Born 1974, Dublin, Ireland

EDUCATION

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

RESIDENCIES

2010  Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2009  Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Holland
2005  Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2004  Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
          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
          Irish Arts Council Visual Artists Bursary
          Projects Award, Irish Arts Council
2003  Irish Arts Council Residency to Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Canada
2002  Pepinieres Scholarship
          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


http://www.johngerrard.net

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010  John Gerrard, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA (upcoming) 
         Oil Stick Work, Canary Whaf Station for Art on the Underground, London, UK (upcoming) 
         John Gerrard, The Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2009  Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC,
         John Gerrard, Animated Scene, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
         John Gerrard / Glenn Ligon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery,

         Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada
         Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA 
         John Gerrard, Knoedler Project, Knoedler Gallery, 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, 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, NY, USA
         Academia, Chapelle de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. 
         Landscape 08, The Dock Gallery, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
         Singing the Real, Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
         Into the Ether, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, USA
         10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
         Blown Away, Krannert Museum of Art, Illinois, USA
2007  Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, NY, USA
         Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA
         Singing the Real, National Gallery of South Africa, SA
         Landscapism, Islip Art Museum, Islip. NY,  USA
2006  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
         Code Blue, Millennium 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, 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
         Touch and Temperature, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA  
         traveling to : Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
         Digital Avant-Garde, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA


FESTIVALS / PERFORMANCES

2008  Smoke Tree II, Cube Festival, France
2006  Smoke Tree II, Darklight Festival, Dublin, Ireland
         Smoke Tree I, 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
2002  Composition for Loops, Blips and Flesh (with Donnocha Dennehy) The 
         Percussion Group, The Hague, Holland


PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2005/06 FreeForm : Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2004  FoodFace, The Ark Childrens Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2002  Digiboarding, The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland
All workshops utilised Squideo, a childrens animation software developed by John Gerrard and others.


VISITING LECTURES

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Trinity College, Dublin
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.


SELECTED REVIEWS / ARTICLES

2009 
Dunne, Aidan "At the Heart of a New Art World", The Irish Times, July 10, 2009
Donoghue, Katy "John Gerrard: Animated Scene" Whitewall, July 2, 2009
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
Gopnik, Blake "A Most 'Animated' Eco-Critique," The Washington Post, June 9, 2009 
Tonchi, Stefano "Venice | Slowly But Surely," The New York Times' T Magazine, June 9, 2009
Higgins, Charlotte "Venice Biennale: The Don't Miss List," The Guardian, June 9, 2009
Higgins, Charlotte "Venice Biennale Diary: Pig Processing and Slow Food - the Arty and the Party," The Guardian, June 5, 2009
Ellwood, Mark "Gaze and Graze," The Financial Times, May 9, 2009
Dunne, Aidan "City to City: Together and Apart," The Irish Times, May 8, 2009
Falvey, Deirdre "Artists to Bring Carpet and Buskers to Biennale," The Irish Times, May 1, 2009
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
Radio Interview (duration: 28'38''): "John Gerrard: Artist John Gerrard with host 
Daniel Durning: Art and Technology", ARTonAIR.org, March 23, 2009
Wolin, Joseph R.: "John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work + Knoedler Project", Time Out New York, February 26 - March 4, 2009
2008 
Smith, Roberta: "John Gerrard: Oil Stick Work", The New York Times, February 20, 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
Dunne, Aidan, Joy Gerrard / John Gerrard, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Irish Times, May 2007
2006 
Johnson, Ken: Art Review, in: The New York Times / March 10, 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
Dunne, Aidan, Painting by Binary Numnbers, The Irish Times, Wed. Nove 29, 2006
ART REVIEW, Living in a Digital World, In: Artinfo.com, March 2006
2005 
Kramar, Thomas: Ars Electronica: Sehnsucht nach Maschinen, Materie, Fleisch. In: Die Presse online, Wien, 03.09.2005 
Hybride Kreaturen, paradoxe Maschinen. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten online, Linz, 26.08.2005 
Spiegler, Almuth: "36. Art Basel": Und die Party geht weiter. In: Die Presse online, Wien, 20.06.2005
Gleeson, Regina: Digital Art,  In: Visual Artists News sheet, May 2005
Stott, Tim: Eurojet Futures 04, , Circa Magazine (online) January 2005
Healy, Ciara: Euroject Futures 04, , CIRCA 111, Spring 2005
2004 
Bard, Elizabeth, Ars Electronica Festival, In: Contemporary Magazine, September 2004 
Review + Cover Image, Circa Art Magazine, Issue 101, Winter 2004
2003 
Dunne, Aidan: New Work in New Media, , Irish Times,  10th November, 2003