title: John D. Freyer
text: # 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 (2004–2005) 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 (2003) 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 (Stockholm University) 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 (2005) 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. ISBN 978-0747563020.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  As of 2018, 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.
  