User:Curatorcurator/John Gerrard (artist)

Born in Dublin in 1974, John Gerrard received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He undertook postgraduate studies at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Trinity College, Dublin, and in 2002 was awarded a Pépinières Residency at Ars Electronica, Linz.

Recent solo exhibitions include John Gerrard: Sow Farm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2010-11; Oil Stick Work: Art on the Underground Jubilee Line Commission, Canary Wharf Underground Station, London (2010-2011); Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2009-2010); John Gerrard' at Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2010); John Gerrard: Animated Scene at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); Oil Stick Work at Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2009); John Gerrard at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2008) and John Gerrard: Dark Portraits'' at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2006).

Recent group exhibitions include Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, (2009); Academia, L'Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Paris (2008); Equal, That Is, To the Real Itself (curated by Linda Norden), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2007); Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2007); The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art (2006); and Independents at the Liverpool Biennial (2004).

Recent residencies include the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (June-December 2009) and BERLIN...

John Gerrard lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna, Austria.