Angela Grossmann is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist best known for her powerfully expressive collages and drawings exploring issues of human identity.

Angela Grossmann was born in 1955 in London, England. Born into an art making family, her mother adorned the walls of their home in murals and her father worked as a graphic designer. "My childhood evenings were often spent drawing" says Grossmann. "You could say I come from an artistic family, both my parents were painters and my grandmother was an art collector in Dusseldorf before she was murdered in the Holocaust."

In 1980 Grossmann found herself in Vancouver, BC visiting her sister. It was there she discovered the Emily Carr College of Art and Design and began her formal art education. While at art school she immersed herself in drawing and painting and graduated with honours in 1985. At Emily Carr she met fellow "Futura Bold" artists Douglas Coupland, Attila Richard Lukacs, Derek Root and Graham Gillmore who came to be known as "The Young Romantics" after their now legendary show at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1985. The exhibition launched the career of these young artists who each went on to international acclaim.

In 1986 Grossmann received the much coveted Paris Studio study prize from the Canada Council. Following her year in Paris she moved to Amsterdam for five years; a place she continues to maintain strong ties with. In 1991 she moved to Montreal to complete a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University. Since that time she has taught art at a number of post-secondary institutions including Concordia, the University of Ottawa, UBC and at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In June 2006 she was recognized by The Art Newspaper as one of 100 artists who have most influenced students in British art schools. Grossmann currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

Grossmann credits the artistic influences of Hannah Hoch, "a woman before her time" and Max Beckman among many others for informing the development of her imagery. It would be remiss not to include members of "The Young Romantics" who are both major influences and close personal friends.

For the past twenty years Angela Grossmann has built a reputation as a significant force in Canadian art. She is a prolific artist who has worked tirelessly to develop her work and is now represented by five major galleries in Canada and abroad. Exhibited across Canada, the United States and in Europe, her work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Appelton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida, the Abteilberg Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany, the Vancouver Art Gallery and in the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. In 2006 she was instrumental in creating the widely acclaimed "Vancouver School" installation in the AfK Gallery with the Futura Bold collective.