Artist/photographer and graphic designer, Angela Grauerholz has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada, the US, and Europe. She has participated in many international events of distinction including the Sydney Biennale (1990), documenta IX (1992), the Carnegie International (1995) and the Montréal Biennale (2004). She was awarded several prestigious prizes for her accomplishments in the arts, such as Québec’s Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006), the Canada Council’s Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014), and in 2015 the distinguished Scotiabank Photography Award (Toronto).
Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted by the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (1991), the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (1993), the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany (1993-95), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, the Power Plant, Toronto, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago (1999), the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2004), VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal (2006), The Ottawa Art Gallery (2007), and the Vancouver Public Library (2008). A survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (1995), travelled to several institutions in Canada, Germany and France (1995–96), and in 2010 the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, mounted a retrospective exhibition of her work, consequently shown at the University of Toronto Art Center in 2011. In conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award, the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto mounted another important survey exhibition (2016).
As Full Professor at the École de design at the Université du Québec in Montréal, she taught typography and photography from 1988 to 2017, where she also directed the Centre de design (2008- 2012). In 2019, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design awarded her an Honourable Doctorate of Letters.
photo credit: Martin Lipman
Exhibitions
- 2024
Winter Group Exhibition
202350th Anniversary Group Show
2022It's Not Fair
2022Instant Resemblances
2021Enchanted
2021Starting Over...Again
2020The New Normal
2018Angela Grauerholz Solo Exhibition 2018
2014Angela Grauerholz Solo Exhibition 2014
News Stories
- “ART + TYPO” by Angela Grauerholz and Robert Fones at UQAM Centre de design and VOX centre de l’image contemporaine
- Angela Grauerholz at Occurrence: Espace D’art et D’essai Contemporains
- Angela Grauerholz at Olga Korper Gallery
- Angela Grauerholz: A Disruptive Influence
- Angela Grauerholz | Scotiabank Photography Award
- Scotiabank Photography Award: Angela Grauerholz
- Angela Grauerholz Wins $50K Scotiabank Photo Award
- Concordian Angela Grauerholz is shortlisted for the $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award
Available Artworks
Musée Carnavalet-Bas de l’escalier 31 Rue de Sévigné (Paris), 2018
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, ed. of 5 45.5" x 65.5”
Musée Carnavalet- Salle No.36 Bouthiller de Chavigny (Paris), 2018
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, ed. of 5 45.5" x 65.5”
Musée Carnavalet, Salle No. 106 (Open Window), 2017
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, ed. of 5 48” x 68”
Musée Carnavalet- Salle No.128 Second Empire (Paris), 2018
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, ed. of 5 45.5” x 65.5”
The Glasshouse, 2014
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, ed. of 3 42.25” x 58.5”
Spiral Staircase, 2011
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, ed. of 3 65.25” x 45.25”
Homage to Atget (Tulleries Fountain), 2007/2008
Angela Grauerholzink jet print on Arches, ed. of 3 40” x 53”
Birdbath reverse Polaroid image, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 35" x 45"
Blackboard Carousel Couple in Venice, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" x 47"
Waiting Room Covering School Building, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" x 47"
Photoautomat Painting on Cinema Screen, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" x 47"
Restaurant Kitchen Window Mumbai, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 40" x 60"
Climbing Plant with Brown Leaves, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 27.5" x 24"
Quadriptychs No. 2 with scissors, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" x 61"
Quadriptychs No.1 with horse, 2022
Angela Grauerholzinkjet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" x 61"
House Front Restaurant Table, 2022
Angela Grauerholzink jet print on Arches paper, edition of 5 23" 43"