ANTONIETTA GRASSI IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2024 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
AWARDED BY THE JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
EDUCATION
1995- 1997 Master of Fine Arts, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC
1990-1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming
Au Fils du Temps/Threads in Time, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, QC (curator Frédérique Renaud)
Making Order: Project: ARTspace , New York, New York
2023 Chroma Code, (Project for Pictura Montréal Biennale), Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2022 Zip Stack Flow, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2021 Lifelines Extended, Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON (catalogue)
2021 Off Line, Ronewa Projects, Berlin , Germany
2020 Lifelines, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2020 Hand Woven Memories, The Portable Museum Project, Virtual Exhibition, NY
2019 Contemplation for Obsolete Objects: Postscript, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB
2018 Contemplation for Obsolete Objects, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 Architectonica, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, QC (curated by Céline LeMerlus)
2017 Flatpack, Galerie R3, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC
2017 Contained Chance, Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal, QC
2017 Unfolding: Artcite, Windsor, ON
2017 Antonietta Grassi, Art-Image, Espace Odyssée, Gatineau, QC
2016 Antonietta Grassi: Works on Paper, The Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer, Canada
2015 Antonietta Grassi « Twitch » Centre d’exposition du Vieux Presbytère, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC
2014 Deliberate Apertures and Accidental Enclosures, Côte Saint-Luc Public Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
2011 Rococo, McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC (curated by Victoria LeBlanc)
2009 Langscapes, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2005 Mots Perdus, Galerie Esthésio, Québec, QC (curated by Maude Lévesque)
2003 Babble, Galerie Esthésio, Québec, QC (curated by Maude Lévesque)
2002 Babble (and other coded language), Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montreal, QC
2002 Astrazione Referenziale, Galeria d’arte contemporanea San Giorgio, Naples, Italy
1999 Painting dot com, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1999 Wave, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 Scar Calendar, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997 Projet cicatrices( suite), Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1997 Projet cicatrices, Galerie Clark, Montréal, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming (2025)
Caroline Monnet, Antonietta Grassi, Carolina Reis, Cambridge Art Galleries, Cambridge, ON (curator Alix Voz)
2024 SightLine Tajectories, University of Miami Art Gallery, Florida, USA (curated by Emily McKibbon)
2024 The Theory Of Networks, Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montreal, QC
2023 Art Toronto, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2023 Plural, Grand Quai du Port de Montréal, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2022 Transobjectional: From the Handmade to the Digital, Patrick Mikhail, Montreal, QC
2022 Contemporary Color, Site Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Chloé Wyma)
2022 15th Fine Arts Faculty Biennial, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2021 “Connecting Minds Creating the Future”, Canadian Pavilion International Expo Dubai, UAE, Dubai
2021 CLADOGRAM, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA (curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui)
2021, Papier 2021, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2020 Pictura Montréal: HOTSPOTS, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2020 La Giusta Distanza, Museo MAACK, Molise, Italy (curated by Masimo Palumbo)
2019 Structures of Power, Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montreal, QC
2019 The Drawing Show, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON (curated by Carla Garnet)
2019 Papier 19, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2018 Papier 2018, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2018 Drawing, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2018 Finum Aestatis, Galerie Patrick Mikhail, Montreal, QC
2018 UnCommon, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2018 Change Agent, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal , Canada
2018 Winter, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A
2017 Atelier Secret, Galerie McClure, Montreal, QC (curated by Victoria LeBlanc)
2017 Winter, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY
2016 Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Heather Bhandari)
2016 Festival Chromatic, 7th edition, Montreal, QC (curated by Marie Pierre Tessier de l’Etoile)
2016 Musée à ciel ouvert de Saint-Lambert, Ville de Saint-Lambert, Saint-Lambert, Canada
2016 Massivart, Chromatic, Montréal, Canada
2016 Weekend en lumière, Showfrette, Ville de Beloeil, Canada
2015 Monolithic, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (curated by Jason Franz)
2015 High Water, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA (curated)
2015 Nord Art 2015, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany (curated by Wolfgang Gramm)
2015 The Drawing Show, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 Élévation, Festival Chromatic 6th edition, Montréal, QC (curated by Raphaëlle Cormier)
2015 Massivart, Chromatic, Montréal, Canada
2014 The View from Over Here, Crossing Art, Queens, NY
2014 Festival Chromatic, Montreal, QC (curated by Raphaëlle Cormier)
2014 11th Fine Arts Faculty Biennial, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2014 Massivart, Chromatic, Montréal, Canada
2014 Découvrir/Emballer, L’Artothèque, Montréal, Canada
2013 This Is Water, Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, VT (curated by Mia Fereleto
2013 LA) Art Show, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Palm Springs Art Fair, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 New acquisitions, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, QC
2012 10th Fine Arts Faculty Biennial, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2011 Dawson Bienale, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2010 Kalenarte, Museo Civico di Molise, Casacalende, Italy
2010 Fine Arts Faculty Biennial 9, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2008 Le Collège comme lieu de création, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montreal, QC (curated by Julianna Joos)
2008 Fine Arts Faculty Biennial 8, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2006 Opère Nouve, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Franco Libertucci, Molise, Italie (curated by Massimo Palumbo)
2006 Fine Arts Faculty Biennial 7, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2005 L’Abstraction: une manière de voir, Centre national d’exposition Saguenay, Jonquière, QC (curated by Michel Martin)
2004 Terra Tremante, Museo MAACK Kalenarte, Molise, Italie (curated by Anna Carlevaris
2004 L’Abstraction: une manière de voir, Centre d’exposition Val-D’or, Val d’or, QC (curated by Michel Martin)
2003 Gallery Artists, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2003 Post Scriptum, Galerie Esthesio, Québec City, Canada
2003 La Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’arts - Nouvelles acquisitions, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec City, Canada
2002 Group Show, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 Hommage to Yves Gaucher, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2002 L’Abstraction : une manière de voir, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec.
2001 D. Blatherwick, A. Grassi, F. Sullivan, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
2001 Paysage, Galerie René Bouin / Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
2000 La cathédrale engloutie, Galerie René Blouin / Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1999 Les Peintures, Galerie René Blouin /Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1999 Peintures de genres (masculin/féminin) L’actualité de la peinture abstraite au Québec, dans le cadre du Printemps du Québec en France, Centre d’échange de Perrache, Lyon, France
1999 Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1998 Peinture Peinture, Édifice Belgo, Montréal, Canada
1998 Untitled, ARTCORE Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 The Conscious Feminine, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
1997 The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, U.S.A.
1997 Abstraction, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, U.S.A.
1997 La Grande Virée 1997, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal, Canada
1996 Holocaust Commemorative, Joseph D.Carrier Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996 Made, Quartier Éphemère, Montréal, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, QC
Musee d’arts contemporains de Baie Saint Paul, Baie Saint Paul, QC
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Montreal Quebec
Ontario Archives Art Collection, Toronto, ON
Capital One (MIT office), Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Groupe Desjardins, Québec
Global Affairs Visual Art Collection
Groupe Desjardins, Corporate Collection
Canadian Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia
Canadian Embassy in Dubai, UAE
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, QC
Yamana Gold, Toronto, ON
Muse Entertainment, Québec
MAACK Kalenarte Museo all’Aperto d’Arte Contemporanea, Molise, Italy
Boston Public Library, Permanent Collection
Galerie d’Art Stewart Hall, City of Pointe Claire, Permanent Collection
Yamana Gold, Corporate Collection
Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec, La Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’arts
Museo Civico Di Molise, Molise, Italy, Permanent Collection
Private and Corporate Collections in Canada, United States, Italy, France
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024. Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2024 Research and Creation Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2024 Arts Abroad Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2022 Research and Creation Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2022 Publication Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2021 Commissioned public artwork for the CALQ Head Office, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, Québec
2021 Art Commission Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2021 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2019 Mass MoCA Residency Fellowship, Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 Shortlisted Artist for four Public Arts Projects, Culture et communication du Québec, Intégration des Arts à l’ architecture ( 1% Public Art Program)
2018 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 A Grant, (Visual Arts project grant), Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2014 Jury prize, Queens Library Foundation, Queens, NY
2014 Vermont Studio Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, VT
2014 Culture et communication du Québec, Accepted to the public art program “Intégration des arts à l’architecture”
2007 A Grant, (research and creation), Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2005 B Grant, (research and creation), Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2004 Travel Grant (Italy), Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2004 Travel Grant (Italy), Canada Council for the Arts
2002 B Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
2002 Travel Grant (Italy), Canada Council for the Arts
2002 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
1999 Travel Grant (France), Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
1999 B Grant (visual arts), Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Banff Artist Residency Grant, Women and Paint, The Banff Centre for the Arts
1998 Travel Grant (Vancouver), Canada Council for the Arts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Clement Éric, La Presse, Dans L’atelier D’Antonietta Grassi, 2 décembre
2023 Mattera, Joanne, Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Experience, Well-Fed Artist Press, New York
2023 Kierander Trevor, Pictura Montréal, 2nd Edition exhibition catalogue
2022 Pasquareli Richard, Whitehot Magazine, Interview With Antonietta Grassi, DEC.2022
2021 Beattie, Amanda, “(Re)Voir la peinture/(Re)Seeing Painting, Revue Esse, Spring issue
2021 *Letarte Marie-Ann, “Pictura : Pleins feux sur la peinture montréalaise”, Revue L’inconvénient: littérature, art, et société, no.83,
2021 Catalogue, Amanda Beattie, Antonietta Grassi; Lifelines Extended, Ottawa Art Gallery at City Hall Canada
2020 *Osterweil, Ara, “Critic’s Pick”, ARTFORUM, November
2020 Catalogue, Kieriander, Trevor, Pictura, Painting in Montreal’s Image, Quebec,
2019 Sorell, Lyndsey, “Antonietta Grassi at at Harcourt House in Edmonton”, Akimbo.ca, Feb.
2019 Novak, Chelsea, Montreal Artist Antonietta Grassi shares her Inspiration for Edmonton Exhibit, Dazed Magazine , March
2018 Lheureux, Charlotte, L’Obsolescence en suspens, Vie Des Arts (Actualité des Arts Visuels)
2017 Issu.com, New Paintings, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts.
2016 Catalogue, Inda 10 – 10th International Drawing Annual, Manifest, ‘Works of Recent Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Gallery.
2016 Catalogue , Musée à ciel ouvert de Saint-Lambert.
2015 Ledoux, Julie, “Vue surélevée”, Le Journal Voir, Montréal May 22.
2015 Clément, Éric, “Une Montagne de créativité”, La Presse May 4.
2015 Esteban, Lara, Festival Chromatic 2015, Art-facto, May.
2015 Kunstwerk Carlshutte, NordArt 2015 catalogue
2014 Scileppi, Tammy, ”Crossing Art Gallery Teams with Queens Library Foundation to Show Diversity Through Art”, Times Ledger, New York, December 3.
2014 Massivart / Chromatic Catalog (5e édition), p.21.
2014 Gagnaire, Anne, “Créer des liens entre l’art et les affaires”, Les Affaires ,Cover, April 12.
2013 Santore, Marcia, “This Is Water; Water As Art And Medium” , Artscope, September/October.
2013 This is Water Exhibit, The Vermont Journal September 8.
2005 Bois, Michel, “Antonietta Grassi; Entendre la Peinture”, Le Soleil May 28.
2003 Cote, Nathalie, Voir, Babble (and other coded language), March 20.
2002 Lehman, Henry. “A Fitting Tribute”, Montréal Gazette p.13, July 20.
2002 Lamarche, Bernard. “L’Aire du vide: hommage à Yves Gaucher”, Le Devoir p.D5, July 27.
2002 Delgado, Jerome, La Presse, Le legs de Gaucher, p.D12, July 27.
2002 Christine Redfern, “Honouring Yves Gaucher”, Montréal Mirror p.38, July 18.
2002 Zimmerman Brendel, Maria, “Antonietta Grassi Fugacious Notations: Babble (and other coded language)“, ETC. Montréal May/June.
2001 Lehman, Henry “Landscape Artists Explore Land of Metaphor”, Montréal Gazette August 4.
2001 David Elliot, Hommage à Yves Gaucher, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University.
2001 Mavrikakis, Nicolas, “Paysages artistique Québecois,” Voir July 26.
2001 Swoboda, Victor, “Young at Art: For today’s young artists bohemianism is out long hours in the studio are in”, Montréal Gazette February 9.
2001 Lamarche, Bernard.” La disparition des motifs”, Le Devoir, July 2.
2000 “La Cathédrale Englouti”, Canadian Art , Summer.
1999 Lyne Crevier, “Bruissement de papier”, Ici Montréal , February 8.
1998 Stephanie Bérubé, “Grande fete de la peinture abstraite au Québec”, La Presse, June 6.
1998 Renzetti, Elizabeth, “Davide Pan, Antonietta Grassi and Otino Corsano” Eyetalian Magazine, p.36, Winter.
1998 Brancato, Dario, “Le opere di tre italocanadesei a Yorkville” Corriere Canadese, Jan. 15.
1996 Stephan Aquin , “Made” , Journal Voir August 15.
1996 Gillian MacKay, “Children’s Holocaust graffiti inspires artist’s paintings”, The Globe and Mail November 23.
1996 Nathalie –Roze Fischer, “Holocaust Exhibit Potent and Subtle”, NOW (Toronto), November14.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCE
2024 Artist Residency, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2023 Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
2022 Artist Residency, Centre SAGAMIE, Alma, Quebec
2021 Artist Residency, Symposium International d’art contemporain Baie- Saint – Paul
2021 Artist talk, Ottawa Art Gallery at City Hall, Ottawa, Canada
2020 Guest Speaker, Concordia University, Studio Arts
2019 Lecture, MAC Séminarts ( Musée d’arts contemporains Montréal)
2019 Lecture, Harcourt House , Edmonton, Canada
2017 Lecture, Galerie d’Art Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire, Quebec
2017 Lecture, Galerie R3, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada
2016 CHUO-FM89, Interview with Mitchell Caplan, April 20, 2016
2016 Lecture, Art-Image, Espace Odyssée, Gatineau, Canada
2015 Lecture, Massivart, Chromatic 6th edition, Montréal, Canada
2015 Lecture, Centre d’exposition du Vieux Presbytère, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada
2014 Art around the World, Colliding Worlds, webcast interview hosted by Angela Romeo, Palm Springs Art Fair
2014 Lecture, Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada
2013 Lecture, Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art, Chester , Vermont, U.S.A.
2013 Lecture, McClure Gallery, Montréal , Canada
2004 Lecture, Museo Civico di Molise, Italy (invitation)
2001 Lecture, UAAC Conference (Universities Art Association of Canada), Montréal, Canada
2000 Television Interview “D, Musique Plus”, March 2000
1998 Lecture, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Women and Paint Residency, Banff, Canada
1998 Lecture, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 Artist Rsidency , ISCP, Brooklyn New York, USA
2023 Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
2022 Artist Residency, Centre SAGAMIE, Alma, QC
2021 Artist Residency, Symposium International d’arts contemporains Baie Saint Paul, Québec, QC
2019 Artist Residency ( alumni invitation), Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2018 Artist Residency, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA USA
2014 Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, VT, USA
1998 The Banff Centre for the Arts (Theme: Women and Paint), Banff, BC
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2022 Selected Artist, Prével, Project Esplanade Cartier, Montréal YWCA, Montréal, Québec
2021 Selected Artist, Public project for the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, new building in St Roch, Québec
2020 Finalist, Public art for Verdun Auditorium in Verdun, Quebec
2019 Finalist for several public art projects including the CHUM (CHUM phase 2, oeuvre d’art no.11, Foyer Amphitéâtre), the STM (metro Place des Arts), and several public schools in Montreal (Ecole Odysée, le CREP, et L’Ecole Secondaire NDG)
2016 Musée à ciel ouvert de Saint-Lambert, Ville de Saint-Lambert, Saint-Lambert, Canada
2016 Weekend en lumière, Showfrette, Ville de Beloeil, Canada
2010 Kalenarte, Museo a l’aperto, Museo Civico di Molise, Casacalende, Italy