Annie Briard Explained

Annie Briard is a Canadian intermedia visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.^[1] Her video, photographic, and installation-based work explores the intersections of perceptual paradigms between psychology, neuroscience and existentialism, challenges the uncertain nature of perception itself,^[2] and memory.^[3]

Annie Briard
Birth Place:	Montreal, Quebec
Field:	Photographer

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Briard attended Dawson College before earning a B.F.A from Concordia University in 2008 and an M.F.A in 2013 from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada, where she is currently a Lecturer in the Faculty of Art.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Select group exhibitions

• Quebec Biennale Manif d'art 10, la Bande Video gallery, Staring at the Sun, an immersive experience that produces lingering images, illusions of movement and chimeric colours in the spectators’ minds.^{[7] [8]}
• WAVE POOL, Field Projects, NY Constructions 5 – Ruby's Mirages, and Paracosm M – The Sun Meets the Moon, stereoscopic photographs questioning and exploring the limits of our perception through buzzing illustrations of landscape and open ocean.
• 'L'instabilité du réel' (2019), Papier art fair, Monica Reyes Gallery, Montreal, curated by Thi-My Truong, touring exhibition across Quebec.^[9]

Select solo exhibitions

• 2019 Second Sight, AC Institute, New York, NY "By working with extensions of the eye (lens, camera, moving image), Briard is able to shift from the imaginary to the nature of “reality" and media itself."^[10]
• 2018 Pop-Up Home, New Westminster Museum and Archives^[11]
• 2017 Paracosmic Sun, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver "The work in Paracosmic Sun projects and presents multiple temporal states simultaneously, states of seeing and not seeing, and also states where sight extends beyond the normal range or perception."^[12]
• 2016 Staring at the Sun, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal^[13] In his review of the exhibition, art critic Edwin Janzen states that "for the visitor, a subtle questioning of sensory perception and reality is certainly the result."
• 2016 Vision Trouble, La Maison des Artistes, Winnipeg^[14]
• 2013 The Woods, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver^[15] "The psychology of agency and rebellious obedience are what comes to mind in engaging with this technological art piece."^[16]

Residencies

In 2012, Briard completed a residency at the Banff Centre in Canada.^[17] In 2016, she completed an artist residency in Linea de Costa, Cadiz, Spain, in which she produced experimental works based on her research on how the human eye works.^[18] In 2017, she completed an artist residency at the AC Institute in New York, and in the following year, she completed two other residencies in ESXLA, Los Angeles and in Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SIM), Reykjavik.^[19]

Awards

Briard's first award was the Bombardier Graduate Scholarship in 2012,^[20] given to her by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, and in 2013 they awarded her with the Research for a Better Life Award.^[21] In 2016, Briard received a project grant from the Vidéographe, Programme de soutien à la création.^[22] In 2016 the British Columbia Arts Council awarded her with a Production grant in the visual arts,^[23] and in 2018 she received a second production grant from them for media arts.^[24] In 2018 and 2020, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her with an Explore and Create Production grant.^[25]

External links

• Annie Briard studio
• Monica Reyes Gallery

Notes and References

1. Web site: Annie Briard. Back Gallery Project. en. 2018-03-10.
2. News: The Kaleidoscopic Visions of Annie Briard's 'Paracosms'. Blackmore Evans. Jill. 13 February 2017. Format. 8 March 2019.
3. News: Art This Week: Paradise Lost and Annie Briard. 2017-12-06. The Vancouver Sun issue August 1, 2013. 8 March 2019. en-US.
4. Web site: Annie Briard Emily Carr University. www.connect.ecuad.ca. en. 2018-03-10.
5. Web site: Annie Briard. Joyce Yahouda Gallery.
6. Web site: Vancouver . 520 East 1st Avenue . V5t 0h2 . Bc . Canada . 2019-05-23 . Faculty of Art – Faculty Members Emily Carr University . 2023-10-14 . www.ecuad.ca . en.
7. Web site: Annie Briard . 2023-10-14 . Manif d'Art . en-US.
8. Web site: Fixer le Soleil / Staring at the Sun (vues de l'installation) . 2023-10-14 . Médiathèque . en-CA.
9. Web site: L'INSTABILITÉ DU RÉEL Arts visuels / Exposition. La Vitrine Votre Guichet Culturel. 8 March 2019.
10. Web site: Annie Briard at AC Institute: The Desert of the Real . 2023-10-14 . Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art . en.
11. Web site: Pop-Up Home City of New Westminster. www.newwestcity.ca. EN. 2018-03-10.
12. News: Paracosmic Sun . Frere. Sunshine. 2017-02-22. Vancouver Is Awesome. 2018-08-30. en-US.
13. Edwin. Janzen. 2016. Annie Briard: Staring at the Sun. Espace: Art Actuel. en. 114. 98–99 . 0821-9222.
14. News: Persistent visions. Cochrane. Steven Leyden. 2016-05-26. Winnipeg Free Press. 2018-08-30.
15. Web site: VIDEO BAR The Woōds VIVO Media Arts Centre. www.vivomediaarts.com. en-CA. 2018-08-30.
16. Web site: Annie Briard's Cyber Claymation Doll in "The Woods" VANDOCUMENT. vandocument.com. en-US. 2018-08-30.
17. Web site: Joyce Yahouda. Joyce Yahouda Gallery. 7 March 2019.
18. Web site: Paracosmic Sun. Frere. Sunshine. 22 Feb 2017. Vancouver Is Awesome. 7 March 2019.
19. Web site: ANNIE BRIARD. Back Gallery Project. 7 March 2017.
20. Web site: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2012. Social Humanities Research Council of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20120630183401/http://www.outil.ost.uqam.ca/CRSH/Resultat.aspx. 30 June 2012. 7 March 2019. dead.
21. Web site: The Storytellers: The Results Are In. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 11 May 2012 . 7 March 2019.
22. Web site: La Liste: 22 avril 2016. l'AGAVF. 7 March 2019.
23. Web site: Professional Arts Funding. BC Annual Arts Council Report. 7 March 2019.
24. Web site: British Columbia Arts Council 2017/2018 Annual Report. BC Arts Council. 7 March 2019.
25. Web site: Recipients, 2017 to Present. Canada Council. 7 March 2019.