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Angela Grauerholz (born January 10, 1952) is a German-born Canadian photographer, graphic designer and educator living in Montreal.




Biography


Grauerholz was born in Hamburg and completed studies in graphic design at the Kunstschule Alsterdamm there and studied literature and linguistics at the University of Hamburg. She came to Canada in 1976 and, with the help of a grant from the Canada Council, completed a MFA degree in photography at Concordia University. During the 1980s, she operated a graphic design studio, working on magazines, catalogues and books. In 1988, she began teaching graphic design at the Université du Québec à Montréal; in 2008, she became director of the Centre of Design there.
She was one of the founders of the Artexte Information Centre in 1980. She has digitized much of her own work as well as her personal archive of images from newspapers and other sources. She is represented by galleries in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Paris Grauerholz also holds the title of Professor Emerita at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).




Style


Her photographic work is distinguished by a hazy quality produced using long exposures and overlapping images. Her images of commonplace subjects take on a feeling of timelessness. Grauerholz continued to experiment, later incorporating the use of multiple images and sculpture into her installations.
Grauerholz' later work explores themes of unconscious experience and the passage of time. Notable projects, including her series of 16 notable women in the Montreal arts scene shot between 1984 and 1985, often eschew classic formal photographic 'rules' in favour of stylized portraiture. Grauerholz tends to prefer a multi-image series format, as opposed to singular images.




Exhibitions & Awards


She has exhibited her work at Canadian and international exhibitions such as La Biennale de Montreal in 2002, the Biennale of Sydney in 1990, Documenta 9 in Kassel in 1992 and the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh in 1995. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography presented a retrospective of her work in 2010. Grauerholz has also held solo shows at the Musée du Québec and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Grauerholz has received numerous awards for her work, including the Award of Excellence from the American Federation of Arts, the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts and received an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University in 2018.
Her work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Vancouver Art Gallery.




Exhibitions


2019: The Empty S(h)elf, Artexte, Montreal
2019: Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai
2016: Scotiabank Photography Award, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
2014: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
2012: Art 45, Montreal
2011: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
2011: Angela Grauerholz: the inexhaustible image...épuiser l'image, University of Toronto Art Center (UTAC), Toronto
2010: Angela Grauerholz: the inexhaustible image...épuiser l'image, National Gallery of Canada/Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), Ottawa
2010: McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton
2009: www.atworkandplay.ca, VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal
2008: Reading Room for the Working Artist, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, part of the exhibition Memory Palace (3 artists in the library) held between 2008 and 2009
2008: Ladder of Ascent and Descent, part of Aperture Banners, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
2008: Art 45, Montreal
2008: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
2006: Reading Room for the Working Artist, VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal
2004: Reading Room for the Working Artist, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
2003: Reading Room for the Working Artist + Privation, Blaffer Galley, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston
2002: Privation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2001: Privation, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
1999: Sentencia I - LXII, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York
1999: Sentencia I - LXII, The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto
1999: Sentencia I - LXII, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne
1999: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
1995: Angela Grauerholz, curator: Paulette Gagnon, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
1992: documenta 9, Kassel




Collections


Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
DG Bank, Frankfurt
Collection Bunderstag, Berlin
Museum of Fine Arts, Dole
Musée de Tourcoing, Tourcoing
FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain), France
FRAC (Fonds régional d'art contemporain), France
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Rare Books Library, McGill University, Montréal
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
McMaster Museum of Art (McMaster University), Hamilton
Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver




Awards


Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014)




References






External links


Official site
Photography in Canada, 1839 - 1989: An Illustrated History by Sarah Bassnett and Sarah Parsons from the Art Canada Institute.
"Online archive of digitized images".

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Angela Grauerholz
• William S. Burroughs
• List of Canadian women photographers
• Scotiabank Photography Award
• Anne Ramsden
• Documenta 9
• Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards
• Artexte Information Centre
• Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas
• List of recipients of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts