Geoffrey Farmer

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Artist

Biography

Over more than two decades, Geoffrey Farmer has developed a complex body of work that incorporates drawing, collage, sculpture, film, video, performance, and writing to produce site-specific, often set-like installations that draw heavily from the artist’s memory, popular culture, history, and a breadth of references from literature and film. This approach produces a constellation of images and ideas from disparate sources and time periods. Farmer graduated from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, in 1992, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. In 2017, he represented Canada at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has presented solo exhibitions at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (2016); Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); Art Gallery of Ontario (2014); Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and Kunstverein in Hamburg (2014); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and Nottingham Contemporary (2013); The Curve Gallery, Barbican, London (2013); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2011); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2008); The Drawing Room, London, UK (2007) and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2005). Farmer has recently been included in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017, 2014); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2016); The Louvre, Paris (2015); Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (2013); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).

Catriona Jeffries, 2024

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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)

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