Gregg Simpson   Resume Born: Ottawa, 1947, grew up in Vancouver. Education: Vancouver School of Art (1965-67); University of B.C. (1964-65)     Selected Exhibitions: 1999: -Land of Light Plaskett Gallery, New Westminster, BC (solo) 1998: -Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata touring Italy: Treno Verde, Messina, Regio Calabria, Taranto, Potenza, Avellino, Roma, Imola, Monza, Belluno, Porenone, Macerata, Foligno, Orario. (group ) -Art 98, International Art Fair Vancouver (group) -Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy -Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste: 1935-1995 Centre d'Exposition,U.de Montréal, 1997: -Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York (group) -A New Arcadia, Oktavia Gallery, Vancouver (solo) 1996: -Cielo Contaminato Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy (group) -Aprés Miro Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo) -Cloisonnist Landscapes Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver (solo) -Artist as Photographer, Photographer as Artist TECK Gallery,SFU, Vancouver (2 man) -Dessin Automatiste 1945-95 College Camille Claudel, St.Quay Portrieux, France(group); Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (group) -Phases of Desire CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saritoga Springs, NY(group show organized in Paris) 1995: -Figurations Torres Gallery, Vancouver (solo) -Currents L’Atelier, Vancouver (group) -Vancouver: 1965-75 Vancouver Art Gallery, (group) -Constellations: Surrealism and Its Affinities Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (group show including works by Miro, Arp, Moore, Matta, Magritte, Dali, Man Ray Bellmer, Pellan, Riopelle, etc.) 1994: -Permanent Collection Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond (group) -Classic Mode – (photography) Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver (solo) 1993: -Lyric Landscapes Richmond Art Gallery (solo) -Field Works Community Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver (three person) 1992: -Lumière du Jour/Lumière Noir Galerie Lumière Noir, Montreal/Quebec (group) 1991: -Tribal Dynamics Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver (solo) -Rainforests of the Mind; Fertility Rites; Geometric Expressionism;Fantastic Visions, Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver, BC (group -also curator) 1990: -Artropolis 90 The Roundhouse, Vancouver (group) 1989: -Western Patterns Sinclair Centre, Vancouver (group - also Curator) 1988: -Cellular Mosaics Sinclair Centre, Vancouver (solo) 1987: -Savage, NeoArtism Gallery, Vancouver (group) -Modern Ghosts, Vancouver East Cultural Centre (solo) 1986: -Open Cages Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver; 1986 (group) -Modern Ghosts, Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC; (solo) -Exposicao Internacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantástica Teatro Iberico, Lisbon, 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: -Paintings and Mixed Media Works Music Gallery, Toronto (solo) -Associations , Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (group) -Cellular Mosaics Gallery Move, Vancouver (solo) 1980: -On Canvas Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (group) -Insights, Simon Fraser University (group) -West Coast Surrealists Gallery Move, Vancouver (group) 1979: -West Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich Bayard Gallery, Seattle (group) -Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (group) -WashArt ’79 Washington, D.C. (group) -A Survey of Paintings, Gallery Move, North Vancouver -Other Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House, London, UK; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France (group show included. Borduas, Jock MacDonald, Pellan, Ivan Eyre, Gerald Squires, Gathie Falk and others) -Paperworks: B.C. Government Collection Canadian Cultural Centers:Paris, London, Brussels (group) -Helix Series Gallery Move, North Vancouver (solo) 1978: - Surrealism Unlimited Camden Arts Centre, London, England (group) 1977: -From This Point Of View Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group) -West Coast Surrealists , Gallery Move, North Vancouver (group) 1976 -Pacific Rim Consciousness University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Bogota, Colombia (group) -Video and performance Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (solo) -Student Union Gallery, UBC, Vancouver (with Ted Kingan ) 1975: -Pacific Rim Consciousness Simon Fraser University Gallery (group) 1974: -Retrospective 1964-1974, Vancouver Artists’ Gallery, Vancouver (solo) -Canadian West Coast Hermetics: McMaster University, Hamilton, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario; (group) 1973: -Canadian West Coast Hermetics Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C.; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris (also curator); 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) -Mythodromus Avelles Gallery, Vancouver (group) -Paintings and Collages Open Space Gallery, Victoria (solo) -Vancouver School of Collage Fine Arts Gallery, UBC (group) -A City Collects: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; (group) -Divine Order of the Lodge Salon Avelles Gallery, Vancouver (group) 1970: -Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (group) -Colour Optics: Burnaby Art Gallery (group) 1969: -Normal Constants Simon Frser University (solo) -Kinetic & Light Sculpture Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (group) -Focus ’69 Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (group) -Pandora’s Box Gallery Victoria (with Don Harvey) Bau-xi Gallery, 1968: -Group shows, Mandan Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver; -UBC Graduate Centre (with Pierre Coupey & Ken Christopher) -Spectrum ’68 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group) 1967: -Mandan Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (group) Feature articles, Academic Studies Catalogues and Anthologies 1999: -Master Painters Showcase, International Artist magazine, Sydney, Australia - Feature article by Sarane Alexandrian, Superiore Inconnu, Paris -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, Vercelli Italy -The Idea of Surrealism in English Canada, Yves Laroque, PhD thesis for the Sorbonne, Paris. Currently on-line at: http://www.cyberus.ca/~icscis/thesis.html 1995: -José Pierre: In the Beginning -introductory monograph written in Paris for colour brochure: Recent Work 1990-1995 -Feature article for Figurations at the Torres Gallery, Peter Wilson, Vancouver Sun 1994: -Constellations, Surrealism and Its Affinities, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa catalogue 1991: -Mia Johnson Introduction to Tribal Dynamics - Preview Magazine, Vancouver 1990: -Ann Rosenberg: Feature and review: Tribal Dynamics, Vancouver Sun 1988: -Alex Varty: Other Worlds, feature article, Vancouver Magazine 1986: -Rob Linsley, review of Modern Ghosts, Vanguard Magazine, - Jill Pollack: review of Modern Ghosts, The Courier, Richmond, BC -Aristede Gazetas: review of Modern Ghosts, Richmond Times, Richmond, BC 1985: -Carol M. Cram: Gregg Simpson: Works of Excavation & Transference: Feature Article: Terzoochio Magazine, Bologna, Italy. -Carol M. Cram: New Mythologies/Inner Landscapes: West Coast Surrealists Revisited, feature article: Vie Des Arts Magazine, Montreal Catalogue for Exposicao Internacional Surrealismo e PinturaFantástica, Teatro Iberico, Lisbon, Portugal 1983: -Dr. David Burnett: Contemporary Canadian Painting Edmonton José Pierre: L’Univers Surrealiste: Editions Somogy, Paris, France 1982: -Elisabeth Topp: Gregg Simpson at Galerie Surrealiste, Artmagazine, Toronto, 1981: - José Pierre: Surrealism in Canada: SNCRF Research Bulletin, Paris, France 1980: -Scott MacKillop: West Coast Surrealists: feature review, ArtMagazine, Toronto 1977: -From This Point of View: Vancouver Art Gallery, (catalogue) 1973: -Joan Lowndes: Simpson’s Surrealistic Claws & Crescent Moons of Atlantis, feature review of Claw Series at Galerie Allen, Vancouver Sun -Catalogue essay for Canadian West Coast Hermetics, Talon Press, Vancouver 1972: -Canadian Artists in Exhibition, Volume 2, Roundstone Press, Toronto 1971: - Joan Lowndes: Surrealist Has Desert Mission: feature article, Vancouver Sun Gregg Simpson 2232 Dollarton Hwy. North Vancouver, BC Canada V7H 1A8 (604)-929-6621 Email: gsimpson@direct.ca Gregg Simpson, painter and musician, has been exhibiting and performing since the mid-1960s including over sixteen exhibitions in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Article: ART RAGE Articles are copyrighted© to their respective owners Copyright © 2000 - present International Fine Art Journal For Social Change. All Rights Reserved. Index