Dyer started his freelance art career locally, by doing art exhibitions in Montreal. It did not take too long until his work started getting featured in magazines like
Thrasher and
High Times. This exposure got him further commercial commissions, along solo exhibitions in places like
Peru,
Mexico, Belgium and all across the United States and Canada. To this point, he has exhibited at galleries around the world, including
Vienna,
Bali,
Costa Rica, Spain, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, New York City,
Denver and Los Angeles. He has shown with renowned artists such as
Alex Grey,
Shepard Fairey,
Robert Venosa,
H.R. Giger, and Romio Shrestha. He has also worked with skateboard art legends like Jim Phillips, Wes Humpston, and Andy Howell. Other than exhibiting he also travels to live paint at events and big music festivals like
Burning Man (Nevada),
Shambhala (British Columbia), and
Boom (Portugal). Dyer launched his own brand, Positive Creations, in 2003, and offers a wide variety of products such as clothing, tapestries, books, backpacks, watches, DVDs, etc. In 2008, he filmed and co-directed a full feature documentary of his life with Dreamtime Cinema.
Positive Creations was released as DVD in 2010 and for free on his YouTube channel. In 2011,
Schiffer Publications released a 256-page, hardcover book, of his art. Following that was a
coloring book for adults that was published by
Last Gasp in 2016. In the late 2010s, he started offering painting workshops at local high schools in Montreal. This led to offering workshops for artists in places like Italy, Bali, India, Thailand, and Australia. He now offers them at institutions such as the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the
National Gallery of Canada,
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. Starting in 2017, he created an art workshop combined with healing shamanic ceremonies, at Katari Center, in the jungle near
Tarapoto, Peru. It was in the year 2000 when he started doing his paintings on broken skateboards he had ridden and collected over the years. His recycled skate paintings introduced his work to skateboarders around the world, mostly via skate magazines articles. In 2004, he started creating skate graphics for Creation Skateboards, from San Francisco, who had him over in California for many years. By 2011 Dyer he had become the company's Art Director and Brand Manager, as which he created catalogs and directed the skate video "Soul Harmonics". Dyer continues to freelance for a number of different skate brands, such as
Santa Cruz, Deathwish, Think, Skull, and more and by now has done over 100 commercial skateboard graphics. By the end of the 2010s, Dyer was doing less fine-art skateboard deck paintings, and had moved into whole installations (like his "Skatebot Army") structured from reclaimed skateboards.
Street art Dyer's first interaction with aerosols was in 1993, when he would tag many walls of Lima, Peru, publicizing the name of the Sepulcro Crema
street gang he belonged to. Dyer's younger brother Patrick (a.k.a. Peru 143) later started doing graffiti, so Chris stayed away from that medium for many years, as to avoid brotherly competition. It was later in 2007, when the brothers became roommates in Montreal, that they started to jam in their backyard and Chris got addicted to that medium. These days, spray paint is one of Chris' main mediums, especially in the outdoor seasons and while on the road. His intentions are to beautify the world and leave his trace as he explores the globe. Though Chris' favorite jams are organically organized
block parties, he has also been invited to paint murals for festivals like
MURAL Festival,
Art Basel Miami,
Rainbow Serpent Festival in Australia,
Ozora Festival in Hungary and Puro Muro in Lima, Peru. ==Publications==