The work of artist/photographer and graphic designer Angela Grauerholz has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has participated in many international events of distinction including the Sydney Biennale (1990), Documenta IX (1992), the Carnegie International (1995) and the Montréal Biennale (2004). She was awarded a number of prestigious prizes for her accomplishments in the arts, such as Québec’s Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006), the Canada Council’s Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014), and in 2015, the distinguished Scotiabank Photography Award (Toronto).
Amongst a selection of many solo exhibitions, her work was shown at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, (Münster, 1991), the MIT List Visual Arts Center, (Cambridge, MA, 1993), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, 1999), the Power Plant (Toronto, 1999), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College (Chicago, 1999), the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2004), VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal (2006), and the Vancouver Public Library (2008). Angela Grauerholz (photographies 1990 – 1995), a survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1995, travelled to several institutions in Canada, Germany and France (1995-96). In 2010, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa mounted a retrospective exhibition of her work, consequently shown at the University of Toronto Art Center in 2011. In conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award, the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto also put together another important survey exhibition (2016).
As Full Professor at the École de design, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)—where she also directed the Centre de design (2008 to 2012)—she taught typography and photography from 1988 to 2017. In 2019, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.