Critical Writings, Reviews, and Publications
Critical Writings and Reviews
2013 – Open Letter, Surrealism in Canada, Gregory Betts, Brock University Press
2012 – Derrame, L’edicion especial hommenage a Cruzeiro Seixas, Santiago, Chile
2011 – Caleidoscopio Surrealista, Una visión del surrealismo internacional–1919/2011, Miguel Corrales
2011 – Out of the Woods and into the Mind, catalogue essay by curator, Astrid Heyerdahl
2009 – El Umbral Secreto, catalogue from Museo Solidad de Salvador Allende, Santiago
2008 – O contrário do Olhar, catalogue from the Casa de Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal
2005 – West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective, Museo Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue essay by Natalia Segarra)
2003 – Un Canadien expose Salle des Arts, Nice Matin, Nice, France
2002 – Artist Doesn’t Conform To Mold, ArtistsinCanada feature by Paul Constable.
2001 – Highlights im Lichthaus, Tiroliner, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 – Canadian Artist Expose a l’Aeroport de Nice, Le Petit Nicoise, Nice, France
2000 – Janet Smith, Driven to Abstraction, feature article, Georgia Straight, Vancouver
2000 – Gregg Simpson Expose, review of Dessins Selectionées, Seillans, Var-Matin
2000 – A New Arcadia, photo and notices, International Herald Tribune, Milan, Italy.
2000 – 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
1999 – 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, Gregg Simpson, 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
1985 – 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
1983 – Dr. David Burnett, and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Painting, Hurtig Publishing, Edmonton
1982 – Elisabeth Topp: Gregg Simpson at Galerie Surrealiste, Artmagazine, Toronto
1980 – Scott MacKillop: West Coast Surrealists: feature review, Artmagazine, Toronto
1979 – Natalie Luckyj: Other Realities, The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art (catalogue essay, Queens University Press)
1979 – The West Coast Surrealist Group, feature article by Gregg Simpson, Terzoochio Magazine, Bologna, Italy
1975 – Les Peintres hermétiques de la Côte Ouest du Canada, feature article by Brad Collins, Vie des Arts, Montreal
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
1971 – Richard Simmins, feature review of the Vancouver School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, (reproduced assemblages by Gregg Simpson), Vancouver Sun
1971 – Joan Lowndes, review of the Vancouver School of Collage, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver Province
1969 – Light Box sculpture mentioned in review of Intermedias, Victoria Art Gallery
1968 – Review of Collage Exhibition, Mandan Ghetto by Maija Bismanis, Vancouver Sun
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
Affiliations
Co-founder of Coast Art Trust Society, Vancouver, 2005-2011
West Coast Surrealist Group, 1977-2014
New Orchestra Workshop, 1977-2012
Intermedia, Vancouver, 1967-73
Co-Exhibitors - International
Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Christo, Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Le Corbusier, Rik Lina, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore,
Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Andy Warhol, Victor Vasarely, John Welson, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.
Co-Exhibitors - Canadian
Leon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile Borduas, Kittie Bruneau, Marcel Ferron, Roland Giguerre, Pnina Granirer, Don Jarvis, Jock MacDonald,
Guido Molinari, Alfred Pellan, Ivan Eyre, Jean Paul Riopelle, Toni Onley, William Ronald, Jack Shadbolt, Tony Urquhart, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace,
Joyce Weiland, Jack Wise, Alan Wood.