Gianni Giuliano is an artist of Italian descent based in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University and a Master of Arts in Painting from the Université du Québec à Montréal. His practice has been recognized through numerous awards, including first prize at the 6th edition of The Brush Off competition, and finalist positions in the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series in 2016 and 2018. Giuliano is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. His work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections internationally.
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’s practice engages with the abject and the uncontainable dimensions of human psychology. Through intricately rendered figurative forms, the artist investigates ambiguous and transitional states of consciousness, where the familiar gives way to the unknown. His work interrogates concealed aspects of identity by extending the logic of visibility toward what resists representation. By animating improbable beings and situations with an uncanny sense of humanity, Giuliano constructs visual narratives in which coexistence follows its own internal probabilities. Within these imagined frameworks, space and its thresholds are continually re-examined, as boundaries are destabilized through processes 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
2025
2024
2024
2023
2024
2023
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2022
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2021
2020
2019
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2013
2012
In Colour, McClure Gallery, Westmount (QC)
The Human Condition, Sahar K. Boluki Gallery, Toronto (ON)
Re-Assembly; Emboldening the Temporal, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Westmount(QC)
Le Grand Salon 2023 , Musée des beaux-arts de Mont Saint-Hilaire, Saint Hilaire
(QC)
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)
Woman, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove (NL)
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
2021
2018
2016
2013
2013
An Altered State of Consciousness, Sahar K. Boluki Gallery, Toronto (ON)
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)