[1] Established in 1984, and founded by Glenn Alteen, Kempton Dexter, Danielle Peacock, Susan MacKinley, Garry Ross, Dawn Richards, Billy Gene, Hillary Wood, and Daniel Olson.

In 1994, grunt and artist Pat Beaton produced the Mount Pleasant Community Fence, one of Vancouver’s first engaged public art projects.

In 1996, production of the Mattering Map by Pia Masse, another engaged community public art focused on the working class diners of East Vancouver.

grunt gallery has exhibited artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Syrus Marcus Ware, Derya Akay, Aileen Bahmanipour, and Paul Wong.

[7] In 2005, as a part of LIVE Biennial, grunt created the community project Nova Library and also its first archival Website First Nations Performance.