Gregg Simpson

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Expos Solo (Listing)

Selected Exhibitions:

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 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: A New Arcadia, Ontario Light and Art Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
Une Nouvelle Arcadie, Centre d'Affaires, Aéroport Nice-Côte d'Azur (solo)
Selected Drawings, 1978-1999, Galleria Assioma, Prato, Italy (solo)
2000: Dessins Selectionées, 1978-1999, Salle du Couvent, Seillans, France (solo)
A New Arcadia, paintings and pastels, The Fortezza di Montalcino, Italy (solo)
Phantoms of Light, digital art/pastels/paintings, Studio 10, Vercelli, Italy (solo)
1999: Recent Abstract Paintings, MacPherson Playhouse, Victoria, BC (solo)
- Land of Light, Plaskett Gallery, New Westminster, BC (solo)
- Continental Drift, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1998: Binario Vivo: Ambiente E Creativita Sulla Strada Ferrata - toured to 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 (group)
-Maldoror Park, Diversité Surréaliste: 1935-1995, Université de Montréal (group)
1997: Nicholas Joseph Fine Arts, New York (group)
-A New Arcadia, Oktavia Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
1996:-il Cielo Contaminato, Salone Dugentesco, Vercelli and Trento, Italy (group)
-Aprés Miro, Bennett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (solo)
-Artist as Photographer, Photographer as Artist, TECK Gallery, SFU (2 person)
-Dessin Automatiste 1945-95 ,College Camille Claudel, St.Quay Portrieux, France;
toured to Plœuc-sur-Lié, Brittany (group)
-Phases of Desire, CASE Gallery, Skidmore College, Saritoga Springs, NY (group)
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, Ottawa (group)
1994: Permanent Collection, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond (group)
-Classic Mode (photography) Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver (solo)
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)
1990: Artropolis 90, The Roundhouse, Vancouver (group)
1987: Savage, NeoArtism Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1986: Open Cages, 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
-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)
1980:-On Canvas, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (group)
-Insights, Simon Fraser University (group)
1979:-West Coast Surrealists & Paul Wunderlich, Bayard Gallery, Seattle (group)
-Hindenberg Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (group)
-WashArt '79,Washington, D.C. (group)
-Other Realities: The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art, Agnes Etherington
Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House, London, UK; Centre Culturel
Canadien, Paris, (group, curated by Natalie Luckyj)
-Paperworks: B.C. Government Collection, toured to Centre Culturel Canadien,
Paris, Canada House, London; Canadian Cultural Centre, Brussels (group)
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; (group)-
-Student Union Gallery, UBC, Vancouver (with Ted Kingan)
1975:-Pacific Rim Consciousness, Simon Fraser University Gallery (group)
1974:-Canadian West Coast Hermetics: McMaster University, Hamilton,
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario; (group)
1973:-Canadian West Coast Hermetics, (also curator); Fine Arts Gallery, UBC
-B.C.; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris Office 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)
-Paintings and Collages, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (solo)
-A City Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group)
-Divine Order of the Lodge Salon Avelles Gallery, Vancouver (group)
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)
-Kinetic & Light Sculpture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (group)
-Focus '69, Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (group)
-Bau-xi Gallery (three person with Pierre Coupey and Ron Wattier)
1968: Mandan Ghetto Gallery, Vancouver; (Group shows)
-UBC Graduate Centre (with Pierre Coupey & Ken Christopher)
-Spectrum '68 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (group)
1967: Mandan Company Presents Western Supplies: Bau-xi Gallery (group)

Feature articles, Academic Studies Catalogues and Anthologies:
2001:Academic monograph on the recent work of Gregg Simpson by Prof. A. Malmo,
Academia Tiberina, Rome
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
-The Idea of Surrealism in English Canada, Yves Laroque, PhD thesis, Sorbonne,
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 (catalogue)
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,
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