Pnina Granirer

PNINA GRANIRER
www.pninagranirer.com

Vancouver artist Pnina Granirer completed her studies at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Israel and has lived in Canada since 1965. Granirer worked in Pierre Ayot’s print studio year in Montreal. In 1978 she studied lithography with Garo Antresian at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design and in 1984 studied stage painting with Ted Roberts at the University of British Columbia. Later she created sets for the Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver. In the summer of 1989 she participated in the Emma Lake Artists' workshop. She later lived in Paris for extended periods and worked at the lithography shop of Clot, Bramsen & Georges.
In 1985 a video on her work was shown on educational television networks Canada wide and her exhibitions have been the subject of reviews in publications such as ArtsMagazine, ArtsWest, Vanguard, Artichoke, Art Focus and others.
Exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, Granirer's works are found in numerous public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Israel and Peru. While living periodically in Paris, Granirer showed in group exhibitions at the Canadian Cultural Centre, the Grand Palais, the Canadian Embassy and had solo shows in Strasbourg.
Her prize winning limited edition book THE TRIALS OF EVE was published in December 1989 and was launched in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. A film of the same name and based on the book was produced by Gretchen Jordan-Bastow and premiered in February 1990 at the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver. The film was later shown on the Knowledge Network and featured at the 1992 UNESCO International Art Film Festival in Paris, France.
In 1993, together with artist Anne Adams, Granirer initiated and organized the successful ongoing annual ARTISTS IN OUR MIDST Open Studios event involving more than 70 artists.
A 40 years retrospective of her work was mounted at the Richmond Art Gallery in January 1998 and a book by Ted Lindberg on her life and work, PNINA GRANIRER: Portrait of an Artist (Ronsdale Press) was published at the same time.
In the fall of 2004, Granirer exhibited her work in Prague in an exchange of Canadian and Czech artists and during the summer of 2005 she participated in group exhibitions in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in Cagnes-sur-mer, France and at the Museo Fundacion Eugenio Grenell in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where her work became part of this museum’s collection.
The film, PNINA GRANIRER: Portrait of an Artist, aired on on BRAVO! and on Knowledge Network. She is featured on the Net on www.culturefrancophone.ca/tete-a-tete,, on Centre for Contemporary Canadian artists (www.ccca.ca) and many other websites.

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