Vincent Grenier
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Vincent Grenier (1948–2023) was a Canadian avant-garde filmmaker.
Vincent Grenier was born in 1948 in Quebec City, to Robert Grenier and Huguette Lacroix. He moved to San Francisco in 1970, where he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking in 1972.[1]
Grenier ran the San Francisco Cinematheque from 1974 to 1975. He focused on its curatorial activities and was influential in establishing the reputation of its exhibition program nationally and internationally.[2] Grenier took teaching jobs at SFAI, the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Adelphi University. He taught at Binghamton University from 1999 until his retirement in 2021.[1] Grenier was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.[3] He died on November 2, 2023, from large-cell lymphoma.[1]
