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Jessica Voorsanger is a contemporary artist, living and working in London who has used performance as a vehicle in her practice over the last 20 years. Her work explores popular culture through a variety of media. She has shown worldwide including: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Modern and The Hayward Gallery and has taught at The University for Creative Arts, Wimbledon and Camberwell Art Schools.
CURRICULUM VITAE (SELECTED)
Selected Education
1991–1993 Master of Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1983 – 1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
Selected Solo Exhibitions (1995-2016)
2016 EMPIRE Magazine (Oct 2016, Issue 328), Kornhauschen Gallerie, Germany
2016 Live Long and Prosper, WORK Gallery, London
2014 It’s All About the Hair, Deptford X Commission, Deptford London
Amy
2014 I Think I Love You Lounge, Festival of Love (Commission), Southbank Centre, London
2014 The Final Frontier, Museums @ Night/Culture 24, 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe
2012 Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery (Artist in Residence), London
2011 Peckham Heroes, Peckham Space, London
2011 Women Should be in Charge, ICA (Bob and Roberta Smith & home curators), London
2010-11Art Impostors (w/students at Louis Vuitton Summer Academy) Louis Vuitton, London
2010 This is Tomorrow (commissioned print), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2009 Eastenders, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2009 Mystery Train, The ICA & Art on the Underground (Charring Cross Station) London
2008 The Woody Allen Show, Gallery-33 FON, Berlin Germany
2004 Beep Beep Toot Toot Yeah, 1,000,000mph Project Space, London
2002 Jessica Voorsanger, Guido Carbone.to, Turin, Italy
1996 The Retrieval Series: Bob Geldof, Modern Culture, Brooklyn, New York
1995 Baby Shower, Camden Art Centre, London
BELOW: 2017 Video on Artist Jessica Voorsanger by celebrated film-maker John Rogers (Published September 3rd 2017)
Selected Group Exhibitions (1999-2016)
Jessica Voorsanger & Bob Roberta Smith at the Art Fund
2016 FOUND, Foundling Museum, Curated by Cornelia Parker, London
2016 Liberties, Newlyn Gallery & The Exchange, curated by Gluckman & Day, Penzance
2013 Factual Nonsense, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
2012 The Collage Principle, Semner Berlin Gallery, Berlin Germany
2012 Tainted Love, Transition Gallery London and The Meter Room Coventry
2011-12 Imagination of Children, Rebecca Fortnum (curator), Museum of Childhood, London
2011 Art Lands on Alien Landscape, (only installation in situ), Limbo Space, Margate Kent
2010 Biennial Susak 2010, FAMILY, Susak Croatia
2010 InArt. InStar. InStyle, State Video Art Museum, Moscow
2010 Fan Club, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2009 Famous, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund Germany
2008 Star Struck, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall England
2008 Mapping Correspondance: Mail Art in the 21st C, Center for Book Arts, New York
2006 Hearing Voices, Seeing Things, Serpentine Gallery, London
Klingon
2006 Forward/Backward Reloading, Island 6 Art Center, Shanghai China
2003 “Lunch With David Cassidy”, (Commissioned article) What’s on in London Magazine
2002 Air Guitar, touring show including Milton Keynes Gallery & Cornerhouse, Manchester
2002 To Whom it May Concern, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCAC, San Francisco, CA
1999 My Eye Hurts, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Selected Books on Jessica Voorsanger
2014 The Art of Jessica Voorsanger, Published by Black Dog Publishing, ISBN 978-1908966858
2012 Making Contemporary Sculpture, by Ian Dawson, Published by The Crowood Press, ISBN 978-1847974303
2003 Art and Celebrity, by John A Walker, published by Pluto Press, ISBN: 0-7453-1849-5
1996 Installation Art, by Nicolas De Oliveira, Thames & Hudson Ltd
All images and video used with permission of the artist © Jessica Voorsanger All rights reserved