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Born in Ottawa in 1947, Gregg Simpson’s art has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and South America. His work is included in over 100 private and public collections internationally. In May, 2000 he had a solo exhibition in a castle in Italy which became the subject of a BRAVO TV television documentary, A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg Simpson, which also details his musical background and work in the hey day of Vancouver's multimedia scene in the 1960's.

Simpson works in the tradition of abstract surrealism. His paintings combine automatism with elements of landscape and the figure. They are improvised from simple charcoal outlines combined with the direct application of paint onto raw canvas. The meaning of the forms he creates changes with each viewer.

Website: www.greggsimpson.com

Education: Vancouver School of Art (1963-67) University of British Columbia. (1964-65)

Selected Exhibitions: 2012: Surrealism in 2012, Towards the World of the Fifth Sun, Goggle Art Centre, Reading, PA (group) 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) Momentum, Leighdon Gallery, Vancouver (group) -Cross Connections: Four Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest University of Victoria Maltwood Gallery, Victoria, BC (group) 2009: El Umbral Secreto, Museo Solidad de Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile (group) Exposiçäo de Surrealismo actual Illuminaçöes Descontinuas, Lagoa, Portugal (group) S.A.M. 2009 Chateau d’Auvers, Auvers-sur-l’Oise, France (group) 2008: O contrário do Olhar, Casa de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal (group) 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 (group) 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) 2003: Euloge du petit format, Christiane Puegeot Cultural Center, Paris (group) 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.com 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 Ontario Art and Light 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 - toured Italy, (group) -Electrica Mente (digital art), Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy (group) -Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste, Université de Québec, Montréal (group) 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 Automatiste 1945-95, College Camille Claudel; St.Quay Portrieux and Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (organized by PHASES, Paris) (group) -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 (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) 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(group) 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 (group) 1981: Associations, Galerie Surrealiste, Toronto (group) 1980: On Canvas, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (group) 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 (group) 1978: Surrealism Unlimited  Camden Arts Centre, London, England (group) 1977: From This Point Of View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group) 1975: Pacific Rim Consciousness, SFU, Burnaby, BC ; University of Malaysia (group) 1973: Canadian West Coast Hermetics, UBC; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; Ste.Brieuc, Brittany; Canada House, London, UK; Palais des Beaux-arts,Charleroi Belgium; McMaster University, Art Gallery Hamilton, Ontario; McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London. Ontario (group) -Claw Series, Galerie Allen, Vancouver (solo) 1972: The Private Patron, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby (group) -Paintings and Collages, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (solo) 1971: Vancouver School of Collage, Fine Arts Gallery, UBC (group) 1970: Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (group) -Colour Optics: Burnaby Art Gallery (group) 1969: Normal Constants, Simon Fraser University (solo) -Intermedias, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (group) -Focus ’69, Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (group) -Three person exhibition (with Pierre Coupey and Ron Wattier) 1968: Spectrum ’68  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group) 1967: Mandan Company Presents Western Supplies, Bau-xi Gallery, (group)

Academic Studies: 2005: Surrealism and Mediology in English Canada, Université J.V. Picardie, Amiens, Prof. Yves Laroque 2001: Essay on the New Arcadia Series, Prof. Antonio Malmo, Accademia Tiberina, Rome, Italy 1996: The Idea of Surrealism in English Canada, Prof. Yves Laroque, Sorbonne, Paris 1981: José Pierre: Surrealism in Canada, Université Rabelais de Tours, France

Books, Periodicals, Reviews, Catalogues: 2011: Caleidoscopio Surrealista, Una visión del surrealismo internacional-1919/2011, Miguel Corrales 2010: Momentum, catalogue, Coast Art Trust 2009: El Umbral Secreto, catalogue, Museo Solidad de Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile 2008: O contrário do Olhar, catalogue, Casa de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal 2007: Um Postal Para Mario Cesariny, catalogue, Museu Vermhelho, Estremoz, Portugal 2005: West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective, Museo Granell, Santiago de     Compostela, Spain (catalogue essay by the director, Natalia Segarra) 2003: Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts, Nice Matin, Nice, France 2001: Highlights im Lichthaus, Tiroliner, Innsbruck, Austria Canadian Artist Expose a l'Aeroport de Nice, Le Petit Nicoise, Nice, France 2000: Janet Smith, Driven to Abstraction, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver Gregg Simpson Expose, review of Dessins Selectionées, Seillans, Var-Matin, A New Arcadia, photo and notices, International Herald Tribune, Milan, Italy. Gregg Simpson at Studio Dieci, L'Informaffare, Notzia Oggi, Vercelli, Italy 1999: Superiore Inconnu (feature page) 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, tra sogno e realta quotidiana, 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 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, 1979: Natalie Luckyj: Other Realities, The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art (Catalogue essay, Queens University Press) 1980: Scott MacKillop: West Coast Surrealists: feature review, Artmagazine, Toronto 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

Collections: Lord Eastleigh Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium / Museo Solidad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile / Museu Vermhelo, Estremoz, Portugal / Fundacion Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain / Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC / Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario / Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario / Carleton University Art Gallery; Ottawa / BC Government Collection, Victoria, BC / City of Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver /Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC / Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC Evergreen Cultural Centre Gallery, Coquitlam, BC

Awards: 2003: Canada Council Travel Grant for solo exhibitions in Spain and France 2001: Named Academicien Correspondant, by the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino (Accadsemia del Verbano di Lettere Art, Scienze,) Vercelli, Italy Department. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: solo shows in Italy, Austria and France 2000: Department. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: solo shows in France and Italy 1993: North Shore Arts Commission: Public Art Project, North Vancouver, BC 1976: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Video 1972: Canada Council Materials Grant: Painting 1971: Canada Council Arts Bursary: Painting & Research in Europe 1968: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting