"Please join us for the 54nd annual ARLIS/NA Convocation & Awards Ceremony. Our convocation keynote speaker will be the renowned artist Angela Graurholz.
Artist/photographer and graphic designer Angela Grauerholz has been living and working in Montreal since 1976. She was a founding member of ARTEXTE and has worked as a designer for art magazines, museums and artists throughout the 80s. 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 in Vancouver awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, and more recently, UQAM bestowed upon her the title of Professor Emerita.
Her artistic work has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada, the United States, 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 a number of 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).
Amongst a selection of many solo exhibitions, her work was shown at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, (Münster, 1991), the MIT List Visual Arts Center, (Cambridge, MA, 1993), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, 1999), the Power Plant (Toronto, 1999), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College (Chicago, 1999), the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2004), VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal (2006), and the Vancouver Public Library (2008). Angela Grauerholz (photographies 1990 – 1995), a survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1995, travelled to several institutions in Canada, Germany, Swizerland, and France (1995-96). 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).
L'artiste/photographe et graphiste Angela Grauerholz vit et travaille à Montréal depuis 1976. Elle a été membre fondatrice d'ARTEXTE et a travaillé comme graphiste pour des magazines d'art, des musées et des artistes tout au long des années 80. Professeure titulaire à l'École de design de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), où elle a également dirigé le Centre de design (de 2008 à 2012), elle a enseigné la typographie et la photographie de 1988 à 2017. En 2019, l'Université d'art et de design Emily Carr lui a décerné un doctorat honorifique en lettres, et plus récemment, l'UQAM lui a conféré le titre d'émérite.
Son travail artistique a été largement exposé et collectionné au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Elle a participé à de nombreux événements internationaux prestigieux, notamment la Biennale de Sydney (1990), la Documenta IX (1992), la Carnegie International (1995) et la Biennale de Montréal (2004). Elle a reçu plusieurs prix prestigieux pour ses réalisations dans le domaine des arts, tels que le Prix Paul-Émile Borduas du Québec (2006), le Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et médiatiques du Conseil des Arts du Canada (2014) et, en 2015, le prestigieux Prix Scotiabank de la photographie (Toronto)."
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