 | John Freyer is an interdisciplinary artist who had is first solo museum exhibition in the Fall of 2005 at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. This show, titled Aftermarket, includes components of three different, but inter-related projects, Freyer's nationally renowned web-based performance piece AllMyLifeForSale.Com, a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com, and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. Also in 2006, the University of Iowa Museum of Art unveiled Big Boy, a found-art sculpture by Freyer, which was accompanied by an artist's monograph with an essay by Martha Buskirk. Artifacts from the All My Life for Sale project now belong to collections as diverse as the Franklin Furnace Collection, at MoMA in New York City and Paine Hamilton's kitchen in Portland, Maine. Freyer's book based on the project, All My Life for Sale, published by Bloomsbury USA and distributed internationally, has been featured on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and MTV. All My Life for Sale was reviewed in The New Yorker magazine, the Sunday London Observer and numerous other publications. In 2002, Freyer was a festival author at Wordfest, the Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival and a Bodine Fellow at the University of Iowa. Freyer has received two Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire in 2002 and 2004. Freyer completed a printing residency at the Borowsky Center at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, in May of 2003. He is currently working with documentary filmmaker Christopher Wilcha on a television series, Second Hand Stories that investigates second-hand practices and economies across the United States. The pilot for Second Hand Stories aired in October of 2003. Freyer's book about the Second Hand Stories project will be published by Bloomsbury. Freyer lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where he received his MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa, and where he is a frequent producer of Audio Postcards for NPR's All Things Considered.
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