Bill Jeffries

"Bill Jeffries has curated c. 140 exhibitions since 1983. He has also worked as a freelance writer, lecturer, artist and community and environmental activist. Bill was the owner of the Coburg Gallery in Vancouver from 1983 to 1987, which was, at that time, the only privately-owned photography gallery in the Lower Mainland. In 1984 he founded the Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society, which continues to operate to this day. From 1988 to 1991 he was Curator and Director at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. From 1998 to 2001 he worked in a variety of registrar positions at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He was Director/Curator at Presentation House Gallery from 2001 to 2005, and held the same post at the Simon Fraser University Galleries from late 2005 until the end of 2012. He has texts in some twenty books in addition to a hundred or so shorter exhibition essays.

Bill started his professional life in 1967 with a position teaching sciences at the grade nine level in New Jersey and subsequently taught Biology in Los Angeles and Special Education in Victoria, BC. He has a B.A. from Jersey City State College, a B.F.A. from the University of British Columbia and after leaving the Contemporary Art Gallery in 1991, completed an M.A. at Simon Fraser University. In 1991 he also attended the University of Colorado Museum Management Program. In the mid-1990s he worked on environmental and community projects while teaching part-time at S.F.U. and Douglas College. In 1996 Bill a co-wrote book on protecting BC’s wetlands published by the Westcoast Environmental Law Foundation, as well as a ‘citizen’s primer’ on the preservation of heritage architecture published by Simon Fraser University’s City program. He exhibits his own images occasionally.

Bill retired in November 2012 and is currently shooting a film."

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