Eric Deis is a photographer from Vancouver, Canada. His large format images of architecture and urban spaces illustrate the intertwined dynamics of nature, history, and economics.

"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 artwork has been exhibited in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden, and the United States of America.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts - University of California, San Diego Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts - Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Art and Design Diploma - Red Deer College

Selected Exhibitions

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.
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. Faculty Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2006	Until Then Then, Western Front Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Curated by Jonathan Middleton and Candice Hopkins.

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.

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 Marcos Ramirez ERRE and Pedro H. Alonzo.

2002	Matter + Memory, MobileGaze, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Curated by Valerie Lamontagne. immedia 2002 - the Senses, 7th Annual Exhibition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 15th Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany. *Awarded City of Stuttgart Award for New Media.

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

2007	Visual Arts Development Award, Vancouver Foundation
2006	British Columbia Arts Council, Project Assistance for Visual Artists
2003	Russell Foundation Grant
2002	California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Fellowship Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für Neue Medien (City of Stuttgart Award for New Media)
2001	Canada Council for the Arts, Media Art Travel Grant
1998	Red Deer College Visual Arts Scholarship

Bibliography

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.

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

The Drift - Open Studio - October 4 - 5, 2008

My studio will be open to the public from 11am to 6pm on the weekend of October 4, 2008 during the annual art drift along Main Street. Mark your calendar, there will be plenty of new work to see.

For more information visit: http://www.thedrift.ca/

Canadian Architect Magazine - June, 2008

Canadian Architect Magazine has published a feature article on my work. You can read the article here: http://www.cdnarchitect.com/issues/

Vancouver Sun Review - April 10, 2008

The Vancouver Sun has published a review of my exhibition at the the Elissa Cristall gallery. You can read the article here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html

Elissa Cristall Gallery - April 4 - 26, 2008

I am exhibiting my photographs at the Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. The opening reception is Friday, April 4 from 6 - 9pm.

On Site Review - January, 2008

The art & architecture magazine, On Site Review, has published my images in their Winter issue.

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