Janieta Eyre Selected Works     Biography     Press Release

  1966 Born in London, England
  Lives and works in Toronto, Canada

  EDUCATION

  1991-95 Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Studies in photography
  1989 Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto. Studies in Magazine Journalism
  1988 University of Toronto, Toronto. B.A. in Philosophy

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  2000 Lady Lazarus, Francesco Girondini Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
  Lady Lazarus, Diane Farris, Vancouver, Canada
  1999 Lady Lazarus, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
  The National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Lady Lazarus, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Lady Lazarus, The Justina M. Barnickle Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  Absolute Los Angeles International Biennial Invitational, Frumkin/Duvall Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  1998 Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
  1997 3/4 Blind,Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
  3/4 Blind, Diane Farris, Vancouver, Canada
  3/4 Blind, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Absolute Los Angeles International Biennial Invitational, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
  1995 Incarnations, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada

  GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  2001 Uncommon Threads, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, curated by Sean M. Ulmer
  Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, curated by Dennis Weller and Janis Goodman
  Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida curated by Dennis Weller and Janis Goodman
  2000 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada, curated by Andrea Kunard
  Wear Your Hybridization, Sbaiz Spazio Arte, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti
  1999 Group Show (Janieta Eyre, Myriam Laplante, Shirin Neshat, Luigi Ontani, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Liliana Porter), Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
  Wrapped Up!, Framkin / Duvall Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Rosso Vivo (Deep Red), Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan, Italy, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti
  In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
  1998 Libera Mente - La Figurazione del Sentimento, Palazzo del Capitano, Cesena, Italy, curated by Alice Rubbini and Peter Weiermair
  Welcome, Associazione Culturale IDRIA, Citta' Sant'Angelo, Pescara, Italy, curated by Renato Bianchini
  Disidentico: Maschile, Femminile e Oltre, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
  Rumors, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Milan, Italy
  1998 Light on the New Millennium, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
  Photology Gallery, Milan, Italy
  Singular Mysterieso (Three person show), Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
  1997 Here's Looking at me Kid; Artists look at Themselves, Art Gallery of North York, Ontario, Canada
  Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy, curated by
  Demetrio Paparoni
  Figuratively Speaking, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  Swoon, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Canada
  Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
  Altered Egos, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, curated by Reine Hauser
  New Acquisitions, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
  1996-98 Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
  1996 Snow, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Private Investigations, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
  Without Shame, 393 Augusta, Toronto
  Fictions, Guido Carbone, Turin, Italy, curated by Marcella Beccaria
  Women and Cultural Work,Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada, curated by Carol Podedworny
  1995 Beauty 2, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, curated by Philip Monk
  Gallery Artists-Invitational, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Proof 2, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada, curated by Gallery 44 collective
  Art for Heart, Linda Genereux Gallery, Casey House Auction,
  Toronto,Canada
  1994 Open House, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
  Head by Wiggy, Toronto, Canada, curated by Anne Elizabeth O'Brien
  Gallery '76, Toronto, Canada
  1992 V is for Video, Ontario College of Art, Screening Room, Toronto, Canada, curated by O.C.A.'s Women's Video Collective

  GRANTS/RESIDENCY

  1999 Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland - Residency
  1997 Canada Council B grant
  Ontario Arts Council - Exhibitions Assistance
  1996 Canada Council - C Grant
  1995 Toronto Arts Council - Visual Arts Grant
  Ontario Arts Council - Photography Grant
  Ontario Arts Council - Exhibitions Assistant
  1994 Canada Council - Explorations Grant
  1993 Ontario Arts Council - Writers Reserve Grant

  PUBLICATIONS

  1997 Janieta Eyre, Catalogue, Cristinerose Gallery Ed.
  1995 Borderlines, Toronto. Excerpts from: Incarnations
  1992-95 Regular contributor to Paragraph, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
  1995 Tessera, Spring issue. Excerpts from Rehearsals
  1994 Paragraph, Spring issue. Excerpts from Rehearsals
  Paragraph, Fall issue. Interview with Marie-Claire Blais
  1990 Notes on an Unfinished Affair, Streetcar Editions
  1986-87 Art reviews for The Varsity
  1983-86 The University of Toronto Review. Poems
  Acta Victoriana. Poems
  U.C. Review. Poems
  Ethos. Poems

  REVIEWS

  2000 Finkelpearl, Tom, Flash Art, Kwangju Biennial, Janieta Eyre, Summer 2000
  1999 Rehor, Petr, Taide Art Magazine, Issue #6, 1999, Janieta Eyre - Lady Lazarus, pg. 41-44
  Frankel, David, Artforum, December
  Ellegood, Anne, NY Arts, Vol. 4, N.10
  Lemons, Stephen, Art Connoisseur, Eyre of Prophecy, pg. 60-69
  Lemons, Stephen, New Times Los Angeles, Eyre Apparent, July 15-21, pg. 20
  Vaughan, R.M., EYE, Tormented Identities Drive Hypnotic Self-Portraits,
  Friday, April 29
  Incardona, Laura, Glamour, Questo Nostro Corpo, January, pg. 58
  Fiz, Alberto, Carnet, Sangue e Scena, January, pg. 34-37
  Setari, Giuliana e De Angelis Testa, Gemma, Il Giornale Dell'Arte, La Beauty Farm Ingenera Mutanti, January, No. 173
  Photo, Rosso Vivo: Contaminazione Come Unico Possibile Orizzone Sul Futuro, March, pg. 60-65
  1999 Orlandi, Gaia, Business, Appuntamento in Rosso, March, pg. 126
  Alfano Miglietti, Francesca, Rosso Vivo. Mutazione, Trasfigurazione e
  Sangue nell'Arte Contemporanea, Electa Edizioni (catalogue)
  1998 Spada, Sabina, Segno, January/February, pg. 101
  Ridolfi, Roberta, Segno, Liberamente, Summer 1998, pg. 36
  Light on the New Millennium, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum Ed., Catalogue, pg.118
  Daniele Perra, La Stanza Rossa, Dolce e Macabra Poetica del Doppio, January- March, pg.22-23
  Allen, Al, Poliester, Janieta Eyre, pg. 24-29
  1997 Kino, Carol, TimeOut, 3/4 Blind, November 13-20
  Johnson, Ken, The New York Times (listing), Janieta Eyre, October 31
  Parravicini, Mariacristina, Virus, Janieta Eyre, October, pg. 53-55
  Kandal, Susan, Los Angeles Times, Portraits with a Wicked Sense of Self, Friday, August 8
  Artfocus, Janieta Eyre at Garnet Press, Fall, 13-14
  Paparoni, Demetrio, Il Corpo Vedente dell'Anima, Castelvecchi Ed, pg. 116
  1997 Lemons, Stephen, Entertainment Today, Canadian Artist Janieta Eyre's Bizarre Double Images Transform Bergamot Station's Frumkin Gallery in a Photographic Tour de Force, August 9
  Smith, Andrea, Vis Arts, Questioning Femininity: Domestic Angels and Vision of Excess, June 18
  Mcmillan, Simone. Toronto Life Magazine, Art, April, pg.36
  Paparoni, Demetrio, Tema Celeste, Photographic Intimism, March/April, pg. 56
  Hanna, Dierdre, NOW Magazine, Eyre's Humour Haunts Surreal Self-
  portraits, April 24-30
  MacKay, Gillian, The Globe & Mail, Images Explode Femininity, May 3, p. C14
  Donahue, Marlena, Rave!, Improving Self Image, August 1
  Green, Natalie, Art Voice, Altered Egos Inner Selves, March 19-25
  Hungtington, Richard, The Buffalo News, Something They're Not..., April 11
  MacKay, Gillian, The Globe & Mail, Swoon at Garnet Press, January 25, pg. C12
  1996 Arning, Bill, TimeOut, Private Investigations, September 18-25
  La Repubblica, La Mostra, June
  La Stampa, Inquietanti Collages e Ironische Fictions, June 27
  La Stampa, Fictions, Torinosette, June 20
  La Stampa, Fra Ironia, Horror e Linee Post Punk di Giovani Artisti, June 4
  Mulatero, Ivana, Corriere dell'Arte, Storie Delicatamente Incoerenti, June 22
  Jordan, Betty Ann. Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 1996,
  Fast Forward
  1995 Balfour Bowen, Lisa, Toronto Sun, Body Double, July 2, Comment 11
  Balfour Bowen, Lisa, Toronto Sun, Young and Restless, July 9, Comment 11
  1995 Bentley-Mays, John, Globe & Mail, The World of snide, jokey artwork, July 15
  Jordan, Betty Ann. Canadian Art Magazine, Summer, Fast Forward, pg. 21
  Hanna, Deidre, NOW Magazine, Janieta Eyre's Personal Demons Hover in Photos, July 6-12, p. 63
  Hanna, Deidre. NOW Magazine, Hot Summer Guide, June, pg. 71
  Hanna, Deidre. NOW Magazine, Highlights, June, pg. 86
  Hitzeroth, Connie, The Financial Post, Hot New Pop Art, July 1, pg. 20
  Hume, Christopher, Toronto Star, Portrait of the Artist as Double Exposure, August 20, pg. C3
  Hume, Christopher, Toronto Star, Finding Meaning in the Muck of Modernism,"July 13, pg. G7

  DESIGN

  1995 Artistic designer for "Ficco" written and directed by Catayo and staged
  at Festival of Original Theatre, Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, Canada

  PERFORMANCES IN FILM

  1996 Performed in "Letters from Home," directed by Mike Hoolboom, premiered in the Toronto '96 International Film Festival
  1995 Performed in "Scum," part of "House of Pain," directed by Mike
  Hoolboom and premiered in the Toronto '95 International Film Festival

  COLLECTIONS


  The National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland


  Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa


  Bailey & Company, Inc., Toronto


  Shadow Play, Toronto


  Microsoft, Seattle, Washington


  The Seymour Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia


  Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario


  and various private collections in United States, Canada and Italy