Gerri York is a Vancouver-based visual artist, originally from London, England. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University, Vancouver and a B.Ed.(Hons.) from St. Gabriel’s College, London University. Her multidisciplinary practice has focused on photographic and print media that currently merges photography with sculpture, a practice that concentrates on material employment and experimentation. She is fortunate to work in a collective studio setting located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. The studio is affiliated with Malaspina Printmakers’ where she was awarded a place in their Printermedia Residency program. Her studio research is a continuation of the material and spectral aspects of the photogram work, Folding.
York has exhibited across Canada and internationally in the US, Japan, Europe and India. She has undertaken residencies at Grafisch Atelier Utrecht (Netherlands) and Malaspina Printmakers (Vancouver), and served as a board member. Her exhibition history includes multiple shows in Vancouver, including Unearthing, Folding and Burning at Malaspina Printmakers for Capture Photography Festival (2019) and Distant–Platforms (2020), commissioned by Vancouver City Public Art program and shown in bus shelters throughout the downtown core. The Flat File Project was a group show curated by Kate Henderson (2023); Tangential Matter: The Ethereal at Gallery 881 (2024), curated by John Goldsmith; and Essential Pleasures New Happiness at Malaspina Howe Street Gallery (2024-2025), a photo group show curated by Felix Rapp. York currently lives in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
