Angela Grauerholz | |
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| Born | January 10, 1952 |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg Concordia University MFA (1976) |
| Awards | American Federation of Arts Award of Excellence Prix Paul-Emile-Borduas Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts |
| Website | Official website  |
Angela Grauerholz (born January 10, 1952) is a German-born Canadian photographer, graphic designer and educator living in Montreal.
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. [1] [2]
She was one of the founders of the Artexte Information Centre in 1980. [3] She has digitized much of her own work as well as her personal archive of images from newspapers and other sources. [4] She is represented by galleries in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Paris [2] [1] Grauerholz also holds the title of Professor Emerita at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). [3]
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. [3] 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. [3] Grauerholz tends to prefer a multi-image series format, as opposed to singular images. [3]
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. [5]
Grauerholz has received numerous awards for her work, including the Award of Excellence from the American Federation of Arts, [2] the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas [4] the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts [6] and received an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University in 2018. [7]
Her work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, [5] the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Vancouver Art Gallery. [8]
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