Jeff Bierk (b. 1982, Peterborough, ON) is an artist who works in photography and video. He works at Downtown Camera, one of the last camera stores in Toronto. He has no formal education or training in photography. Bierk’s work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums including the University of Toronto Art Centre, O’Born Contemporary, General Hardware Contemporary, Katherine Mulherin Gallery, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Peterborough, CRAM Gallery, and Platform Gallery, along with a public art installation in Ponti di Breta, Italy. His work been published in Canadian Art Magazine, Blackflash Magazine, VICE, Flash Forward (Selected Winner Canada, 2012, 2015), Night Papers, Carbon Paper, and Editorial Magazine. In 2016, his collaborative work with “Jimmy” James Evans and Carl Lance Bonnici, "10 Blankets," was a featured public installation in the CONTACT Photography Festival. In 2018, Bierk and his collaborator Jimmy James Evans opened The Jimmy James Evans Friendly Meeting Place and Centre for the Arts, a 24-hour creative drop-in located at 1616 Dupont St. in Toronto and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Medium: photograph

Accession no: 2019.02

Gift of the artist