RESET I and MODERNISM
Sept 5 – Nov 28, 2015
John Gerrard ist für seine aufwändigen Animationen bekannt, die er nach Erkundungsreisen sowie Text- und Bildrecherchen am Computer generiert. Mithilfe von Echtzeit-3D-Grafik schafft er virtuelle Realitäten von unglaublicher Detailgenauigkeit. John Gerrards Arbeiten wurden in zahlreichen internationalen Institutionen, darunter das Witte de With, Rotterdam, das Museum of Modern Art, New York, die Pinakothek der Moderne, München und das Minneapolis Institute of Arts, gezeigt. Derzeit präsentiert die Kunsthalle Darmstadt die erste Einzelausstellung des irischen Künstlers in Deutschland (bis 11. Oktober).
In seinen jüngsten Arbeiten erforscht John Gerrard geographisch isolierte Schauplätze. Dabei dienen ihm Machtstrukturen und Energienetzwerke als Ausgangspunkt. Basis seiner künstlerischen Praxis sind die traditionelle Landschaftsmalerei und Land Art. Der Gebrauch von Echtzeit-3D-Grafik, die ursprünglich für militärische Zwecke entwickelt wurde und heute vor allem von der Spieleindustrie genutzt wird, ermöglicht Gerrard die hyperrealistische Wiedergabe seiner Sujets und die Darstellung global koordinierter Produktions- und Distributions-Netzwerke. In seinen aufwändig produzierten Werken geht es ihm darum, die verborgenen Macht-Systeme unserer modernen Welt sichtbar zu machen, wie zum Beispiel Googles Datenfarm in Oklahoma (Farm, Pryor Creek, Oklahoma, 2015). Da Google ihm keine Foto-Genehmigung erteilte, mietete Gerrard einen Helikopter und fotografierte die Anlage aus der Luft. Es entstanden 2.500 Aufnahmen, die der Künstler mit seinen Mitarbeitern in einjähriger Handarbeit zu einem digitalen Modell zusammenfügte. Die in RESET 1 gezeigte Arbeit „Universal (Near Iron Springs, Alberta)“ entstand 2010. Die hochauflösende Projektion fokussiert zwei Bohrtürme, die in der kanadischen Landschaft nahe Calgary stehen, wo sie einst von der Firma Universal installiert wurden.
„Wenn die Leute hören, dass meine Arbeit mithilfe Computer basierter 3D-Grafik kreiert wird, denken sie, dass es ein Automatismus ist, dass wir einfach einen Knopf drücken. Aber sie ist genauso von Hand gemacht wie Malerei oder Skulptur.“
– John Gerrard (Interview mit Andy Beta im New York Wall Street Journal, 2. Okt. 2014)
„Technologie liegt im Zentrum der zeitgenössischen reichen Welt und zunehmend auch in den Entwicklungsländern – daher sehe ich keinen guten Grund, warum Künstler nicht stärker durch sie sprechen sollten und sie in einem vollständigeren Sinn in der zeitgenössischen Kunst einsetzen sollten. Um diese Beschleunigung zu bemerken, müssen sich Dinge an den Kunstschulen ändern, aber ich erwarte, dass das mit der aufkommenden sogenannten Post-Internet-Generation unvermeidlich sein wird. … Es ist vor allem eine gute Zeit, um in den Begriffen der technischen Landschaft zu arbeiten und ich bin bei weitem nicht der einzige oder gar ein Pionier, der sich über diese Tatsache im Klaren ist.“
– John Gerrard (Interview mit Nicholas Forrest in BlouinArtinfo, 16. Februar 2015)
Studium
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
2009 Rijksakadamie, Independent Residency Program, Amsterdam, Holland.
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 John Gerrard, Western Flag, commissioned by Channel 4, presented by Somerset House, London
2016 John Gerrard, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015 John Gerrard, Exercise, Darmstadt Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2015 John Gerrard, Farm, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2014 John Gerrard, Sow Farm, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 John Gerrard, Solar Reserve, Lincoln Centre in association with the Public Art Fund, NYC. USA.
2014 John Gerrard, Dialogue (John Gerrard / David Claerbout), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 John Gerrard, Exercise, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 John Gerrard, Exercise (Djibouti), Screenspace, Melbourne, Australia
2013 John Gerrard, Pulp Press, Kistefos Museet, Norway (permanent install)
2013 John Gerrard, Cuban School, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2013 John Gerrard, Exercise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA
2012 John Gerrard, Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012 John Gerrard, mima, Middlesbourgh / AV Festival, UK
2011 John Gerrard, Infinite Freedom Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
2011 John Gerrard, Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration with Wayne McGregor) Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London UK
2011 John Gerrard, Sow Farm. Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Damtschach, Austria
2011 John Gerrard, Universal, Void Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland
2011 John Gerrard, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2011 John Gerrard, PICA, Perth, Australia
2010 John Gerrard, Cuban School (Community 5th of October), Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2010 John Gerrard, Sow Farm : What You See is Where You’re At / Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010 John Gerrard, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010 John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work, Art on the Underground, Canary Wharf Station, London, UK
2009 John Gerrard, Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
2009 John Gerrard, John Gerrard / Glenn Ligon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada
2009 John Gerrard, Animated Scene, Collateral Event at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2009 John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA
2009 John Gerrard, Sentry, Knoedler Project Space, NY, USA
2008 John Gerrard, John Gerrard / Joy Gerrard, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2007 John Gerrard, Dark Portraits, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2006 John Gerrard, Dark Portraits, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003 John Gerrard, New Work, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000 John Gerrard, 30 Seconds of Desire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 Marching in Circles, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2017 Electricity, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2016 Flag (Thames) 2016, Shanghai Biennial, Why Not Ask Again?, Power Station for Art, Shanghai, China
2016 Cuban School, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mankind / Machinekind. Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2015 Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Reset, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2015 Art Unlmited, Art Basel, Switzerland
2015 Boolean Expressions, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2015 Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Politics of Amnesia, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK.
2015 Open Source, Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2015 Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015 Creating Realities. Encounters between Art and Cinema, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2014 The Surface of World: Architecture and the Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Pasay, Philippines
2014 Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition – T-B A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2014 The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern Gallery, London
2013 The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK, (curated by Mark Leckey). Travelling to: Nottingham Contemporary and De la Warr Pavilion.
2013 The Everyday Experience, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland
2013 Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 0 to 60, The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art. North Carolina Museum of Art, USA.
2013 Out of the Ordinary, The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. USA.
2012 More Real, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA.
2012 The Pursuit of Perfection, South London Gallery, London, UK
2012 Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy, France
2012 Marking Time, MCA Sydney, Australia
2012 Junge Akademie, Berlin, Germany
2012 To remind: works of memory and monument – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – MIMA, Middlesbrough
2012 Arrivi e Partenze Europa – Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2011 Fragments in Time and Space, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
2011 Beyond (Look at my face: my name is Might Have Been; I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell) Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 20/20, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
2010 The Real Thing, Tate Britain, UK
2010 The Fifth Genre, Gallery Lelong, NY, USA
2010 Invited EV+A, Limerick, Ireland
2009 Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia, Italy
2009 Huésped. Colección MUSAC en Rosario – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario, Argentina
2008 Mortail Coil, Parkers Box Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008 Academia, la Chapelle de l’Ecole des beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2008 Landscape 08, The Dock Gallery, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
2008 10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Singing the Real, Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
2008 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2008 Navigating the Ether, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Blown Away, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL , USA
2007 Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, NY, USA
2007 Existencias, Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
2007 Singing the Real, Iziko-SA National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
2007 Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself (curated by Linda Norden) Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA
2007 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
2006 The Genius of Place, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoake, USA
2006 Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2006 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2006 Code Blue, Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Freeform, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2006 Human Touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria
2006 Digital Transit, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
2005 Simulcrum, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, USA
2005 Climax, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2005 Eurojet Futures Anthology, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
2005 The Institute of Potential Art + Failure, Carlow Visualise, Carlow, Ireland
2005 Bring on the Clones, Vertex List, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2004 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2004 Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Eurojet Futures, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
Veröffentlichungen
Gerrard, John. Monograph, Ivory Press.
Texts by philosophers Robin Mackay and Reza Negarestani, Yoani Sánchez (writer), a conversation with Simon Groom and others. ISBN 978-84-938340-3-6
ev+a 2010 – matters, ev+a catalogue, 2010. ISBN 978 0948037 788
Gerrard, John: Animated Scene, RHA catalogue, 2009. With texts by Jasper Sharp, Linda Norden, Prof. Michael A. Morris, and John Gerrard. ISBN 978-3-85160-154-1
In-Finitum. Catalogue, Vervoordt Foundation in association with MER.Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent (BE), 2009. ISBN 978-90-76979-82-3
Birnbaum, Daniel: Making Worlds: 53rd International Art Exhibition: La Biennale Di Venezia, Catalogue, 2009. ISBN: 978-8831796965
Academia. Qui es’ tu? La chapelle de L’École des beaux-arts de Paris, catalogue, 2008. ISBN 978-90-76979-65-6
10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business2Arts. Irish Museum of Modern Art, catalogue, 2008. ISBN 978-1-903811-83-2
MUSAC Collection Volume II. MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, catalogue, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-935781-2-1
Gerrard, John: Dark Portraits, RHA Catalogue, 2006. With texts by Shane Brighton and Christiane Paul. ISBN 1-903875-36-6
EV+A 2003: on the border of each other. ev+a catalogue, 2003. ISBN: 0948037032
Selected Bibliography / General Press
Please see Thomas Dane Gallery & Simon Preson Gallery press pages.
Ben Valentine
“Adrift in the Waters of Our Dark, Befouled Planet”
Hyperallergic
14 July 2017
Brian Boucher
“Why a Simulation of a Frog Floating in Outer Space Points to a New Future for Contemporary Art”
artnet news
14 July 2017
Ben Eastham
“One Take: John Gerrard’s Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas)”
Frieze Magazine
Summer 2017
Gemma Tipton
“John Gerrard on sculpting smoke, false flags and how it all comes down to petroleum”
The Irish Times
April 2017
Gemma Tipton
“The best places to experience Irish culture overseas”
The Irish Times
26 November 2016
Kimberly Bradley
“10. Reanimate: Interview with John Gerrard”
COS
September 2016
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard’s CGI Predicted Brexit”
Artnet News
30 June 2016
“John Gerrard: Power.Play”
e-flux
3 June 2016
Joseph Taylor McRae
“Monumentally Virtual, Ephemerally Physical: Directions in new sculpture and new media”
Cass Sculpture Foundation
25 May 2016
Maeve Connolly
“Artists’ TV”
Frieze.com
11 May 2016
Dawn Chan
“Previews”
Artforum
May 2016
Kirk McCoy
“’Leonardo DiCaprio to donate art installation to LACMA ”
Los Angeles Times
9 June 2015
Adam Kleinman
“John Gerrard’s ‘Farm’ ”
Art Agenda
18 March 2015
Imelda Barnard
“The View from Earth: John Gerrard at Thomas Dane”
Apollo Magazine
5 March 2015
Nicholas Forrest
“INTERVIEW: John Gerrard on his “Slippery” Sims at Thomas Dane”
Blouin Artinfo
16 February 2015
Nick Compton
” ‘John Gerrard: Farm’ at London’s Thomas Dane Gallery explores the unfathomable proportions of modern technology”
Wallpaper
10 February 2015
James Pickford
“Internet artist bring ‘the cloud’ to earth”
Financial Times
6 February 2015
Jonathan Jones
“Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm”
The Guardian
4 February 2015
Blake Gopnik
“Top Ten Shows of the Year”
The Artnewspaper
December 2014
Gemma Tipton
“Critics’ Picks”
Artforum
15 November 2014
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard’s Chilling View of Solar Heat”
Artnet news
28 October 2014
Carol Vogel
“Warhol’s Presley and Brando Head to Auction”
The New York Times
4 September 2014
Alexandra Ivanoff
“Borusan Contemporary debuts work of artists Gerrard and Brambilla”
Today’s Zaman
26 February 2014
Herbert Wright
“Pulp Press”
blueprint magazine
August 2013
Aidan Dunne
“John Gerrard”
The Irish Times
20 July 2013
Michaele Cutaya
“A glitch in the matrix”
Irish Arts Review
Summer 2013
John Gerrard
Artkurio
5 June 2013
John Haber
“The Art Of War”
haberarts.com
April 2013
John Gerrard
The New Yorker
5 April 2013
John Gerrard
The Huffington Post
1 March 2013
Flora Yin-Wong
“Mark Leckey’s 5 dumbest things”
Dazed Digital
February 2013
John Gerrard
The Guardian Guide
7 July 2012
John Gerrard
Modern Art Oxford
6 July 2012
Abdullah Saaed
“Photo Journalism Powered by A Game Engine”
the creators project
1 June 2012
Peter Aspden
“Beyond Wall Power”
Financial Times
14 January 2012
Paul Bonaventura
“John Gerrard”
Art Monthly
October 2011
Chelsea Ward
“From war to hyperreal art”
New Scientist
11 July 2011
Catherine Wood
“Mancunian Rhapsodies”
Artforum
1 July 2011
John Gerrard
Manchester Evening News
24 June 2011
John Gerrard
The Telegraph
23 June 2011
Zoë Anderson
“Royal Ballet Triple Bill”
The Independent
18 May 2011
Judith Mackrell
“Royal Ballet Mixed Bill”
guardian.co.uk
16 May 2011
Anna Gritz
“John Gerrard”
Frieze
March 2011
Karen Wright
“Four Faces For The Future”
Phillips de Pury & Company
8 March 2011
Emily Hall
“John Gerrard”
Artforum
February 2011
James Glisson
“John Gerrard”
Artforum
27 November 2010
Benjamin Sutton
“New Portraits of Old Art”
The L Magazine
20 November 2010
Emily Nathan
“John Gerrard”
PLANET°
18 November 2010
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard”
The Washington Post
18 November 2010
John Gerrard
smithsonian.com
10 November 2010
John Gerrard
The Sunday Times
14 March 2010
Jennifer Allen
“The Artwork Without Us”
Mousse Magazine
Feb/Mar 2010
Georgina Adam
“The Art Market: A Return to Seriousness”
The Financial Times
12 February 2010
Kelly Nosari
“John Gerrard”
Dailyserving
3 February 2010
John Gerrard
FLOLO
2010
Blake Gopnik
“Avoiding Mechanical Overload”
The Washington Post
November 9 2009
Julie Scelfo
“What The Goat’s Bones Knew”
The New York Times
5 November 2009
Alan G. Artner
“John Gerrard”
Chicago Tribune
2009
Blake Gopnik
“Behind ‘Animated Scene’ Roils Immersive Commentary”
The Washington Post
June 9 2009
Linda Norden & Jaspar Sharp
“Pause and Continue”
RHA projects, La Biennale di Venezia
7 June 2009
Michael A. Morris & John Gerrard
“Corn Bomb: A Short History Of Nitrogen”
RHA projects, La Biennale di Venezia
7 June 2009
Elizabeth C Baker
“John Gerrard”
Art In America
May 2009
Aidan Dunne
“John Gerrard”
The Irish Times
2 May 2009
Tyler Coburn
“John Gerrard”
Art Review
April 2009
Marco Antonini
“John Gerrard”
Flash Art
March / April 2009
David Velasco
“John Gerrard”
ARTFORUM
25 March 2009
Roberta Smith
“Art in Review: John Gerrard”
The New York Times
20 February 2009
Alan Artner
“A new medium emerges
at resurgent Artropolis”
Chicago Tribune
7 February 2009
John Gerrard
technology review published by MIT
issue March/April 2008
Robert Collins
“John Gerrard”
Bad Idea Magazine, London
2008
Joseph R. Wolin
“Introducing John Gerrard”
Modern Painters Magazine
26 November 2007
Bridget L. Goodbody
“Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself”
John Gerrard
The New York Times
6 July 2007
John Gerrard
Time Out Magazine New York
5 July 2007
Aidan Dunne
“Painting by binary numbers”
The Irish Times
29 November 2006
John Gerrard
photography now
23 November 2006
Patrick T Murphy
“Through Time and Space:
John Gerrard’s image objects”
Irish Arts Review
2006
John Gerrard is known for his elaborate animations that he generates following journeys of discovery along with computer-based text and image searches. With the help of real-time 3-D graphics, he creates virtual realities with an incredible degree of detail. Gerrard’s works have been exhibited in numerous international institutions, including the Witte de With, in Rotterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Kunsthalle Darmstadt is currently showing the first individual exhibition of the Irish artist’s work in Germany (until 11 October).
In his most recent work, Gerrard investigates geographically isolated settings, using power structures and energy networks as a point of departure. Landscape painting and land art form the basis for his artistic practice. The use of real-time 3-D graphics, which was originally developed for military purposes and is today primarily used in the gaming industry, allows Gerrard to render his subjects with hyper-realistic accuracy and portray globally coordinated production and distribution networks. He uses his elaborately produced works to reveal the hidden power systems of our modern world, such as Google’s data farm in Oklahoma (Farm, Pryor Creek, Oklahoma, 2015). Since Google denied his request to photograph the complex, Gerrard rented a helicopter and took aerial photos. This resulted in 2,500 photographic images that the artist and his assistants meticulously puzzled together for an entire year to create a digital model. The work “Universal (Near Iron Springs, Alberta)”, which is featured in RESET 1, was created in 2010. This high-resolution projection focuses on two drilling rigs that stand in the Canadian landscape near Calgary, where, long ago, they were placed by the Universal company.
“When people hear that this is created within a gaming engine, there is the sense that there is an automation, that we just press a button. But this is as handmade as painting or sculpture.”
– John Gerrard (interview with Andy Beta in the Wall Street Journal, 2 October 2014)
“Technology lies at the heart of the contemporary rich world and increasingly so in the developing worlds as well – thus I can see no good reason why artists will not and should not speak through it at increasing volume and put it to work in a fuller sense in contemporary art. Things need to change in the art schools to see this speed up but I would expect it is inevitable with what is described as the post-internet generation emerging. Mainly it is a good time to be working in terms of the technical landscape and I am far from the only one, or even a pioneering one, to be aware of this.”
– John Gerrard (interview with Nicholas Forrest in BlouinArtinfo, 16 February 2015)
Education
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
2009 Rijksakadamie, Independent Residency Program, Amsterdam, Holland.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2017 John Gerrard, Western Flag, commissioned by Channel 4, presented by Somerset House, London
2016 John Gerrard, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015 John Gerrard, Exercise, Darmstadt Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2015 John Gerrard, Farm, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2014 John Gerrard, Sow Farm, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 John Gerrard, Solar Reserve, Lincoln Centre in association with the Public Art Fund, NYC. USA.
2014 John Gerrard, Dialogue (John Gerrard / David Claerbout), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 John Gerrard, Exercise, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 John Gerrard, Exercise (Djibouti), Screenspace, Melbourne, Australia
2013 John Gerrard, Pulp Press, Kistefos Museet, Norway (permanent install)
2013 John Gerrard, Cuban School, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2013 John Gerrard, Exercise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA
2012 John Gerrard, Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012 John Gerrard, mima, Middlesbourgh / AV Festival, UK
2011 John Gerrard, Infinite Freedom Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
2011 John Gerrard, Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration with Wayne McGregor) Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London UK
2011 John Gerrard, Sow Farm. Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Damtschach, Austria
2011 John Gerrard, Universal, Void Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland
2011 John Gerrard, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2011 John Gerrard, PICA, Perth, Australia
2010 John Gerrard, Cuban School (Community 5th of October), Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2010 John Gerrard, Sow Farm : What You See is Where You’re At / Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010 John Gerrard, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010 John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work, Art on the Underground, Canary Wharf Station, London, UK
2009 John Gerrard, Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
2009 John Gerrard, John Gerrard / Glenn Ligon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada
2009 John Gerrard, Animated Scene, Collateral Event at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2009 John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA
2009 John Gerrard, Sentry, Knoedler Project Space, NY, USA
2008 John Gerrard, John Gerrard / Joy Gerrard, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2007 John Gerrard, Dark Portraits, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2006 John Gerrard, Dark Portraits, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003 John Gerrard, New Work, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000 John Gerrard, 30 Seconds of Desire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Group exhibitions (selection)
2017 Marching in Circles, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2017 Electricity, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2016 Flag (Thames) 2016, Shanghai Biennial, Why Not Ask Again?, Power Station for Art, Shanghai, China
2016 Cuban School, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mankind / Machinekind. Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2015 Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Reset, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2015 Art Unlmited, Art Basel, Switzerland
2015 Boolean Expressions, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2015 Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Politics of Amnesia, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK.
2015 Open Source, Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2015 Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015 Creating Realities. Encounters between Art and Cinema, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2014 The Surface of World: Architecture and the Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Pasay, Philippines
2014 Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition – T-B A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2014 The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern Gallery, London
2013 The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK, (curated by Mark Leckey). Travelling to: Nottingham Contemporary and De la Warr Pavilion.
2013 The Everyday Experience, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland
2013 Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 0 to 60, The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art. North Carolina Museum of Art, USA.
2013 Out of the Ordinary, The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. USA.
2012 More Real, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA.
2012 The Pursuit of Perfection, South London Gallery, London, UK
2012 Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy, France
2012 Marking Time, MCA Sydney, Australia
2012 Junge Akademie, Berlin, Germany
2012 To remind: works of memory and monument – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – MIMA, Middlesbrough
2012 Arrivi e Partenze Europa – Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2011 Fragments in Time and Space, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
2011 Beyond (Look at my face: my name is Might Have Been; I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell) Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 20/20, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
2010 The Real Thing, Tate Britain, UK
2010 The Fifth Genre, Gallery Lelong, NY, USA
2010 Invited EV+A, Limerick, Ireland
2009 Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia, Italy
2009 Huésped. Colección MUSAC en Rosario – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario, Argentina
2008 Mortail Coil, Parkers Box Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008 Academia, la Chapelle de l’Ecole des beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2008 Landscape 08, The Dock Gallery, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
2008 10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Singing the Real, Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
2008 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2008 Navigating the Ether, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Blown Away, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL , USA
2007 Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, NY, USA
2007 Existencias, Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
2007 Singing the Real, Iziko-SA National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
2007 Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself (curated by Linda Norden) Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA
2007 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
2006 The Genius of Place, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoake, USA
2006 Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2006 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2006 Code Blue, Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006 Freeform, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2006 Human Touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria
2006 Digital Transit, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
2005 Simulcrum, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, USA
2005 Climax, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2005 Eurojet Futures Anthology, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
2005 The Institute of Potential Art + Failure, Carlow Visualise, Carlow, Ireland
2005 Bring on the Clones, Vertex List, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2004 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2004 Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Eurojet Futures, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
Publications
Gerrard, John. Monograph, Ivory Press.
Texts by philosophers Robin Mackay and Reza Negarestani, Yoani Sánchez (writer), a conversation with Simon Groom and others. ISBN 978-84-938340-3-6
ev+a 2010 – matters, ev+a catalogue, 2010. ISBN 978 0948037 788
Gerrard, John: Animated Scene, RHA catalogue, 2009. With texts by Jasper Sharp, Linda Norden, Prof. Michael A. Morris, and John Gerrard. ISBN 978-3-85160-154-1
In-Finitum. Catalogue, Vervoordt Foundation in association with MER.Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent (BE), 2009. ISBN 978-90-76979-82-3
Birnbaum, Daniel: Making Worlds: 53rd International Art Exhibition: La Biennale Di Venezia, Catalogue, 2009. ISBN: 978-8831796965
Academia. Qui es’ tu? La chapelle de L’École des beaux-arts de Paris, catalogue, 2008. ISBN 978-90-76979-65-6
10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business2Arts. Irish Museum of Modern Art, catalogue, 2008. ISBN 978-1-903811-83-2
MUSAC Collection Volume II. MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, catalogue, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-935781-2-1
Gerrard, John: Dark Portraits, RHA Catalogue, 2006. With texts by Shane Brighton and Christiane Paul. ISBN 1-903875-36-6
EV+A 2003: on the border of each other. ev+a catalogue, 2003. ISBN: 0948037032
Selected Bibliography / General Press
Please see Thomas Dane Gallery & Simon Preson Gallery press pages.
Ben Valentine
“Adrift in the Waters of Our Dark, Befouled Planet”
Hyperallergic
14 July 2017
Brian Boucher
“Why a Simulation of a Frog Floating in Outer Space Points to a New Future for Contemporary Art”
artnet news
14 July 2017
Ben Eastham
“One Take: John Gerrard’s Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas)”
Frieze Magazine
Summer 2017
Gemma Tipton
“John Gerrard on sculpting smoke, false flags and how it all comes down to petroleum”
The Irish Times
April 2017
Gemma Tipton
“The best places to experience Irish culture overseas”
The Irish Times
26 November 2016
Kimberly Bradley
“10. Reanimate: Interview with John Gerrard”
COS
September 2016
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard’s CGI Predicted Brexit”
Artnet News
30 June 2016
“John Gerrard: Power.Play”
e-flux
3 June 2016
Joseph Taylor McRae
“Monumentally Virtual, Ephemerally Physical: Directions in new sculpture and new media”
Cass Sculpture Foundation
25 May 2016
Maeve Connolly
“Artists’ TV”
Frieze.com
11 May 2016
Dawn Chan
“Previews”
Artforum
May 2016
Kirk McCoy
“’Leonardo DiCaprio to donate art installation to LACMA ”
Los Angeles Times
9 June 2015
Adam Kleinman
“John Gerrard’s ‘Farm’ ”
Art Agenda
18 March 2015
Imelda Barnard
“The View from Earth: John Gerrard at Thomas Dane”
Apollo Magazine
5 March 2015
Nicholas Forrest
“INTERVIEW: John Gerrard on his “Slippery” Sims at Thomas Dane”
Blouin Artinfo
16 February 2015
Nick Compton
” ‘John Gerrard: Farm’ at London’s Thomas Dane Gallery explores the unfathomable proportions of modern technology”
Wallpaper
10 February 2015
James Pickford
“Internet artist bring ‘the cloud’ to earth”
Financial Times
6 February 2015
Jonathan Jones
“Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm”
The Guardian
4 February 2015
Blake Gopnik
“Top Ten Shows of the Year”
The Artnewspaper
December 2014
Gemma Tipton
“Critics’ Picks”
Artforum
15 November 2014
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard’s Chilling View of Solar Heat”
Artnet news
28 October 2014
Carol Vogel
“Warhol’s Presley and Brando Head to Auction”
The New York Times
4 September 2014
Alexandra Ivanoff
“Borusan Contemporary debuts work of artists Gerrard and Brambilla”
Today’s Zaman
26 February 2014
Herbert Wright
“Pulp Press”
blueprint magazine
August 2013
Aidan Dunne
“John Gerrard”
The Irish Times
20 July 2013
Michaele Cutaya
“A glitch in the matrix”
Irish Arts Review
Summer 2013
John Gerrard
Artkurio
5 June 2013
John Haber
“The Art Of War”
haberarts.com
April 2013
John Gerrard
The New Yorker
5 April 2013
John Gerrard
The Huffington Post
1 March 2013
Flora Yin-Wong
“Mark Leckey’s 5 dumbest things”
Dazed Digital
February 2013
John Gerrard
The Guardian Guide
7 July 2012
John Gerrard
Modern Art Oxford
6 July 2012
Abdullah Saaed
“Photo Journalism Powered by A Game Engine”
the creators project
1 June 2012
Peter Aspden
“Beyond Wall Power”
Financial Times
14 January 2012
Paul Bonaventura
“John Gerrard”
Art Monthly
October 2011
Chelsea Ward
“From war to hyperreal art”
New Scientist
11 July 2011
Catherine Wood
“Mancunian Rhapsodies”
Artforum
1 July 2011
John Gerrard
Manchester Evening News
24 June 2011
John Gerrard
The Telegraph
23 June 2011
Zoë Anderson
“Royal Ballet Triple Bill”
The Independent
18 May 2011
Judith Mackrell
“Royal Ballet Mixed Bill”
guardian.co.uk
16 May 2011
Anna Gritz
“John Gerrard”
Frieze
March 2011
Karen Wright
“Four Faces For The Future”
Phillips de Pury & Company
8 March 2011
Emily Hall
“John Gerrard”
Artforum
February 2011
James Glisson
“John Gerrard”
Artforum
27 November 2010
Benjamin Sutton
“New Portraits of Old Art”
The L Magazine
20 November 2010
Emily Nathan
“John Gerrard”
PLANET°
18 November 2010
Blake Gopnik
“John Gerrard”
The Washington Post
18 November 2010
John Gerrard
smithsonian.com
10 November 2010
John Gerrard
The Sunday Times
14 March 2010
Jennifer Allen
“The Artwork Without Us”
Mousse Magazine
Feb/Mar 2010
Georgina Adam
“The Art Market: A Return to Seriousness”
The Financial Times
12 February 2010
Kelly Nosari
“John Gerrard”
Dailyserving
3 February 2010
John Gerrard
FLOLO
2010
Blake Gopnik
“Avoiding Mechanical Overload”
The Washington Post
November 9 2009
Julie Scelfo
“What The Goat’s Bones Knew”
The New York Times
5 November 2009
Alan G. Artner
“John Gerrard”
Chicago Tribune
2009
Blake Gopnik
“Behind ‘Animated Scene’ Roils Immersive Commentary”
The Washington Post
June 9 2009
Linda Norden & Jaspar Sharp
“Pause and Continue”
RHA projects, La Biennale di Venezia
7 June 2009
Michael A. Morris & John Gerrard
“Corn Bomb: A Short History Of Nitrogen”
RHA projects, La Biennale di Venezia
7 June 2009
Elizabeth C Baker
“John Gerrard”
Art In America
May 2009
Aidan Dunne
“John Gerrard”
The Irish Times
2 May 2009
Tyler Coburn
“John Gerrard”
Art Review
April 2009
Marco Antonini
“John Gerrard”
Flash Art
March / April 2009
David Velasco
“John Gerrard”
ARTFORUM
25 March 2009
Roberta Smith
“Art in Review: John Gerrard”
The New York Times
20 February 2009
Alan Artner
“A new medium emerges
at resurgent Artropolis”
Chicago Tribune
7 February 2009
John Gerrard
technology review published by MIT
issue March/April 2008
Robert Collins
“John Gerrard”
Bad Idea Magazine, London
2008
Joseph R. Wolin
“Introducing John Gerrard”
Modern Painters Magazine
26 November 2007
Bridget L. Goodbody
“Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself”
John Gerrard
The New York Times
6 July 2007
John Gerrard
Time Out Magazine New York
5 July 2007
Aidan Dunne
“Painting by binary numbers”
The Irish Times
29 November 2006
John Gerrard
photography now
23 November 2006
Patrick T Murphy
“Through Time and Space:
John Gerrard’s image objects”
Irish Arts Review
2006