ELIZABETH GREISMAN BIO
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, 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 La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique (Marnay-sur-Seine, France), Propeller Gallery (Toronto, Canada), Spadina Museum (Toronto, Canada), BROTA House (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Parkdale Biennial Gallery (Toronto, Canada), Rhizome Collective at Plymouth University (Plymouth, UK), and the University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY).
ELIZABETH GREISMAN CV 2022
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
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
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)
The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada (2001, 2005, 2006, 2014)
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland (2008, 2009, 2010, 2018)
CAMAC Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine (2014, 2015)
La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2016, 2017, 2019)
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy (2014)
Gibraltar Point Artscape Artist Residency, Toronto Island, Canada (2016, 2018)
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
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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 Oxana 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)
2021
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 La Maison Verte Cookbook, 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, JCC International, Eilat, Israel
Collaborative Garden installation with Wendy Lewis , 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.
ARTS ADMINISTRATION and EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2014 – Present Co-Director, The Nascent Art Science Collective
2013-2018 JCC’s of Greater Toronto, Prosserman JCC and The Schwartz Reisman Centre, Cultural Arts and Visual Arts Coordinator,
1979- 2021 Independent Schools, Toronto, Canada, JK to Grade 8, Visual Arts, All subjects
Represented by:
Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
The Women’s Art Association of Canada
Studio 150, The Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Canada
Artist for Executive Furniture Rentals, Art Rental Programme, Toronto, Canada
Volunteer Work:
Chair of Visual Arts, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto , Canada
Member of Junior League