Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae – updated February, 2015
John D. Freyer
Business Address:
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts,
325 N Harrison St. Richmond, VA 23284
Phone:
319.341.0831
E-mail:
jdfreyer@vcu.edu
Web sites:
http://www.allmylifeforsale.com
EDUCATION:
2003
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, M.F.A. in Photography, minor Digital Media
2002
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, M.A. in Studio Art
1995
HAMILTON COLLEGE, B.A. in Government, minor in Art
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2013 – present
Assistant Professor, Cross Disciplinary Media. VCUarts, Richmond, VA.
2009-2013
Assistant Professor, Photography. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
2007-2009
Lecturer in Photography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
2005-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
2000-2003
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
1996-1999
Lab Manager. Light Work / Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS:
2013
Light Work, Artist in Residence, Syracuse University.
2011
Fulbright Research Fellowship to Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010
Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
2008
University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Discretionary Award
Selection for the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Annual Design Competition 29.
2004
Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Printing Residency at the Borowsky Center, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2002
Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Brodart McNaughton Book Award, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
2001
Bodine Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
2013
LiveIKEA.com, Installation/Performance with Dr Johan Lindquist, IKEA Tampines, Singapore.
2011
Dress Up, Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
2010
Almost Home: What to Bring to the Magic Kingdom, Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
2005
Aftermarket; Art, Objects and Commerce, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York.
2003
Souvenirs, Fishtank Gallery, Williamsburg, New York.
2002
Motion_Pictures, Light Work Multi-Media Space, Light Work, Syracuse, New York.
2001
Allmylifeforsale.com, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / FILM AND MEDIA FESTIVALS:
2014
Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University.
2013
40 Artists / 40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Lubin House, New York, NY.
2012
Supermarket Art Fair, Hjärnstorm Booth, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
2011
Voices from the Warehouse, Annual Curated Exhibition, Dubuque, Iowa.
University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa.
2010
Cornell Cinema, “Portraiture and the Art of the Moving Image,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2009
SHARE Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino – IT.
Society for Photographic Education, “SPRAWL” Video Exhibition, Dallas, Texas.
Hunter Museum of American Art, “POLYMER” Video Exhibition, Chattanooga, Tenn.
2008
365 American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Annual Design Exhibition 29, New York, NY.
2007
13th International Festival of Computer Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Faculty Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
2006
Marketplace, Big Boy Sculpture, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
2005
Love Apples, Morsel Gallery, Williamsburg, New York.
Subrealities, University of Texas at Dallas. Dallas, Texas.
2004
Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
Buy, Sell or Buy, Online Exhibition, Pace University Digital Gallery, Group Show, NY, NY.
2003
SXSW, South by Southwest Film and Media Festival, Austin, Texas.
Version Digital Media Festival, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
2002
Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Banff/Calgary WordFest 2002, International Writers Festival, Calgary, Alberta.
SXSW, South by Southwest Film and Media Festival, Austin, Texas.
2002
Superannuate, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas.
2001
Thaw Film and Digital Art Festival, Iowa City, Iowa.
2000
Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado.
1999
Banff Mountain Film Festival, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
COLLECTIONS:
2013
University of Iowa Library, Special Collections, Iowa City.
Light Work Collection, Light Work, Syracuse University, Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
2008
New Museum, New York, NY, RHIZOME Artbase Selection, All My Life for Sale.
2009
Denver Museum of Art, AIGA Design Archive, Denver CO. “Obsessive Consumption” PRINT
2005
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, Big Boy Sculpture.
2002
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Franklin Furnace Collection.
2001
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA.
INVITED LECTURES / PANELS:
2013
Visiting Artist Lecture, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle WA.
Visiting Artist Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
2012
Keynote Artist Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
Chair/Panelist, Society for Photographic Education, National Conference.
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture, with Johan Lindquist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Panelist, Swedish Anthropological Society, National Conference, Goteborg, Sweden. (International)
Visiting Artist Lecture, with Johan Lindquist, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Visiting Artist Lecture, University Sussex, United Kingdom.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.
2008
“Markets: From the Bazaar to E-Bay” Symposium, University of Toronto, Canada.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Youngstown State University, Ohio.
2007
Featured Speaker at: CYMRU: Digital Storytelling Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
Gallery Talk, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
2005
Artist Talk, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York.
2004
Featured Speaker, Digital Storytelling Festival, Sedona. Arizona.
2002
Artist Reading, 92 St. Y / Makor, New York, New York.
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
15 City US/Canada Book Tour
2001
Visiting Artist Lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas Women’s University, Denton, Texas.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.
PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITION CATALOGS:
2014
Contact Sheet 177, Light Work Annual, Light Work, Syracuse, New York. Pgs 28-35.
2012
“Lil’ Billy” John Freyer, Johan Lindquist, Hjärnstorm # 110, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007
“Obsessive Consumption Issue”, Print Magazine, July / August, New York.
2005
Learning from Big Boy, essay by Martha Buskirk, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
All My Life For Sale, Japanese Translation, Blues Interactions Inc., Tokyo, Japan.
2003
Contact Sheet 122, Light Work, Syracuse, New York. Pgs. 77, 78.
All My Life For Sale, Korean Translation, JoongAng M&B, Seoul, Korea.
2002
All My Life For Sale, Bloomsbury USA and UK & Territories, New York, New York.
PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION:
2009
Design Consultant, Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport. Independent documentary produced by Kembrew McLeod and Benjamin Franzen.
2007
Video Production Coordinator, The Separation. By Bobby Previte and Andréa Kleine. Recorded live at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2006
Contributing Video Artist, Coalition of the Willing: Operation Video Freedom Commissioned by composer Bobby Previte and distributed by Ropeadope Records.
2004
Producer, Audio Postcards for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
2003
Co-Creator and Consulting Producer, Second Hand Stories. Half-hour documentary travelogue for WNET and National PBS.
TELEVISION BROADCASTS:
2003
National U.S. Broadcast, Series Pilot, Second Hand Stories, WNET, NY, October 14, 2003.
SELECTED TELEVISION INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS:
2007
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNBC, April 16, 2007.
2005
MARTHA, The Martha Stewart Show, NBC December 6, 2005.
2003
News Night, CNN, New York, NY, October 17, 2003.
“Editor’s Pick of the Night” TV Guide Channel, New York, NY, October 14, 2003.
The Conan O’Brien Show, NBC, New York, NY, May 5, 2003.
2002
The Today Show, NBC, New York November 25, 2002.
SELECTED RADIO BROADCASTS / INTERVIEWS:
2011
Interview, by Urban Björstadius for Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden, May 30, 2011. Interviewed with Johan Lindquist about our IKEA research. (In Swedish and English)
2005
Audio Postcard “On the Spin Cycle for Iowa’s Ragbrai Race”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. July, 30.
2004
Audio Postcard “Voice Mail Fills Machines in Swing States”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. October 31.
Audio Postcard “Iowa Dog Paddle”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. September 11.
Audio Postcard “Driven to Demolish”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. May 30.
Audio Postcard “Bowling and Growing Up”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. April 17.
Audio Postcard “Creative Tax Work”, ,All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. March 20.
Audio Postcard “Iowa City Auction”, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC. January 10.
2003
Interview, Here and Now, WBUR, National Syndication, Boston, MA, October 13, 2003.
Interview/Feature, Radiolab, WNYC, New York, NY. October 12, 2003.
2002 Interview/Feature, All Things Considered, NPR, Washington, DC, November 26, 2002.=
Interview The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, New York, NY, November 26, 2002.
2001
Audio Documentary, Sasha Waters, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR, Washington, DC. August 18, 2001.
SELECTED REVIEWS / TEXTBOOKS / CITATIONS:
2012
“Acting Out” University of Iowa Museum of Art Magazine, Spring 2012, pg 11.
2011
“Lil’ BILLY Mobile Research Lab”, IKEAHackers.net, June 8th, 2011.
2010
“Art exhibit explores motivation for holding onto objects”, KJ Lang, La Crosse Tribune, Nov.2.
“The Art of Science”, Kathyrn Howe, University of Iowa Alumni Magazine, August 2010, pgs 14-15.
“Seminar course provides snapshot of how to integrate arts and sciences in classroom,” Ashton
Shurson, FYI Vol 46, no. 16, March 22, 2010, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
2009
Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money, Olav Velthuis, Johan &
Levi S.r.l., Milan (Italian translation).
2008
Convergences, Themes, Texts and Images, 3nd Edition, ed by, Robert Atwan, St. Martins Press, NY.
2006
“Archive Anxiety: The Vernacular Turn” Daniel Mudie Cunningham, PHOTOFILE, August 2006, Paddington, Australia, pgs 28-31. (International)
2005
Convergences, Medium* Method* Message, 2nd Edition, ed by, Robert Atwan, St. Martins Press, NY.
Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money, Olav Velthuis, NAi Publishers, Fascinations 14, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (International)
2004
Internet Art, Rachel Greene, Thames & Hudson, World of Art Series, London, pgs. 182, 185.
2003
“Critics Top Ten” Tom Vanderbilt, ARTFORUM, December 2003, New York, pgs. 130, 131.
“Second Hand Stories”, Jason Guerrrasio, THE INDEPENDENT, October 2003, New York.
“Tubes Tops, Fall Season’s Best Debut Offerings”, SPIN MAGAZINE, October, 2003, New York.
“Critics Picks” John, Leonard, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, October, 20, 2003, New York.
“Cheers & Jeers, Cheers to Second Hand Stories” TV GUIDE, November, 1, 2003, New York, Pg 22.
“In the Age of Upscale, Garage Sales Lose Some Grundge”, Niel Genzlinger, New York Times, NJ Ed. October 12, 2003, New York.
“Two show explore America’s obsession with junk, bargains”, Howard Pousner, Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 12, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia. (National)
“Buy and Buy”, Marshall Heyman, THE NEW YORKER, January 20, 2003, New York.
“Take My Life, Please”, Gregory Kirschling ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, December 13, 2003, New York, pg 88.
2002
The Perfect Store, Adam Cohen, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2002, pgs.286-289.
“A Different Kind of Selling Out”, Geoffrey Gagnon, NEWSWEEK, December 9 2002, New York.
“The Man Who Sold His Life for $6000” Simon Garfield, THE LONDON OBSERVER SUNDAY, December 8, 2002, London, UK.
“His old salt shaker is now in Maine”, Samantha Grice, CANADA’S NATIONAL POST, December 03, 2002, Toronto.
“Everything Must Go! A Life to the Highest Bidder “, Darby Saxbe, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, December 2, 2002. New York.
“Object Lessons”, John O’Connell, TIME OUT LONDON, November 27, 2003, London, UK, Pg. 64.
“A life and times, for sale on eBay”, Kim Campbell, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, October 24, 2002, Boston.
2001
“Everything Must Go”, A.S. Berman, USA Today, New York, March 8, 2001.
“A Market for Flostsam and Jetsam, Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times, February 5, 2001, New York.
NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
2013
Peer Review Selection Committee, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education.
Nominated to serve as a reviewer for panel and artist presentations for inclusion in the 51st annual national conference of the Society for Photographic Education in Baltimore, MD.
2010 – Present
Editorial Board for the Iowa Review, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Invited to join the board to coordinate a photography component to the Iowa Review.
1999 – 2014
15Year Member of the Society for Photographic Education.
