Bill Jeffries

After seven years of teaching Bill Jeffries switched to art in 1976, initially at Camosun College, then doing a B.F.A. at UBC, & later an M.A. at SFU. In 1983 he opened the Coburg Gallery, then the only private photo gallery in Vancouver. From 1988 to 1991 he was Director & Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery;followed by six years working on environmental projects, then a 3-year stint at the Vancouver Art Gallery as Head of Museum Services and as a Registrar.  He was Director & Curator at Presentation House Gallery from 2001 to 2005, subsequently Director/Curator of the galleries at Simon Fraser University until late 2012.  In 2015 – 2016 he was Director/Curator of North Vancouver’s Gordon & Marion Smith Foundation & its Gallery.