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Jared Madere (born July 11, 1986, New York, New York) is an American contemporary artist and curator who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Biography
Madere was born in New York, New York in 1986. He studied Painting and Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a BFA in Painting in 2009.

Career
After moving to Brooklyn, New York he opened Bed-Stuy Love Affair gallery in 2013 where he exhibited the work of many of his contemporaries including Bradley Kronz, Valerie Keane, Darja Bajagić, Rochelle Goldberg, Win McCarthy, Ben Schumacher, Sam Anderson, Veit Laurent Kurz, Joseph Geagan, Olga Balema, Jessi Reaves, and Jake Cruzen.

In 2014, the gallery became a mobile exhibition venue when it moved into a 30-foot truck complete with wrought iron gates armoring all of the vehicle windows, pink marble floors, and a flatscreen television with surround sound system, which played Tekken during exhibition openings. Madere began exhibiting his large scale installations internationally with the generational survey of monumental works DOOM: SURFACE Controle curated by Renaud Jerez at Le Magasin (Centre National d'Art Contemporain) Grenoble FR. Soon after this Madere opened his North American solo debut at The Whitney Museum of American Art with an Untitled sculptural exhibition organized by Curator Christopher Y. Lew.

Madere spent the first half of 2017 in Himachal Pradesh, India creating tapestries for the exhibition Anasthasia and Zoey staged in the hills below Gallu Devi. Later in the year, Madere was commissioned to create Unconditional Love which would fill the atrium of the London department store Liberty for a brief yet controversial 36 hours before it was removed due to graphic imagery.

In mid 2017, Madere opened the hybrid digital and traditional exhibition venue Mother Culture Los Angeles with artist Jake Cruzen.

Madere continues to create and exhibit work across multiple media in the form of sculpture, tapestry, installation, video, sound, and live opera, music videos, long form documentation. Madere’s works have been exhibited internationally at various institutions and galleries including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, La Panacée, Liberty London, The Istanbul Biennial, Armada Milano, David Lewis Gallery, Bortolami, and The Watermill Center.

Critical Reception
According to critic Noam Segal, Madere’s works focus on the annulment of any hierarchical order in the material and symbolic realm in order to suggest a new equivalency. Articulating this leveling process through contingencies, Madere attempts to abolish structures such as superiority of discourse, western time perception, accustomed linearity, hypothesis of causality, and leap from chronology; treating all these traits in a similar arbitrary manner. Critic Clayton Press writes for Forbes, it is difficult to capture the very real sense of ecstatic, if not romantic, intoxication that Madere conjures with his installations, environments and visualizations. Madere’s work has also received reviews from Interview Magazine, ArtNews.com, Flash Art, and The Times.