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. In addition, he is also two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant amongst many other prizes. His works can be found in numerous public, private and corporate collections.
Influenced by the rich history of figurative painting, including their contemporaries Mark Tansey and Alex Colville, Gianni Giuliano is part of the contemporary realist painters.
Gianni Giuliano is interested in the abject and the uncontainable of the human psychology. The artist uses intricate figurative elements to explore the shifting, ambiguous states of consciousness and the unknown. 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/situations and making them coexist according to the laws of probability. Whereby the spaces, their limits and borders are re-examined by the means of narration and image making.
Education
2014
Master in Arts, Painting, l’Université du Québec à Montréal,
Montreal (QC).
1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, Painting and Drawing, Concordia
University, Montreal (QC).
Selected group exhibitions
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
2021
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2017
2016
2016
2016
2013
2013
2012
2nd Juried Annual Exhibition, The Cline House Gallery, Cornwall (ON)
Un soffio d'amore Italiano, Rivières-des-Prairies Library, Rivières-des-Prairies (QC)
Drawing 2023, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto (ON)
9é biennale du dessin, Musée des beaux-arts de Mont Saint-Hilaire, Saint Hilaire (QC)
1st Juried Annual Exhibition, The Cline House Gallery, Cornwall (ON)
Infondere, Arte Cavallo, Montreal (QC)
Arts sur papier, Galerie Erga, Montreal (QC)
Clay Roots, McClure Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Salon des Refusés, McBride Contemporain, Montreal (QC)
Figureworks 10th Edition, Saint Brigid Centre for the Arts, Ottawa (ON)
Act From Your Art Project, Galerie 5364 St. Laurent, Montreal (QC)
Perspicacious Paintings, Galerie Erga, Montreal (QC)
Resilience, MUHC Cedar Cancer Centre, Montreal (QC)
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, PHI Centre, Montreal (QC)
Italian Synergy, Galerie Erga Montreal (QC)
6th Edition of the Brush Off Competition, Westmount Square, Westmount (QC)
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Youn Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Italian Synergy, Ludovik Art Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Parle-moi d'amour, Les Impatients, Montreal (QC)
Human Body Exhibition, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Obsolète, CDEX Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Woman, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove (NL)
Selected solo exhibitions
2021
2018
2016
2013
2013
Les no(m)-dits, Lethbridge Exhibition Centre, St-Laurent (QC)
Vuja De, Galerie Erga, Montreal (QC)
New Works, Ludovik Art Gallery, Montreal (QC)
Hold the Horses! Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal (QC)
« Dé-kon-stru-ksion », Galerie La Seigneurie, Châteauguay (QC)
Selected artist residency / art fairs
2015
2012
ACPT, Art Contemporain Pour Tous
TOAF, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Selected artist talks
2020
2019
2016
2013
Causerie d’artiste, Académie des beaux arts de Montréal, Montréal (QC)
Art and Ideas, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal (QC)
ArtNow Westmount, Westmount Library, Montréal (QC)
"Hold the Horses!", Dawson College, Westmount (QC)
Collections - amongst other private and corporate collections
Avmor Art Collection, Montreal (QC)
The Stanley Mill's Collection, Montreal (QC)
Dawson College Alumni Collection, Montreal (QC)
Les Entreprises Michel Choinière Inc., Montreal (QC)
Selected publications/catalogues
2017
Heather Black, “Brush Off” painting winners announced at Westmount Square, Westmount Independent, September 19, 2017, Vol.11 No.9c, p.23
Jean-Émile Verdier, Le silence parlant des peintures de Gianni Giuliano, Vie des Arts, Montreal (QC), fall 2015, p.74 and 75.
Valérie Gagnon, Images construites en dualité, Le Soleil de Châteauguay,
Châteauguay (QC), March 9, 2013, p. 24.
Valérie Gagnon, «Dé-kon-stru-ksion», Hebdos régionaux – Montérégie: march 8 http://video.monteregie.hebdosregionaux.ca/video/dossiers-chauds/reportages-locaux/1524771773001/gianni-giuliano-et-sa-de-kon-stru-ksion/2210048842001
The Human Body Exhibition, exhibition catalogue Dawson College, April 2013,
Montreal (QC).
Michael Corbin, The Triumph of Man, ArtBookGuy : Oct-Nov. 2012,
http://artbookguy.com/gianni-giuliano-triumph-of-man_463.html
2015
2013
2013
2013
2012
Selected media/appearance/interview
2021
2019
2017
2017
OMNI News Italian Edition, June 2021
PBS, Mountain Lake, The BrushOff Project, March 2019
CFMB 1280AM, Giovanni Angeloro, Sulla la bocca di tutti, May 2017
MIKE FM 105.1, Giovanni Angeloro, Aperitivo, March 2017
Distinctions
2019
2018
2017
2016
2001
1999
1998
1997
Figureworks 10th Edition Finalists, Ottawa (ON)
The Bombay Sapphire Montreal Finalists, Montreal (QC)
6th Edition Brush Off Competition, 1st prize winner, Montreal (QC)
The Bombay Sapphire Montreal Finalists, Montreal (QC)
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal (QC)
The Jordan Heinz Painting Prize, Montreal (QC)
The Stanley Mills Purchase Prize, Montreal (QC)
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal (QC)