Bri Dyer is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work highlights overlooked moments and memories, emphasizing the beauty of routine life. Centered on themes of the Everyday and memory, Dyer often uses photography as reference. She believes true joy comes from appreciating mundane moments, and that overlooking them diminishes life’s uniqueness. In a society focused on what’s next, her work draws attention to what has already happened.
Photographs and paintings both capture fleeting moments. A photograph freezes time within a frame, while a painting adds emotion and symbolism, creating a temporal event. Paintings act as hand-made portals into memory and experience, extending beyond the moment captured.
Dyer’s work bridges the present and past, recontextualizing images as objects and inserting herself into their existence. Through both wet and dry mediums, she shares her appreciation for moments often neglected or forgotten.
Exhibitions
Solo
2024 And now, she picks up the pieces, Neilson Park Creative Centre: Emergence Gallery, Etobicoke, ON
Group (selected)
2024 Get Noticed 2024 (Online Exhibition), Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024 Expressions, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Etobicoke, ON
2024 A Nightmare on Roncesvalles 3, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024 Another Portrait Exhibit 2024, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2024 GradEx 109, 100 McCaul St, Toronto, ON
2023 A Breathing Room for the Spirit, 4th Floor, 100 McCaul St, Toronto, ON
2023 for there is nothing lost that may be found if sought, OCADu Student Hub, Toronto, ON
2022 Technicolour, Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 Mississauga Festival of Trees, CreativeHub 1352, Mississauga, ON
2021 ESC: A Virtual Experience, Toronto, ON
Curatorial
2021 ESC: A Virtual Experience, Executive Committee, Toronto, ON
Residencies
2025 Belgrade Artist Residency, Belgrade, Serbia
Media and Publications
2024 Expressions (Catalogue), Neilson Park Creative Centre
2021 DFALTB, Album Cover
2021 Fire Escape, Film, Sketch Design
2021 Radio ‘45, Radio Play, Visual Aid