Gregg Simpson

Selected Exhibitions:

2006:
Island Passages, The Gallery at Artisan Square, Bowen Island, B.C. (solo)
2005:
West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective, Museo Granell, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
Abstractions et Figurations, Maison des Artistes, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Summer 2005, Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver (solo)

2004:
Contemporary Surrealism (with Amy Ernst), Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain (group)
Summer exhibition, Art-Domain, Port Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (group)
Abstra, Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (group)

2003:
Euloge au petit format, Centre Culturel Christine Peugeot, Paris, France
Bfly Atelier, Vancouver (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)

2002:
Europ’Art 2002, Palais des Expositions, Geneva, Switzerland (group), Summer 2002, Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain (group), Inaugural Group Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Salona Barna, Barcelona, Spain, Three Painters, Evergreen Cultural Center, Coquitlam (group)

2001:
Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Centre d’Affaires, Aéroport Nice-Côte d’Azur, Nice, France (solo),
Selected Drawings 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy (solo), A New Arcadia, Lichthaus, 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, West Coast Surrealists Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver (group)

1998:
Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata (group: toured Italy), Art 98, International Art Fair, Vancouver, Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy, Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste, 1935-1995, Université de Québec, Montréal

1997:
Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York (group)

1996:
il Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy (group), Aprés Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo), Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay Portrieux, Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (organized by Edouard Jaguer, PHASES, Paris); Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saritoga Springs, New York

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)

1991:
Tribal Dynamics, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver (solo)

1990:
Artropolis 90, The Roundhouse, Vancouver (group)

1986:
Open Cages, Melmoth group, Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver, Modern Ghosts, Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC (solo), Exposicao Internacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantástica, Teatro Iberico, Lisbon, Portugal (group)

1985:
West Coast Surrealists, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC (group)

1984:
Retrospective: 1972-1984, Art Gallery of Algoma: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, New Art Gallery, Toronto (solo)

1982:
Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (solo), Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario (solo), Arteder 82, Bilbao, Spain (group)

1981:
Associations, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (group)

1980:
On Canvas, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (group), Insights, Simon Fraser University (group)

1979:
West Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich, Bayard Gallery, Seattle (group), Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (group), WashArt ’79, Washington, D.C., Other Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House, London, UK; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; Paperworks: B.C. Government Collection, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, Canada House, London; Canadian Cultural Centre, Brussels

1978:
Surrealism Unlimited, Camden Arts Centre, London, England (group)

1977:
From This Point Of View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group)

1976:
Pacific Rim Consciousness, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; (group), Student Union Gallery, UBC, Vancouver (with Ted Kingan)

1975:
Pacific Rim Consciousness, Simon Fraser University Gallery (group)

1974:
Canadian West Coast Hermetics: McMaster University, Hamilton, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario (group)

1973:
Canadian West Coast Hermetics, (also curator); Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris Office Action Culturel, St.Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House, London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium, Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver (solo)

1972:
The Private Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby (group), Paintings and Collages, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (solo), D.O.L. Salon Avelles Gallery, Vancouver (group)

1971:
Vancouver School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC (group)

1970:
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (group), Colour Optics: Burnaby Art Gallery

1969:
Normal Constants, Simon Fraser University (solo), Kinetic & Light Sculpture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (group), Focus ’69, Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver

1968:
Mandan Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver (Group), UBC Graduate Centre (with Pierre Coupey & Ken Christopher), Spectrum ’68, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group)

1967:
Mandan Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-xi Gallery (group)


Academic Studies

2001::Recent Works, research paper, Prof. Antonio Malmo, Accademia Tiberina, Rome, Italy
1996: The Idea of Surrealism in English Canada, Yves Laroque, Sorbonne, Paris
1981: José Pierre: Surrealism in Canada: SNCRF, Université Rabelais de Tours, France


Bibliography

2003:
A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg Simpson, Bravo TV (24 min.); Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts, Nice Matin, Nice, France

2001:
Highlights im Lichthaus Tiroliner, Innsbruck, Austria, Canadian Artist Expose a l'Aéroport de Nice, Le Petit Nicoise, Nice, France

2000:
Driven to Abstraction, Janet Smith, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Gregg Simpson Expose, review of Dessins Séléctionees, Seillans, Var-Matin, A New Arcadia, photo and notices, International Herald Tribune, Milan, Italy, L'Informaffare, Notzia Oggi, Vercelli, Italy

1999:
Superiore Inconnu edited by Sarane Alexandrian, Paris, Master Painters Showcase, International Artist magazine, Sydney, Australia, Dizionario Antologico e Critico Di Poeti, scrittori e artisti italiani contemporanei, edizioni Tigullio-Bacherontius, Turin, Italy

1997:
Il Volo Di Icaro Utopia, Edizioni Tigullio Bacherontius, Turin, Italy

1995:
José Pierre: In the Beginning – essay, Paris, 1995
1994: Constellations, Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton University (catalogue)

1990:
Ann Rosenberg: Feature and review: Tribal Dynamics, Vancouver Sun

1986:
Robert Linsley, review of Modern Ghosts, Vanguard Magazine.

1985:
Carol M. Cram: Gregg Simpson: Works of Excavation & Transference: Feature article in Terzoochio Magazine, Bologna, Italy, Carol M. Cram: New Mythologies/Inner Landscapes: West Coast Surrealists Revisited, feature article: Vie Des Arts Magazine, Montreal

1983:
José Pierre: L’Univers Surréaliste: Editions Somogy, Paris, France,
Dr. David Burnett: Contemporary Canadian Painting Edmonton

1982:
Elisabeth Topp: Gregg Simpson at Galerie Surrealiste, Artmagazine, Toronto

1980:
Scott MacKillop: West Coast Surrealists: feature review, Artmagazine, Toronto

1979:
Natalie Luckyj: Other Realities, The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art, (Catalogue essay, Queens University Press)

1973:
Joan Lowndes: Simpson’s Surrealistic Claws & Crescent Moons of Atlantis, (review of Claw Series at Galerie Allen, Vancouver Sun)

1972:
Canadian Artists in Exhibition, Volume 2, Roundstone Press, Toronto

1971:
Joan Lowndes: Surrealist Has Desert Mission: feature article, Vancouver Sun



Personal

Born: Ottawa, 1947. Moved to Vancouver at age 6 months.
Education: Vancouver School of Art (1965-67),
University of British Columbia. (1964-65)
Awards: Canada Council: 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976; 2003; Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 2000, 2001
Honorary Degree from the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Vercelli, Italy


Co-Exhibitors:
Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte, André Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Andre Masson.