John ISAACS (guest artist)

Biographie :

Né en 1968 à Lancaster (R-U). Vit et travaille entre Londres et Berlin

John Isaacs s’inscrit dans la lignée des artistes de la Young British Artists (YBA) représentée entre autre par Damien Hirst ou les Frères Chapman (Dinos & Jake).

Éducation :

 1996 Boise Travel Scholarship, California
 1991-93 Slade School of Fine Art, University College
 1987-89 Exeter University, BSc Biology, Ecole

Sélection d’expositions personnelles :

2008
 Things that can be are that which we know, Museum 52, New York
 Gathering Dust, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
 Tomorrow I will wait for you, Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Kahsure

2007
 A Perfect Soul, Museum 52, London
 you said you would always be there, Aeroplastics, Brussels
 The supernatural world in which I am professionally involved, Invalidien 1 Gallery, Berlin

2006
 Volta, Basel, Switzerland

2005
 Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
 Are you like me full of hope and full of fear, Museum 52, London
 Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

2004
 New Work, Museum 52, London
 If Not Now Then When, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich

2003
 Other People’s Lives, 20.21 Galerie Edition
 Is More Than This More Than This, Cultural Center of Bruges, Belgium

2002
 Dumb Planets Are Round Too, Feigen Contemporary,NYC
 Voices from the id, Beaconsfield, London
 Dumb Planets Are Round Too, VTO, London

2001
 Are you still mad at me, Reykjavík Art Museum
 Voices from the id, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brüssel

2000
 The Turning Point, ArtLab Gallery, Imperial College, London
 The Diary of a Loner, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen

1999
 The Diary of a Loner, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

1998
 The Incomplete History of Unknown Discovery, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen

1997
 The Matrix of Amnesia, Imperial College, London

1993
 Wish you were here, Kings Cross, London

Sélection d’expositions de groupe :

2009
 "Distortion" - Fondation Gervasuti - Bienale de Venise - Italie.
 "DreamTime" - Grottes, Art Contemporain & Transhistoire - Les Abattoirs - Musée d’art moderne et contemporain - Toulouse (Fr)

2008
 Deadly Serious, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
 NeoFutur, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
 Evolution, Max Lang Gallery, New York
 Paul Thek - Falkenberg Sammlung, Falkonberg Collection, Hamburg
 Go For it ! Neues Museum, Bremen
 Holy Smoke ! A Farewell Show, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
 Lustwarande, Wanderlande, Park de Oude Warande, Tilburg
 Nature is a Workshop, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate

2007
 Between Body and Mind, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent
 Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
 Fun de Siecle ( ?) - Symbolism and Contemporary Art, The Von de Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
 The Thomas Olbricht Collection, Volkwang Museum, Essen
 Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
 Conversations, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
 Mutatis Mutandis, La Maison Rouge, Paris

2006
 Assemblage III, Museum 52, London
 Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen, New York
 From Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collect - In the Darkest Hour, There May be Light, Serpentine, London

2005
 Science Museum, London
 Fraktale IV, Palast der Republik, Berlin
 New Sculpture, Museum 52, London
 Boost in the Shell, De Bond, Brugges
 Grande Spectacle, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
 Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London
 Blessed are the Merciful, Aeroplastics, Berlin

2004
 Animals, Haunch of Venison, London
 Blickverbindung, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg

2003
 Flesh for Fantasy, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro
 Without Fear or Reproach : Pulse of America, Witte
 British Contemporary, Arario Gallery, Cheonan-si,

2002
 EbenBilder, Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen
 Nausea - Encounters with Uglyness, Janogly Glaalery,
 Wächserne Identitäten - Figürliche Wachsplastik am Ende
 Jahrhunderts, Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
 Melodrama, Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte
 Gasteiz ; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada.

2001
 Sensational – the Saatchi gift, Shrewsbury
 Big Blue – Century City, Tate Modern, London
 Ohne Zögern – Sammlung Olbricht, Neues Museum
 Artline 5 – Interaktionen – Natur & Architektur,
 Via Regia 1 – Die Strasse des Lebens, Europäisches
 Informationszentrum in Thüringen, Erfurt
 Minimal – Maximal, Chiba City, Museum of Modern
 Museum of Art ; Fukuoka City Museum of Art, Japan
 Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London

2000
 Katastrophen und Desaster, Museum Folkwang
 Spectacular Bodies : The Art and Science of the Human
 The Disasters of War, Kunst Werke Berlin
 FRONT, Bilis, Rivington Street, London

1999
 Bad Bad, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden ;
 Nerve System, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
 The Endangered Museum, Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
 Unsichere Grenzen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
 Wohin kein Auge reicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
 A mountain and a valley, Cubitt Street Gallery,

1998
 post naturam – nach der Natur, Städtische
 Münster, und Geologisch-Paläontologisches Museum
 Passage , Kunsthaus, Hamburg
 HOST, Tramway, Glasgow
 Show me the money, Dukes Mews, London
 PLAATS, W139, Amsterdam
 Total 8 Project, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
 Near, Sharja Art Museum, Vereinigte Arabische
 Minimal Maximal, Weserburg Museum ; Staatliche
 Baden-Baden ; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea

1997
 Genetic Choices, Science Museum, London
 URBANE LEGENDEN – LONDON, Staatliche Kunsthalle
 Crash, Camden Art’s Center, London
 Loungecore, Via S. Orsola Gallery, Mailand
 Big Blue, Coins Coffee, London ; Cafe Adler, Berlin
 Espece d’ especes, Galerie Silvera, Paris
 Double Life, The Waiting Room, Wolverhampton

1996
 Out of Space, Cole and Cole, Oxford
 Young British Artist’s 6, Saatchi Gallery, London
 Roadworks, Camden Mix Festival, London

1995
 Lost Property, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam
 Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
 Sick, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
 Post Script, Lisson Gallery, London

1994
 Dirty Holes, Modern Art, London, Madrid
 Something’s Wrong, The Tannery, London
 Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London

Collections :

 Damien Hirst / Murdeme Collection, London
 Antoine De Galbert, Paris
 Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen
 The Silvie Fleming Collection, London
 David Roberts Collection, London
 Arario Collection, Seoul
 Arts Council Collection, London
 Major Art Foundation, Amsterdam
 Claude Berri Collection, Paris
 Wellcome Trust, London
 Cindy Sherman Collection, New York
 E. Trivier Collection, Brussels
 E. Decelle Collection, Brussels
 Jerry Speyer Collection, New York
 Les Abattoirs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toulouse
 The Saatchi Collection, London
 Kenny Goss Collection, Dallas
 Harald Falkenberg Collection, Hamberg
 Jeffrey Deitch Collection , New York
 Pierre Hubert – Art & Public, Geneva
 Andreas Rumbler Collection, London
 The Science Museum Collection, London
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Verona
 Heidelberger Zement Collection, Heidelberg
 Antoine De Werd Collection, The Hague
 Musac Foundation , Lisbon
 Dennis Stevenson Collection, London
 Beth De Woody Collection, New York
 Other Criteria, London -Kenny Schacter Collection, London