About the Artist John Greer
John Greer has exhibited his work since 1967 extensively in Canada, USA, Iceland and Korea.
He taught sculpture as full Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax for 26 years and is now working full time on his sculptural work in his studio in West Dublin, Nova Scotia, Canada.
For a number of years he was working partly out of Dallas, TX, USA and since the mid 80ies he has been spending regularly extended work periods in Pietrasanta, Italy.
His most recent solo exhibitions were “Reflecting on Culture” in Halifax, NS and “Alluding to Illusion in Dallas, TX, USA. He just installed the work “Humble Ending” in La Serpara, a small sculpture garden in Civitella D’Agliano near Rome, Italy.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most recently he received the prestigious Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts in recognition of his lifetime achievement and significant contribution to contemporary Canadian visual art.
John has realized a number of public commissions, among others “Gathering, 2001” for a family park in Seoul, Korea and “Reflection, 2001”, the memorial to Canadian Aid Workers in Ottawa, Canada. His work “Origins, 1995” is permanently installed in the Ondaatje courtyard of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and he has works in major national collections.
John Greer prefers sculpture as his language and tries to engage the viewer in being a human, thinking object among objects, a being “of” the world, a cultural object.
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Last Update: May 2009
John Greer
(Photo © Manuel Schnell)