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Angela Grossmann
Angela Grossmann graduated from Emily Carr College (now University) of Art + Design in 1985. That year she was introduced as one of the Vancouver Art Gallery's "Young Romantic" painters most likely to influence the course of painting in that decade. After earning an MFA at Concordia University and teaching at Ottawa University, Grossmann returned to Vancouver in 1997 to paint and to teach at Emily Carr. She has exhibited widely across Canada, the United States and Europe and her work is in numerous public and private collections.

Grossmann has devoted much of her career to examining themes of displacement and social margins through the use of collaged and transferred discarded materials. In an early series titled Affaires d'Enfants (1987), she painted on the insides of suitcases abandoned by an agency in Paris that once sponsored summer camp holidays for orphans. In 1991, for an exhibition (Sign)ifying the END of the (Second) 2nd World War, she used photographs of unknown European children found in second-hand shops. Scapegoats (1994) was based on mug shots taken of prisoners in the British Columbia Penitentiary during the 1940s.

My Vocation (1999), presented the human figure graphically sketched and enlarged, using letters, photographs, addresses, envelopes, postage and cancellation marks. Alpha Girls (2004), Paper Dolls (2006) and Swagger (2007) addressed the emotional world of teen girls and boys and themes of social status, fashion and identity. In June 2006, she was included in a list of 100 artists who have most influenced students at eleven leading British art schools, including the Royal Academy, Slade and Royal College of Art. . Also in 2006, she joined forces once more with Douglas Coupland, Graham Gillmore, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root to create a massive sculptural installation entitled Vancouver School. Grossmann collaborates with this group on a regular basis for special projects.

Exhibitions

 * 2012 The Future is Female, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
 * 2011 Smaller Than Life, from the collection: Unreal, group exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
 * 2010 Three Thistles and Other Works, Galerie D'Este, Montreal, QC
 * 2007 Swagger, Diane Farris, Vancouver, BC
 * 2006 Paper Dolls, Diane Farris, Vancouver, BC
 * 2004 Alpha Girls, Diane Farris, Vancouver, BC