Annie Briard (BFA, MFA) is known for her practice in expanded photography and media art. With beginnings in Montreal and now working from the Pacific North-West, her works connect aesthetics and concerns within photo conceptualism, affect theory and the light and space movement rooted in California. Through moving images, light and 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; 2025), Untitled Miami and MKG127 in Toronto (2025), the Quebec Biennale (2022), Monica Reyes Gallery (2020; 2022) and the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver (2021); AC Institute in New York (2019), and Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montréal, among others. Group shows, festivals and fairs internationally span the Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre (New York), Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), among many others. Her public art installations have spanned architectural integration projects for cultural centres and hospitals as well as institutional commissions including the Surrey Art Gallery and the New Westminster Museum. Art residencies have been a formative part of Briard’s creative research process: High Desert Test sites in California, SIM in Iceland, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Wassaic Project, among others in Europe and the US, and the Swedish Lapland artist-in-residence award in 2025. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her works are featured in the collections of Microsoft, TD Bank, Scotiabank, Canada Art Bank, the Kelowna Art Gallery and others.

Annie Briard is a Lecturer in photography and graduate studies 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 sur la côte nord-ouest du Pacifique. 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 étendue et de l'art installatif.
 
Ses œuvres font l’objet d’expositions individuelles et de groupe 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, en Islande, et fut la lauréate du prix de résidence en Arctique Suédois en 2025 de Swedish Lapland AIR. Ses expositions individuelles récentes incluent la galerie Royale Projects à Los Angeles (2024; 2025), “Staring at the Sun” pour la biennale de Quebec Manif d’art 10 (2022) et à la galerie MKG127 à Toronto; ‘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 et au département des études supérieures à l’Université Emily Carr.

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