Jude Griebel’s work explores human impact on the world, by merging anatomies and landscapes into single sculptural forms. These detailed works provide new and fantastic understandings of eco-anxiety and speculate on possibilities beyond planetary collapse. The sculptures visualize rampant cycles of human consumption and the resulting detriment to both the human self and surrounding world. The mechanics of consumerism is a driving theme behind his work, with a specific focus on the factory food system and its implications for land depletion and climate shift. These patterns are played out on the surfaces of sculptures that express the physical and psychological fallout.
Crafted from combinations of clays, papier-mâché, textiles and hand-carved woods, Griebel’s works are playful in their attempt to bestow material form to fleeting states. The anthropomorphic qualities of his figures borrow from a myriad of histories relating to the re-imagined body—from Grotesque representations of the Renaissance era to the shape-shifting characters of mid-century popular cartoons. The structuring of these figures incorporates diorama and display methods from traditional science and didactic models. When applied to Griebel’s imaginative introspections, these elements cause the sculptures to waver between fantasy and objective understanding.
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023
Mondes Brisés et en Transformation (curated by Sebastien Gonzalez), Le Carmel Pamiers, France
Illuminated Collapse, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Canada
2022
Doomscrolling: Recent Drawings, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Broken Pattern, Eltuek Arts Centre, Sydney, Canada
Next World Emissaries (curated by Adam Whitford), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
Broken Pattern, OSA Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Illuminated Collapse, Gallery 2/ Grand Forks Art Gallery, Canada
The Distance Between, with Lorraine Simms, Illingworth Kerr Gallery/Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
2021
Broken Pattern, FoFA Gallery/Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Illuminated Collapse (curated by Leah Taylor), Kenderdine Art Gallery/University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Barn Skull: Manning Hall Installation (curated by Lindsey Sharman), Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
2019
Documents of Collapse, with Lorraine Simms, The Beaty Museum of Biodiversity, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Tired Water, Troubled Ground (a commission from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada for Science Literacy Week), Telus Spark Science Center, Calgary, Canada
Unfamiliar Selves, with Tammy Salzl, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, Canada
2018
Illuminated Collapse, Nickle Galleries—University of Calgary, Canada (catalogue) (curated by Michele Hardy)
Illuminated Collapse, El Museo de Los Sures, Brooklyn, USA
Ground-Figure, Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Canada (curated by Joanne Marion)
2017
Mess-Maker, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Canada
Arms, eyes, detritus, Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany (catalogue)
Die Geister, die ich rief, with Jan Pötter, Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany
Plastic Ghost, Jyväskylä, Finland (a public artwork curated by Anna Ruth)
Crafting Ruin, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada
Unfamiliar Selves (with Tammy Salzl), Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, Canada
Estranged Setting, Esker Foundation, project space, Calgary, Canada
2016
Reanimator, The Redpath Museum, Montreal, Canada
Unfamiliar Selves (with Tammy Salzl), Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, Nelson, Canada
2015
Washout, The Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany
Wasted, Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany (catalogue)
Feeder (satellite installation for Future Station: The 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art), The Gibson Block Building,
Edmonton, Canada (curated by Kristy Trinier)
Yellow House, with Brendan Griebel, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada (catalogue)
2014
Reanimator, Galerie Sturm Project Space, Nuremberg, Germany
Betwixt and Between, with Dana Holst, The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford, Canada (catalogue) (curated by Scott Marsden)
Shelf Life, Union Gallery, Queen’s University, Canada (catalogue)
2013
How You Were Made, Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg, Germany (catalogue)
Grow Apart, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2012
Grandmother, Galleria Kajo III, University of Lapland, Finland
2011
Apparitions: Works on Paper, Islensk Grafik, Reykjavik, Iceland
Afterworks, Populus Tremula Gallery, Akuyreri, Iceland
2009
Brand New Superstition, Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Shifting Figures (with Kitty Blandy) Comox Valley Art Gallery, Canada
2007
A Cast of Shadows (curated by Darrin Martens), The Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada (catalogue)
2006
Within these Walls, Odd Gallery, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Canada
Old Dreams, Recent Works, Centre D’Exposition L’Imagier, Gatineau, Canada
2005
Where Daydreams Happened (curated by Scott Marsden), Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada
2004
Down the Hole in the Floorboards, Engramme, Québec City, Canada
Interplay, with John Graham, Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, Canada
2003
Tarnished Fables, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada
Interior Play, Jude Griebel and John Graham, The Nanaimo Art Gallery, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
THE MALL (curated by Carolyn Jervis and Hannah Quimper-Swiderski), John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery/ MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
2022
Scrappy (curated by David Candler), dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada
Nafas (curated by Lucien Zayan), the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, USA (The Armory Show VIP Program)
BEHOLDEN: New Acquisitions to the AGA Collection (curated by Catherine Crowsten), Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
A Tournament of Lies (curated by Will Hutnick), Wassaic Project, NY, USA
Insect as Idea (curated by Helen Gregory), McIntosh Gallery/Western University, London, Canada
2021
Hokuspokus, Galerie Kremers, Berlin, Germany
States of Collapse (curated by Wendy Peart, Cindy Baker, Amber Christensen and Stacey Fayant), the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Prairie Vernacular (curated by Joanne Marion and Jennifer McRorie), Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada; Buhler Gallery, Winnipeg (2020), Canada; Swift Current Art Gallery, Canada (2020); Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Canada (2019); Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Canada (2019) (catalogue)
2020
Refugia (curated by Amelia Biewald), RSOAA Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Specific Experience of an Abnormal Meaningfulness (curated by Alisa Arsenault) Atelier Imago, Moncton, Canada
Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed (curated by Angela Brayham and Sadko Hadzihasanovic), Orillia Museum of Art & History, Canada
#social, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea
Enchanted Landscapes: Eco-Criticism and Folklore Studies, Art House, University of Worcester, UK
Carry Weight | Hold Light, (group installation conceived and curated by Heather Brammeier), Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, USA
2019
Human Impacts Institute, New York, USA
Ungrounded (curated by Alexandra Friedman), ISCP, Brooklyn, USA
RUIN (curated by Amelia Biewald), Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, USA
(Im)perfection (curated by Simone Coutou/Project Curate), NURTUREart, Brooklyn, USA
Recall: Recent Acquisitions and their New Context (curated by Christine Sowiak), Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Canada
2018
Don't ever take a vacation with another artist who collects the same stuff you do (curated by Kari Conte), ISCP, Brooklyn, USA
Flux: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, USA; McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (2017); dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada (2017) (curated by Lianne McTavish)
2017
Et Tu, Art Brute? Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA
The Art of VR (with Galerie Sturm), Sotheby's, New York, USA
La Collection Boxotel (curated by Lorraine Simms), Galerie 175B, Montreal, Canada
Yellow House, with Brendan Griebel, House Games Triennial, Jyväskylä, Finland
real, surreal, hyperreal, Galerie Kremers, Berlin, Germany
2015
Disiplinler arasi/ Interdisciplinary, Galeri MiZ, Istanbul, Turkey
KATALYSATOR KUNST, Großer Saal des Staatsministeriums, Nuremberg, Germany
Future Station: The 2015 Biennial of Contemporary Art (curated by Kristy Trinier), The Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
2014
Patchwork, Theatre Impermanent, Leipzig, Germany
Art Toronto, with dc3 Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
Locate: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Yukon Public Art Center, Whitehorse, Canada
Papier Art Fair, with dc3 Art Projects, Montreal, Canada
OK OK OK, Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montréal, Canada
Collision 10, Parisian Laundry, Montréal, Canada
2013
Elsewhere Retrospective, The Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, USA
BRERART Contemporary Art Week, Milan, Italy (curated by Chiara Canali)
Play: Toys+Age=Art, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada
New Acquisitions, The Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada
Ultramoderne, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
2012
Thoughts About Death (curated by Anna Ruth), Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä, Finland
La Vie Fantastique, touring 25 Alberta communities 2012-2015, Canada (curated by Shane Goldby for the Art Gallery of
Alberta/ TREX Program)
The Gaze of History: Portraits from the Collection, The Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada
14, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Canada
2011
After Life, The Art Gallery of Regina, Canada (curated by Jack Anderson)
Primary Source, ODD Gallery, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Canada
2009
Art in Review, Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Recent Paintings (with Kim Kimbro and Alison Dunn), Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Westward Ha!: Visual Wit and Fantasy in Western Canadian Art, Triangle Gallery for the Visual Arts, Calgary, Canada
(curated by Nicholas Roukes and Rheinhard Skoracki)
Re-identification, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Het Gebouw, Leidsche, Rijn, the Netherlands; World Art Delft, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Galerie Werfkade 16, Het Stadhuis, Groningen, the Netherlands; Grafish Atelier Utrecht, the Netherlands; CBKU Gallery, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Celest Gallery University of Kanagawa, Japan (2005); Gallery OM, Yokohama, Japan (2005) University of Kanagawa, Japan (2005); St. Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan (2005); J Trip Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2005); Japanese Paper Museum Inomachi, Kochi,Japan (2005); Nagasaki Peace Museum, Japan (2005)
Gallery Artists, Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Prints Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum Ueno, Japan (Catalogue)
2006
Thompson Rivers University Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
Canadian and European Exchange Exhibition, Galerie L’Imagier, Gatineau, Canada
New Directions in Printmaking, The Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada (Catalogue)
Strange Encounter, Centre D’Exposition L’Imagier, Gatineau, Canada
2005
Canadian Artists, City of Plodiv Art Gallery, Plodiv, Bulgaria. Traveling to: The Art Gallery of Dobrich, Dobrich, Bulgaria
2004
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2003
International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Silom Galleria, Bangkok, Thailand (Catalogue) Travelling to: Prince of Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand
2002
The 12th International Space Print Biennial, The Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (Catalogue)
Canada Millenium Scholarship Finalist’s Exhibition, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001
The State Files, State Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Education
2014 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Ceramics, Concordia University, Canada
2012 MFA International Exchange, University of Lapland, Finland
2004 BFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Awards and Residencies
2023
2022-2023 Recipient, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
Artist Grant and Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
50th Anniversary Grants for Visual Artists, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2022
Artist Residency, AIR 3331, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Residency, Le Carmel de Pamiers, France
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant (Also in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant (also in 2007, 2017, 2018, 2020)
2021
Artist Residency, College Art Galleries/University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2020
Artist Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, USA
2019
Ground floor NY Residency Program (2.5 years: 2017-2019), The International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, USA
(supported by Yoko Ono, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with
the City Council, New York City Council District 34, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature)
Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging New York Artists (also in 2018)
2018
Artist Residency, Medalta Ceramics Centre, Medicine Hat, Canada
Canada Council Travel Grant (also in 2013, 2010, 2005, 2004)
2017
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (also in 2014, 2015)
Artist Residency, MASS MoCA Studios, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2016
Artist Residency, Kunstnarhuset Messen, Alvik, Norway
Grant and Artist Residency, The International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, USA (Supported by the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts
2015
Artist Residency, Halle 14 Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Artist Residency, MiZ Istanbul, Turkey
2014
Artist Residency, Pilotenkuche, Leipzig, Germany
2013
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Marketing Grant
Artist Residency, Elsewhere Museum, North Carolina, USA
2012
Leo Paul Ramsperger Award in Sculpture and Ceramics
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship
2010
Artist Residency, Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society, Yukon, Canada
Artist Residency, Nes Center, Iceland
2009
Artist Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Artist Grant and Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, USA
2007
Artist Residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
Artist Residency, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, Canada
Artist Residency, Atelier Imago, Moncton, Canada
2005
Artist Residency, Workshop OM, Shin-Yokohama, Japan
2004
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Visual Arts Grant
2003
Artist Residency, St. Michael's Printshop, St. John's, Canada
Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada
Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
Art Gallery of Swift Current, Canada
Majudia Collection/ Arsenal Contemporary Art, Canada
Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank
Le Carmel Pamiers, France
Colart Contemporary Canadian Art Collection
Comox Valley Art Gallery, Canada
Equitable Bank Group, Canada
Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Canada
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Canada
Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery, Canada
Sakima Art Museum, Japan
Shaw Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Canada
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Silvercorp Mining, Canada
Society for Contemporary Work on Paper, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Volpert Foundation, New York, USA
Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Canada
Selected Professional Experience
2019
Co-Founder and Director, the Museum of Fear and Wonder, Bergen, Canada
Visiting Lecturer, the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2018
Visiting Critic, the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Visiting Lecturer and Critic, the Alberta University of the Arts, Canada
Visiting Lecturer, the University of Calgary, Canada
2017
Visiting Lecturer and Critic, the University of Alberta, Canada
2014
Visiting Lecturer, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada
Selected Publications and Catalogues
2020
Marion, Joanne. "A Prairie Dialogue". Catalogue essay for A Prairie Vernacular: Folk & Contemporary Art Narratives of Life On the Canadian Prairies. Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery and City of Medicine Hat/Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre.
2019
El Sheikh, Tammer. "Jude Griebel' Illuminated Collapse". Catalogue essay for Illuminated Collapse. Calgary: Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary.
2017
Kremers, Christine. "Der Surrealismus lebt- Neues aus den Ateliers für surrealstische Forschung." Catalogue essay for Real, Surreal, Hyperreal. Berlin: Galerie Kremers
2015
Jervis, Carolyn. “I love you more than all the plastic in the ocean”. Catalogue essay for Jude Griebel: Wasted. Nuremberg: Galerie Sturm.
Kennedy, Christopher. “The Brothers Griebel and the Yellow House”. Catalogue essay for Yellow House: Jude Griebel and Brendan Griebel. Edmonton: dc3 Art Projects.
2014
Cheung, Gabriel. “Scenes Recalled: Creative Storytelling in the Work of Jude Griebel”. Catalogue essay forShelf Life. Kingston: The Union Gallery, Queen’s University.
Fielding, Stephanie. “Searching the In Between”. Catalogue essay for Betwixt and Between: Jude Griebel and Dana Holst. Abbotsford: The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford.
2013
Werner, Anna-Lena. Catalogue essay for Jude Griebel: How You Were Made. Nuremberg: Galerie Sturm
2007
Wallace, Rory. “The Theatre of Identity”. Catalogue essay for Jude Griebel: A Cast of Shadows. Burnaby: The Burnaby Art Gallery
Martens, Darrin. “Setting the Stage for Jude Griebel”. Catalogue essay for Jude Griebel: A Cast of Shadows. Burnaby: The Burnaby Art Gallery
Selected Bibliography (Magazines, Web and Periodicals)
2022
Both, Michelle. "The beauty of bugs and biodiversity on display at Western's McIntosh Gallery". CBC News (online). May 22
Bunnell, Alexa. "The Distance Between: Two artists explore the emotional impact of ecological destruction". Galleries West (online). February 21
2021
Griwkowsky, Fish. “Jude Griebel’s Barn Skull helps open AGA’s doors this weekend.” The Edmonton Journal. June 17
Boklaschuk, Shannon. “Miniature worlds, big problems: Jude Griebel’s artworks address consumerism and environmental degradation”. University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Sciences (online). May 28
Olson, Matt. “Creative Isolation: Jude Griebel brings New York Art to Saskatoon”. The Star Phoenix. June 3
MacPherson, Jera. “States of Collapse: We are living through dystopian times that once might have sounded like something from science fiction”. Galleries West. February 22
2019
Bishara, Hakim. “Reviews: An Elegant Swansong at Brooklyn’s NURTUREart”. Hyperallergic (online) June 28
Collins, Leah. “It's like something out of a storybook, and it's in Montreal: An artist's tour of the Redpath Museum” CBC Arts (online), April 24
2018
Gregory, Helen and Robertson, Kirsty. "No Small Matter: Micromuseums as Critical Institutions." RACAR Canadian Art Review, vol. 43 no. 2
Collins, Leah. "Miniatures that force you to look closely-really, really closely-at climate change". CBC Arts (online), October 18
Fischer, Marina. "Nickle Galleries takes us from fairy tales to world's end with new exhibitions." UToday, University of Calgary. October 16
Horner, Doug. “The House in the Field”. Calgary Herald/Swerve Magazine, July 6
2017
Thomas, Eve. “Haunted House”. Canadian Art Magazine, fall issue
Greaves, Alicia. “Jude Griebel: Crafting Ruin”. Art + Design Magazine, issue 15
Pratt, Anne. “Exhibition Review: Jude Griebel”. Magenta Magazine, spring/summer issue
Matejko, Agnieszka. “Jude Griebel: Crafting Ruin”. Galleries West Magazine, March 26
Griwkowsky, Fish. “Jude Griebel’s sculptures explode with our ruinous urges.” Edmonton Journal, March 11
Homes, Bob. “See me, Hear Me, Heal Me.” The Lancet Medical Journal, March, vol. 18, no. 3
Pennyfeather, Kevin. “Multifaceted artist Jude Griebel displays Crafting Ruin at dc3 Art Projects”. Vue Weekly, March 9
Pratt, Anne. “Canadian Artists Take on Cancer.” Canadian Art Magazine (online), February 8
Cummings, Madeleine. “Head and neck cancer exhibition unveils hidden experience.” The Edmonton Journal, January 5
2016
Lafleur, Tiffany. “Nature Triumphs Over Humanity”. The Concordian, March 29
2015
Böhm, Benita. “Junge Nürnberger Malerei – Galerist Johannes Sturm”. Gallery Talk Onlinemagazin fur zeitgenössischer Kunst, July 13
Sherlock, Diana. "FUTURE STATION: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art". Galleries West Magazine, March 3
Griwkowsky, Fish. “ArtPic: Jude Griebel’s Feeder, 2014″. The Edmonton Journal, February 20
Jeffrey, Robin. “The Future of Art has Arrived: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art”. The National Gallery of Canada Magazine (online), February 24
2014
Cooley, Alison. “Our Editors’ Preview Picks for Art Toronto”. Canadian Art (online), October 23
Kerr, Mark. “A Union Of Researcher and Artist” Queen’s Gazette, November 11.
Sandals, Leah. “2015 Alberta Biennial List Looks to Future”. Canadian Art (online), July 15.
Bishop-Stall, Reilly and Bussey, Natalie Zayne. “School's Out for Summer and the Kids Are OK: An MFA Thesis Exhibition”. Passenger Art (online), May 26, 2014
2009
Zoraster, Katherine. “Jude Griebel: Brand New Superstition and Rimi Yang: Hidden Message, at Cella Gallery”. THE Magazine for the Arts, Los Angeles, June
2008
Lepage, Chris. “Jude Griebel- In Review”. Canadian Art Magazine, Spring