Geoffrey Farmer

In Residence:
March 2, 2015 - March 11, 2015
Discipline:
Visual Art, Installation, Multimedia
Country:
Canada

Geoffrey Farmer (b. 1967, Vancouver) currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. At once fragile and multiform, discreet and omnipresent, Farmer’s work is the product of simple yet strategic manipulations. It operates on the same level as everyday experience: simultaneously rational and chaotic, undeniably concrete yet shaped by the imagination. In a voice that combines poetry and social commentary, his work conjures and reactivates a variety of narratives drawn from history, popular culture, art history and social environments. It also reflects an interest in the exhibition itself – both its fictional power and its temporal component. Farmer focuses on particular features of these diverse sources, notably concepts of the work and process, transformation and performance.

His major installation Leaves of Grass is currently on display at the National Gallery of Canada, and included in Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014. He was the 2013 recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, and has a forthcoming survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2015.

Recent major solo exhibitions include the touring exhibition Let’s Make the Water Turn Black exhibited at Pérez Art Museum Miami (2014), Hamburg Kunstverein (2014), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2013), Nottingham Contemporary (2013); as well as Cut nothing, cut parts, cut the whole, cut the order of time, Casey Kaplan, New York (2014); Every Day Needs An Urgent Whistle Blown Into It, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014); The Grass and Banana go for a walk, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2014); and The Surgeon and the Photographer, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London (2013). Recent group exhibitions include The Intellection of Lady Spider House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2013); Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stadt Fellbach (2013); dOCUMENTA (13) (2012); Stage Presence, SFMOMA, San Francisco (2012); and the 12th Instanbul Biennial (2011).

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