Born in Ottawa in 1947,
west
coast artist, Gregg Simpson, has been active in visual art since the
mid-1960s. His work has been
exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, the U.S., France, Italy, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Malaysia, and South
America and is included in over 100 private and public collections in Europe, Asia and North America.
.exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, the U.S., France, Italy, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Malaysia, and South
America and is included in over 100 private and public collections in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Selected Recent Exhibitions
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2008: Reverso Do Olhar - EXPOSIÇÃO
INTERNACIONAL DE SURREALISMO ACTUAL, Casa
da Cultura, Coimbra,
Portugal (group)Selected Recent Exhibitions
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-Salzburg Art Fair (represented by Galeria Gaudi, Madrid), Salzburg, Austria (art fair)
-Abstractions with Amy Ernst & Jenny Davis, Carteret Gallery, Morehead City, NC (three person)
-Salon, 2007, Montserrat Gallery, New York.(group)
-Coast Art Trust Collection, North Vancouver Museum (group)
-Island Passages, The Gallery, Bowen Island (solo)
2005: West Coast Surreal, Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (group)
Abstractions et Figurations, Château Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (group)
2003: Euloge du petit format, Christiane Puegeot Cultural Center, Paris (group)
-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,
-Abstra Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (group)
2002: Europ’Art 2002 Palais des Expositions,
-Summer Group Exhibition, Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain (group)
-Inaugural Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Salona Barna, Barcelona, Spain (group)
2001: Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Aérport Nice-Côte d’Azur, Nice, France (solo)
-Selected Drawings 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma,
-A New
2000: Déssins Selectionées 1978-1999, Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France (solo)
-A New Arcadia, paintings and pastels,
-Phantoms of Light, digital art/pastels/paintings, Studio 10,
1999: Continental Drift, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1998: Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata - toured Italy, (group)
-Art 98, International Art Fair
-Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy (group)
-Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste, Université de Québec, Montréal (group)
1997: Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA (group)
1996: il Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco,
-Aprés Miro,
-Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay Portrieux, (group)
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-Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (group)
1995: Vancouver: 1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery (group)
-Constellations, Surrealism and Its
1993: Lyric Landscapes,
1992: Lumière du Jour/Lumière Noir, Galerie Lumière Noir, Montreal/Quebec (group)
Simpson’s work is a synthesis of lyric abstraction with surrealist elements, which is also influenced by living in the B.C. landscape. His contribution
to Canadian art has been studied at the Sorbonne, the Université Rabelais de Tours and Université de Rouen, in France and the Accademia Tiberina
in Rome. His work has been exhibited and published by two renowned art historians, both colleagues of Surrealism’s founder, André Breton, including
José Pierre, in his landmark book, L’Univers Surréaliste, (Editions Somogy, 1983) and Sarane Alexandrian, who put Simpson’s work in his
periodical, Supériore Inconnu in 1999..
Simpson on BRAVO TV, now downloadable from www.greggsimpson.com. In August, 2000, he exhibited a retrospective of drawings and frottages
from 1978-1999 in Seillans, France, the final home of the great surrealist, Max Ernst, whose work has always inspired Simpson.
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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: Vancouver School of Art - 1st year program
with Dave Mayrs
Awards:
2003: Canada Council Travel Grant for exhibitions in Spain
2001: Made an Academicien Correspondant of the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Accademia del Verbano, Vercelli, Italy
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
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 for: Painting
1971: Canada Council Arts Bursary for Painting & Research in Europe
1968: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting
2003: Canada Council Travel Grant for exhibitions in Spain
2001: Made an Academicien Correspondant of the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Accademia del Verbano, Vercelli, Italy
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
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 for: Painting
1971: Canada Council Arts Bursary for Painting & Research in Europe
1968: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting
Collections:
Museu Vermhelo, Estrmoz, Portugal
Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Lord Eastleigh Foundation, Antwerp / Monaco
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, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Phases Movement, Edouard Jaguer, 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
International: Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer,
Alexander
Calder, Jorge Camacho, Salvador Dali,
Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Amy Ernst, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte,
Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray,
Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.
Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Amy Ernst, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte,
Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray,
Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.
Canadian: Leon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile
Borduas,
Kittie
Bruneau, Marcel Ferron, Roland Giguerre,
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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Last updated Aug.1, 2007
Last updated Aug.1, 2007