Overview
Janice Kerbel (b. 1969, Toronto) lives and works in London. In addition to her practice, Janice Kerbel is a professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. Recent exhibitions include shows at greengrassi, London (2023); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2023) Southbank Center (2022); Liverpool Biennial (2018); greengrassi, London (2018); Hamburger Kunsthalle (2018);  V-A-C Foundation, Venice (2017); Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2017);  Montreal Biennial (2017); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2015); ‘Turner Prize 2015’, Tramway Glasgow (2015); Arts Club of Chicago (2012); Chisenhale Gallery (2011); and Tate Britain (2010). Her workDoug, was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015; it was commissioned by The Common Guild, Glasgow, in 2014. 
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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

 

Bibliography

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