CONTACT
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NEWS
- Outer Circle Road solo exhibition at Daniels School of Architecture (Toronto), May 23 to June 28.
- At Water, reviewed by Barry Schwabsky in Border Crossings #161
- At Water, published by Hassla, in April.
ABOUT [PDF]
Seth Fluker was born in 1982 in Ontario, raised in British Columbia, and now resides in Toronto. These days, as a photographer and filmmaker, Fluker is predominantly concerned with our attachment to place and the depiction of landscapes and water cycles. In 2022, Hassla published, At Water, a book of landscape photographs depicting water in its many moods and textures across Canada and Japan. In 2019, he premiered his first short film, "Pools," at the Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2017, Contact Photography Festival exhibited "Blueberry Hill," a collection of Fluker’s Canadian landscape photographs, on thirty-two billboards across Canada. In 2016, Fluker’s self-published artist book, "Before Things Change," was included in the exhibition "Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers" at the Barbican Centre in London, UK, curated by Martin Parr. In 2015, New Documents published "Seth and Sheila Stayed Behind," which pairs a short story by critically acclaimed Canadian author Sheila Heti with Fluker’s photographs of anthropomorphized automobiles and embankments of dirty snow amongst a wintery Toronto landscape. In addition, Fluker’s photography books are held in numerous library collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain, Yale University, and The Art Gallery of Ontario.
Dazed, i-D, Sneeze, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian Review, The Wire, and VMan have commissioned Fluker to shoot portraits of Canadian and international artists.
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Film Festivals
- Pools, Antimatter, Victoria, CA
- Pools, Vancouver International Film Festival, World Premiere
Site Specific
- Blueberry Hill (curated by Heather Rigg), Pattison Billboards with Contact, Cross-Canada
Solo Exhibitions
- Seth & Sheila Stayed Behind, Art Metropole, Toronto CA
- The Blues Are Still Blue, Claire de Rouen Books, London UK
- Strange Days Indeed, Antisocial Gallery, Vancouver CA
Group Exhibitions
- Strange & Familiar (curated by Martin Parr), Barbican Centre, London UK
- Bookmakers, Le Bal, Paris FR
- Bookmakers, Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse FR
- Various Photographs (curated by Tim Barber), NYPF, New York US
- Tiny Vices, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
- Tiny Vices (curated by Tim Barber), Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
- Tiny Vices (curated by Tim Barber), Studio B, Tokyo JP
Artist Books
- At Water, Hassla (forthcoming)
- Broken Clouds, Self -published
- Local, Live and Breaking, Self -published
- Seth & Sheila Stayed Behind, collaboration with Sheila Heti, New Documents
- Dressed for Space, Art Metropole
- Earth People, Working Title
- Before Things Change, Self-published
Publications
- Strange & Familiar, Edited by Alona Pardo & Martin Parr, Prestel
- High Tails, Edited by Sophie Mörner, Capricious
- Bruit de Fond/Background Noise, JSBJ
- Smoke Bath, Edited by Peter Sutherland, Seems Books
- Various Photographs, Edited by Tim Barber, TV Books
Bibliography
- Schwabsky, Barry: Picture Library - Border Crossings, #161
- Wine, Rachel: Northern Exposure - The Globe & Mail
- Bell, Stephanie: Dressed for Space - Dazed Digital
- Isaac, Madelaine: Earth People - Dazed Digital
- Before Things Change portfolio, The Gourmand, Issue 3
- The Water Issue, Capricious, Num. 13
- The Photo Issue: Still Life’s, Vice Magazine, Vol.8 / Num.7
- In Conversation: Tim Barber & Seth Fluker – Bad Day – Issue 5
- Zines: The Journal - Issue 9
Portraiture
- Wolfgang Tillmans, Blue Moon
- Graham Foy, The Globe & Mail
- Charlotte Day Wilson, i-D Magazine #360
- Bambii, Sneeze, Fulfil the Dream Issue
- Linda Catlin Smith, The Wire, #397
- Isaiah Ceccarelli, The Wire, #397
- Wolfgang Tillmans, The Globe & Mail, Nov. 17th
- Takashi Homma, Sneeze, The Truth is Out There
- Thundercat, The Wire, #381
- Kara-Lis Coverdale, The Wire, #376
- Antoine Olivier Pilon, Dazed, W
- David Cronenberg & Sarah Gadon, Dazed, A/W 2014
- Shary Boyle, Dazed, Vol.III / Num.23
- Grimes, i -D, Num. 32
- Sheila Heti, Dazed and Confused, Vol.III / Num.12
- Sarah Polley, Dazed and Confused, Vol.III / Num.12
- Redia Soltis, Vice
Residency
- X Marks the Bökship, London UK
Collections
Library: Museum of Modern Art, New York USA
Library: Tate Britain, London UK
Library: Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven USA
Library: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto CA
Library: The Banff Centre, Banff CA