Angela Grauerholz
The work of artist/photographer and graphic designer Angela Grauerholz has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has participated in many international events of distinction including the Montréal Biennale (2004), the Carnegie International (1995), Documenta IX (1992) and the Sydney Biennale (1990). She was awarded a number of prestigious prizes for her accomplishments in the arts, such as the Canada Council’s Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014) and Québec’s Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006).
Amongst a selection of many solo exhibitions, her work was shown at Blouin | Division (2024), OCCURRENCE – Espace d’art et d’essai contemporains (2022), Artexte (2019), the Chennai Photo Biennale (Inde, 2019) and the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris, 2016). In 2010, the National Gallery of Canada in 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 also put together another important survey exhibition (2016).
As Full Professor at the École de design, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)—where she also directed the Centre de design (2008 to 2012)—she taught typography and photography from 1988 to 2017. In 2019, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters. [Source: VOX, 2025]
