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JANICE KERBEL
Sinkfight 28 Mar - 25 May 2019 i8 GalleryIf Janice Kerbel’s medium is language and other abstract systems, her implied one is the human body. Each of the large-scale silkscreen prints in her series Brawl (2018) consists of...Read more -
Works on Paper
Birgir Andrésson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ignacio Uriarte, Janice Kerbel, Karin Sander, Kristján Guðmunddsson, Lawrence Weiner, Ólafur Elíasson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and more 5 Sep - 31 Oct 2013 i8 GalleryFeaturing 30 artists, Works on Paper uses the conventional subtitle as title to emphasize the exhibition’s shift in focus; from paper as merely media toward a wider interpretation for its...Read more -
JANICE KERBEL
Cue 9 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 i8 GalleryJanice Kerbel (b. 1969) is a London-based Canadian artist known for rigorous “studies” which are at once realizable and imaginary. Her diverse body of work includes: Bank Job (1999), a...Read more
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Janice Kerbel: Sink
The Western Baths Club, Glasgow, UK 3 Aug 2018Janice Kerbel’s major new artwork Sink was commissioned by The Common Guild as part of Festival 2018, the cultural programme for the Glasgow 2018 European...Read more -
Janice Kerbel: Art and Alphabet
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 6 Mar - 17 Apr 2017The complex interrelation of script and image in contemporary art is the focus of the large-scale exhibition Art and Alphabet , taking place across two...Read more -
Janice Kerbel: Doug
Tramway, Glasgow, UK 1 Oct 2015 - 17 Jan 2016Janice Kerbel works with a wide range of media including audio, print, radio plays and performance. Employing recognizable conventions from a variety of disciplines—from theatre...Read more
b. 1969 in Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1995-1996
MA Fine Art, with distinction, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
1992-1994
BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
1993
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
1991-1992
Honors student, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1988-1991
BA honors, Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Speech, Fight, greengrassi, London, UK
2022
Speech! Fight! Speech! Fight!, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
2019
Sinkfight, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Aslan Gaisumov & Janice Kerbel, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK
2018
Notes from Sink / A routine for 24 women, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
greengrassi, London, UK
Sink, Glasgow Western Baths Club, Glasgow (part of Glasgow Festival), UK
2017
Slip, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
Doug, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2016
Doug, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015
Score, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
Doug, Tramway, Glasgow (part of 2015 Turner Prize), UK
Hit, a composition for solo baritone, selected from the song cycle Doug, Raven Row, London, UK
2014
Doug: Nine Songs for Six Voices, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Doug, greengrassi, London, UK
Doug, Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, UK
2012
Pre: Janice Kerbel, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery – University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Janice Kerbel, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
CUE, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kill the Workers!, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Future Cities, South Bank Centre, London, UK
2020
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
2019
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2018
Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool, UK
Circus, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
Festival 2018, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
Catalogue, MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Curated by Publication Studio Rotterdam)
2017
Art and Alphabet, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Space Force Construction, V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, Italy
Komisario Berriak, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2016
The Grand Balcony, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Our Mind into a Brezel, Kunstverein, Neuhausen, Switzerland
Norwich Science Festival, The Forum, Norwich, UK
Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artist’s Books and Editions, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Ayse Erkmen, Tamara Grcic, Janice Kerbel, Karin Sander, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich , Germany
Textilities...Once Removed, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2015
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Se prendre au jeu: rêves, répétitions et autres détours, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Below Another Sky, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness; British Council, London, UK
2014
Plastic Words, Raven Row, London, UK
Below Another Sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower, Art Gallery Ontario, Ontario, Canada
2013
In Form Express & Admirable, Camberwell Space, London, UK
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Abstract Generation: Now in Print, MoMA, New York, USA
2012
Conjuring for Beginners, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Kerbel, Lloyd, Otto-Knapp, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
A Ciel Ouvert. Le nouveau pleinairisme, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport, South London Gallery, London, UK
Reverse Desertification, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Tactics for the Here and Now, Bucharest Biennale 5, The Institute of Political Research, Bucharest, Romania (curated by Anne Barlow)
RESIDENCIES
2008
Cosmic Ray Research, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2005
Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, USA
2002
Tyndall Centre for Global Climate Change, Norfolk, UK
Zdebik, Jakub. “The manifold dimensions of Janice Kerbel´s architectural diagrams,“ in Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility, Farnham, Surrey, UK; Ashgate, Burlington, VT, USA, 2013.
Einar Falur Ingólfsson. „Það var mikilvægt að ná hárréttum svörtum tóni“, Morgunblaðið, Reykjavík, Iceland, 02.09.2012
Yamamoto, Lani. Janice Kerbel – Cue 09.02-17.03.2012, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2012
Janice Kerbel, Hilary Lloyd, Silke Otto-Knapp Ausstellung 3.11.2012-06.01.2013, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany, 2012 (exh. cat.)
Scott, Kitty. Á ciel ouvert: le nouveau pleinairisme 15.03.-25.06.2012, Walter Phillips Gallery; Musée des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada, 2012 (exh. cat.)
Gfader, Verina and Chapman, Neil. “Strategies of Delegation: THE SURFACE | THE PROJECT,“ scenesadventures, London, UK, 2012 (artist book)
Williams, Eliza. “Janice Kerbel – Chisenhale,” Art Monthly #346, London, UK, May 2011.
Burns, Aileen. “Janice Kerbel: I Saw the Light,“ www.canadanart.ca, Toronto, Canada, 09.05.2011
Stevens, Jamie. “Interview with Janice Kerbel,“ Chisenhale, London, UK, March 2011.
Dhillon, Kim. “See It Now or Miss It Forever,“ RACAR; Canadian Art Review #XXXVI-1, Montreal, Canada, June 2011
Best Laid Plans, edited by Kate Macfarlane, Drawing Room; Middlesex University, London, UK, 2011
Jacob, Luis. Commerce By Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 2011
Golonu, Berin and Hopkings, Candace. Recipes for an encounter: Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou, Marisa Jahn, Yoko Ono, Janice Kerbel et al., Dorsky Galleries, Long Island City, NY, USA, 2010 (exh. cat.)
Krcma, Ed. “Janice Kerbel at Greengrassi,“ Art in America, NY, New York, USA, November 2009.
Williams, Eliza. “Janice Kerbel,“ www.frieze.com, London, UK, 04.10.2009
Allen, Jonathan and O´Reilly, Sally. Magic Show, Hayward, London, UK, 2009.
“Frieze Projects: 2007,“ in Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, 2006-2008, Frieze, London, UK; Thames & Hudson, NY, USA, 2009
Griffiths, Catherine and Rees, Dan. Home for Lost Ideas, Archive Books, Berlin, Germany, 2009.
Hoffman, Bettina. “Spectacular Promises and Subtle Gambles,“ Canadian Art, Montreal, Canada, September 2008
Zdebik, Jakub. A Short Atlas of Janice Kerbel´s Home Climate Gardens Drawn According to Temperate Coordinates, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 2008
Artcity´s That´s It, Artcity Press, Calgary, Canada, 2008 (exh. cat.)
Kerbel, Janice. “IDEAL SYLLABUS- Frieze asks the artist about the books that have influenced her,“ Frieze: Contemporary Art and Culture no. 118, London, UK, 2008
Godfrey, Mark. “Deadstar,“ in Janice Kerbel – Deadstar: A Ghost Town, Locus+, London, UK, 2007
O´Reilly, Sally. “Nick Silver,“ Frieze #104, London, UK, January-February 2007
Steeds, Lucy. “Nick Silver Can´t Sleep,“ Art Monthly #302, London, UK, 12.2006-01.2007
Anderson, Shannon. Burrow: Janice Kerbel, Adriana Kuiper, Liz Magor, Samuel Roy-Bois, Musée d´art de Joliette/Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada, 2007
Dzuverovic, Lina. Art Now Live, Konnichi no zokei Series, Tate Britain, London, UK, 2007 (exh. cat.)
Brown, Helen. “Act 1, Scene 1, zzzzz,“ The Daily Telegraph, London, UK, 28.10.2006
Godfrey, Mark. “Janice Kerbel,“ Artforum International. 44, no. 5, NY, New York, USA, January 2006
Liew, Fredrik. Den 1 a pa moderna: Janice Kerbel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
Kerbel, Janice. “Escape from the Bank Job,“ 5 Codes: Architecture, Paranoia, and Risk in Times of Terror, Birkhauser, Boston, MA, USA, 2006
Kerbel, Janice. Deadstar: A Ghost Town, Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2006
Around the World in Eighty Days 24.05-16.07.2006, Institute of Contemporary Arts; South London Gallery, London, UK, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Dick, Terrence. “Janice Kerbel: The Map-Maker,“ Canadian Art, 48-52, 01.12.2006
Adler, Louise and Coates, Rebecca. Truth Universally Acknowledged: Catherine Bell, Dorothy Cross, Kate Daw, Tacita Dean, Janice Kerbel, Laresa Kosloff, Rosemarie Trockel, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia, 2005.
Farquharson, Alex and Schlieker, Andrea. British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2005
Ennis, Ciara and Yasuda, Sachigusa. Still Things Fall From the Sky: Janice Kerbel, Joe Sola, Cristián Silva, Amir Zaki et al. 22.10.-31.12.2005, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, 2005 (exh. cat.)
Legal-Illegal: wenn Kunst Gesetze Bricht: Art Beyond Law 16.10.-28.11.2004, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Schmetterling, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004 (exh. cat.)
Kerbel, Janice. Underwood (Christmas Letter), Locus+, London, UK, 2004
Higgie, Jennifer. “Get it while you can,“ Frieze #77, London, UK, September 2003.
Bang: Martin Arnold, Ceal Floyer, Janice Kerbel, Euan Macdonald, Daniel Olson 21.06.-14.09.2002, Collection Esplanade- Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France, 2002 (exh. cat.)
Blarney, David. “Bird Island,“ in Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility, Open Editions, London, UK, 2002
Landing: Eight Collaborative Projects Between Artists + Geographers 20.06-27.07.2002, Royal Holloway, Department of Geography, University of London, UK, 2002 (exh. cat.)
Russ, Lawrence. Art At the Edge of Law 03.06.-09.09.2001, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA, 2001 (exh. cat.)
Kerbel, Janice and Kalmár, Stefan. 15 Lombart St. Bookworks, London, UK, 2000
JK/JK: Janice Kerbel; Joachim Koester 18.06-06.08.2000, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK, 2000 (exh. cat.)
Alberge, Dalya. “Artist framed in a guide to the perfect robbery,“ The Times, London, UK, 26.11.1999
Currah, Mark. “Janice Kerbel,“ Time Out, London, UK, June 1999
Abbott, Damien et al., Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London, UK, 1999
Notebook Projects, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1996