Vancouver, BC, Canada b. 1955
Solo Exhibitions
2022 — American Stopover, Monte Clark, Vancouver BC
2021 — City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millenium, UCCA
2021 — Trip Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019 — Tokyo-Yokosuka, 1976-1983, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — HK:PM [Hong Kong Night Life 1974–1989], Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 — Under Vancouver 1972–1982, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Richmond/Kowloon, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
2015 — Selects, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2013 — A Better Tomorrow, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 — Hanoi Calling / In the Near Distance, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 — Hanoi Calling / In the Near Distance, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2010 — Greg Girard (photos from Hanoi Calling: One Thousand Years Now), Hanoi Studio, Vietnam
2009 — Half the Surface of the World, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2008 — Greg Girard, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2007 — Greg Girard, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2007 — Sailors, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 — Downtown, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2005 — Phantom Shanghai, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2005 — Phantom Shanghai, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 — Hong Kong: Here and beyond, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2021 — City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA, Shanghai
2020 — The Big Picture, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
2017 — Pictures from Here, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2016 — An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 — Perspectives 2012, International Center of Photography, New York NY
2012 — Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixian, China
2011 — The Near and the Elsewhere, PM Gallery & House, London UK
2010 — It Is What It is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2009 — Clark & Faria Presents:, Clark & Faria, Toronto ON
2008 — Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2007 — History, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2005 — Decay, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2004 — Parallel Worlds, Lille 2004, European Cultural Capital
2003 — Kowloon Walled City, with Ian Lambot, Columbia University Grad School of Architecture Gallery, New York NY
2001 — Cities on the Move, Kiasma, Helsinki
2000 — Cities of the 21st Century, Bauhaus, Germany
1999 — Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, London
1997 — Kowloon Walled City, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
Books
2019 — Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983, The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2017 — HK:PM, AsiaOne Publishing
2017 — Under Vancouver 1972–1982, The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2014 — City of Darkness Revisited, Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, Watermark Publications, UK
2010 — In the Near Distance, Kominek Books, Berlin
2010 — Hanoi Calling, One Thousand Years Now, The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2007 — Phantom Shanghai, The Magenta Foundation, Canada
2000 — Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen: Cities of the 21st Century, Bauhaus, Dessau Germany (Various artists)
1993 — City of Darkness, Life in Kowloon Walled City, Watermark Publications, UK. Reprinted 1999, 2000, 2002
Selected Bibliography
2022 — Vintage photos show underbelly of boom-era Japan, CNN, November 23
2022 — Greg Girard Takes Us Back in Time to a Pre-bubble Tokyo for ‘JAL 76 88’, HypeArt, October 10
2022 — A New Book Features Otherworldly Photographs of Japan in the 1970s, Inside Hook, October
2022 — Take a nostalgic trip back to 80s Japan with these Blade Runner-esque images, Digital Camera Magazine, July 29
2022 — Tokyo, 1970, Nighttime: Capturing the Rise of Bubble-era Japan, WhyNow, September
2022 — A Neon Soaked City, Aesthetica Magazine, August 12
2022 — Kowloon Walled City: Exploring the City of Darkness that inspired Stray’s cyberpunk world, Sportskeeda, July 23
2022 — Rare rock-star vintage photos pair with vintage and contemporary pieces in stunning Vancouver exhibition, Vancouver Sun, June 29
2022 — Tokyo Nights: 1970s and 1980s Japan in photos, The Times, January 30
2021 — Nocturnal and Neon Photographer Greg Girard Spent 30 Years Immortalizing Asia at Night, Mix Mag, November 29
2019 — Dickerman, Kenneth: These vivid, nostalgic photos show what Tokyo looked like in the 1970s, Washington Post, August 9
2019 — tokyo in the 1970s, a pre-blade runner city, designboom, June 11
2019 — Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. 1970s Tokyo Revisited, The British Journal of Photography, June 5
2019 — Laurence, Robin. Greg Girard photographs Asian Cities undergoing rapid redevelopment, The Georgia Straight, April 17
2017 — Witt, Andrew. Splendour Without Diminishment, The Mainlander, June 11
2017 — Lederman, Marsha. Emily Carr Sure, But Something New Too, Globe and Mail, June 1
2017 — Hening, Clare. CBC News, May 14, 2017
2017 — Interview with David Campany, The Tyee, April 21
2014 — “The Walled City Meets Richmond” Richmond Review, May
2012 — Guzman, Alissa. “When Outsiders Feel More Familiar than the Mainstream,” Hyperallergic
2012 — Heathcote, Edwin. “The Near and the Elsewhere, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London,” The Financial Times
2012 — Lai, Lawrence. “Half the Surface of the World,” ABC News
2012 — Interview, Fototazo
2012 — MacDonald, Kerri. “Uncovering Away From Home,” New York Times
2011 — Rhodes, Richard. “Greg Girard: Eyes on Asia,” Canadian Art Magazine
2011 — Sandals, Leah. “Q&A: Photographer Greg Girard,” National Post
2011 — “When Polariod was still the future,” Zeit Online
2010 — “Phantom Shanghai” Globe and Mail, December
2009 — Arden, Roy. “Half the Surface of the World,” Catalogue essay
2009 — “Phantom Shanghai” CV81, March
2008 — Kaplan, Ben. “Lost Metropolis,” National Post
2007 — Beech, Hannah. “Disappearing Act,” Time Magazine
2007 — Rubinfien, Leo. “Phantom Shanghai,” Vogue Japan
2007 — “Phantom Shanghai” New York Times
2007 — “Phantom Shanghai” Wallpaper Magazine
2007 – “Shanghai Surprise” Entertainment Weekly
Collections
Art Bank of the Canada Council
Art Gallery of Ontario
Conner, Clark and Lunn
McCarthy Tetrault
National Gallery of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery