Geoffrey Farmer has been nominated to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Farmer has selected Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario Carol and Morton Rapp Curator Kitty Scott to organize the Canadian pavilion.

Over the course of his twenty-year career, Farmer has had exhibitions at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich; the Louvre in Paris; Documenta 13 in Kassel; the Tate Modern in London; and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, among other exhibitions and institutions.