GRETA GRIP

SUBMIT TO THE KNIT

EDUCATION
1998
Masters of Art Conservation, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, Ontario

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2021-2023. -Critical Mass: Art Leaders Project: Life of a Town, with Lee Jones, Port Hope, ON

2021-2022 -Ferment AI Residency, with Lee Jones, Toronto, ON

2019-2020 -Diefenbunker, Carp, ON LINKLINKLINKLINK

COLLECTIVES
2019
-currently -Everyday E-Textiles with Lee Jones LINK
2019 -currently -Der Moment @DerMomentThree
2016-2018 -Monsters & Greta Grip: The Regretta Machine #theregrettamachine LINK

FAIRES
2019
-This is a Thing: International Processing Day for Creative Coding @Artengine, Ottawa, ON  LINK
2018 -MAKER FAIRE OTTAWA LINK
2016 -MAKER FAIRE OTTAWA LINK
-MAKER SPACE NORTH OPEN HOUSE LINK

REPRESENTED -Ottawa Art Gallery @the Annex

GRANTS 
2021
Canadian Council for the Arts: Research and Create Grant
Project title: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Bio-data Portraits with Smart Textiles
2021 City Of Ottawa: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists
Project title: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Bio-data Portraits with Smart Textiles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
-Containment: Knit Your .--.art, The Diefenbunker Museum, Carp, ON (.--. is morse code for the letter P) LINK LINK LINK LINK
2016
-From Sheep to Sweater, Hintonburg Happening, Twiss&Weber, Ottawa, Ontario LINK
2013
-This Code Bites, The Tooth Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario -Curated by Cristina Martinez 
-My Sweet Valentine, Culinary Conspiracy Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
-Filtered, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
-The Life of a Building with Lee Jones, Commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery for Filtered
Description: A circular knitting machine that visualizes the Ottawa Art Gallery’s data during the year of the pandemic recovery.
2020  
-Ottawa Art Gallery #GIVETOGETART LINKLINK 
-Sketch Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON LINK
2019
-DADA Dinges: BYOA, Research in Art (RIA), Ottawa ON LINK LINK 
-Luck Ottawa Arts Council, Ottawa, ON LINK
2018
-Sketch Saw Gallery, Ottawa ON LINK
-Luck Ottawa Arts Council, Ottawa, ON LINK
2017
-Ten, Cyclogik’s 10th Annual Holiday Art Show, Ottawa, Ontario
-World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 17 Yarn Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario LINK
2016
-Home, Cyclogik’s 9th Annual Holiday Art Show, Ottawa, Ontario
-Sketch, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2015
-POP FOLK T3XT1L3S, le labo, Toronto, Ontario  LINK, LINK
-POP FOLK T3XT1L3S, la galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury, Ontario LINK
2014
-World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 9: Fibre Optics -Textiles in the Digital Age, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario LINK
-Twisted: February Fibre Festival, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-Warmth, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2013
-Red Handed, Cyclogik’s 6th Annual Holiday Art Show, Ottawa, Ontario
-Chinatown Remixed, Yummy Sushi, Ottawa, Ontario
-Nature Nocturne, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario
2012
-Holiday Sweat-ER, Cycloglik’s 5th Annual Holiday Art Show, Ottawa, Ontario
-World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 7: Touch Me Feel Me, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario LINK
-Small, Medium, Large: Order Your Art to Go, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario 
-Nuit Blanche: Life is Beautiful: Twiss and Weber Studio, Ottawa, Ontario
-Moveable Feast: La Petite Morte, Ottawa, Ontario
-Beechwood Art in the Parking Lot, Lemon Jellow, Ottawa, Ontario
-Chinatown Remixed, Del Rosario Financial, Ottawa, Ontario
-Cold Cut, Wurm Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-Spins and Needles: Prints and Inks Show, Fall Down Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-You Make My Art Beat, Lemon Jellow, Ottawa, Ontario
-Candela, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2011
-Occupy, Cycloglik’s 4th Annual Holiday Art Show, Ottawa, Ontario 
-Sketch, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario 
-Touch Me!, Fall Down Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-Chinatown Remixed, Korean Palace, Ottawa Ontario
2010
-Knitted Adventures, Raw Sugar Café, Ottawa, Ontario
-The Infidels: International Group Exhibition, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario 
-Pop Shop, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-Chinatown Remixed, Chu Shing Restaurant, Ottawa, Ontario
-Sketch, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2009
-Tipsy Pudding, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-Cock Show, Atomic Rooster, Ottawa, Ontario 

FILM
Cooking with Cronos and Rhea
Co-directed: Greta Grip, Ainsely Walton, Sheilah MacKinnon
Starring: Greta Grip 
2011
-Gallery 101 & Independent Filmmakers Co-Operative of Ottawa (IFCO), Ottawa, Ontario
2009
-Celebrating Sexuality, IFCO & Ladyfest Ottawa, Mercury Lounge, Ottawa, Ontario
2008
-Ravenswing Indie Night, Shanghai Restaurant, Ottawa, Ontario
-Morsel, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
-The 8 Fest, Small Gauge Film Festival, Trash Palace, Toronto, Ontario
2007
-IFCO Super 8 - One Take Challenge, Mercury Lounge, Ottawa, Ontario 
-Screenings of Food, Avant Garde Bar, Ottawa, Ontario

 PERFORMANCE
2006
-Knit-It September Issue, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
-Knit-It March Issue, Library and Archives Canada, Gatineau, Quebec 
2005 
-Knit-It September Issue, Parliament Hill and National War Memorial, Ottawa Ontario

INTSALLATION/ YARN BOMBING
2015
-Waller Street, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 -Nuit Blanche, Twiss and Weber Studio, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 -Winterlude: Urban Cozy Project, Ottawa, Ontario  
-Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario

 

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