John Gerrard
Born 1974, Dublin, Ireland
Lives Dubln, Ireland + Vienna, Austria
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
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Dark Portraits, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (upcoming)
2006 Dark Portraits, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (upcoming)
2003 New Work, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000 30 Seconds of Desire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
The Genius of Place: Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoake, USA (upcoming)
Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy (upcoming)
4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (upcoming)
Code Blue, Millenium 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
Simulcrum, 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
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Touch and Temperature, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
travelling to : Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Digital Avant-Garde, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Selfish, SciCult Gallery, London, UK
2003
Thy Neighbours Ox, Space Station 65, London, UK
The National Gallery, The Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland
EV+A 2003, Limerick City Art Gallery and other sites, Limerick, Ireland
Portrayal, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
Residencies
2005 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2004 Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
2004 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
2004 Irish Arts Council Visual Artists Bursary
2004 Projects Award, Irish Arts Council.
2003 Irish Arts Council Residency to Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Canada.
2002 Pepinieres Scholarship
2003 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
Festivals
2006 Smoke Tree II @ Darklight, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Smoke Tree III @ 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
Rat Hole Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by John Gerrard on view from November 14, 2014 until February 28, 2015. Featuring a large-scale projection and sculptural objects that present simulations using real-time 3D technology, this exhibition marks the first time for the artist’s work to be shown in Japan.
John Gerrard (Irish, b. 1974) is known for his works that are constructions of virtual worlds using real-time 3D computer graphics, a technology originally developed for military use and now used in the videogame industry. Using extensive photographic documentation and topographical satellite data of site visits, he creates portraits of physical locations, often geographically isolated industrial structures, from a complex set of several thousand photographs which are used as textures f...
The Irish artist John Gerrard will exhibit a large-scale projection of Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008 in Canary Wharf Underground station.
Projected on a 12m x 8m wall specially constructed inside the iconic ticket hall, Oil Stick Work develops in real time over a 30 year period. At the centre of the work is an industrial grain silo situated in open prairieland. This vista is constructed from collected digital photographs and topographies of an existing American landscape, mapped onto carefully reconstructed 3D forms. A human actor, Angelo Martinez, (also digitally reconfigured in the work) arrives for work every day at dawn (CST) and departs at sunset. His daily task is to paint a precise one metre square on the facade of the silo with an oil stick.
Over the 30 year course of the work An...
30 is a unique collection celebrating 30 years of contemporary photography at the Gallery of Photography. Fifty photographers: world famous, established and breakthrough talents are represented in the show. The 30 Collection Print Draw offers a fantastic opportunity to win the framed exhibition print of your choice. This is your chance to invest in both the history and the future of photography in Ireland.
Print Draw: A draw will be held for each framed photograph. So simply visit the exhibition or our online 30 webgallery, select the print you want to win, buy a ticket and come to the Draw Event where the winners will be announced.
30 Grand Draw: Following the 50 individual draws, all tickets are entered into our Grand Draw for superb framed photographic prints by Anthony Haughey, Jackie Nickerson and Harry Thuill...
John Gerrard, Smoke Tree III, 2006, Realtime 3D, 6+2 A/P
John Gerrard is an artist whose varied works investigate the emotional possibilities of digital technologies, creating pieces that allow us to question our physical and psychological identities, our relations to each other and toward the physical environment.
Working in the arena of new technology, Gerrard's understanding and manipulation of the medium is extraordinary. He explores the rift between real and the virtual by his insistence that real space and time be programmed into the behaviour of virtual. His sculptures and images frequently hinge around the new temporal and experiential possibilities to be found in real-time 3D.
The works could be described as virtual sculptures, which makes them somewhat like film in that they are time based but are also...