John Gerrard

John Gerrard

Born 1974 (North Tipperary, Ireland)
Website johngerrard.net

John Gerrard, (born 20 July 1974) is an Irish artist, best known for his sculptures, which typically take the form of digital simulations displayed using Real-time computer graphics.

Bio & Career

John Gerrard was born in 1974 and first experimented with 3D scanning while studying at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. He has a postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a further degree in computer science from Trinity College, Dublin.

He exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and has shown at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. He collaborated with celebrated choreographer Wayne McGregor on a piece for the Royal Ballet called Live Fire Exercise, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, and his major new work Infinite Freedom Exercise (near Abadan, Iran) was installed in Manchester as part of the Manchester International Festival.¹

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2021, Leaf Work (Derrigimlagh) 2020, Galway International Arts Festival / Galway 2020
2021, John Gerrard: Lufkin (near Hugo, Colorado) Kunsthalle Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
2020, Corn Work (Corrib) 2020, Galway International Arts Festival / Galway 2020
2019, John Gerrard : Western Flag, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
2019, John Gerrard : Western Flag, Rathausmarkt Hamburg, Germany
2018, ‘John Gerrard : Solar Reserve’ at LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
2017, Solar Pavilion / World Flag at Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland
2017, Western Flag, commissioned by Channel 4, presented by Somerset House, London
2017, X. laevis (Spacelab), Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA
2016, John Gerrard, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015, Exercise, Darmstadt Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
2015, Farm, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2014, Sow Farm, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014, Solar Reserve, Lincoln Centre in association with the Public Art Fund, NYC, USA
2014, Dialogue (John Gerrard / David Claerbout), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2014, Exercise, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2014, Exercise (Djibouti), Screenspace, Melbourne, Australia
2013, Pulp Press, Kistefos Museet, Norway (permanent install)
2013, Cuban School, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2013, Exercise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA
2012, Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012, John Gerrard, mima, Middlesbourgh / AV Festival, UK
2011, Infinite Freedom Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
2011, Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration with Wayne McGregor) Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London UK
2011, Sow Farm. Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Damtschach, Austria
2011, Universal, Void Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland
2011, John Gerrard, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2011, John Gerrard, PICA, Perth, Australia
2010, Cuban School (Community 5th of October), Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2010, 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, Oil Stick Work, Art on the Underground, Canary Wharf Station, London, UK
2009, Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
2009, 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, Oil Stick Work, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, USA
2009, Sentry, 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, Ireland2000 30 Seconds of Desire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA

Group exhibitions

2021, Thailand Biennial, Curated by Yuko Hasegawa. Korat, Thailand.
2021, Texas Biennial, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2021, X Laevis (Spacelab), La Traverse, Marseille
2021, Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2021, Pandemic, Zero, Milan, Italy
2021, Networked Nature, Thoma Foundation Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2021, UnNatural History, curated by Invisible Dust, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Herbert, UK.
2021, Infrahauntologies, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2021, The 13th Gwangju Biennale – Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju, South Korea.
2021, Rethinking Collectivity: The Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
2020, Material / ImMaterial. Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2020, Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma, USA
2020, FOR you know the existence of the world, Hå gamle Prestegard, Norway
2020, Chapter 3HREE, Het HEM, Zandaam, The Netherlands
2019, Water After All, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
2019, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan
2019, Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
2019, The Keeper; To have and to hold The Model, Sligo Ireland (Republic)
2019, FLAG – objekt, ikon, symbol, Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2019, 24/7 – A Wake-Up Call for our Non-Stop World, Somerset HouseLondonUnited Kingdom
2019, The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2019, Desert X, Palm Springs / Coachella Valley, California, USA
2019, Surveillé·e·s, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
2018, In the open or in stealth – the unruly presence of an intimate future, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2018, The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria
2018, Surveillé·e·s, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2018, To See Time Go By, Inhotim – Galeria Fonte, Brazil
2018, I was raised on the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
2018, Long March Project: Building Code Violations III, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2018, Land / Sea / Signal, RuaRed, Espace Multimedia Gantner, France; Luznava Manor, Latvia
2018, MANIFESTA 12 – The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence. Manifesta – European’s Nomadic Biennial, Palermo, Sicily
2018, Beyond Words, 4th International Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey
2018, A World in a Grain of Sand: Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometries, Fosun Foundation, Hainan, China
2018, endless now, Donaufestival Krems – Festival for Music, Performance and Art, Krems, Austria
2018, EVA International, Ireland’s 38th Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
2018, Eco-Visionaries, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal
2018, Counting the waves, CCS Bard Hessen Museum, Annandale–on–Hudson, NY,
2017, Electricity, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL
2017, Overture: Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, New York, USA
2017, Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas, USA
2017, Virtual views: Thoma Foundation, Oralndo Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
2017, Wormwood, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2017, A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2017, I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
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, TBA21 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