Catriona Jeffries

Geoffrey Farmer – CV

Geoffrey Farmer
b. 1967, Vancouver
Lives and works on Kauai, USA

Education

• 1992 Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
• 1991 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2019 If You Want To See Something Look at Something Else (Allen Ginsberg 1926–1997), Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
• 2018 MUDPUDDLERS, CORN BORERS, POLYMORPHIC PLATYFORMS., Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
• 2017 The Care With Which The Rain Is Wrong, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
  Geoffrey Farmer & Gareth Moore. A Dark Switch Yawning, Neptune Skeletons Thronging, Black Bucket Prolonging, World Turtle Longing, Sink Plug Wronging, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
  A way out of the mirror, Canada Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  The Big Kitchen, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2016 The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, USA
• 2015 How Do I Fit This Ghost in My Mouth, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• 2014 Cut nothing, cut parts, cut the whole, cut the order of time, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
  Leaves of Grass, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Every day needs an urgent whistle blown into it, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  Let’s Make the Water Turn Black, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA
  The Grass and the Banana go for a walk, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2013 The Surgeon and the Photographer, The Curve Gallery, Barbican, London, UK
  Let’s Make the Water Turn Black, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
  Hybrid Naples: L’ordine delle idee deve procedere secondo l’ordine delle cose, Bettina Allamoda and Geoffrey Farmer, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
  A Light In The Moon, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
• 2011 Mondegreen, in collaboration with Jeremy Millar, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
  Bacon’s Not The Only Thing That Is Cured By Hanging From A String, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
  Let’s Make the Water Turn Black, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
• 2010 God’s Dice, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
  The Surgeon and the Photographer, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  Ongoing Time Stabbed With A Dagger, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
  El Vampiro De Coyoacán y sus Veinte Achichintles, Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
  Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
  Broadsiding, in collaboration with Michael Turner, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
• 2008 Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
  Forgetting Air, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 2007 The Last Two Million Years, Spacex, Exeter, UK; The Drawing Room, London, UK
• 2006 Airliner Open Studio, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2005 Set: Room 302, in collaboration with Judy Radul, Artspeak, Vancouver
  Pale Fire Freedom Machine, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• 2004 Every Surface in Some Way Decorated, Altered or Changed Forever (Except the Float), Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2002 The Blacking Factory, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
• 2001 Catriona Jeffries Catriona, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2000 Hunchback Kit, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
• 1996 Home Alone (Becoming Your Own Spaceship), Or Gallery, Vancouver

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023 outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley, Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
• 2021 Unseeable, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2020 Everywhere We Are, Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Canada
• 2019 Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom, Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
  Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  the poets have always preceded, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
• 2018 Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
• 2017 Primordial Saber Tararear Proverbiales Sílabas Tonificantes Para Sublevar Tecnocracias Pero Seguir Tenazmente Produciendo Sociedades Tántricas –Pedro Salazar Torres (Partido Socialista Trabajador), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
  Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
  Propped, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
  Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  IMMATERIAL, Material Art Fair, Expo Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico
  Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool), Walter Phillips Gallery Satellite Space, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
  Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
• 2016 Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London, UK
  Le Grand Balcon, in collaboration with Brian Jungen, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
  Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Readymades, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada
  Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
  MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Objects do things, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
  Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool), Artexte, Montreal; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
• 2015 A Brief History of the Future, The Louvre, Paris, France
  If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, USA
  Hall of Half Life, Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Art, Graz, Austria
  Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada
  Coal for Wine, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY; FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
• 2014 Below another sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
  Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Never Look Back When Leaving, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
  Unreal, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops; Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada
  Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk’wa: From the Michael and Inna O’Brian Collection, Satellite Gallery, Vancou­ver
• 2013 Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
  The Intellection of Lady Spider House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  A Postcard from Victoria, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stadt Fellbach – Kulturamt, Fellbach, Germany
  Puppet Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
  De belles sculptures contemporaines, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Carquefou, France
• 2012 dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
  ONE ON ONE, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  Children’s Films, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
  Stage Presence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  No. 17, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
  Freedom of Assembly, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
  Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
• 2011 An Autobiography of Our Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Beyond, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  Children’s Films, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
  Déjà – The Collection on display, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
  The Garden of Forking Paths, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
  12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  People Things Enter Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  101 Collection: Route 2, Undisclosed Destination, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
• 2010 Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
  Reflection: 15 Years, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
  Sculpture as Time: Major Works. New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
• 2009 Le chant de la carpe, Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
  Loaded, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
  Vuelo Fuera de Tiempo / Flight Out of Time, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2008 1st Brussels Biennial, Brussels, Belgium
  Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Don’t Come In, Be Merciful, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
  The Human Arc, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
  I Am Never At Home, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Master Humphrey’s Clock, Het Gebouw, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  Pleinairism, i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Stories, In Pieces, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  The World as a Stage, ICA Boston, Boston, USA
• 2007 Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Ice Trade, Chelsea Space, London, UK
  The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Crack the Sky, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
• 2006 274 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  Make Believe, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  Dibujos, El Levante, Rosario, Argentina
• 2005 Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
  Mix with Care, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2004 A Few of My Favourite Things: On Collecting Series, Centre for the Arts, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
  I’ve Done This For You, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
  The Coast is Clear, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2003 Beachcombers, Mead Art Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  Hammertown, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
  I Sell Security, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  mosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seethe, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2002 Beachcombers, Gasworks, London; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
  Hammertown, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Officina America, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy
• 2001 The Alien Project, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
  Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Universal Pictures 3.1, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
  Universal Pictures 3, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
  Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island), Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2000 Curatorial Mutiny Part 2: På Samma Våglängd, Konstakuten Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  Message by Eviction: New Art from Vancouver, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
  Self-Conscious, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 1999 Universal Pictures II, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
  Universal Pictures, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
• 1998 Close Encounters, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
  Fragile Electrons, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Monographs

• 2017 Kitty Scott, ed., Geoffrey Farmer: A Way Out of the Mirror, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, and Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy
• 2016 Dan Byers, Geoffrey Farmer, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, USA
• 2015 Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• 2013 Heike Munder, Alex Farquharson, Bettina Steinbrügge, and Tobias Ostrander, eds., Geoffrey Farmer, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and JRP|Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
• 2008 Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Monika Szewczyk, eds., Geoffrey Farmer, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  Pierre Landry, Jessica Morgan, and Scott Watson, Geoffrey Farmer, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
• 2003 Peter Culley and Reid Shier, Geoffrey Farmer, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

Books and Exhibition Catalogues

• 2021 Chantal Boulanger, L'illusion postmoderne? Réflexions sur l'évanescence d'un concept en arts visuels, Éditions Varia, Montreal, Canada
• 2019 Gunnar B. Kvaran, Cheryl Sim, eds., Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany
  Anne Lesley Selcer, Blank Sign Book, Wolfman Books, Oakland, USA
• 2017 Gregory Burke and Sandra Guimarães, eds., Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
  Simon Moretti and Craig Burnett, eds., Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London, UK
• 2016 Bill Jeffries, et al., Readymades, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada
  Helga Pakasaar, Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
• 2014 Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Andrea Kunard, Jonathan Shaughnessy, and Rhiannon Vogl, Shine A Light: Canadian Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  The Twenty First Century Art Book, Phaidon, London, UK
• 2013 Janneke de Vries, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, in Utopia Starts Small: 12 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, eds. Yilmaz Dziewior and Angelika Nollert, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, Germany
  Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Sarah Robayo Sheridan, A Light In The Moon, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
• 2012 Robin T. Anthony and Cassandra Cook, eds., The RBC Collection: Selected Works, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Canada
  Thomas Thiel, Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda / Children’s Films, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
  dOCUMENTA (13): The Guidebook, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany
• 2011 Jens Hoffmann, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, in The Companion: Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and Yap1 Kredi Publications, Istanbul, Turkey
  Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa, eds., The Catalogue: Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and Yap1 Kredi Publications, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2010 Dieter Roelstraete, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, in The Art of Tomorrow, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany
  Kitty Scott, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, in Creamier, Phaidon, London, UK
• 2009 Andrew Bonacina, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon, London, UK
  Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 2008 Anne-Marie Ninacs, Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Monika Szewczyk, ‘Changes in the work of Geoffrey Farmer’, in Anthology of Exhibition Essays 2006/2007, CJ Press, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2007 Jessica Morgan and Catherine Wood, The World as a Stage, Tate Publishing, London, UK
  Wayne Baerwaldt, Crack the Sky: la Biennale de Montréal 2007, CIAC/Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
• 2006 Dieter Roelstraete and Scott Watson, eds., Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium, and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
• 2005 Josephine Mills and Nancy Tousley, On Collecting, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
  Richard Fowler, ‘A Lawyer Steps into Room 302’, Postscript 16, Artspeak, Vancouver
• 2003 Wayne Baerwaldt, mosaiCanada: Sign & Sound, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• 2002 Renato Barilli, Officina America, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy
  Katharine Stout and Andrew Renton, The Beachcombers, The Drawing Room, London, UK
  Michael Turner and Reid Shier, Hammertown, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2001 Beverly Best and Lindsay Brown, Black Figure No Black Figure Black Figure, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
• 2000 Pamela Meredith, Self-Conscious: Geoffrey Farmer, Germaine Koh, Damian Moppett, Kelly Wood, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  Matthew Teitelbaum, Present Tense: Contemporary Project Series No. 16: Geoffrey Farmer, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
• 1999 Kitty Scott, ‘Universal Pictures’, in Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
• 1998 Wayne Baerwaldt, ‘Building home, not my own.’, in Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, Recent Canadian Video Production, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Scott Watson, et al., 6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Sylvie Fortin, Close Encounters, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Magazines and Periodicals

• 2023 Giada Bigarelli, ‘The Surgeon and The Photographer: Geoffrey Farmer’, Generazione Critica, 13 September
• 2019 Emily Piette, ‘Ginsberg poetry festival and art installation to join Volunteer Park’s Pride 2019 festivities’, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, 7 June
• 2018 Yasmin Nurming-Por, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Canadian Art, 19 December
  Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, ‘How One Artist Is Redefining the Exhibition Space’, The Walrus, 1 February
• 2017 Loretta Gomell, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Zitty, 1 November
  Sarrita Hunn, ‘Geoffrey Farmer stirs up politics in his solo show’, Exberliner, No. 165, 1 November
  Jack Radley, ‘The Persistence of Images: Geoffrey Farmer at Schinkel Pavillon’, Berlin Art Link, 17 October
  Rab Messina, ‘In Geoffrey Farmer’s Mirror’, TL Magazine, 15 October
  Ingeborg Ruthe, ‘Im irdischen Himmelhöllenkabinett’, Berliner Zeitung, 6 October
  Boris Pofalla, ‘Befreiung der Bilder’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 1 October
  Anne Lesley Selcer, ‘Trauma is a Memory Palace with the Roof Blown Off’, Open Space, SFMOMA, 27 September
  Mitch Speed, ‘Reviews: Special Berlin Art Week’, Mousse Magazine, September
  Karim Crippa, ‘Autumn Art Edits’, SLEEK, No. 55, 8 September
  Andrew Witt, ‘A Shattered Mirror: Geoffrey Farmer’s Disobedient Object in Venice’ Momus, 16 August
  Arthur S. Lopes and Yael M. Saiger, ‘Geoffrey Farmer Builds an Alluring Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale’, The Harvard Crimson, 3 August
  Mohammad Salemy, ‘Tilting the scale: on the 57th Venice Biennale’, Ocula, 21 July
  Tim Blanks, ‘Reflections of the Venice Effect’, The Business of Fashion, 17 May
  Adrian Searle, ‘Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings, and Dobermans on the prowl’, The Guardian, 15 May
  Murray Whyte, ‘Geoffrey Farmer at the Venice Biennale: Through a glass, darkly’, The Star, 13 May
  Manon Dumais, ‘Geoffrey Farmer deconstructs the Canada Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale’, Le Devoir, 12 May
  Rosie Prata, ‘Geoffrey Farmer in Venice: A First Look’, Canadian Art, 10 May
  Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, ‘5 Triumphant National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, From Finnish Robots to Canadian Floods’, ArtNet, 10 May
  Kevin Griffin, ‘ART SEEN: Geoffrey Farmer blows the top off the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’, The Vancouver Sun, 10 May
  Iker Seisdedos, ‘The Venice Biennial intones an ode to the transforming power of art’, El País, 10 May
  Sara Angel, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’s tour de force at the Venice Biennale’, Maclean's, 10 May
  Kelly Crow, ‘The Olympics of the Art World’, The Wall Street Journal, 6 May
  Andrew Russeth, ‘There She Blows: Geoffrey Farmer Builds a Geyser in the Canadian Pavilion’, ArtNews, 9 May
  Craig Burnett, ‘Only Connect’, ArtReview, vol. 69 no. 4, May
  Claudia Bodin, ‘Blick zurück nach vorn’, Art Magazin, May
  Lorenzo Benedetti, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Canadian Pavilion Venice Biennale’, Mousse Magazine, Issue 58, April/May
  Michael Harris, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Canada’s representative at the Venice Biennale’, NUVO Magazine, 13 March
  Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh, ‘The Multitudinous See: An Interview with Geoffrey Farmer’, Border Crossings, Issue 141, March
  Marsha Lederman, ‘When Generations Collide’, The Globe and Mail, 22 February
  Rob Stone, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’s “The Big Kitchen”’, Art Agenda, 14 February
  Jens Hoffmann, ‘The Biennale de Montréal’, Artforum, Reviews, February
• 2016 Geoffrey Farmer and Dora García, ‘Nobody is Sleeping in the Sky’, Mousse Magazine, Issue 54, Summer
  Sebastian Smee, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’s art at the ICA: Once you’ve seen it, you can’t shake it’, The Boston Globe, 14 April
  Mark Clintberg and Jon Davies, ‘Haunted by Queer Affect: Geoffrey Farmer’s The Intellection of Lady Spider House and Allyson Mitchell’s Killjoy’s Kastle’, Journal of Curatorial Studies, vol . 5, no. 1, February
  Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Artforum, January
• 2015 Kevin Griffin, ‘Vancouver’s Geoffrey Farmer to represent Canada at Biennale’, The Vancouver Sun, 15 December
  Marsha Lederman, ‘Vancouver-based installation artist Geoffrey Farmer to represent Canada at Venice Biennale’, The Globe and Mail, 11 December
  David Balzer, ‘Geoffrey Farmer Will Represent Canada at Venice Biennale in 2017’, Canadian Art, 11 December
  Kyra Kordoski, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Magenta Magazine, September
  Peter Zimonjic, ‘Making the Personal Universal: Geoffrey Farmer at the Vancouver Art Gallery’, National Gallery of Canada, 11 June
  Amy Luo, ‘Salvage Economy: Geoffrey Farmer’s Mid-career Survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery’, Canadian Art, Summer
• 2014 Alan Gilbert, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’s “Cut Nothing, Cut Parts, Cut the Whole, Cut the Order of Time”’, Art Agenda, 4 December
  Adrianna Campbell, ‘Critics’ Picks: Geoffrey Farmer’, Artforum, December
  Sarah Milroy, ‘The true north strong and fresh: National Gallery unveils Canadian contemporary art exhibition’, The Globe and Mail, 17 October
  Peter Simpson, ‘The National Gallery shows off some of its recent purchases’, Ottawa Citizen, 17 October
  Katherine Stauble, ‘Shining the Light on Four Biennial Artists’, National Gallery Magazine, 15 October
  Phillip Valys, ‘Perez Art Museum presents freewheeling portrait of Frank Zappa’, South Florida online, 10 October
  Murray Whyte, ‘Geoffrey Farmer makes Henry Moore’s work ephemeral and fleeting’, The Toronto Star, 7 July
  James Adams, ‘Geoffrey Farmer brings light and shadow, sound and silence to AGO’, The Globe and Mail, 4 July
  Aryen Hoekstra, ‘The Mine of the Ancients: On Geoffrey Farmer’s “A Light in the Moon”’, Border Crossings, No. 129, March
• 2013 Leah Sandals, ‘Top Three of 2013’, Canadian Art online, 24 December
  Bryne McLaughlin, ‘December Picks: Geoffrey Farmer: A Light In The Moon at Mercer Union’, Artforum online, 15 December
  Murray Whyte, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: A Light In the Moon at Mercer Union’, The Star, 9 November
  Marsha Lederman, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’s Haunting to Last a Lifetime’, The Globe and Mail, 30 October
  Nancy Tousley, ‘Duchamp Ghosts Geoffrey Farmer’s Spider House in Edmonton’, Canadian Art, 30 October
  Terry R. Myers, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Let’s Make the Water Turn Black’, Art Review, October
  Agnieszka Matejko, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: The Intellection of Lady Spider House’, Galleries West, 25 September
  Leah Sandals, ‘Q&A: Geoffrey Farmer Launches Haunted House in Edmonton’, Canadian Art online, 19 September
  Darleen Masakhwe, ‘The Intellection of Lady Spider House’, The Gateway, 18 September
  Michael Turner, ‘A Postcard from Victoria’, The Capilano Review, Fall
  ‘Vancouver’s Geoffrey Farmer wins prestigious art prize’, The Globe and Mail, 6 June
  Murray Whyte, ‘Vancouver artist wins Gershon Iskowitz Prize’, The Toronto Star, 6 June
  Philomena Epps, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer at Barbican’s Curve’, Flux Magazine, 16 April
  Laura Cumming, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer’, The Guardian, 7 April
  Agnieswzka Matejko, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: The Intellection of Lady Spider House’, Galleries West, Spring
  Britt Gallpen, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: A Light In the Moon at Mercer Union’, Canadian Art online, 8 January
• 2012 Bernd Graff, ‘Pop Egal’, Max Joseph, Vol. 1
  Rosemary Heather, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: An Interview on Leaves of Grass’, Canadian Art online, 30 August
  Fran Schechter, ‘Tools rules’, Now Toronto, 19 July
  Murray Whyte, ‘Tools for Conviviality’, Toronto Star, 17 July
  Murray Whyte, ‘Freedom of Assembly’, Toronto Star, 7 July
  Adrian Searle, ‘Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud’, The Guardian, 11 June
  Jan Verwoert, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Coming to Life’, Frieze, May
• 2011 Isobel Harbison, ‘Geoffrey Farmer and Jeremy Millar’, Frieze, November/December
  Monika Szewczyk, ‘Characters and Characteristics of the Work’, Mousse Magazine, September
  Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: REDCAT’, Artforum, Summer
  Andrew Berardini, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Let’s Make the Water Turn Black’, Art Review, Summer
  Kirsten Swenson, ‘Los Angeles, Geoffrey Farmer: Let’s Turn the Water Black’, Art in America, June/July
  Claudia Sanar, ‘Let’s Make the Water Turn Black: Constantly in flux’, LA Record, 11 April
  Gabrielle Moser, ‘Player Stateside’, Canadian Art online, 17 March
  Roberta Smith, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, The New York Times, 10 March
  Michael Wilson, ‘Critics’ Picks: Geoffrey Farmer at Casey Kaplan’, Artforum, 24 February
• 2010 Aaron Peck, ‘Critics’ Picks: Geoffrey Farmer: Every Letter in the Alphabet’, Artforum, 16 November
  Kevin Griffin, ‘Creamier rises to the top: Vancouver contributes to top 100 emerging artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 26 May
  Rachelle Sawatsky, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Art Papers, May/June
• 2009 Emily Falvey, ‘Nomads’, Canadian Art, Fall
  Sarah Milroy, ‘Artists in a Land of Wanderers’, The Globe and Mail, 25 April
• 2008 Dan Adler, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’, Artforum, September
  Nicholas Brown, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Forgetting Air/Gareth Moore: As a Wild Boar Passes Water’, C Magazine, No. 99, Autumn
  Katherine Bovee, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Montreal’, Art Papers, July/August
  Lee Henderson, ‘Quasi Models: Thising and Thating in the World of Geoffrey Farmer’, Border Crossings, No. 106, Spring
  Pierre Landry, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Le journal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Spring
  Sarah Milroy, ‘The Expressive Potential of Detritus’, The Globe and Mail, 23 February
  Leah Sandals, ‘Deconstruction Junction’, The National Post, 15 February
  Henry Lehmann, ‘History Shown As Montage, and as Rigidly Linear’, The Gazette, 9 February
  Pil and Galia Kollectiv, ‘The World as Stage’, Art Papers, January/February
  Kim Dhillon, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, Frieze, No. 112, January/February
• 2007 Mark Clintberg, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: The Drawing Room’, Canadian Art, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter
  Sarah Andress, ‘Geoffrey Farmer at the Drawing Room’, Art on Paper, Vol. 12, No. 1, September/October
  Marie de Brugerolle, Jessica Morgan and Catherine Wood, ‘The World as a Stage III’, Tate, etc., Issue 11, Autumn
  Jérôme Delgado, ‘Biennale de Montréal 2007: pas morte, c’est déjà ça!’, Vie des Arts, No. 207, Summer
  J.J. Charlesworth, ‘The Last Two Million Years’, Time Out London, 13-19 June
  Jessica Morgan, ‘Top Five: what to see this month’, ArtReview, June
  Andrew Bonacina, ‘Entrepreneur alone returning back to sculptural form’, Uovo, No. 13, April
  Colleen Brown, ‘There is a Horizon’, Fillip 5, Volume Two, Number Two, Spring
  Rosemary Heather, ‘Geoffrey Farmer: Catriona Jeffries Gallery’, Flash Art, January/February
• 2006 Clint Burnham, ‘The plane wonder of it all’, The Vancouver Sun, 11 November
  Earl Miller, ‘Law and Ordering: On Evaluating Recent Canadian Neoconceptualism’, C Magazine, No. 91, Autumn
  R. M. Vaughn, ‘Antwerp Diary’, Canadian Art, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer
  Julia Dault, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, The National Post, 15 June
  Clint Burnham, ‘Artworks challenge and intrigue’, The Vancouver Sun, 3 June
  Sarah McFadden, ‘Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists’, Art Papers, Vol. 30, May/June
  Dan Adler, ‘Geoffrey Farmer at the Power Plant’, Art in America, February
  Andrea Carson, ‘Geoffrey Farmer and Joelle Tuerlinckx’, Art Papers, Vol. 30, January/February
  Jessica Morgan, ‘First Take: Jessica Morgan on Geoffrey Farmer’, Artforum, Vol. 44, No. 5, January
• 2005 Jessica Morgan, ‘Future Greats 2005’, ArtReview, December 2005/January 2006
  Clint Burnham, ‘Scattered and Sublime’, The Vancouver Sun, 26 November
  Clint Burnham, ‘A body of work that somehow makes us forget it’s art at all’, The Vancouver Sun, 5 November
  Jennifer Van Evra, ‘Where the truth really lies’, The Globe and Mail, 28 October
• 2004 Clint Burnham, ‘Aperto Vancouver’, Flash Art, November/December
  Kitty Scott, ‘What Are You Looking At? New Art Through the Eyes of Ten Professionals’, Art On Paper, Vol. 8, No. 5, May/June
  Lee Henderson, ‘Artist’s exploded parade float shoots decorative shrapnel’, The Vancouver Sun, 17 April
  Deborah Campbell, ‘The New School’, Vancouver Guestlife
• 2003 Samir Gandesha, ‘Vancouver, British Columbia’, Art Papers, Vol. 27, No. 6, November/December
  Suzanne Richard, ‘Un magicien réaliste’, Voir, 7–13 August
  Michael Turner, ‘Wall and Void’, Modern Painters, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer
  Nancy Tousley, ‘Cool Cooler Coolest’, Canadian Art, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer
  Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Security and Anxiety Post-9/11’, The Georgia Straight, 5–12 June
• 2002 Marc Mayer, et al., ‘The Next Generation’, Time, 14 October
  Morgan Falconer, ‘The Beachcombers’, Contemporary, No. 43, September
  Robin Laurence, ‘Farmer Fabricates Objects out of Dream Factory’, The Georgia Straight, 11–18 July
  Michael Scott, ‘Illusions, Perceptions and the Working Man’, The Vancouver Sun, 29 June
  Christian Giroux, ‘Rewind: Geoffrey Farmer’, Canadian Art, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring
  Melanie O’Brian, ‘Promises: Espousal and Constraint’, Mix, Vol. 27, No. 4, Spring
• 2001 Jessica Wyman, ‘Review: Universal Pictures 3’, C Magazine, No. 72, Winter
  Kenneth Hayes, ‘Universal Pictures 3 at the Blackwood Gallery’, Mix, Vol. 27, No. 3, Winter
  Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Geoffrey Farmer’, The Georgia Straight, 15–21 November
  Michael Scott, ‘Gallery Lives Up to Promises’, The Vancouver Sun, 15 November
  Michael Scott, ‘Domestic Decay’s Big Day in Art: Geoffrey Farmer’s Mess Challenges the Nature of the Creative Process’, The Vancouver Sun, 10 November
  Sarah Milroy, ‘The Best of the Rest’, The Globe and Mail, 3 November
  Reid Shier, ‘Hunchback Modern: The Art of Geoffrey Farmer’, Canadian Art, Summer
  Douglas Coupland, ‘Critical Mass’, The Globe and Mail, 12 May
• 2000 Michael Scott, ‘The Excitement of the Everyday’, The Vancouver Sun, 19 April
  Matthew Teitelbaum, ‘Hunchback Kit’, Present Tense: contemporary project series no. 16, Art Gallery of Ontario, September/November
• 1999 Eileen Sommerman, ‘Good and Far’, Canadian Art, Winter
  Ashley Crawford, ‘The biennial’s big night’, The Age, 13 May
• 1998 Ken Lum, ‘Six: New Vancouver Modern’, Canadian Art, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer
  Robin Laurence, ‘Slacker-generation Artists Take Out the Pop-culture Trash’, The Georgia Straight, 5–12 March
  Sarah Milroy, ‘An Eyeful of Irony’, The Globe and Mail, 14 February
• 1997 Marilu Knode, ‘New Vancouver Art: Deliberately Pushy’, Art/Text, No. 59, Nov 1997–Jan 1998
  Reid Shier, ‘Geoffrey Topham’, Poliester Magazine, Fall

Published Writing by the Artist

• 2022 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘ZZZ’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.48: 50th Anniversary Issue 3/3
• 2019 Geoffrey Farmer, Daniel Young, Christian Giroux, et al., A-Book-That-Is-A-Website-For-A-Film-That-Is-A-Sculpture.CGDY.com, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany
• 2018 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘Escaping a Method’, Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Art Books Publishing, London, UK
• 2017 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘A way out of the mirror’, Canadian Art, Spring
• 2015 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘I Wasn’t Going to Talk about Islands but in the End I Did’, Jerry Pethick: Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver and Black Dog Publishing, London
• 2014 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘Boneyard Index’, Mousse Magazine, No. 46
• 2010 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘How I Found Out That Jesus Was A Mushroom (What I Did On My Summer Vacation)’, Pyramid Power, Spring/Summer
• 2008 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘Forgetting Air: Titles, Notes, and Fragments’, Geoffrey Farmer, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  Geoffrey Farmer, ‘When the Wheel Turns, Why Does a Pot Emerge?’, in Public 38: Projects for a Small World, eds. Gregory Burke and Christine Davis, Fall
• 2007 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘Notes on a Cover Image’, Vancouver Art and Economies, Artspeak and Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
• 2003 Geoffrey Farmer, ‘Letter of Apology’, Geoffrey Farmer, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

Public Art Projects

• 2009-2010 Every Letter in the Alphabet, Vancouver

Residencies

• 2014 Below Another Sky, commissioned by the Scottish Print Network, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2011 Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
• 2010 Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work That is Not a Play, lead faculty, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

Awards

• 2013 The Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
• 2011 The Hnatshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award
• 2008 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
• 2003 VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, Vancouver, Canada