Julia Feyrer

Life and education Feyrer was born in Victoria, British Columbia.

Exhibitions

Background Actors An installation of video and sculptural elements, exploring perception and the limits of modern science.

Escape Scenes An exhibition of 16mm, cyanotype and artist books at the Western Front in 2014, related to mediated perception and measurement. The 16mm film produced for this exhibition was later exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Ambivalent Pleasures (2016).

Kitchen In their exhibition and residency at grunt gallery in 2014, Feyrer transformed the main gallery space into a site-specific environment to engage with materials and documentation they retrieved from the grunt archives.

grunt gallery curator Vanessa Kwan wrote texts over the course of the exhibition and residency which are available for the public at the gallery or through their website. Among the works included was The Artist’s Studio (2012), a three-part daguerreotype based on Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype of ‘an artist studio’ taken in 1836. In Little pitchers have ears (2012), Feyrer created a binaural microphone in the shape of a head that recorded their walk around the museum spaces of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, BC. Their interest in the Vancouver bar came about when they encountered an archival photograph of the bar’s vacant interior.

Feyrer and Henderson collaborated and were included in the group exhibition Insomnia at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden. This exhibition "revolved around sleeplessness as a cultural symptom." It brought "together a group of contemporary artists" and "key works by Andy Warhol" amongst other artists. Feyrer and Henderson's works are "manifestations of excursions into different modes of consciousness."

Feyrer and Henderson have three notable collaborative exhibitions: Bottles Under the Influence: Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2013); Tamara Henderson and Julia Feyrer: Consider the Belvedere at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2015); and The Last Waves at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2016). These exhibitions are seen as a three-part project taking place in three different galleries. André Breton’s Surrealist texts, such as the First Surrealist Manifesto (1940), are often referenced when discussing the collaborators’ artworks. Their collaborative works were also exhibited as part of The Metamorphosis (2018), at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

In 2015, Feyrer collaborated with Derya Akay on the exhibition Walk: Geometry of Knowing that was presented at SFU Gallery.

Awards Mayor's Art Award, City of Vancouver, 2011

Writing Feyrer is the co-editor of the online audiozine Spoox and author of a series of artist books from Perro Verlag Press.

Publications Feyrer, Julia and Tamara Henderson. Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson. Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2019. Feyrer, Julia. Script Ruin by Page Turner. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag, 2014. Feyrer, Julia and Tamara Henderson. Les Bouitelles de la Table Ronde. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2013. Feyrer, Julia and Erik Lavesson. The Rotting Husk. Frankfurt, Germany: Leonhardi Kultur Projekte, 2012. Feyrer, Julia. The Wandering Art Metropole Publications and Ephemera Archive. Vancouver, BC: Project Space, 2012. Feyrer, Julia. Scrap Book. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2010. Feyrer, Julia. Comedy Tragedy. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2009. Editor, Spoox Audiozine, Issues 1 - 8. 2006 - 2010. Editor, Upsilon Epsilon Magazine, Issues 1 - 3. 2004 - 2006.