Fern Bayer
Fern Bayer is a Canadian curator, consultant, and art historian from Montreal, Quebec. Bayer is the author of a catalogue raisonné of the works of General Idea.[1]
Education[edit]
Bayer obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the Anthropology and Art History program at McGill University in 1971. The following year, she obtained a Diploma of Museum Science and Restoration of Works of Art at the Università Internationale dell' Arte in Florence, before completing her Masters of Arts at the Department of History of Art of the University of Toronto in 1975.[2]
Career[edit]
Bayer served as the Chief Curator of the Government of Ontario Art Collection between 1977 and 1995.[1] Between 1987 and 1995, she was also responsible for the international promotion of Ontario artists as International Cultural Promotion Consultant.[2] Since then, Bayer has worked as an independent curator and consultant and been a guest lecturer at Project (Dublin), the National College of Art & Design (Dublin), the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art (Dublin), and the Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie (Caen).[2] In 1995 the last surviving General Idea member, AA Bronson, appointed her as the group's archivist.[3]
Awards[edit]
- 2004 and 2006: the Independent Critics and Curators Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for the publication of General Idea Editions, 1967-1995
- 2004: the Melva J. Dwyer Award for Excellence in Canadian Art Publishing from the Art Libraries Society of North America
- 2003-2004: the National Gallery of Canada Research Fellowship
- 2002: the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for the publication of The Ontario Collection
- 1998: Best Historical Research & Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for texts in The Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975 (1998)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fern Bayer". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Finding aid for the Fern Bayer fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives. https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc085.html
- ↑ Bloch, Mark (13 December 2017). "General Idea in Perspective". The Brooklyn Rail.
External links[edit]
- Fern Bayer fonds at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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