Angela Grauerholz

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. 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)