Western
Ontario (group)
- Works
from
1964-1974, Vancouver Artists' Gallery, Vancouver, BC
(solo)
1973
- Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver, BC (solo)
- Canadian
West Coast Hermetics, The Metaphysical Landscape, Fine Arts Gallery, University of
British Columbia; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris;
Exhibition Centre; St. Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House; London; Palais
des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; McMaster University Art
Gallery, Hamilton; McIntosh Gallery (University of Western Ontario,
London.) (group)
1972
- Paintings and collages, Open Space Gallery,
Victoria,
BC
(solo)
- The
Private
Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
(group)
- Mythodromus,
Avelles Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1971
- A
City
Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group)
- Divine
Order
of the Lodge Salon: Avelles Gallery, Vancouver
(group)
- Vancouver
School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC (group)
1970
- Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (group)
- Colour
Optics,
Bunaby
Art Gallery (group)
1969
- Normal
Constants, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
(solo)
- Kinetic & Light Sculpture, Art
Gallery of
Greater
Victoria
- Focus
‘69,
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
- Three Man Show, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, with
Pierre
Coupey and
Ron Wattier
1968
- Mandan
Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver; Spectrum ‘68: Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver (group)
- UBC
Graduate Centre with Pierre Coupey and Ken Christopher
1967
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Education
1962
- Private studies with Chicago painter, Charles
Stegman, West
Vancouver
1963
- Night courses, Vancouver School of Art
1964
- Extension Courses, University of B.C.: Painting (Don
Jarvis),
Life Drawing (Bruce Boyd), Sculpture (Gerhard Class)
1965
- Summer session, Painting (Ron Stonier) Vancouver
School of
Art
1966-67
Awards
2003: Canada Council Travel
Grant for exhibitions in France and Spain.
2001: Canadian Department of Foreign
Affairs Grant for
exhibitions in
Austria, France and Italy
2000:
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Grant for
exhibitions in
France and Italy
Made an Academicien
Correspondant of the Accademia Internazionale
Greci Marino, Accademia del Verbano, Vercelli, Italy
1993:
North Shore Arts Commission: Public Art Project,
Versatile
Shipyard, North Vancouver
1976:
Canada Council Short Term Grant for Video
1972:
Canada Council Materials Grant: Painting
1971:
Canada Council Arts Bursary for Research in Europe
1968:
Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting
Collections
Fundacion-Museo Eugenio F. Granell,
Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
Cypress College, Los Angeles
National Museum of Fine
Arts,
Santiago, Chile
Museu Dom Dinis, Estremoz,
Portugal
Lord Eastleigh Foundation,
Monaco/Brussels
Evergreen Cultural Centre
Gallery, Coquitlam, BC
University of Victoria, Victoria,
BC
Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Ontario
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
Carleton University Art
Gallery; Ottawa
British Columbia Government
Collection, Victoria, BC
City of Vancouver Collection,
Vancouver, BC
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
BC
Edouard Jaguer, PHASES
Collection, Paris
Michel P.Christensen, Toronto
Christian Petroleum Company,
Vancouver
Zentel Corporation, Calgary
InterPro Contractors, Vancouver
Frank Lo, Lo Kit Loon, Hong Kong
Several other private collections
in Canada, USA, Europe, the UK, Hong
Kong, and Korea.
Recent donations
to Museums, Universities and Public Galleries
Critical
Writing, Reviews and Publications
2016
A Luz
Dos Castelos Evidracados, (exhibition catalogue), Figueira
da Foz, Portugal
2015
A
Phalla, Revista do Movimento Surrealista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Il surrealismo. leri oggi, Arturo
Schwarz, Skira Publishers, Milan
2013
Open
Letter, Surrealism in Canada, Gregory Betts, Brock
University Press
2012
Derrame,
L'edicion especial hommenage a
Cruzeiro Seixas, Santiago, Chile
2011
Caleidoscopio
Surrealista, Una visión
del surrealismo
internacional-1919/2011, Miguel
Corrales
Out
of the Woods and into the Mind, catalogue essay by curator,
Astrid Heyerdahl
2009
El
Umbral Secreto,
catalogue from Museo Solidad
de Salvador
Allende, Santiago
2008
O
contrário do Olhar, catalogue from the Casa
de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal
2005
West Coast
Surreal, A
Canadian
Perspective,
Museo Granell, Santiago
de Compostela,
Spain
(catalogue essay by Natalia Segarra)
2003
Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts,
Nice Matin, Nice, France
2002
Artist
Doesn’t Conform To Mold, ArtistsinCanada
feature by Paul Constable.
2001
Highlights
im
Lichthaus, Tiroliner, Innsbruck,
Austria
Canadian
Artist Expose a l'Aeroport de Nice,
Le
Petit
Nicoise, Nice, France
2000
Janet Smith,
Driven to Abstraction, feature article, Georgia Straight, Vancouver
Gregg
Simpson Expose, review of Dessins Selectionées,
Seillans, Var-Matin
A New
Arcadia, photo and notices, International Herald Tribune, Milan, Italy.
Gregg
Simpson at Studio Dieci, L'Informaffare, Notzia Oggi, Vercelli, Italy
1999
Superiore Inconnu (feature
page) edited by Sarane Alexandrian,
Paris
Master
Painters Showcase, International Artist magazine, Sydney, Australia
Dizionario
Antologico e Critico Di Poeti, scrittori e artisti italiani contemporanei, edizioni Tigullio-
Bacherontius, Turin,
Italy
1997
Il
Volo Di Icaro Utopia, tra sogno e realta quotidiana, Edizioni
Tigullio- Bacherontius,
Turin, Italy
1995
José
Pierre: In
the Beginning, Gregg Simpson,
essay, Paris
, 1995
1994
Constellations,
Surrealism and Its
Affinities, Carleton
University
(catalogue)
1990
Ann Rosenberg,
Feature review: Tribal Dynamics,
Vancouver Sun
1986
Robert Linsley,
review of Modern Ghosts,
Vanguard Magazine
1985
Carol M. Cram, Gregg Simpson: Works of
Excavation &
Transference: Feature article
in Terzoochio
Magazine, Bologna,
Italy.
Carol M. Cram: New
Mythologies/Inner Landscapes: West Coast Surrealists Revisited, feature article: Vie Des
Arts
Magazine, Montreal
1983
José
Pierre: L’Univers Surréaliste:
Editions Somogy, Paris
Dr. David Burnett, and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary
Canadian Painting, Hurtig Publishing, Edmonton
1982
Elisabeth Topp: Gregg
Simpson at Galerie Surrealiste, Artmagazine, Toronto
1980
Scott MacKillop: West Coast Surrealists: feature review, Artmagazine,
Toronto
1979
Natalie
Luckyj: Other Realities, The Legacy of
Surrealism in Canadian Art (catalogue
essay, Queens University Press)
The West Coast
Surrealist Group, feature article by Gregg Simpson, Terzoochio
Magazine, Bologna, Italy
1975
Les
Peintres hermétiques de la Côte Ouest du Canada,
feature article by Brad
Collins, Vie des Arts, Montreal
1973
Joan Lowndes: Simpson’s
Surrealistic Claws and Crescent Moons of Atlantis,
feature article, Vancouver
Sun.
1972
Canadian
Artists in Exhibition, Volume 2,
Roundstone Press, Toronto
1971
Joan Lowndes: Surrealist
Has
Desert Mission:
feature article, Vancouver
Sun
Richard Simmins, feature review
of
the Vancouver
School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery,
(reproduced assemblages by Gregg Simpson),
Vancouver Sun
Joan Lowndes, review of
the Vancouver
School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
Province
1969
Light Box sculpture mentioned in review of Intermedias,
Victoria Art Gallery.
1968
Review of Collage
Exhibition, Mandan Ghetto by Maija Bismanis, Vancouver Sun
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Academic Studies:
2005:
Surrealism and Mediology
in English Canada,
Université J.V. Picardie, Amiens, Prof. Yves
Laroque
2001: Essay on the New Arcadia
Series, Prof. Antonio Malmo, Accademia
Tiberina, Rome,
Italy
1996: The
Idea of Surrealism in English Canada, Prof. Yves Laroque, Sorbonne, Paris
1981: José Pierre: Surrealism
in Canada, Université Rabelais de Tours, France
Affiliations
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Co-founder of
Coast Art Trust
Society, Vancouver, 2005-2011
West Coast Surrealist Group,
1977-2014
New Orchestra Workshop,
1977-2012
Intermedia,
Vancouver,
1967-73
Co-Exhibitors
International:
Pierre Alechinsky,
Jean Arp, Hans
Bellmer, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder,
Jorge
Camacho, Christo, Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Max
Ernst, ,
Alberto Giacometti,
Wifredo Lam,
Le Corbusier, Rik Lina, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte,
Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore,
Robert Motherwell, Meret
Oppenheim,
Man Ray,
Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Andy
Warhol, Victor Vasarely, John Welson, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.
Canadian:
Leon
Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile Borduas, Kittie Bruneau, Marcel
Ferron, Roland Giguerre, Pnina Granirer, Don Jarvis, Jock MacDonald,
Guido Molinari, Alfred Pellan, Ivan
Eyre, Jean
Paul Riopelle, Toni Onley, William
Ronald, Jack Shadbolt, Tony Urquhart, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace,
Joyce
Weiland, Jack Wise, Alan Wood.
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