Gerry Gilbert
Individual
Roles
Artist, Author, WriterBiography
Gerry Gilbert was a writer, artist, and filmmaker. Born in 1936, he studied at the University of British Columbia from 1954 to 1956. Subsequently, he lived in Montréal and Europe. He founded British Columbia Monthly (1972), a writing anthology magazine. With Glenn Lewis, Gilbert organized the first B.C. Art Race in 1974, a performance piece that entailed a foot race along Georgia Street with the artists "carrying their art on their backs" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also hosted radiofreerainforest on CFRO Radio. He was one of 15 contributing artist/photographers in the group photographic exhibition/publication The BC Almanac(h)-CB, 1970. Gilbert's photographs and films have been included in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Film Board of Canada, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Western Front, and the Contemporary Art Gallery. He was a prolific poet, with many volumes to his name, including White Lunch (1964), Phone Book (1966), I'm Getting Tired of Hallucinations (1976), So Long Song (1988), Year of the Rush (1994), and Moby Jane (2004). His video, performance, and photographic work have been collected on Gerry Gilbert/ the movie, a 12-hour videotape. Gerry Gilbert passed away in Vancouver in June 2009.Michael de Courcy, 2024
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
Background / ThisPlace (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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