Annie Briard (BFA, MFA) is a Canadian artist known for her practice in expanded photography and digital media. With beginnings in Montreal and now working from the Pacific North-West, her works connect aesthetics steeped in affect theory, photo conceptualism, and the light and space movement rooted in California. Triangulating between these interdisciplinary modalities, her artworks evidence a dialogue with each movement’s key concerns. Through moving images, media installations, expanded and print photography, Briard challenges how we make sense of the world and of each other through visual perception, emphasizing paradigms across the fields of ecology, psychology and neuroscience.
Briard’s works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including at Royale Projects in Los Angeles (2024), “Staring at the Sun” at the Quebec Biennale (2022), “Superlucent” (2022) at Monica Reyes Gallery and “Within the Eclipse” (2021) at the Burrard Arts Foundation, in Vancouver; "Second Sight” at AC Institute in New York (2019), and Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montréal, as well as group shows, festivals and fairs internationally at the Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre (New York), Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), among many others. Recently, she presented monumental scale public art projects for a number of commissions in Canada including for the Vancouver Art Gallery, the New Westminster Museum, and major architectural integration projects. She has been artist-in-residence at High Desert Test sites in California, SIM in Iceland, the Banff Centre for the Arts, among others in Europe and the US. Annie Briard has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and her works are found in public and corporate collections including those of the Art Bank of Canada, Microsoft, Scotiabank, TD bank and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec.
Briard is a Lecturer in photography and media arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, on the ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.
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Annie Briard est une artiste Montréalaise basée à Vancouver. Sa pratique se penche sur la perception visuelle et ses idéologies en ce qui a trait au réel versus l’imagé et l’imaginaire, sous l’optique de l’image en mouvement, de la photographie et de l'art installatif.
Ses œuvres font l’objet d’expositions individuelles et de groupe à travers le Canada et internationalement, incluant des galeries et festivals à Paris, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Bâle et Beijing. Elle a participé à des résidences à New York, à Los Angeles, au Centre Banff, en Espagne, et en Islande, ainsi qu’à des événements tels qu’Art Souterrain (Montréal) et Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver). Ses expositions individuelles récentes incluent la galerie Royale Projects à Los Angeles (2024), “Staring at the Sun” pour la biennale de Quebec (2022), ‘Within the Eclipse’ à la Burrard Arts Foundation à Vancouver (2021), ‘‘Second Sight’’ à la AC Institute à New York (2019), ‘‘Paracosmic Sun” à la Galerie Monica Reyes et ‘‘Sight Shifting’’ à galerie Joyce Yahouda à Montréal, entre autres. Briard est récipiendaire de bourses de projets du British Columbia Arts Council et du Conseil des Arts du Canada et ses oeuvres se retrouvent dans les collections de Microsoft, Scotiabank, la Banque TD, la Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec et la Banque d’oeuvres d’art du Canada.
Briard enseigne dans la faculté des arts visuels à l’Université Emily Carr.
Sun Simulations, view from solo exhibition Superlucent, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, 2022.