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.
Exhibitions
2024
* Nostalgia
for Beauty, Alexander Museum-Hotel, Pesaro, Italy (group)
* Dancers in
the Garden, Galeria Il Leone, Rome (solo)
*Anima
Mundi, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice (group)
* Dancers in
the Garden, Museo MIIT, Turin, Italy, (solo)
* Around Rome,
Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome (group)
2023
* restART,
sala Pinoteca, Palazzo Del Priori, Assisi, Italy
(group)
* Terra, Galeria Angelica, Rome
(group)
* Flamenco Abstractions, Galerie Couteron,
Paris (solo)
* International Art Fair, Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum,
Mantua, Italy (group)
* Flamenco Abstractions,
Capataloona Gallery, Madrid (solo)
* Notes of Art, Queen
Art Gallery, Padua, Italy (solo)
2022
* Inside and All Around Me, Carlo
D'Orta Gallery, Rome (group)
* Vernice, fiera d'arte di Forli,
Forli, Italy (art fair)
* Floating on the Water, ArteSpazioTempo,
Venice (group)
* Aniconic, ArteSpazioTempo, Venice
(group)
* Dream Gardens, Galerie
Bredgade, Copenhagen (solo)
* Dream Gardens, Galerie
Azote, Paris (solo)
* Dream Gardens, Galeria
Mo Ca, Rome (solo)
2021
*Small
Format, Mega Art Gallery, Corchiano, Italy (group)
*Arte
Padova, Padua, Italy, (art fair)
*Un
Mondo di Colori, Pocket Art Studio, Rome (group)
*Animal
House, Valeria Tomasi Studio Gallery, Rivoli, Italy (group)
2020
* Stockholm 2020,
Bellman Gallery, Stockholm (group)
2019
* Dream Gardens, Salle
du Couvent, Seillans, France (solo)
* 100 Años de Surrealismo, Centro Centro Culturel Espacio Matta,
Santiago, Chile (international survey show by invitation)
* Contemporary Summer in Assisi, Assinarte, Assissi, Italy (group)
* National Art Exhibition,
Guang Zhou, China
2018
* Shadow Talk, Artifact
Gallery, New York (solo)
* Lost Worlds,,
Adelinda Allegretti Studio/Gallery, Gualdo Tadino, Italy (solo)
* Shen Zhen City Art Fair,
China
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)
* 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)
- Recent Abstract Paintings, MacPherson
Playhouse, Victoria , B.C.
- Land of Light, Plaskett Gallery,
New Westminster, BC
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)
- A New Arcadia, Oktavia Gallery, Vancouver
1996
- il Cielo Contaminato,
Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy (group)
- Aprés Miro,
Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo)
- Classic Mode (photography), TECK Gallery,
Vancouver (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)
- Figurations, Torres Gallery, Vancouver
(solo)
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
* Mandan
Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (group)
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Publications
2021
Little Guys, drawings for poems
by Scott Lawrance, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria
2020
Western Terrace, pastels
and collages for the stroies of Allan Graubard, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria
2018
The Milkmaid, Leida
Torck, The Netherlands, poems by Wijnand Steemers with collages by Gregg
Simpson
.
.
Pastel and Pen,
New Arcadia Publishing, pastels with stories by Carol M. Cram
2016
Sirenes, Phasm Press,
New York, story by Allan Graubard with Ink Drawings by Gregg Simpson
2008
Classic Mode, A Reverie, Photographic
study, New Arcadia Publishing, Bowen Island
1980
Earth and Sky Changes, drawings
from 1967, Derwyddon Press, Vancouver
1975
Luminous
Desires, collected wiritings, Derwyddon Press, Kingston, ON
.
Saturated Scenes, collages,
Intermedia Press, Vancouver (also included in Five B.C. Poets, Intermedia
Press
1968
Household Words, collages,
blewointment press, Vancouver
1967
Apocolips, collages with
poems by Scott Lawrance, blewointment press, Vancouver
Education
1962
- Private studies with Chicago painter, Charles
Stegeman, 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,
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
Vancouver General Hospital/
UBC Foundation
City of Vancouver Collection,
Vancouver, BC
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond,
BC
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
BC
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
Edouard Jaguer, PHASES Collection,
Paris/Montreal
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.
Critical Writing, Catalogues and Reviews
.
2021
Surrealism Beyond Borders, Metropolitan
Museum of New York and The Tate Modern
Finding Nothing, The
Vangardes, 1959-1975, Gregory Betts, University of Toronto Press
2020
Aspects
du Surrealisme International Aujourd'hui, Patrick Lepetit, Vocatif
II
2018
International Encyclopdia of Surrealism,
Bloomsbury Press, London, (three volume set)
2017
Essay by curator Adelinda Allegretti for exhibition
in Rome
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
Eye Candy at Loreta
Larkina Gallery, Venice, essay by Ives Celli.
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, Artists in Canada
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
Artists
of the Pacific North-West by Mary Randlett (photo
essay)
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
Academic
Studies
B.C.
Artists Database
Canadian
Artists Database
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
Film & Video Exhibitions
2004: A New Arcdia, The Art
of Gregg Simpson, 2003 Fountain
Productions shown at:
FIFA 2004, McCord Museum, Montreal
PLAY III 2004, Museo de Arte Ángel M. De Rosa, Junìn, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Biennale Internaionale
di Ferrara, Castello Estense Ferrara, Italy
1984: Art Gallery
of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
(solo)
1977: From This Point of View, Vancouver Art Gallery (group)
1976: Video From Kitsilano, Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
(group)
1975: CAYC International
Video Exhibition, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Caracas,
Venezuela
(international group show)
-Vehicule Ltd., Montreal, Group Exhibition, Artons, Calgary, (group)
1974: Video Bag, Burnaby Art Gallery
(group)
1968: Underwater
Film Festival (with Gerry Gilbert and david w harris), Intermedia, Vancouver
Affiliations.
Board
Member, Bowen Island Museum and Archives
B===
Co-founder of Coast Art Trust
Society, Vancouver, 2005-2011
West Coast Surrealist Group, 1977-2019
New Orchestra Workshop, 1977-present
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, Gary Lee-Nova,
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.
Curatorial
2004 West Coast Surreal: A Canadian Perspective,
Museo-Fundacion Granell, Santiago
de Compostela,
Spain
Abstract Figuration, Maison des Artistes, Cagnes-sur-Mer,
Framce
1996 Pnina Granirer 1957-97,
Richmond Art Gallery,
Richmond, BC
1991 Fertility
Rites, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver (group)
Fantastic Visions, Gallery Alpha
(group);
Rainforests of the Mind, Gallery Alpha; (group)
Geometric Expressionism (group) Gallery Alpha
1979 Four Photo/Process
Artists, Gallery Move, North Vancouver
1989: Western Patterns,
Sinclair Centre, Vancouver (group)
1975 Pacific Rim Consiousness,
Simon Fraser University,
University
of Malaysia,
(with Ed Varney)
1973 Canadian West Coast
Hermetics, The Metaphysical Landscape(with Alvin Balkind): UBC,
Centres Culturel, Paris, London, UK;
St.Brieuc, Brittany; McMaster University, Hamilton; University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Selected
Works in Reproduction
2021:
Talisman, acrylic on canvas, 1970, Surrealism Beyond Borders,
Metropolitan Museum of New York and The Tate Modern
-Various collages and paintings, Finding
Nothing, The Vangardes, 1959-1975, Gregory Betts, University
of Toronto Press
-Leaf Mask, ink, 1991, cover for Playg daze, poems by Scott Lawrance,
Names of Thunder, Victoria
- Amoeba, ink drawing,
1964, Ekstasis Press, Victoria
2020: Fado Nights, pastel,
2010, Western Terrace, Allan Graubard, Ekstasis Press, Victoria
-Allegory, ink, 1991,
Aspects du Surrealisme Internatioanl Aujourd'hui,
Patrick Lepetit, Vocatif II
2013: Conversing Figures,
Flamenco Sentry, Migration, The Old Gods, Locus Solus, Ulysses, and Jajouka
-Open Letter,
Surrealism in Canada, Gregory Betts and Beatriz Hausner, Brock University
Press
2000: A New Arcadia Italy
Daily (Herald Tribune) Art Notes Milan, Italy
2000:
Father C.R.C. Memorial in Superiore Inconnu (ed. by Sarane Alexandrian), Paris
1999: The Inundated Forest,
(acrylic, 1992) International Artists Magazine, Sydney, Australia
1997: Painted Garden, (oil,
1991) Il Volo Di Icaro, exhibition catalogue, Vercelli, Italy
1996: Painted Garden (oil,
1991), C Magazine, Spring, 1996, Toronto
1995: Forest Torn, (ACRYLIC, 1980) Cover for Great Northern,
Skywalk CD
1994: Classic Mode, photographs,
CBC Television, Vancouver
1991: Alignments, Vancouver Sun, feature review of Tribal Dynamics
at Gallery Alpha
1991: Cover for Now You Hear
It, CD, New Orchestra Workshop, 9 Winds, Los Angeles
1989: Cover for CD,The Future
is Now, New Orchestra Workshop, 9 Winds, LosAngeles
Cover
for Alive in Seattle,
CD, Lunar Adventures, 9 Winds
1986: Vanguard Magazine,Cyclops
(oil, 1983), The Courier, October,
Melmoth, Volume 4, #2: Catalogue, Streamliner (oil,1985)
Vancouver
Sun, (Acapella, oil, 1985)
1985: Terzo Occhio, Bologna, Italy, Eye of Africa,
(acrylic, 1982), Colour Rain (acrylic, 1980), Red Swirl (oil, 1981), Picnic in Hell (oil,
1972)
Vie des Arts, Montreal, Debris of War
(acrylic, 1984)
Catalogue for Group Show, Random
Allegories (acrylic,1984)
1984: Catalogue for Exposicao Internacional:
Teatre Iberico, Lisbon,Portugal
Striation Study (charcoal,1982)
Sault Star, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, May,1984, Persian Gulf (oil, 1972),
1983: L’Univers Surréaliste, José Pierre, Edition Somogy, Paris,
The Adept (oil,1971), The Genagual (acrylic,1975),
Contemporary Canadian Art, David Burnett, Edmonton, Flight to Tangiers (oil and acrylic, 1977)
1982: Catalogue for Arteder
‘82, Bilbao, Spain; Behemoth
(graphite, 1972)
artmagazine, Toronto Wanderers ( acrylic,
1973)
1981: Album Cover, Music For
the Living ESB Trio, ISM Fertility Rite (oil,1980)
Cover for Contemporary Surrealist Prose, Intermedia
Press (Collage, 1968)
Album Cover: Blue Tales in Time,
Paul Cram, Onari 006, Apocalyptic Landscape
(Collage, 1974)
1979: Catalogue for Other Realities:
The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art”
Agnes Etherington
Art Centre, Kingston,
Ontario:
Picnic in Hell (oil,
1972) Monument to Tycho Brahe (collage, 1970)
Catalogue for “Paperworks”, BC Government travelling
exhibition,
Transition (acrylic, 1974)
Album Cover for “Up Til Now”, New Orchestra Quintet,
NOR 001,
Videographics (video stills,
1977)
1979: The West Ender, Vancouver, Canada Post (acrylic, 1978)
-Terzo Occhio, Bologna, Italy, The Genagual (acrylic,1975),
Ubu Apothicos
(collage,1968),
1977: Catalogue for From This
Point of View, Vancouver
Art Gallery,
still from Genagual (video, 1977)
1976: Dream Cannisters
(acrylic, 1976), Vancouver Magazine
Catalogue for Canadian Video Open,
Artons, Calgary,
still from Adventures of
Seamus Finn, 16mm film, 1968
1973: Catalogue for Canadian West Coast Hermetics, Talon Press,
University of
British
Columbia, The Adept (Oil, 1971),
Diagnosis (Oil, 1972), Alborada Del
Gracioso (oil, 1971), The Pathos and Enigma of Goethe’s
Childhood (oil, 1971), and
various
collages
1972: Canadian
Artists in Exhibition, Volume 2, Roundstone Council for the Arts,
Toronto,
Picnic in Hell (oil, 1972)
1970: ArtsCanada, Ondines (Collage,1970)
1968: Various collages and mixed media works
in the Georgia Straight and the Western Gate.
Selected
Workshops and Lectures
2001: Lecture
on Selected Drawings 1978-1999, Monash Center<>, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy.
2000: Student tour of A New Arcadia,
Fortezza di Montalcino,
Italy
1993: Workshop on automaticist painting,
Richmond Art
Gallery
1985: Workshop on frottage techniques:
Capilano College, Art Department
1984: Opening presentation, Art Gallery
of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1977: Workshop/slide presentation: Emily
Carr College of Art, Vancouver,
BC
1970: Vancouver
School Board art classes: James Cowan Centre, Burnaby, BC
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