Gregg Simpson: Biographical Details

            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.
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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)
           2007: Viagem a Arcturus, Um Postal Para Mario Cesariny, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz, Portugal (group)       
           2006: Selected Drawings: 1976-2006, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver (solo)
          -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, Mallorca, Spain (group)
          -Abstra   Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (group)
           2002: Europ’Art  2002  Palais des Expositions, Geneva, Switzerland (art fair)
          -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, Prato, Italy (solo)
          -A New Arcadia  Ontario Art and Light Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
           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)
           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  Vancouver  (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, Vercelli and Trento, Italy
          -Aprés Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo)
          -Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay Portrieux, (group)
          -Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (organized by Edouard Jaguer, PHASES Movement, Paris)
          -Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (group)
           1995: Vancouver: 1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery (group)
          -Constellations, Surrealism and Its Affinities Carleton University, Ottawa (group)
           1993: Lyric Landscapes, Richmond Art Gallery (solo)
           1992: Lumière du Jour/Lumière Noir,  Galerie Lumière Noir, Montreal/Quebec (group)

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            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..

            In May, 2000, he exhibited in Tuscany at the Fortezza di Montalcino, a 14th Century castle, documented in A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg
            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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 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: 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




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

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 Co-Exhibitors

        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.

        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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