A CHRONOLOGY OF WEST COAST SURREALIST AND METAPHYSICAL ART
1976-79

        1976

        Two person exhibition by Ted Kingan and Gregg Simpson, Student Union Gallery, UBC

        Publication of Les Hermetiques de la Cote Ouest, by Bradford Collins, Vie des Arts, Montreal.

        1977

        Opening of the Gallery Move, North Vancouver and the formation of the West Coast Surrealist Group:
        Robert Davidson, Ted Kingan, Michael BulIock, Gregg Simpson, and Leo Labelle)

Poster for Group Show #2 by the West Coast Surrelist group, 1977
Drawing by Ted Kingan

        Roy Kiyooka publishes surrealistic collages with his novella, Fontainebleau Dream Machine
        (Coach House Press,Toronto)

Roy Kiyooka: collage for back cover of Fontainebleau Dream Machine, 1977

        1978

        Ladislav Guderna and Martin Guderna move to Vancouver and have their first west coast exhibition at the
        Helen Pitt Gallery,

        Second West Coast Surrealist group exhibition, Gallery Move, North Vancouver

        Surrealism Unlimited, Conroy Maddox and Friends, Camden Arts Centre, London (included Gregg Simpson,
        Michael Bullock, Robert Davidson and Ted Kingan)

        1979
        Other Realities,The Legacy of Surrealism in Candian Art (curated by Natalie Luckyj), Queens
        University, Kingston; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; Canada House, London.

        West Coast Surrealists with Paul Wunderlich, Bayard Gallery, Seattle

        Feature article, The West Coast Surrealist Group by Gregg Simpson, published in Terzoocchio magazine,
        Bologna, Italy

        West Coast Surrealist Group,  Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland and  WASH ART '79, Art Fair,
        Washington D.C.)

        Third West Coast Surrealist group exhibition, Gallery Move, North Vancouver

Jack Wise: 1979 exhibition of oil paintings, Kyle's Gallery, Victoria

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