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2003: Selected Works
1999-2003
Bfly Atelier, Vancouver
-Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Salle des Artistes, Colomars,
France
-Una Nuevo Arcadie, Galeria dfArt Zero, Barcelona,
Spain
2002: Angoli d'Italia (Corners of Italy) photography exhibition, Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC
2001: A
New Arcadia, Ontario Ltd Lichthaus, Innsbruck,
Austria
-Selected Drawings, 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy
-A New Arcadia, Centre d'Affaires, Aerport Nice-Cote
d'Azur,
Nice, France
2000: Selected
Drawings, 1978-1999, Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France
-A New Arcadia, paintings and pastels, Fortezza di
Montalcino,
Montalcino, Italy
-Phantoms of Light, digital art/pastels/paintings, Studio 10,
Vercelli,
Italy
1999: Recent
Abstract Paintings, MacPherson Playhouse,Victoria , BC
-Land of Light, Plaskett Gallery, New Westminster, BC
1997: A New Arcadia, Oktavia Gallery, Vancouver
1996: Apres
Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
-Cloissonist Landscapes, Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver
1995: Figurations, Torres Gallery, Vancouver
1994: Classic Mode, Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver
1993: Lyric Landscapes, Richmond Art Gallery
1991: Tribal Dynamics, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver
1988: Cellular Mosaics, Sinclair Centre, Vancouver
1987: Modern Ghosts, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC
1986: Modern
Ghosts, Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC
-Queenfs Park Art Centre, New Westminster, BC
1984:
12-Year
Retrospective, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
-New Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1982:
Galerie
Surrealiste, Toronto, Ontario
- Mixed
media, Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario
1981:Cellular
Mosaics, Gallery Move, Vancouver
-Paintings and mixed media, Music Gallery, Toronto
1979: A Survey of Paintings, Gallery Move, North Vancouver, BC
1978: Helix Series, Gallery Move, North Vancouver
1975: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (mixed media installation and performance)
1974: 10-Year Retrospective, Vancouver ArtistsfGallery, Vancouver, BC
1973: Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver
1972: Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
1969: Normal
Constants, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2006: Salzburg Art Fair (with
Galeria Gaudi, Madrid), Salzburg, Austria
-West Coast
Surrealism, Grand Forks Art
Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C.
-Coast
Art Trust
Collection, North Vancouver Museum, North Vancouver,
BC
2002:
Inaugural
Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Barcelona, Spain
-EuropArt,
2002, Palais des Expositions, Geneva,
Switzerland
-Summer
2002
Galeria d'Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain
-West
Coast Dreamers
Harrison Exhibition Centre, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
2000: Gotcha!
Digital Images (with Jas W. Felter, Mitzi M. Kanee and Bill
Thomson)
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver
1999: Continental Drift The Surrealist Influence, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
1998: Binario
Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata - toured Italy:
-Treno Verde, Messina, Regio Calabria, Taranto, Potenza, Avellino, Roma,
Imola, Monza, Belluno, Porenone, Macerata, Foligno, Orario.
(group )
-Art 98, International Art Fair, Canada Place, Vancouver (group)
1997: Electrica
Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy
-Maldoror Park, Diversite Surrealiste: 1935-1995, Universite de
Montreal
-Gallery Artists, Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York, NY
1996: Il
Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco,Vercelli, Trento, Italy
-Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, College Camille Claudel, St.Quay
Portrieux,
France.
1995: Dessin
Automatiste 1945-95, Phases Group, Plouec-sur-Lie Brittany
-Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Saritoga Springs, New York
-Currents, LfAtelier, Vancouver
-Vancouver:1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994: Constellations:
Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton University Art Gallery,
Ottawa, Ontario
-Works from the Permanent Collection, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
1991/93: Lumiere du Jour/Lumiere Noir, Galerie Lumiere Noir, Montreal, Quebec
1991-92:Rainforests
of the Mind; Fertility Rites; Geometric Expressionism;
-Fantastic Visions, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC
1990: Artropolis, Vancouver, BC
1989: Western Patterns, Sinclair Centre (also Curator) Vancouver, BC
1987: Savage, NeoArtism Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1986:
Exposicao
Internacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantastica, Teatro Iberico, Lisbon,
Portugal
-Open Cages, Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver, BC
-Contemporary Living, Park Place, Vancouver, BC
1985: West Coast Surrealists, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1984: Gallery Artists: New Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1982: Arteder
82, Bilbao, Spain
-Melmoth Gallery, Vancouver
1981: Associations, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto
1980: On
Canvas, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, BC
-Insights, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
-Gallery Artists: Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC
1979: West
Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich, Bayard Gallery, Seattle,
Washington
-West Coast Surrealist Group, Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda,
Maryland
-WashArt f79, Washington, DC
-Other Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art,
Agnes
Etherington
Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada House, London, England;
Centre
Culturel
Canadien, Paris
-Gallery Artists, Gallery Move, North Vancouver
1978: Surrealism
Unlimited, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
-Paperworks, B.C.Government Collection, Canadian Cultural
Centers:
Paris, London, Brussels
1977: The West Coast Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver, BC
1975: Pacific Rim Consciousness, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1974: Canadian
West Coast Hermetics: The Metaphysical Landscape,
McMaster University,
Hamilton,
Ontario;
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario.
- Gallery Artists, Galerie Allen, Vancouver
1973: Canadian
West Coast Hermetics: The Metaphysical Landscape, Fine Arts
Gallery,
University of British Columbia; Centre Culturel
Canadien, Paris; Office dfAction Culturel,
St.
Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House,
London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi,
Belgium
1972: The
Private Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby
-Mythodromus, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1971: Vancouver
School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
-A City Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
-Divine Order of the Lodge Salon, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver; BC
1970:
Carmen
Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Colour Optics, Burnaby Art Gallery
1969: Kinetic & Light Sculpture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1969: Focus e69, Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1968:
Group
shows, Mandan Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver, BC
-Spectrum f68, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1967: Mandan
Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1996: Artist
as Photographer, Photographer as Artist, TECK GALLERY,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (with Gerry Shallie)
1976: Student Union Gallery, UBC, Vancouver (with Ted Kingan)
1969: Pandorafs
Box
Gallery, Victoria (with Don Harvey)
THREE PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
2004: The Secret Garden, Marilyn Mylrea Gallery, Vancouver (With Marilyn Mylrea, & Georgina Lohan)
1993: Community Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992:
Head/Hunter/Simpson
(with Kevin Head and Miles Hunter) Gallery Alpha
West Vancouver
1969: Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (with Pierre Coupey & Ron Wattier)
1968: UBC
Graduate
Centre (with Pierre Coupey & Ken Christopher)
COLLECTIONS:
CRITICAL
WRITING AND REVIEWS:
2003:
Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts, Nice Matin, Nice,
France
2001:
Research
paper by Prof. Antonio
Malmo,
Academia Tiberina, Rome Italy
Highlights im Lichthaus Tiroliner,
Canadian Artist Expose a l'Aéroport
de Nice, Le
Petit Nicoise,
2000:
Driven
to Abstraction, Janet Smith, The
Georgia Straight,
Gregg Simpson
Expose,
review of Dessins Séléctionees,
Seillans,
Var-Matin, France
A New
Arcadia,
photo and notices, International Herald Tribune,
Gregg Simpson at
Studio Dieci,
L'Informaffare, Notzia Oggi,
1999: Ed
Varney:
Continental Drift, The Surrealist Influence, catalogue essay
1995: In the
Beginning by Jose Pierre, Monograph for Selected Works 1990-1995
Peter Wilson: Figurations at the Torres Gallery, Vancouver Sun
1996: The
Idea
of Surrealism in English Canada, Yves Laroque, Doctoral Thesis, Sorbonne,
Paris
1991: Mia
Johnson:
Introduction to Tribal Dynamics: Preview Magazine, Vancouver
Ann
Rosenberg:
Gregg Simpson: Tribal Dynamics, Vancouver Sun,
1988: Alex
Varty, Other Worlds, profile Vancouver Magazine,
1986: Rob
Linsley:
Modern Ghosts, Richmond Art Gallery, Vanguard Magazine
Jill Pollack: review of Modern Ghosts, Richmond Art Galleryh, The
Courier,
Aristede Gazetas: review of Modern Ghosts, The Richmond Times
1985: Carol
M. Cram: Gregg Simpson: Works of Excavation & Transferenceh, Feature
article: Terzo Ochio Magazine, Bologna, Italy,
Carol M. Cram: New Mythologies/Inner Landscapes West Coast
Surrealists,
Revisited: feature article: Vie Des Arts Magazine, Montreal,
1984: Preview
for 12 Year Retrospective: Art Gallery of Algoma:, Sault Star
1982:
Elisabeth
Topp: gGregg Simpson at Galerie Surrealisteh, ArtMagazine, Toronto,
1980: Scott
MacKillop:West Coast Surrealists artmagazine, Toronto
Jose Pierre: Surrealism in Canada: Research Bulletin, Universite
Rabelais
de Tours, France
1975: Brad
Collins: Les Hermetiques de la Cote Ouest, Vie des Arts, Montreal
1976: Mati
Lansoo: Gregg Simpson: A Profile: Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver,
1973: Joan
Lowndes: Simpsonfs Surrealistic Claws & Crescent Moons of Atlantis
Review of One Man Exhibition at Galerie Allen, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun
1971: Joan
Lowndes: A True Child of the InterMedia: Surrealist Has Desert Mission
feature Article, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver
BOOKS, PERIODICALS and ANTHOLOGIES:
1999: Supériore Inconnu, edited by Sarane Alexandrian, ParisPUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST
1999: Disquieting
Day in an Underground Forest, frottages, Condition West Press
1995: In
the Beginning: Selected Works: 1990-1995, Color brochure
1983: 4-Series,
color brochure of works from 1972-1982
1980: Earth
and Sky Changes: drawings from 1967, Derwydon Press, Vancouver
1979: West
Coast Surrealist Group, feature article: Terzo Occhio, Bologna,
Italy
1978: Luminous
Desires, collected writings :1968-71, Derwydon Press, Kingston, Ont.
1973: Saturated
Scenes, (collage novel) Intermedia Press, Vancouver
1970-76: Lodgisticks
(periodical) co-editor, Kingston /Vancouver
1970: Splendour
Solis, art supplement, Georgia Straight, Vancouver
Triumph of the Surreal (essay) Georgia Straight, Vancouver
1968: Household
Words, collages, blewointment press, Vancouver
1967: Apocolips,
collages with poetry by Scott Lawrance, blewointment press, Vancouver
AWARDS
VIDEO EXHIBITIONS:
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 dfArte Moderna,
Caracas, Venezuela (international group show)
Vehicule Ltd., Montreal, Group Exhibition, Artons, Calgary, (group)
1974: Video
Bag, Burnaby Art Gallery (group)
CURATORIAL:
2005: West Coast
Surreal: A Canadian
Perspective, Museo
Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
-Abstractions et Figurations, Maison
de Artistes, Chateau
Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-mer, France
1996:
Pnina
Granirer Retrospepctive, 1957-97, Richmond Art Gallery,
Richmond, BC
1991: Fertility
Rites, (group );
Fantastic Visions, Rainforests of the
Mind, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver
1979: Four
Photo-Process Artists, Gallery Move, North Vancouver
1975: Pacific
Rim Consiousness, Simon Fraser University, University of
Malaysia (with Ed Varney)
1973: Canadian
West Coast Hermetics, (with Alvin Balkind, UBC Fine Arts Gallery)
SELECTED WORKSHOPS/LECTURES
1993:
Workshop
on Automaticist Painting, Richmond Art Gallery
1985:
Workshop
on frottage techniques: Capilano College, Art Department
1984: Lecture
for solo exhibition: Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1977:
Workshop/slide
presentation: Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC
1970:
School Board Art classes: James Cowan Centre, Burnaby, BC
CO EXHIBITORS:
(International)
Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Alexander Calder, Jorge
Camacho,
Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax,
Amy 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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