Bill Jeffries

Biography

SFU Gallery Director/Curator Bill Jeffries has been involved in the visual arts since 1975, when he enrolled in the art program at Camosun College in Victoria. After some six years working as a practicing artist in 1983 he opened what was, at the time, the only photography gallery in Vancouver, the Coburg Gallery. Subsequently he was Director/Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery, interim Head of Museum Services, a registrar at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Director/Curator at Presentation House Gallery. Since coming to Simon Fraser University in fall 2005 he has worked to put its exhibition back into the centre of this university’s life as well as putting SFU back on the map of the national visual scene. His program at SFU has been very broad in scope, including local and international shows.



Several recent exhibitions have been accompanied by publications, including one for the twenty-four person show “Less is More: the Poetics of Erasure”(144 pages), co-published with the Capilano Review, and Liz Magor, “The Mouth and other storage facilities”, co-published with the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. Recent projects include co-curating the exhibition “Walter Tandy Murch: The Spirit of Things” with Ihor Holubizky for the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and the exhibition “The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony” for the SFU Gallery, co-curated with Jerry Zaslove.