Biography.

Born 1974, Dublin, Ireland
Lives Dublin, Ireland + Vienna, Austria

1994-97 BFA Sculpture, The Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
1998-00 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2000-01 MSc Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, 2009
2009 John Gerrard / Glenn Ligon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada
2009 John Gerrard Animated Scene, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2009 Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA
2009 Knoedler Project, Knoedler Project Space, NY, USA
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, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia, Italy

2008
Mortail Coil, Parkers Box Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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
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, USA

2007
Blown Away, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL , USA
Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, NY, USA
Existencias, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Singing the Real, Iziko-SA National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself (curated by Linda Norden) Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA
Landscapism (curated by Joseph Wolin) The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA

2006
Digital Tales, The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Heavy Light, Quint Contemporary, California, USA
The Genius of Place, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoake, USA
Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, 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
Simulcrum, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, USA
Climax, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Eurojet Futures Anthology, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
The Institute of Potential Art + Failure, Carlow Visualise, Carlow, Ireland
Bring on the Clones, Vertex List, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2004
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
Eurojet Futures, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
Selections from the New York Digital Salon, Kendall College of Art Gallery, Michigan, USA
Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Arts Museum, New York, USA
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Touch and Temperature, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
travelling to : Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Digital Avant-Garde, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Selfish, SciCult Gallery, London, UK

2003
Thy Neighbours Ox, Space Station 65, London, UK
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
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
2005 Co-production Award, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2004 Siemens Artist in Residence Award
2004 Irish Arts Council Visual Artists Bursary
2004 Projects Award, Irish Arts Council
2003 Irish Arts Council Residency to Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2002 Pepinieres Scholarship
2003 Projects Grant, Irish Arts Council
2001 Development Grant, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin.
1999 Irish Arts Council Postgraduate Art Scholarship
1998 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship

Festivals
2006 Smoke Tree II @ Darklight, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Smoke Tree III @ Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2005 The Ladder @ Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2004 Watchful Portrait (Caroline) @ Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2003 Portrait Diptych @ Ars Electronica Festival, AEC Centre Exhibition, Linz, Austria


Selected Bibliography

2010

2009

Dunne, Aidan "At the Heart of a New Art World," The Irish Times, July 10, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0710/1224250378417.html

Donoghue, Katy "John Gerrard: Animated Scene" Whitewall, July 2, 2009
http://www.whitewallmag.com/2009/07/02/john-gerrard-animated-scene

Bevan, Roger "All that Glisters Might Not be Gold, but in Venice Art Still Rules," The Art Newspaper, July/August, 2009

Laster, Paul "The Biennale's Best," The Daily Beast, June 18, 2009
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-18/the-biennales-best/4

Yablonsky, Linda "Dogana Days," Artforum, June 9, 2009
http://artforum.com/diary/id=23065

Gopnik, Blake "A Most 'Animated' Eco-Critique," The Washington Post, June 9, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803818.html

Tonchi, Stefano "Venice | Slowly But Surely," The New York Times' T Magazine, June 9, 2009
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/venice-slowly-but-surely

Higgins, Charlotte "Venice Biennale: The Don't Miss List," The Guardian, June 9, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/jun/09/venice-biennale-art

Higgins, Charlotte "Venice Biennale Diary: Pig Processing and Slow Food - the Arty and the Party," The Guardian, June 5, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/05/venice-biennale-john-gerrard-opera

Ellwood, Mark "Gaze and Graze," The Financial Times, May 9, 2009
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e4189e54-3a9b-11de-8a2d-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html

Dunne, Aidan "City to City: Together and Apart," The Irish Times, May 8, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0508/1224246120141.html

Falvey, Deirdre "Artists to Bring Carpet and Buskers to Biennale," The Irish Times, May 1, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0501/1224245759215.html

Mandrini, Riccarda "Where to go off the Tracks," L'uomo Vogue," May/June 2009

Baker, Elizabeth C.: "John Gerrard: Knoedler Project Space and Simon Preston", Art In America, May 4, 2009

Landi, Ann: "John Gerrard: Simon Preston - Knoedler Project Space", ARTnews, April 2009

Velasco, David: "John Gerrard. Simon Preston Gallery / Knoedler Project Space", Artforum, March 2009

Radio Interview (dur: 28'38''): "John Gerrard: Artist John Gerrard with host Daniel Durning: Art and Technology", ARTonAIR.org, March 23, 2009

Licht, Alan: "Like Digital Clockwork," Rhizome, March 17, 2009

Wolin, Joseph R.: "John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work + Knoedler Project", Time Out New York, February 26 - March 4, 2009

Smith, Roberta: "John Gerrard: Oil Stick Work", The New York Times, February 20, 2009

2008

Artner, Alan G.: "A New Medium Emerges at Resurgent Artropolis", Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2008

Video Clip (running time 5'51''): "John Gerrard - Artist", The Art Newspaper Digital, July 8, 2008

Collins, Robert: "Art to Last a 1000 Years", Bad Idea magazine, Autumn/Winter 08

2007

Wolin, Joseph, R.: "Introducing: John Gerrard", Modern Painters Magazine, November 2006, 2007

Goodbody, Bridget, L.: "Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself", The New York Times, July 6, 2007

Wolin, Joseph R.: "Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself", Time Out New York, July 5-11, 2007

2006

Tipton, Gemma: "Up In Smoke", The Irish Times, November 11, 2006

Murphy, Patrick T.: "Through Time and Space: John Gerrard's Image Objects", Irish Arts Review, Winter 2006

Dunne, Aidan: "Dark Portraits", The Irish Times, November 17, 2006