Eric Deis is a contemporary Canadian artist working in Vancouver, Canada. His large format photography of architecture and urban spaces illustrate the intertwined dynamics of nature, history, and culture.
"My images are not staged nor manipulated they are captured in situ. I strive to capture the idiosyncrasies of our society through the collision of artifacts of urban living and astute visual story telling.
I am particularly interested in the concept of the photographer's delight, where at the moment of exposure the camera captures details that the photographer could not possibly pre-conceive. Embracing chance enables my images to breathe with sophistication from competing focal points, secondary narratives, subtle textures, and a sea of lush content. I push this concept to the limit by producing images that are over a Giga-pixel in resolution and prints that reveal detail at nose-length.
Verging on the hyper-real, my images lead photography into a practice of image making where the subject is decentralized and every minute detail holds equal weight as a brush stroke does to canvas." --Eric Deis
Deis was born on a Canadian military station in the Queen Charlotte Islands. He is a graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver (B.F.A.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.). His contemporary art has been exhibited in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden, and the United States of America.
Education
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Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts - University of California, San Diego |
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Upcoming Art Exhibitions
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2010 |
Last Chance, The Wall, 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Canada Fényérék Fesztivélja - Another Connection, 2010 World Expo, Canadian Pavilion, Shanghai, China |
Selected Art Exhibitions
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2009 |
Shadows Cast on Imagination's Past, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
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2008 |
Sugar Cube: Shorting out on the West Coast, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Curated by Jennifer Fisher. Chain Reaction, Upgrade, Skopje, Macedonia. Salvage, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
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2007 |
The Lotus Eaters: New Vancouver Video Art, Western Front Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland. Frän bild till utopi, Östersunds School of Art, Östersund, Sweden. Contemporary Artists - Faculty Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
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2006 |
Until Then Then, Western Front Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Curated by Jonathan Middleton and Candice Hopkins. |
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2005 |
Östersunds Konstvideofestival, Jämtlands Läns Museum, Östersund, Sweden. Regina Festival of Cinematic Arts, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Those Who Teach - An Exhibition of Emily Carr Faculty, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Free For All, Cal Poly University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California. Curated by Tera Galanti and Michael Miller. |
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2004 |
8th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. SUPERSONIC: 1 Wind Tunnel, 8 Schools, 120 Artists, Wind Tunnel Exhibition Hall, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Sprinklercity, Herbert Marcuse Gallery, San Diego, California. Pasale, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico. Curated by artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE and Pedro H. Alonzo. |
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2002 |
Matter + Memory, MobileGaze, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Curated by Valerie Lamontagne. immedia 2002 - the Senses, 7th Annual Artist Exhibition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 15th Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany. *Awarded City of Stuttgart Award for New Media. |
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2001 |
N.I.C. 2001, Nordic Interactive Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. F.I.L.E., Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil. E.C.I.A.D. Graduation Exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Super Natural British Columbia, Artropolis, Curated by Maija Martin, CBC Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
Grants and Awards
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2009 |
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant |
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2007 |
Visual Arts Development Award, Vancouver Foundation |
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2006 |
British Columbia Arts Council, Project Assistance for Visual Artists |
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2003 |
Russell Foundation, Contemporary Art Grant |
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2002 |
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Fellowship Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für Neue Medien (City of Stuttgart Award for New Media) |
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2001 |
Canada Council for the Arts, Media Art Travel Grant |
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1998 |
Red Deer College Visual Arts Scholarship |
Bibliography
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2010 |
CBC Radio, On The Coast, Artist Eric Deis and Diane Switzer discuss the launch of "Last Chance" and THE WALL, Stephen Quinn, April 13. Vancouver Sun, Video: Elissa Cristall Gallery Presents Contemporary Canadian Artist Eric Deis, Wendy Nordvik-Carr, April 14. ZDF German National Television, Foto-Kunst, Der Gigapixel-Mann von Vancouver, Elmar Theveßen, February 25. The Globe and Mail, Putting poverty up close and personal, Mark Hume, pg. S3, February 22. |
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2009 |
National Post, Would the buildings please squeeze together?, Canadian Art, Eric Deis: Vancity's New View Finder, Things of Desire, Shadows Cast on Imagination's Past - Vancouver, Galleries West, Eric Deis, Cramp, Beverly, Fall/Winter, pg. 22. Preview Magazine, [Image Front Cover], Eric Deis: Shadows Cast on Imagination's Past, Johnson, Mia, September/October, pg. 10 On Site Review, Issue 21: Weather, pg. 62 - 63. |
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2008 |
Flash Forward 2008, Emerging Photographers from Canada, UK, and USA, Magenta Foundation, pg. 72 On Site Review, Issue 19: Streets, pg. 14 - 15. Canadian Architect Magazine, Accidental Exposure, Deliberate Concealment, Teicher, Hannah, June, pg. 50 Vancouver Sun, The decayed and discarded as art, Griffin, Kevin, April 10, D20 Preview Magazine, Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier: Salvage, Johnson, Mia, April/May, pg. 66 On Site Review, Issue 18: Culture, pg. 14 - 15. |
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2006 |
CBC News, Art that stops to admire sunset, any time of day, Noakes, Susan, March 22 Vancouver Sun, Critic's Pick, Burnham, Clint, March 16 CBC Radio One, On The Coast, Hughes, Trevor, February 23 CBC Radio Two, Arts Report, Grant, Paul, February 22 |
Galleries
Represented by:
Elissa Cristall Gallery
2245 Granville St, Vancouver, Canada
Eric's Studio Location
1851 Lorne Street, Vancouver, Canada
Studio Hours
By appointment only, visitors welcome.
Studio Phone
++1 (604) 707 0251
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