Neil Farber (born 1975) is a Canadian contemporary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. His work has been exhibited internationally including in

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and

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. He is known in particular his ink and watercolor drawings. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the

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and others of

The Royal Art Lodge The Royal Art Lodge was a collaborative group of artists based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jon Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams at the University of Manitoba Th ...

. His work is also in the

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and others. Farber was born in

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, Canada. In a review of Farber's 2011 exhibition, ''Slugging'', at Edward Thorp Gallery, Shane McAdams writes in ''

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'': "''Slugging'', Neil Farber’s second exhibition at Edward Thorp, supplies an ample helping of the tragicomic faux-folk art fantasies we’ve come to associate with his work, though the degree to which they are intuited or calculated by the artist will start heated debates—or reignite old ones—among viewers. What is certain, though, is that something is amiss in Farber’s magical republic of drone-like naïfs, personified beasts, and mythical miscreants rising from ferments of cracked enamel, flowing resin, and crazed acrylic paint."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Farber, Neil 1975 births Artists from Winnipeg Canadian contemporary artists Living people University of Winnipeg alumni