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.
            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.

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

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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.

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Last updated  Aug.1, 2007