Neil Farber's Biography

NEIL FARBER
born 1975
Lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada

EDUCATION
1994-97 University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Neil Farber - Please Give Blood
Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova
Conversations
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2006
Gettings on mother´s nerves-psychological drama and contemporary drawing
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Neil Farber - Ruby Throats - Solo Project
Houldsworth Projects, London (England)
Bestiary
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Royal Art Lodge Preoccupation
Aliceday, Brussels
Peer Pleasure 1- Royal Art Lodge, Space 1026
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Brain, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Jeffyr, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Waah, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
When I was Ah, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2003 Daily Apocalypse, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Italy
Scope Art Fair, Townhouse Hotel, Miami, Florida
L.A. International Invitational, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 New Work, Galerie Weiland, Berlin, Germany\
Get a Move Going, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Clementine, Project Room, New York, NY
2001 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Amazing, Perugi Arte Contemporaneo, Padova, Italy
Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Clementine Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings,
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
 The Royal Art Lodge: Penseiri Dei Serpenti, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Italy 
The Royal Art Lodge, Caffe Florian, Venice, Italy
2004 So Sweet, Leisure Club Mogidishni, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Chaim Soutine, Happy Sailor, London, UK 
Rendez-Vous 2004, Musee Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
Future Quake, FIAC 2004, Paris, France 
New Entries, Artissima, Turin, Italy 
Happy Go Lucky, Foundation VHDG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands 
Paperwork, Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
Bande Annonce, aliceday, Brussels, Belgium 
Art Brussels 2004, Brussels, Belgium 
Beautiful Losers/Beaver College, Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Occur(Blur), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 
Frogs: A chorus of colors, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. 
Hypothermia (Royal Art Lodge), Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 
 Strips & Characters, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany 
 The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, MOCA, Los Angeles, California 
 Huts(Royal Art Lodge), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
The Royal Family, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Pride in Workmanship (Royal Art Lodge), Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, Elaine L Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI
Beautiful losers, Beaver College, The Mockbee, Cincinnati, OH
2003 The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, De Vieeshal, Middelburg, NL
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Family Circus, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Works on Paper, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
I 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Straight to Hell, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Bad Touch, Space 1026, Philladelphia, PA
Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drue’s Birthday, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Drawings, Evergreene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Postcards from the Edge, Visual aids benefit, New York, NY
2001 Light Gallery, Faenza, Italy
Amounts of Blood, Artcore, Toronto
The Sensational Line, MOCA, Denver, CO
Best of the Season: Selected Highlights from the 2000-01 Manhattan
Gallery Season, Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
I love New York, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Art Pile, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
School Girls, curated by Monya Rowe, NY
Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Galerie Wieland, Berlin, Germany
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 The Royal Art lodge, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Miracle Whip, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Stalke Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Greetings from Winnipeg, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Stinky Stew, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
What Big is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1998 Boomer’s Special Holiday, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
One Night Stand, Farmers Daughter Motel, Los Angeles,
1997 The Royal Art Lodge, Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, TX
Art for Healing, Walker Theater, Winnipeg, Canada
Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 1.1.1., University Manitoba, Canada
Fresh Popped, Plug in Gallery, Anti-Chamber (Royal Art Lodge)
Wood Inc., Off Ice Gallery, University of Manitoba, Canada
1996 Fite Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Heller, Richard. The Little People, Art Review London, May, 2003
Whyte, Murray. Making Art Around the Hearth While Warding Off the Chill,
The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, Sunday January 19, 2003
Beatrice, Luca. Freschi.Immediati.Arrivano I cartoon di Neil Farber, Arte, May,
2001
Glueck, Grace. Neil Farber, The New York Times, July 13, 2001
Gilbert, Rick, Impfestation, Royal Art Lodge Strikes Again, Zing Magazine, Summer 2001
Scott, Michael. Winnipeg’s Royal Art Lodge, The Vancouver Sun, December, 2000
Search Magazine, 2000, article on the Royal Art Lodge
Laurence, Robin, Royal Visions of Childhood, The Georgia Straight, 2000
Gillmore, Alison. “Brain Trust”, Western Living, November, 2000 p.20-29
McGee, Robert, The Artfull Lodger, Border Crossings, Winter 1999
Enright, Robert, The Art Lodge, Border Crossings, Jan, 1998 p. 59
Walsh, Meeka, review of The Royal Art Lodge, Border Crossings, Summer 1997

PUBLICATIONS
Growing Pains, Brain, Neil Farber, Richard Heller Gallery,
Text by Joshua Dawes Harnden, 2005
Comic Release, Negotiating Identity for a new Generation, with Essays by Vicky Clark, Barbara Bloemnick and Ana Merino. DAP publication, 2003
Dictionary of Received Ideas: Royal Art Lodge, Ask the Dust, Text by Wayne Baerwaldt, Joseph Wolin, and Lytle Shaw 2003
Amazing, Neil Farber. Perugi, Artecontemporanea, Text by Guido Bartorelli, Padova, Italy. 2001
Royal Art Lodge, Neil Farber. Perugi, Artecontemporanea, Text by Guido Bartorelli, Padova, Italy. 2000

MEDIA PROJECTS
2001 Royal Art Lodge video, Blinding Light, Vancouver, B.C.
The Jeffrey Movie, with Marcel Dzama, Myles Langlois and Shelley Dick
2000 Garage Video, North Dakota Gallery, Grand Forks, USA
Garage Video, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada
1996 Indiflix, Cinamateque theater, Winnipeg,, Canada
Red River, Cinamateque theater, Winnipeg,, Canada
Slide Show, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

AWARDS
1997 School of Art Award, University of Manitoba, Canada
Painting Award, University of Manitoba, Canada
1996 Indiflix award (fifth place independent film making competition), Winnipeg, Canada