GREGG SIMPSON         - Canada

Born: Ottawa, 1947. Grew up on the west coast.

Education:
Private lessons with Charles Stegman, West Vancouver, BC, 1963
Vancouver School of Art (1963-67)
University of British Columbia. (1964-65)

Selected Exhibitions

2018

 Shadow Talk, Artifact Gallery, New York (solo)
 and Lost Worlds, Adelinda Allegrtti Studio/Gallery, Gualdo Tadino, Italy, (solo).

2017

The Colour of Dreams, Arte Borgo, Rome and Galerie Metanoia, Paris (solo)

2016

Viaggio Interiore, Spazio 40, Rome (group)
ARS a Milano, Spaziarti Art Ungallery, Milan (group)
Spring in Rome, Flyer Gallery, Rome (group)
 
2015

Eye Candy (duo exhibition with Prienne), Loreta Larkina Gallery, Venice, Italy
Kunst 2015, Gallery Zero, Berlin
Asemic Writing, International Survey Exhibition, The Spiral, Birgu, Malta (group)

2014
Cornucopia (collective works with Rik Lina and John Welson), Llianelli Library, Llianelli, Wales, UK

2013
The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975, Fundacion-Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
-Sentinelles, Espace Kaméléon, Paris (with Guy Ducornet)
-The Luminous Dance, Rouges-en-Verts, Normandy (solo)

2012
The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975, Museu Dom Dinis, Estremoz, Portugal
-The Atlantean Years, 1970-1975, Museu Regional, Beja, Portugal (solo)
-Surrealism 2012, Goggle Art Centre, Reading, PA (international survey show)

2011
Out of the Forest, Evergreen Cultural Centre Gallery, Coquitlam, BC (solo)

2010
Totems Personelles, Espace Kameleon, Paris (solo)
-Dream Totems, Colorida Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
-Coast Art Trust: Momentum, Leighdon Gallery, Vancouver (group)
-Cross Connections: Four Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest, University of Victoria Maltwood Gallery, Victoria, BC (regional survey show)
 
2009: El Umbral Secreto, Museo Salvador Allende, Santiago, also Valparaiso and Talca, Chile (international survey show)
-Exposiçäo de Surrealismo actual Illuminaçöes Descontinuas, Lagoa, Portugal (touring international group show)
-S.A.M. 2009 Chateau d’Auvers, Auvers-sur-l’Oise, France (art fair)


2008:
O contrário do Olhar, Casa de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal (international survey show)
-West Coast Mediterranean, The Gallery at Artisan Square, Bowen Island, BC (solo)
-El Surrealismo como fenómeno colectivo, Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (group)

2007
Group exhibition, Montserrat Gallery, New York , USA
-Um Postal Para Mario Cesariny, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz, Portugal (international invitational show dedicated to the late Portugues artist, Mario Cesariny))

2006
Salzburg Art Fair (with Galeria d’arte Gaudi, Madrid), Salzburg, Austria
-Abstractions (with Amy Ernst), Carteret Gallery, Morehead City, North Carolina
-Selected Drawings 1976-2006, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC (solo)

2005
West Coast Surreal, Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (group)
-Abstractions et Figurations, Château Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (group)

2004
Contemporary Surrealism, Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain
-Summer Group exhibition, Art-Domain Gallery, Port Andratx, Mallorca

2003
Euloge du petit format, Christiane Puegeot Cultural Center, Paris (international survey show)
-Selected Works 1999-2003, Bfly Atelier, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
-Une Nouvelle Arcadie Salle des Artistes, Colomars, France (solo)
-Una Nuevo Arcadie, Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
-Convergency Art-Domain Gallery, Port Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (group)
Abstra, Akros Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (group)

2002
Europ’Art 2002 International Art Fair , Geneva, Switzerland
-Inaugural Exhibition, Grupo Batik Art, Salona Barna, Barcelona, Spain (group)

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

1998
Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata, Vercelli, Italy (touring show)
-Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy (group)
Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste, Université de Québec, Montréal (international survey)

1997
Selected Artists, Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA (group)

1996
il Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy (group)
-Aprés Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo)
-Dessin Automatique 1945-95 College Camille Claudel; St.Quay Portrieux
and Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (organized by PHASES, Paris) (international survey show)
-Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (group)

1995
Vancouver: 1965-75, Vancouver Art Gallery (group)
-Constellations, Surrealism and Its Affinities Carleton University, Ottawa (donation of the collection of Michel P. Christensen)

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)

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

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

1984
Retrospective: 1972-1984, Art Gallery of Algoma: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (solo)
-New Art Gallery, Toronto (solo)
1982
Recent Works, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (solo)
-Mixed Media Works, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario (solo)
-Arteder 82, Bilbao, Spain (international survey show)

1981
Associations, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (group)

1980
On Canvas, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (regional survey show)
-West Coast Surrealists, Gallery Move, Vancouver (solo)

1979
West Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich, Bayard Gallery, Seattle (group)
-West Coast Surrealist Group, Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (group)
-WashArt ’79,Washington, D.C. (art fair)
-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; Can. Cultural Centre, Brussels (national survey show)

1978
Surrealism Unlimited, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, (international survey show)

1977
From This Point Of View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (local survey show)
-West Coast Surrealist Group, Gallery Move, North Vancouver

1975
Pacific Rim Consciousness, SFU, Burnaby, BC ; University of Malaysia (group)

1973
Canadian West Coast Hermetics Fine Arts Gallery, UBC; Centree Culturel Canadien, Paris, Ste. Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House, London, UK; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; McMaster University; McIntosh Gallery, U. Western Ontario; (group)
-Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver (solo)

1972
The Private Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby (local survey show)
-Paintings and Collages, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (solo)
1971
Vancouver School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC (local survey show)


1970
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (group)
-Colour Optics: Burnaby Art Gallery (local survey show)

1969
Normal Constants, Simon Fraser University (solo)
-Intermedias, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (group)
-Focus ’69, Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (group)
-Three person exhibition, Bau-xi Gallery (with Pierre Coupey and Ron Wattier)

1968
Spectrum ’68   Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (local survey show)

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