GREG DEDA

Greg Deda (b. 1965) is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist and set designer based in Toronto and New York. Deda is known for his vast collections of magic realism and abstract, semi- abstract works. He is an internationally recognised painter and set designer. In 1996 Greg Deda studied at the Scuola Dei Beni Culturali (Now the University of Salento) in Italy. Deda was deeply inspired by frescoes painted by the great maestros of the early to late renaissance period (Michelangelo, Botticelli and Mantegna). He later explored the art of the post Berlin Wall Era attending Kunst Schule in Germany where he met emerging and established artists such as Gerhard Richter and Jörg Immendorff. 

Deda’s exhibitions are internationally recognised, with shows in Torino, Dusseldorf, Munich, New York, Toronto, and more recently in London. His body of work has earned a place in both private and public collections admired for his dreamlike and ambiguous atmosphere with its capacity to evoke emotional responses. Deda’s private and public collections of magical realism are one of the most unique works in modern day art today. Each conveying and expressing multi sensory themes and perspectives, designed to emotionally awaken his audience. Themes of altering societies, illusions, roman mythology, ambiguous nature and architecture are staged in his mysterious scenes and compositions. Deda’s abstract collections vary in a spectrum of abstract expressionism and semi abstract, connecting to the subconscious of the mind, architecture and nature.