Mark Prier’s multimedia work deals with themes of wilderness, mapping, and rural survival. His work takes the vernacular of survival as its starting point for abstraction, teasing form from sources as diverse as lean-tos, hunting blinds, camping shelters, and farm maintenance. He has presented performances as a part of Lost O (Ashford, Kent, UK) and Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (Kitchener, Canada), and exhibitions at Red Head Gallery, Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto, Canada), White Water Gallery (North Bay, Canada), City Without Walls (Newark, USA), and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston, Canada). He has also taken part in screenings at nextfest (Edmonton, Canada), and Images Festival (Toronto, Canada). Prier is a graduate of the Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto.

As half of the electronica duo hellothisisalex, Prier has played the MUTEK Festival in Montreal, done commissions for CBC Radio, and taken part in the National Film Board of Canada’s Minus 40 project. He is also a member of the COMMONS, an art collective based in Toronto and Corner Brook, Canada, and London, UK. Prier lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.