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 Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Bloomsbury Press, London, (three volume set)
2017
- Essay by curator Adelinda Allegretti for exhibition in Rome
2016
- A Luz Dos Castelos Envidraçados, (exhibition catalogue), Figueira da Foz, Portugal
2015
- A Phalla, Revista do Movimento Surrealista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Il surrealismo. Ieri e 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’edición especial homenaje 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 de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chilie
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, Notizia 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, The Sun
1986
- Robert Linsley, review of Modern Ghosts, Vanguard Magazine
1985
- Carol M. Cram, Gregg Simpson: Works of Excavation & Transference: Feature article 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
Books and Collaborations
2021
- Little Guys, drawings for poems by Scott Lawrance, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria
2020
- Western Terrace, pastels and collages for the stories 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 writings, Derwyddon Press, Kingston
- 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