Seth Fluker

Contact

seth.fluker@gmail.com

About & CV [PDF]

Seth Fluker is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker whose work explores human attachment to place, environmental degradation and resilience, the evolving water cycle, and portraits shaped by time, presence, and exchange. His work has been exhibited at the Barbican Centre (London), the Daniels Building (Toronto), the Vancouver International Film Festival, and on 32 billboards across Canada as part of the Contact Photography Festival. His books, published by Art Metropole, Hassla, and New Documents, as well as self-published titles, are held in the library collections of MoMA, Tate Britain, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Arena Homme +, Blue Moon, Dazed, i-D, Sneeze, The Globe & Mail, The Guardian Review, and The Wire have commissioned Fluker to shoot portraits.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 Outer Circle Road, Daniels Building, Toronto CA
  • 2015 Seth & Sheila Stayed Behind, Art Metropole, Toronto CA
  • 2009 The Blues Are Still Blue, Claire de Rouen Books, London UK
  • 2007 Strange Days Indeed, Antisocial Gallery, Vancouver CA

Group Exhibitions

  • 2016 Strange & Familiar (curated by Martin Parr), Barbican Centre, London UK
  • 2011 Bookmakers, Le Bal, Paris FR
  • 2010 Bookmakers, Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse FR
  • 2008 Various Photographs (curated by Tim Barber), NYPF, New York US
  • 2007 Tiny Vices, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
  • 2007 Tiny Vices (curated by Tim Barber), Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2006 Tiny Vices (curated by Tim Barber), Studio B, Tokyo JP

Site Specific

  • 2017 Blueberry Hill (curated by Heather Rigg), Pattison Billboards with Contact, Cross-Canada

Film Festivals

  • 2020 Pools, Antimatter, Victoria, CA
  • 2019 Pools, Vancouver International Film Festival, World Premiere

Artist Books


  • 2022 At Water, Hassla
  • 2017 Broken Clouds, Self-published
  • 2016 Local, Live and Breaking, Self-published
  • 2015 Seth & Sheila Stayed Behind, collaboration with Sheila Heti, New Documents
  • 2014 Dressed for Space, Art Metropole
  • 2013 Earth People, Working Title
  • 2010 Before Things Change, Self-published

Publications

  • 2016 Strange & Familiar, Edited by Alona Pardo & Martin Parr, Prestel
  • 2014 High Tails, Edited by Sophie Mörner, Capricious
  • 2010 Bruit de Fond/Background Noise, JSBJ
  • 2010 Smoke Bath, Edited by Peter Sutherland, Seems Books
  • 2008 Various Photographs, Edited by Tim Barber, TV Books

Bibliography

Portraiture

  • 2025 Jeff Wall, Arena Homme+
  • 2025 Alanis Obomsawin, Blue Moon
  • 2024 Sky Glabush, Blue Moon
  • 2023 Wolfgang Tillmans, Blue Moon
  • 2022 Graham Foy, The Globe & Mail
  • 2020 Charlotte Day Wilson, i-D Magazine #360
  • 2019 Bambii, Sneeze, Fulfil the Dream Issue
  • 2017 Linda Catlin Smith, The Wire, #397
  • 2017 Isaiah Ceccarelli, The Wire, #397
  • 2016 Wolfgang Tillmans, The Globe & Mail, Nov. 17th
  • 2016 Takashi Homma, Sneeze, The Truth is Out There
  • 2015 Thundercat, The Wire, #381
  • 2015 Kara-Lis Coverdale, The Wire, #376
  • 2014 Antoine Olivier Pilon, Dazed, W
  • 2014 David Cronenberg & Sarah Gadon, Dazed, A/W 2014
  • 2013 Shary Boyle, Dazed, Vol.III / Num.23
  • 2012 Grimes, i -D, Num. 32
  • 2012 Sheila Heti, Dazed and Confused, Vol.III / Num.12
  • 2012 Sarah Polley, Dazed and Confused, Vol.III / Num.12
  • 2010 Redia Soltis, Vice

Grants

  • 2024 Concept to Realization, Canada Council for the Arts

Residency

  • 2009 X Marks the Bökship, London UK

Collections

Library: Museum of Modern Art, New York USA
Library: Tate Britain, London UK
Library: Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven USA
Library: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto CA
Library: The Banff Centre, Banff CA
Soho House, New York
Soho House, Toronto

Seth Fluker