Gregory Gan

Gregory Gan is a self-taught artist working in the transparent watercolour medium. He was born in the former Soviet Union in 1984. When he was ten years old, his family relocated to France and then to Canada, where he grew up. Gregory has trained in visual anthropology at the University of Toronto (BA, 2006), Memorial University of Newfoundland (MA, 2010), and The University of British Columbia (PhD, 2019). As part of his doctoral research, Gregory created a traveling, multi-media installation involving microcontrollers, video-mapping, and ceramic objects. His other research interests include decolonial scholarship, transnational migration, and material culture. He has also trained as a filmmaker (Ryerson University, 2007; SoundImageCulture, 2010), having completed two award-nominated feature-length films. His most recent film, Empathy for Concrete Things (2023), completed by digitally and manually animating original watercolours, was completed as part of a postdoctoral fellowship on postsocialism, architecture, and affect. Gregory lives and works in Berlin.