Kym Greeley (born 1973) is a Canadian painter based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, known primarily for her screen-printed paintings of the province's landscape and roads. In 2011, she was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, one of Canada's most prestigious contemporary art awards.

Career

Greeley studied at the Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York as part of an exchange program, graduating in 1996. She then graduated from the

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University, also known as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design or NSCAD, is a public art university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that offers bachelor's and master's degrees. The univ ...

in 1997, where she majored in Painting and Drawing. Greeley pursued a career as a contemporary artist in New York for five years, but found that her interests leaned towards the landscape. She returned to Newfoundland in 2003. Her Newfoundland paintings evolved from her studies in abstraction while in New York, and portray contemporary Newfoundland subjects as unromantic, largely monochromatic representations that are abstracted from their original surroundings, textures and colors. She has described her paintings as "taken from a 'place' and made into a 'non-place'. ... This 'non-place' than becomes a representation of my feelings or experiences." Greeley's paintings have since been exhibited in Germany, Canada and the United States. In 2009, Greeley participated in a four month residency at

The Rooms The Rooms is a cultural facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The facility opened in 2005 and houses the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Provincial Muse ...

in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, which led to a solo exhibition entitled "Time Trial." In 2013, her work was included in a major survey of painting in Canada titled "The Painting Project," organized by Galerie UQAM. After the birth of twins in 2014, Greeley's subject matter shifted to interiors. This body of work was shown at The Rooms as part of the exhibition "All Day Within the Dreamy House" in 2016. Greeley has also worked with Fogo Island Arts as a consultant, and has collaborated with fellow artist Erika Jane Stephens Moore on caribou-themed wallpaper for the

Fogo Island Inn The Fogo Island Inn is a hotel located on the northern shore of Fogo Island in Newfoundland, Canada. The inn consists of an outbuilding and main building that totals 4500m2 in area. The main building includes 29 guest rooms, a restaurant, Finnis ...

. The wallpaper was included in the exhibition "Folklore and Other Panics" at

in 2015. Her work is included in the Canada Council Art Bank, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Newfoundland Provincial Art Bank Collection. She is currently represented by Christina Parker Gallery.

Exhibition history

Solo exhibitions

2017 Erasure, Maison Des Arts, Laval, Quebec 2015 Chasing The Light
Christina Parker Gallery
St. John's, NL 2011

2009 Time Trial, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL 2009 Wish You Were Here, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL 2008

Eastern Edge Eastern Edge Gallery is an artist-run centre based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Eastern Edge Gallery was established in 1984 as the first artist-run centre in the province. In 1987, it moved out of the LSPU Hall in to Flavin ...

Gallery, St. John's, NL 2008 Phendrana Drift, Resource Center for the Arts Gallery, St. John's, NL 2006
100 Paper Moths
Site specific installation, Anglican Cathedral Park, St. John's, NL 2006 Landing, 312 Online Videos, www.312.ca 2004 New Paintings, The Rogue Gallery,

Gallery, St. John's, NL 2003 Phendrana, elefan+shipfischerinsel, Berlin, Germany 1998 Paintings, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS 1998 Portraits, Eye Level Gallery. Halifax, NS 1997 Solo, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Group exhibitions

2017 Time & Place, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL 201
Geopoetics: Ranges of Motion
Curated by Kasia Basta. Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec 2017

Imago Mundi ''Imago Mundi'', or in full ''Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography'', is a semiannual peer-reviewed academic journal about mapping, established in 1935 by Leo Bagrow. It covers the history of early maps, cartography, ...

, Curated b
Francesca Valente.
Italy 2016

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Vicky Chainey Gagnon

Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL 2016 After Fields, Southern Graphics Council International: Flux Location, Portland, OR, USA 2015 Folklore And Other Panics, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL 2014 Changing Tides: Contemporary Art in Newfoundland and Labrador, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, ON 2013 Into The Night, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, NS 2013 The Painting Project, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Quebec 2012 25 for 25, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL 2012 25 for 25, Mary March Museum, Grand Falls, NL 2011 Limited Time Offer, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL 2011 Atlanticus, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL
Art and Letters
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL

Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL 2008 Forecast, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL 2008 Rock and Roll: Selected Contemporary Art in Newfoundland, A1C Gallery, St. John's, NL 2008

Video Series 2008,

Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, NL

Kym Greeley and the New Newfoundland Painting
Canadian art magazine, August 2016 * Jennifer McVeigh, Folklore and Other Panics, Border Crossings Magazine, Vol. 34, Number 2. Spring 2015
Craig Francis Power, Art World Antidote, Visual Arts News
Spring 2015
Lizzy Hill
Folklore and Other Panics at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,

national Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (french: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the l ...

, Magazine. February 9, 2015
Todd O'Brien
, Folklore and Other Panics: Where folklore and Contemporary Art Meet, CBC. January 2015 *

Canadian Art Canadian art refers to the visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada. Art in Canada is marked by thousands of years of hab ...

, Folklore and Other Panics. 15 Shows We Want to See in 2015. December 2014 * Lizzy Hill, Rugged Nonconformity: The Art of Newfoundland and Labrador, National Gallery Magazine, February 2014 * The Painting Project, A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, Galerie De L'UQUAM, p. 64-67 * Bruce Johnson,

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) is a public provincial art museum based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The art museum's primary building complex is located in downtown Halifax and takes up approximately of space. The museum complex compr ...

Journal, Summer 2011 * Craig Francis Power
The 25 Greatest Works of Art Ever Made in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Scope, August 2009 * Gloria Hickey, Visual Arts News, February 10, 2009

CBC Radio, Interview, February 4, 2009
Joan Sullivan
The Telegram, The road less traveled, February 6, 2009 * Mike Landry, Things of Desire, Kym Greeley: Time Trial, February 5, 2009 * Mix Magazine, v.31.1, 2006, p. 36-41
Riddle Fence A Journal Of Arts and Culture
v.2, 2008 pg.91 * Craig Francis Power, Landscape Painter, Current, 2006

* Craig Francis Power, Art In Newfoundland, Members One at Eastern Edge Gallery, December 7, 2005 *

Cliff Eyland Cliff Eyland (November 7, 1954 – May 16, 2020) was a Canadian painter, writer and curator. Career Born in Halifax and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Eyland studied art at Holland College, Mount Allison University, and the Nova Scotia Col ...

, Monitor Goo: Abstract Painting In The Age Of Video. Tea and Sympathy Plug In Cahier, 1998, pg.146-151. * Jesse Simon, Minimalist shows spawn differing conclusions. Current exhibits at Plug In and Ace Art have much to say about emptiness and the gallery space. 1998

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