John D. Freyer

John D. Freyer is an American artist who teaches Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Projects

In 2002, Freyer auctioned everything he owned for $6000 on eBay.

Audio

Audio Postcards was produced for National Public Radio and included such postcards as "On the Spin Cycle for Iowa's Ragbrai Race", "Iowa City Auction", and "Driven to Demolish".

Film and video

Second Hand Stories was a travel collaboration with Christopher Wilcha of interviewing collectors, sellers, and bystanders of bought and sold objects.

Photography

Opening the Flatpack, co-organized by Freyer and anthropologist Johan Lindquist in collaboration with design and architecture firm Uglycute, investigated and developed methods for approaching IKEA's Billy bookcase as a site of conceptual concern.

Sculpture

Walm-Art was a fully functional "museum store" inside an art gallery that sold objects from a local Walmart.

Publications

All My Life For Sale. Bloomsbury, 2002..

Personal life

, Freyer was married to Sasha Waters Freyer and they have two children.

Exhibitions

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, September 2005 – February 2006. Includes work from AllMyLifeForSale.Com, Walm-Art.Com, Surplus and Big Boy.