Gianni Giuliano

Biography

Gianni Giuliano is of Italian descent, and born in Montreal, Canada where he continues to live and work. In 1998 he completed a Bachelor studies with distinction in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Painting & Drawing and in 2014 a Master degree in Art from Université du Québec à Montréal in Painting. He is the winner of the 6th Edition of The Brush Off Competition and twice a finalist (2016 and 2018) for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Competition. Amongst many other prizes, he is also two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant. His works can be found in numerous public, private and corporate collections.

Artist Statement

Influenced both by the Old Master Italian painters, the London School and their contemporaries; Mark Tansey, Michael Borremans, Alex Colville and Neo Rausch, Gianni Giuliano is part of the contemporary realist figuration.

His work analyzes the hidden parts of our identities by putting as far as possible the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible. It consists in bringing to life, in a human way, improbable beings and making them coexist according to the laws of probability. Unsettling plots that include an arrangement of characters placed in a visually coher...

2014 - MA, Painting, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

1998 - BFA (with distinction), Major in Painting & Drawing, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

1995 - DEC, Fine Arts, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2018 - "Vuja de", Galerie Erga, Montreal (QC

2013 - Hold the Horses!, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal (QC

2013 - « Dé-kon-stru-ksion », Maison de culture Châteauguay, Châteauguay, (QC)

2004 - Oeuvres récyclées, Port-Maurice Gallery, St-Leonard, (QC)

2003 - Pensées dyslexiques, Maison de culture Ile des Soeurs, Ile des Soeurs (QC)
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Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 – Act From Your Art Project, Galerie 5364 St. Laurent, Montreal (QC)

2019 – Perspicacious Paintings, Galerie Erga, Montreal (QC)

2019 – Resilience, MUHC Cedar Cancer Centre, Montreal (QC)

2018 – Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, PHI Centre, Montreal (QC)

2016 - Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Youn Gallery, Montreal (QC)

2016 - Parle-moi d'amour, Les Impatients, Montreal (QC)

2015 - Art contemporain pour tous, Arp Gallery, Montreal (QC)
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2013 - Human Body Exhibition, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal (QC)

2012 - Woman, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove (NL)

2010 - Poeisis, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal (QC)

2009 - People, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove (NL)

2004 - Ils sont 19 du Quebec, James Baird Gallery, St. Johns (NL)

2004 - Trembling Ground, organized by Giuseppe Di Leo, Kale...