John Gerrard
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1974
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria & Dublin, Ireland
Education
MSc Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2000-01
MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1998-00
National College of Art+Design, Dublin, Ireland, 1998-00
BFA Sculpture, The Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1994-97
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Forthcoming: Mirror Pavilion, Leaf Work, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2019
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), Hamburg Rathausmarkt, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Solar Reserve, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2017
Solar Pavillion/Flag, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
Western Flag, Somerset House with Channel 4, London, England
X.laevis (Spacelab) 2017, Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY
2016
John Gerrard: Power. Play, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015
Exercise, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Farm, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2014
Sow Farm, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solar Reserve, Lincoln Center in Association with the Public Art Fund, New York NY
Exercise, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Exercise (Djibouti), Screenspace, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Exercise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY
Pulp Press (Kistefos), Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
Cuban School, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2012
John Gerrard, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough, England
Exercise (Djibouti), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
2011
Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration with Wayne McGregor) Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, England
Sow Farm, Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Damtschach, Austria
Infinite Freedom Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England
John Gerrard, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
John Gerrard, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain
John Gerrard, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland
2010
Cuban School (Community 5th of October), Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY
Oil Stick Work, Canary Wharf Station for Art on the Underground, London, England
John Gerrard, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Sow Farm: What You See is Where You're At, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2009
Directions: John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
John Gerrard Animated Scene, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
Knoedler Project, Knoedler Project Space, New York, NY
John Gerrard / Glenn Ligon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Alberta, Canada
2008
John Gerrard / Joy Gerrard, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Dark Portraits, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2006
Dark Portraits, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003
New Work, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000
30 Seconds of Desire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions
2021
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2020
Galway International Arts Festival, Claddagh, Galway City; Derrigimlagh Bog, Clifden, Ireland
CHAPTER 3HREE: Maarten Spruyt, Het Hem, Zaandam, Netherlands
2019
Okyama Art Summit, Okyama, Japan
The Aerodrome: An Exhibition Dedicated to the Memory of Michael Stanley, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Photography and Video in the r/e Collection, Photo España Festival, Artkunstarte Space, Madrid, Spain
Desert X 19, Coachella Valley, Palm Springs CA
The Keeper, to have and to hold, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2018
In the Open or in Stealth, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Long March Project: Building Code Violations III, Long March Space, Beijing, China
MANIFESTA 12, Palermo, Sicily
Donaufestival, Krems and Kroneuburg, Austria
Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey
Counting the Waves, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
Eco-Visionaries, MAAT Lisbon, Portugal
2017
The Big Invisible, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
Imbalance, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Wormword, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Electricity: The spark of life, Wellcome Collection, London, England; travelled to: Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
I want! I want!: Art and Technology, Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, England
Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN
2016
Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories: The 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Summer Show, Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY
Mouse in the Machine: Nature in the Age of Digital Art, Art House, Santa Fe CA
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Mankind / Machinekind, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2015
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
John Gerrard / David Claerbout (Dialogue), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Reset, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany, Le Bal, Paris, France
Art Unlmited, Art Basel, Switzerland
Boolean Expressions, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2014
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy, Cocos Island, Costa Rica
The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern, London, England
The Surface of the World: Architecture and the Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Pasay, Philippines
2013
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
More Real, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and SITE Santa Fe, Minneapolis MN
0 to 60. The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Out of the Ordinary, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2012
Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport, South London Gallery, London, England
Marking Time, MCA I, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing Cedex, France
Junge Akademie, Berlin, Germany
2011
Beyond, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
20/20, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2010
The Fifth Genre, Gallery Lelong, New York NY
Invited EV+A, Limerick, Ireland
2009
Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2008
Academia, la Chapelle de l'Ecole des beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Landscape 08, The Dock Gallery, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Mortail Coil, Parkers Box Gallery, Brooklyn, New York NY
Singing the Real, Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Navigating the Ether, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York NY
2007
Blown Away, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign IL
Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, New York NY
Existencias, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Singing the Real, Iziko-SA National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, (curated by Linda Norden) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
Landscapism, (curated by Joseph Wolin) The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York NY
2006
Digital Tales, The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Heavy Light, Quint Contemporary, La Jolla CA
The Genius of Place, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoake NC
Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Code Blue, Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China
Freeform, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Human Touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria
Digital Transit, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
2005
Simulacrum, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO
Climax, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
The Institute of Potential Art + Failure, Carlow Visualise, Carlow, Ireland
Bring on the Clones, Vertex List, Brooklyn, New York NY
2004
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
Eurojet Futures, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
Selections from the New York Digital Salon, Kendall College of Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Arts Museum, New York NY
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Touch and Temperature, Bitforms Gallery, New York NY; travelled to: Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston TX
Digital Avant-Garde, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York NY
Selfish, SciCult Gallery, London, England
2003
Thy Neighbours Ox, Space Station 65, London, England
The National Gallery, The Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland
EV+A 2003, Limerick City Art Gallery and other sites, Limerick, Ireland
Portrayal, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
Residencies
2010
Junge Akadamie, Akadamie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2009
Guest Resident : Rijksadamemie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2004
Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
2004
Irish Arts Council Leighton Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2003
Siemens Residency, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
2002
Pepiniere Residency, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
Awards and Grants
2021
Business to Art Awards, Best Use of Creativity in the Community, Galway International Arts Festival with John Gerrard for Mirror Pavilion
2011
Legacy Fellowship, a new collaboration between Modern Art Oxford, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Artand Oxford University Sport in response to the Games of the XXX Olympiad.
2005
Co-production Award, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2004
Siemens Artist in Residence Award
Irish Arts Council Visual Artists Bursary
Projects Award, Irish Arts Council
2003
Irish Arts Council Residency to Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Projects Grant, Irish Arts Council
2002
Pepinieres Scholarship
2001
Development Grant, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
1999
Irish Arts Council Postgraduate Art Scholarship
1998
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship
Public collections
The Art Museum of WVU at West Virginia University, Morgantown WV
The Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon), Dublin, Ireland
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chicago IL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
Inhotim Collection, Brumadinho, Brazil
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco CA
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, England
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Tate Collection, London, England
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Bejing, China
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
