Academic Studies |
| 2019: Dream Gardens, Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France 2018: Pastel Journals, Gallery @ Cove Commons, Bowen Island, BC 2018: Shadow Talk, Artifact Gallery, New York 2018: Lost Worlds, Adelinda Allegretti Studio Gallery, Gualdo Tadino, Umbria, Italy 2017: Colour of Dreams, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy & Galerie Métanoïa, Paris, France 2015: Eye Candy, Loreta Larkina Gallery, Venice, Italy 2014: Perche Mode, Gallery @ Artisan Square, Bowen Island, BC 2013: The Luminous Dance, Rouges en Vert, Soligny-la-Trappe, France 2013: The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975, Fundacion-Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2012: The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975, Museu Municipal Dom Dinis, Estremoz; Regional Museum de Beja, Beja, Portugal 2011: Out of the Woods, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC 2010: Totems Personelles, Espace Kaméléon, Paris, France 2010: Dream Totems, Colorida Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2008: West Coast Mediterranean, The Gallery @ Artisan Square, Bowen Island, BC 2006: Selected Drawings, 1976-2006, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC 2005: Island Passages, The Gallery @ Artisan Square, Bowen Island, BC 2003: Selected Works 1999-2003, Bfly Atelier, Vancouver, Canada 2003: Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Salle des Artistes, Colomars, France 2003: Una Nuevo Arcadie, Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain 2001: Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Aérport Nice-Côte d’Azur, Nice, France 2001: Selected Drawings 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy 2001: A New Arcadia, Ontario Art and Light Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria 2000: Déssins Selectionées 1978-1999, Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France 2001: A New Arcadia, paintings and pastels, Fortezza di Montalcino, Italy 2001: Phantoms of Light, digital art/ pastels/ paintings, Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy 1996: Aprés Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC 1993: Lyric Landscapes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC 1991: Tribal Dynamics, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver. BC 1989: Waterfall Series, Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver, BC 1989: Western Patterns, Sinclair Centre (also Curator), Vancouver, BC 1989: The Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, BC 1988: Cellular Mosaics, Sinclair Centre, Vancouver, BC 1987: Modern Ghosts, Vancouver East Cultural Center, Vancouver, BC 1987: Savage, NeoArtism Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1986: Modern Ghosts, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC 1986: Paintings and Watercolours, New Westminster Art Center, New Westminster, BC 1986: Contemporary Living, Park Place, Vancouver, BC 1984: 12-Year Retrospective, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON 1984: Paintings from the 1980s, New Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 1982: Paintings and Collages, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto, ON 1982: Mixed Media Works, Forest City Gallery, London, ON 1981: Paintings and Mixed Media, Music Gallery, Toronto, ON 1981: Cellular Mosaics, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC 1979: A Survey of Paintings, Gallery Move, North Vancouver, BC 1979: Helix Series, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC 1975: Multi-Media Performance, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON 1974: Works from 1964-1974, Vancouver Artists’ Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1973: Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver, BC 1972: Paintings and collages, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC 1969: Normal Constants, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC |
| Co-Exhibitors - International Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Christo, Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Le Corbusier, Rik Lina, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Andy Warhol, Victor Vasarely, John Welson, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich. Co-Exhibitors – Canadian Leon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile Borduas, Kittie Bruneau, Marcel Ferron, Roland Giguerre, Pnina Granirer, 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 |
| 2019: Guangzhou Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China 2016: Spring in Rome 2016, Flyer Art Gallery, Rome 2016: ARS in Milan, Spaziarti art ungallery, Milan, Italy (group) 2016: Racconti di viaggio, Galleria Spazio 40, Rome, Italy (group) 2015: Galeria Zero, Berlin 2014: Cornucopia, Llianelli Library, Llianelli, Wales, UK (three person) 2013: Sentinelles, Espace Kaméléon, Paris, France (two person) 2012: Surrealism 2012, Goggle Art Centre, Reading, Pennsylvania (international survey show) 2011: Collaborations (with Rik Lina and John Welson), Bowen Island Art Centre, Bowen Island, BC 2010: Cross Connections: Four Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest, Legacy Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, (Works from the Coast Art Trust Collection) 2010: Momentum: 25 Artists From Past to Present, Leighdon Studio Gallery, Vancouver 2009: El Umbral Secreto: Ecuentro Internacional de Surrealismo Actual, Museo Soledad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile; toured to Valpraiso and Talca, Chile (international survey show) 2009: Exposiçäo de Surrealismo actual Illuminaçöes Descontinuas, Convento de S. Jose, Lagoa, Portugal 2009: S.A.M. 2009, Salle de l’Orangerie, Chateau d’Auvers, Auvers-sur-l’Oise, France (invitational survey show) 2009: Coast Art Trust, New and Recent Works, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC 2008: El Surrealismo como fenómeno colectivo, Fundacion- Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (show of the permanent collection) 2008: Reverso Do Olhar: Exposiçâo Internacional de Surréalismo Actual, Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal (international survey show) 2007: Gallery artists, Montserrat Gallery, New York 2007: Viagem a Arcturus, Um Postal Para Mario Cesariny, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz, Portugal 2006: Salzburg Art Fair (with Galeria d’arte Gaudi, Madrid), Salzburg, Austria 2006: Abstractions, with Amy Ernst & Jenny Davis, Carteret Gallery, Morehead City, NC 2006: Early Works from the Coast Art Trust Collection, North Vancouver Museum, North Vancouver, BC 2005: West Coast Surreal: A Canadian Perspective, Fundacion, Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2005: Abstractions et Figurations, Maison des Artistes, Château Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 2005: Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain 2004: Summer group exhibition, Art Domain, Port Andratx, Majorca, Spain 2003: Euloge du petit format, Christiane Puegeot Cultural Center, Paris (international survey) 2003: Convergency, Art-Domain.com Gallery, Port Andratx, Mallorca, Spain 2003: Abstra, Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain 2002: Europ’Art 2002, Palais des Expositions, Geneva, Switzerland 2002: Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain 2002: Inaugural Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Salona Barna, Barcelona, Spain 2002: West Coast Dreamers, Exhibition Centre, Harrison Hot Springs, BC 2002: Three Painters (with Richard Bond and John Haig), Evergreen Cultural Center, Coquitlam, BC 2001: Artropolis 2001, CBC Building, Vancouver, BC 2001: Gotcha! Digital Images, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC 1999: Continental Drift, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver 1998: Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata – toured Italy 1998: Art 98, Convention Centre, Vancouver (International Art Fair) 1998: Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy 1998: Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste, Université de Québec, Montréal (international survey show) 1997: Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA 1996: il Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy 1996: Dessin Automatique 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay, Portrieux and Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (international survey show) 1995: Vancouver: 1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery 1995: Dessin Automatiste 1945-95, Phases Group, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay, Portrieux, Brittany, France (international survey show) 1995: Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 1995: Currents, L’Atelier, Vancouver, BC 1994: Constellations: Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (international survey show) 1994: Permanent Collection, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC 1993: Three Vancouver Artists, Community Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver, BC (three person) 1992: Lumière du Jour/Lumière Noir, Galerie Lumière Noir, Montreal, Quebec (international survey) 1992: Head/Hunter/Simpson with Kevin Head and Miles Hunter, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver (three person) 1991: Rainforests of the Mind (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC 1991: Fertility Rites (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC 1991: Geometric Expressionism (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC 1991: Fantastic Visions (also Curator), Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC 1990: Artropolis 90, The Roundhouse, Vancouver 1986: Exposicao Internacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantástica, Teatro Iberico, Lisbon, Portugal (international survey show) 1986: Open Cages, Pitt International Gallery, 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 (international survey show) 1982: Melmoth Gallery, Vancouver 1981: Associations, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto 1980: West Coast Surrealists, Gallery Move, Vancouver 1980: On Canvas: Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver 1980: Insights, Preparatory works for On Canvas Exhibition Simon Fraser University Gallery 1980: Gallery Artists:, Gallery Move, Vancouver, BC 1979: West Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich: Bayard Gallery, Seattle, WA 1979: West Coast Surrealist Group, Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, MD 1979: WashArt ‘79, Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC 1979: Gallery Artists: Gallery Move, North Vancouver, BC 1979: Surrealism Unlimited, Conroy Maddox and Friends, Camden Arts Centre, London, England (international survey show) 1979: Other Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House, London, England; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France 1979: West Coast Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver 1977: From This Point of View, Vancouver Art Gallery 1977: West Coast Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver 1977: Paperworks, BC Government Collection, Canadian Cultural Centers: Paris, London, Brussels 1976: Pacific Rim Consciousness, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Bogota, Colombia 1975: Pacific Rim Consciousness, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC 1974: Canadian West Coast Hermetics, The Metaphysical Landscape, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; McIntosh Gallery, 1974: University of Western Ontario 1973: Canadian West Coast Hermetics, The Metaphysical Landscape: Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; Exhibition Centre; St. Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House; London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton; McIntosh Gallery (University of Western Ontario, London) 1972: The Private Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC 1972: Mythodromus, Avelles Gallery, Vancouver 1971: A City Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1971: Divine Order of the Lodge Salon: Avelles Gallery, Vancouver 1971: Vancouver School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC 1970: Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1970: Colour Optics, Bunaby Art Gallery (group) 1969: Kinetic & Light Sculpture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1969: Focus ‘69, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver 1969: Three Man Show, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, with Pierre Coupey and Ron Wattier 1968: Mandan Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver; Spectrum ‘68: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1968: UBC Graduate Centre with Pierre Coupey and Ken Christopher 1967: Mandan Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver |
| • Fundacion-Museo Eugenio F. Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Vancouver General/UBC Hospital Foundation, Vancouver • National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile • Museu Dom Dinis, Estremoz, Portugal • Lord Eastleigh Foundation, Monaco/Brussels • Evergreen Cultural Centre Gallery, Coquitlam, BC • University of Victoria, Victoria, BC • 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, Vancouver, BC • Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC • Edouard Jaguer, PHASES Collection, Paris • Michel P. Christensen, Toronto • Christian Petroleum Company, Vancouver • Zentel Corporation, Calgary • InterPro Contractors, Vancouver • Frank Lo, Lo Kit Loon, Hong Kong • Private collections in Canada, USA, Europe, the UK, Hong Kong, China, and Korea |
| Critical Writing, Reviews, Publications 2018: International Encyclopdia of Surrealism Bloomsbury Press, London, (three volume set) 2018: The Milkmaid, Leida Torck, Poems by Wijnand Steemers with collages by Gregg Simpson 2016: A Luz Dos Castelos Evidracados, (exhibition catalogue), Figueira da Foz, Portugal 2016: Sirenes, Phasm press, New York, story by Allan Graubard with Ink Drawings by Gregg Simpson 2015: A Phalla, Revista do Movimento Surrealista, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2015: Il surrealismo. leri oggi, Arturo Schwarz, Skira Publishers, Milan 2015: Essay on Eye Candy at Loreta larkina Gallery, Venice by Ives Celli. 2013: Open Letter, Surrealism in Canada, Gregory Betts, Brock University Press 2012: Derrame, L’edicion especial hommenage a Cruzeiro Seixas, Santiago, Chile 2011: Caleidoscopio Surrealista, Una visión del surrealismo internacional–1919/2011, Miguel Corrales 2011: Out of the Woods and into the Mind, catalogue essay by curator, Astrid Heyerdahl 2009: El Umbral Secreto, catalogue from Museo Solidad de Salvador Allende, Santiago 2008: O contrário do Olhar, catalogue from the Casa de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal 2005: West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective, Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue essay by Natalia Segarra) 2003: Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts, Nice Matin, Nice, France 2002: Artist Doesn’t Conform To Mold, Artists in Canada feature by Paul Constable. 2001: Highlights im Lichthaus, Tiroliner, Innsbruck, Austria 2001: Canadian Artist Expose a l’Aeroport de Nice, Le Petit Nicoise, Nice, France 2000: Janet Smith, Driven to Abstraction, feature article, Georgia Straight, Vancouver 2000: Gregg Simpson Expose, review of Dessins Selectionées, Seillans, Var-Matin 2000: A New Arcadia, photo and notices, International Herald Tribune, Milan, Italy. 2000: Gregg Simpson at Studio Dieci, L’Informaffare, Notzia Oggi, Vercelli, Italy 1999: Superiore Inconnu (feature page) edited by Sarane Alexandrian, Paris 1999: Master Painters Showcase, International Artist magazine, Sydney, Australia 1999: Dizionario Antologico e Critico Di Poeti, scrittori e artisti italiani contemporanei, edizioni Tigullio- Bacherontius, Turin, Italy 1997: Il Volo Di Icaro Utopia, tra sogno e realta quotidiana, Edizioni Tigullio- Bacherontius, Turin, Italy 1995: José Pierre: In the Beginning, Gregg Simpson, essay, Paris, 1995 1994: Constellations, Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton University 1990: Ann Rosenberg, Feature 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 1985: 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 1983: Dr. David Burnett, and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Painting, Hurtig Publishing, 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) 1979: The West Coast Surrealist Group, feature article by Gregg Simpson, Terzoochio Magazine, Bologna, Italy 1975: Les Peintres hermétiques de la Côte Ouest du Canada, feature article by Brad Collins, Vie des Arts, Montreal 1973: Joan Lowndes: Simpson’s Surrealistic Claws and Crescent Moons of Atlantis, feature article, Vancouver Sun 1972: Canadian Artists in Exhibition, Volume 2, Roundstone Press, Toronto 1971: Joan Lowndes: Surrealist Has Desert Mission: feature article, Vancouver Sun 1971: Richard Simmins, feature review of the Vancouver School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, (reproduced assemblages by Gregg Simpson), Vancouver Sun 1971: Joan Lowndes, review of the Vancouver School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Province 1969: Light Box sculpture mentioned in review of Intermedias, Victoria Art Gallery 1968: Review of Collage Exhibition, Mandan Ghetto by Maija Bismanis, Vancouver Sun |
| 2003: Canada Council Travel Grant for exhibitions in France and Spain. 2001: 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 2000: Academicien Correspondant of the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Accademia del Verbano, Vercelli, 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: Painting 1971: Canada Council Arts Bursary for Research in Europe 1968: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting |