Jfry Craig is a Calgary-based artist whose photos, paintings, mixed media and new media installations have appeared across Canada, the United States and Mexico. He has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary where he studied under Canadian writer Nicole Markotic, govenor general winner Fred Wah and New England poet Jim Scrimgeour.

Jfry’s installation work opened the 2007 Canada Week Celebrations in Monterrey, Mexico as well as the Inaugural StemCell Festival in Edmonton Alberta. His canvas prints were features in the Smythsonian’s exhibit, “Graphic Noise” which was currated by Laura Moody and traveled the US for 2 years after being MODA’s largest opening show. Jfry published “War Made Me [do it]” in 2005, which features his series of prints that explores war over the last century.

Jfry was the guest artist at this year’s AMAAS conference where he presented on the history and future of the internet. His web project “Appul” was featured in Persistence of Vision, which was showing as part of the Eastern Edge Video Screening Series, presented in collaboration with The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in Newfoundland. Jfry presents workshops and is a frequent guest speaker on the topics of new media script writing, narrative potential and design after the blog. This site is a collection of his web experiments and project notes.

If you are looking to contact Jfry for a speaking engagement, a commissioned piece, gallery inquiry or a media request please email him at: theboy@toqueboy.com