Janieta Eyre lives and works in Toronto. Since the mids, she has been exploring the idea of duality and its disquieting aspects by metamorphosing herself in her photographs. Originally fascinated with death, the occult, and psychic phenomena, she then turned to maternity and birth. In addition to her carefully staged photographs, Eyre recently produced a video, Natural History Museum, in which a man attends his own birth. Her photographs are popular in America and Europe and have been featured in several solo exhibitions, including New Works at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, in ; Staging at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, in ; and Lady Lazarus at Francesco Girondini Arte Contemporanea in Verona, Italy, in Her works were also presented at the Kwanju Biennale in South Korea, in ; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Ottawa, and Dazibao, in Montreal, in ; as part of the exhibition Métamorphose et clonage at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, in ; and in Mois de la Photo à Montréal, in
BACKGROUND
Born, London, England
University of Toronto, Toronto, B.A. in Philosophy
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, studies in Magazine Journalism
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, part-time studies in photography
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Janieta Eyre, Salamanca, Ciudad de Cultura, Fundacion Municipal, Spain
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What I haven?t told you, Christopher Cutts, Toronto
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Janieta Eyre B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
New Work, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Natural History Museum, Dazibao, Montreal, PQ
Staging, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Motherhood & Natural History Museum, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
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Motherhood & Natural History Museum, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
Lady Lazarus, Francesco Girondini Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
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Lady Lazarus, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Lady Lazarus, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
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Black Eye, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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Lady Lazarus, The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto
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Absolute Los Angeles International Biennial Invi
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Janieta Eyre
Born
(age 53–54)
London, England
Education
University of Toronto Ontario College of Art and Design
Known for
Photographer
Janieta Eyre is British-born photographer who lives in Kingston, Canada.
Her work has been shown across Canada and the United States, and has been featured in exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Iceland, Colombia, England, France, South Korea and Germany.
She is most known for her works in self-portraiture, in which she presents herself as a set of twins, that engage with the possibilities of multiple identities in the construction of self. Eyre uses elaborate props and costumes to disrupt the fixity of her images.
In Eyre was awarded the Duke and Duchess of York Award for Photography, and in she was part of the Kodak Lecture Series, at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Janieta Eyre has participated in Scotiabank's CONTACT Photography Festival numerous times and “Constructing Mythologies" was a featured exhibition of the festival.
Her works were the inspiration for Canadian singer-songwriter JF Robitaille's music video for “Black and White” from the album “Rival Hearts.”
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Inside Incarnations
Incarnations is a mid-career retrospective of Janieta Eyre's fantastic, carnivalesque work. Her hallmark self-portraits feature her twinned, flirting with the idea of morphous and multiple identities. Each completely unique photograph features shared iconography - pregnancy, menstruation, cheese graters, vegetables, farm animals, brocade dresses, and on more than one (or two) occasion, a framed copy of another one of her images.
Available everywhere beautiful books are sold, Incarnations is a tiny gem: full-colour glossy images are nestled between essays and poetry from some of Janieta's most daring contemporaries – Christian Bok, Lynn Crosbie, Richard Vaughan, David Dorenbaum, and Lori Waxman, all bound with paper over board. Below is a sneak peak between the covers, including part of the introduction by the book's editor Suzanne Zelazo, and if the spirit moves you, copies are available for sale here.
Sisters Sophie and Sarah,
As an innovator and agitator, Janieta Eyre () has pioneered an integrative photographic aesthetic that pushes the boundaries of creative forms and subjectivity to confound ontological certaintie
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