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Elizabeth Greisman is an international visual artist, curator and educator based in Toronto, Canada. She earned an BFA in Visual Arts with Honours from York University, BA in Education from York University, Diploma in Dance Education from the Laban School of Dance (Trinity Laban Conservatoire) in London, Diploma in Landscape Design with an emphasis in Horticulture from Ryerson University with additional post-graduate course work in interdisciplinary visual art at Central St. Martins in London. She has developed collaborations with dancers, poets, musicians, actors, physicians and cooks and is the Founding Director of the Artist Cooperative of Canada and the Nascent Art Science Collective. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Canadian Embassies in Dublin, Ireland and Buenos Aires, Argentina,The Gachi Prieto Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Toronto, Canada at Gallery 50, Tanenbaum Centre for the Arts, Tapestry Opera, and RE-Max Unique Windows Project. Selected group exhibitions include shows at the Art Gallery of Ontario ( Toronto, Canada), La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique (Marnay-sur-Seine, France), Propeller Gallery (Toronto, Canada), Spadina Museum (Toronto, Canada), BROTA House and Brota Bio Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Parkdale Biennial Gallery (Toronto, Canada), Rhizome Collective at Plymouth University (Plymouth, UK), and the University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY).
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Selected by internationally juries to collaborate with other artists in the visual arts, creative writing, poetry, dance, music, science and theatre arts.
- Les Grandes Ballet Canada, Choreographer Peter Quanz, Montreal, Quebec (2023)
- The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland (2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2023)
- Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires Argentina, Teatro Colon, (2023)
- Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris France, long term stay, (2022)
- Auvillar France (2022)
- Virginia Center For The Creative Arts , VCCA, USA, (2021)
- Arts Letters And Numbers, Averill Park New York, USA, (2021)
- Brota Artist Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019) (2022)
- Two exhibitions opened by the Canadian Embassy at Brota House
- Guest of the Irish College, Paris France (2011- 2019)
- La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2016, 2017, 2019)
- Gibraltar Point Artscape Artist Residency, Toronto Island, Canada (2016, 2018)
- The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada (2001, 2005, 2006, 2014)
- Exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin, Ireland
- CAMAC Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine (2014, 2015)
- Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy (2014)
- Centre Culturelle Irlandais, Paris, France (2011 – 2013, guest 2014- 2019)
- Guest Artist in Emergence Project, The Banff Centre, with the Institute Francaise, France, Media and Film
- Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland (2010)
- The Vermont Studio Centre, 2003, 2007, 2012, artist for the Burklyn Ballet, U.S.A.
- Fundascion Valparaiso, Spain (2007)
- Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada (2004)
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Cumberland Private Wealth , Toronto, Canada, Abstract paintings, Theatrical and
Shakespeare paintings.
2023
American Shakespeare Center, Stanton, Virginia, U.S.A., Paintings from the Productions
of 2023
2023
Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Ballet at the Teatro Colon and the Matrilineal Project
2022
VCCA Moulin a Nef, France
2022
BROTA exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
RUG Gallery, The Women’s Art Association, Toronto, Canada, “Portraits of Studio Visitors and Abstractions”
2019-2020
RE-Max Unique Windows Program, Toronto, Canada Tapestry Opera, Toronto, Canada
2018 – ongoing
Temple Bar Medical Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2017
La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, Visual Arts and Culinary Arts Vernissage Exhibition, Marnay-sur- Seine, France
Tanenbaum Centre for the Arts, Tapestry Opera’s Oksana G
performance, Toronto, Canada
2016
La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, Visual Arts and Culinary Arts Vernissage Exhibition, Marnay-sur- Seine, France
2015
La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, Visual Arts and Culinary Arts Vernissage Exhibition, Marnay-sur- Seine, France
2014
Gallery 50, Toronto, Canada
2009
The Canadian Embassy, “Resonances at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre,” Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibitions + Curation of Interdisciplinary and Visual Arts Shows (selected)
2023
Brota Bio Exhibition , Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
“Theatrical Portraits based on the work of Sir Tyrone Guthrie in Canada and Portraits of Visitors to my studio”, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Canada, “Portraits of Resilience”
2021
Brotabio Holiday Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Canadian Embassy Artist, Government of Canada
2021
Arts Letters and Numbers, New York, USA, Summer Exhibition
2020
International Online Exhibition by Paraguay Curator Rosanna Lopez Vera and The BROTA Artist Residency Programme, Buenos Aires,
Argentina and Paraguay
“After The Fact Is Emotion,” Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada Exhibition for International Women’s Day at BROTA House, Buenos Aires, Argentina in partnership with the Canadian Embassy
2019
BROTA House, Buenos Aires, Argentina, group exhibition in partnership with the Canadian Embassy in Argentina
Spadina Museum, “Nuit Blanche,” Twenty First Century Craft, Toronto, Canada Parkdale Biennial, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Rhizome Collective exhibition, Plymouth University, Plymouth U.K. “Faerie Circles,” Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
“Jewish Geography Show,” University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
2018
WOMAN show, Nuit Blanche at Spadina Museum, Toronto, Canada
2017
Collaborative Garden installation with Wendy Lewis and Milly West, Vernissage at Le Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2016
“The Protean Self,” The Nascent Art Science Collective, The Museum of Healthcare, Kingston, Canada.
Collaborative Garden installation with Wendy Lewis and Milly West, Vernissage at Le Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2015
Amitim Art Show, Jewish Community Centre (JCC) International, Eilat, Israel
Coordinated Toronto Visual Art Submission to the show, JCC, Greater Toronto, JCC, London, England, JCC Eilot, Israel
Collaborative Garden installation with Wendy Lewis and Milly West, Vernissage at Le Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2008, 2009 ,2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Producer-Director-Curator, Nuit Blanche/Toronto with the Artist Cooperative of Canada and guest artists at Spadina Museum, Toronto, Canada.
EDUCATION
BFA in Visual Arts with Honours, York University, Toronto, Canada
BA in Education (Primary, Junior & Intermediate Education), York University, Toronto, Canada, O.C.T.
Specialist, Special Education, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Diploma, Dance in Education, Laban School of Dance (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), London, England.
Diploma, Landscape Design (horticulture focus), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Post-graduate visual arts coursework, Central Saint Martins, London, England
Ongoing French classes at Alliance Francaise , Paris , France and Toronto, Canada
ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
Represented by:
Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Studio 150, The Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Canada Artist for Executive Furniture Rentals, Art Rental Programme, Toronto, Canada
The Women’s Art Association of Canada
BrotaBio Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Supported by the Canadian Embassy
Past Chair of Visual Arts Committee, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto , Canada
2023 – Present – Curation of Arts Exhibitions at Holy Blossom Temple
http://www.elizabethgreisman.ca
Instagram: @elizabethgreisman
http://brotabiogalerie.com
Propeller Art Gallery Podcast:
Subject: podcast
https://youtu.be/PfL0bVRkLd0
Collaborative Singing with Irish Artist Jack O’Rourke
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