John K. Grande

John K. Grande (born 11 December 1954) is a Canadian author, poet, essayist and curator. He has authored essays for some 40 books, which have appeared in translation in Spanish, French, Czech, Hungarian, Korean and German. His catalogues and articles have appeared in many other languages.
John K. Grande has contributed extensively to the Canadian and international arts communities over the past 30 years. Specializing in art and ecology his publications include, he's also known for his activities in and surrounding art involved with nature. He has also created poetry on these themes. 
===Earth Art===
Grande has curated Earth Art, Eco-Art and Art and Nature shows that are an extension to his writings. Early shows included Sorel, Quebec; Sackville, New Brunswick and then the Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario), which he used to express the relation between nature and art, which he has criticized as being seldom integrated into contemporary art.Royal Botanical Gardens 
He then went on to curate Eco-Art in various locations around the world, including Finland Eco-Art, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, 2011 and Kathy Venter: Life in Toronto in 2013,Kathy Venter; Life, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013 followed by Nature Art Spring in Meran; Italy, 2015.Nature Art Spring in Meran, South Tyrol, Italy, 2015
More recently he curated the international category of Small Gestures at the Kunsthalle, known as Mucsarnok in Budapest, Hungary in 2016.Small Gestures at the Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2016 He also had a workshop at the 2018 Festival for Earth in VeniceWORKSHOP - JOHN GRANDE (CANADA), Understanding Connectedness - Art for the BiosphereFestival for the Earth, 4 DECEMBER 2018 Le Zattere, Venice, Italy, John Grande - Workshop and participated at the Symposium The Chimney, Brooklyn, NYC in September 2018.Symposium - September 2018 — The Chimney Brooklyn NYC He then curated an exhibition in Poland in 2019.Ludwika Ogorzelec; Space Crystallization, Architecture Museum; Wroclaw, Poland 2019 (a record of conversations with Jaromiar Jedliński, texts by John K. Grande and Marek Czachor)
In 2010 John Grande received an Honour Award from the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in the field of Research and Communication for collaboration with Alan Sonfist.[https://www.aslacolorado.org/2010-awards-archive/ ASLA Colorado — 2010 Award Winners, Honor Award for Research and Communication The project, featured in Public Art Review where Grande wrote The Lay of Land Art, was undertaken at Snowmass, Colorado on the golf course. Burned trees from forest fires were placed in an assemblage on the golf course. The work is now in a Chicago Museum Collection.
Prix Lison Dubreuil, 1994 for Which Public? Whose Art?[http://www.erudit.org/culture/espace1041666/espace1047768/index.html Prix Lison Dubreuil, 1994 Which Public? Whose Art?
Garden Exhibition of the Year 2015, Canadian Garden Council Awards,Garden Council Awards, 2015 for Pan Am Earth Art show curated by John K. Grande. for Pan Am Earth Art show curated by John K. Grande.
Honorary Doctorate at Pécs Hungary 2015Honorary Doctorate at Pécs Hungary 2015
=== Books ===
* Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 1994)Balance: Art and Nature, Black Rose Books, Montreal 1994 
* Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists (Black Rose Books, 1998)Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists, Black Rose Books, 1998 
* Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engagé (Montreal: Lanctot, 2001)Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engagé, Montreal: Lanctot, 2001 
* Art Nature Dialogues (SUNY Press, New York 2003)Art Nature Dialogues, SUNY Press, New York 2003 
* Dialogues in Diversity; Art from Marginal to Mainstream (Pari, Italy 2007)Dialogues in Diversity; Art from Marginal to Mainstream, Pari, Italy 2007 
* Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle (Prospect Press /Gaspereau Press, 2011)
* Nils-Udo; Sur l’eau (Actes Sud, France, 2015)
* Alice Teichert (Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017)Alice Teichert (Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017) with an essay by John K. Grande 
* Daniel Corbeil (Plein Sud, Longueuil, QC. 2018)Daniel Corbeil Plein Sud 2018
* Art, Space, Ecology: Two Views Twenty Interviews (Black Rose Books/University of Chicago, 2018)Art, Space, Ecology; Two Views Twenty Interviews, Black Rose Books/University of Chicago Press, 2019
* Jason deCaires Taylor - Rising Waters Museo Atlantico (Lanzarote, Spain), 2019Jason deCaires Taylor - Rising Waters, Museo Atlantico, 2019
* Ludwika Ogozelec: Space Crystallization Wroclaw Architecture Museum (Wroclaw, Poland) 2019Ludwika Ogozelec: Space Crystallization, Wroclaw Architecture Museum, 2019
==== Co-authorships ====
* Judy Garfin: Natural Disguise (Véhicule Press, Montreal, 1998)Judy Garfin: Natural Disguise, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 1998 
* Nils-Udo: Art with Nature (Wienand Verlag, Koln, Germany 2000)
* Le Mouvement Intuitif (with Patrick Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak, Atelier 340, Bruxelles 2003)Le Mouvement Intuitif; Patrick Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak Atelier 340, Bruxelles 2003 
* Natura Humana (with Bob Verschueren, Editions Mardaga, Brussels, 2010).Natura Humana; Bob Verschueren, Editions Mardaga, Brussels, 2010
=== Poetry ===
* The Landscape Changes (With Arnold Shives, Prospect Press / Gaspereau Press, Nova Scotia (2009)
* Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle Prospect Press / Gaspereau Press (2011)[http://landart.lubelskie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Land-Art-Festival-2016-John-K.-Grande-EN.pdf Homage to Jean- 
 Paul Riopelle, Prospect Press / Gaspereau Press (2011)] 
* Black Peat (illustrated by Alfio Bonanno) Print Factory, Ireland (2012) 
* Grass Grows with Thomas May at the Grass Blade Institute in Nuremberg, Germany (2013)
* Towards the Forest; for Edvard Munch (2017)
* Nature is the art we are part of, Tsukuba Museum of Art Ibaraki, 2019.
Category:1954 births
Category:Canadian authors
Category:Canadian poets
Category:Canadian essayists
Category:Canadian curators