Bruce Grenville is Senior Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery (1997 - present). He has been Curator at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (1989-95) and Senior Curator of the Edmonton Art Gallery (1995-97). Most recently he was curator of The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture, a thematic survey of the image of the human machine in art and popular culture from the early 19th century to the present. He has organized many group exhibitions such as weak thought, The Natural World, Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, New Science, The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Corpus, The Anti-Graceful, Active Surplus and Mapping the Surface, and was co-ordinator of The Post-Colonial Landscape Project, a six year series of exhibitions and a book which examined the land and its representation within the colonial and post-colonial state. As well, he has organized many solo exhibitions of the work of Gathie Falk, Dominique Blain, Komar and Melamid, Arnaud Maggs, Christos Dikeakos, Ruth Cuthand, Mary Scott, Jack Goldstein, Joanne Tod, Arlene Stamp and others. He was the founding editor of the YYZ Books: Critical Works series and a former Toronto editor of Parachute magazine.
Bruce Grenville
Senior Curator
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby St.
Vancouver, BC
V6Z 2H7
phone 604.662.4715
fax 604.682.1086