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EDUCATION
1989 - 1990
Chelsea School of Art, London
1990 - 1993
Goldsmiths College, London, BA (Hons)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1996
Lisson Gallery, London
1997
Lisson Gallery, London
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
1998
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (Exh. Cat)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1999
Lisson Gallery, London
2000
Galleria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
2002
"Jason Martin", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
2003
"New paintings", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke Belgium
2004
"Pink 001" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Lisson Gallery, London
2006
Jason Martin, Nude, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (exh. cat.)
2007
Jason Martin, CAC Málaga, Spain (exh. cat.)
2008
The Moenchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
2009
'Paintings and drawings', Espace Jean Legendre, Compiègne, France
'Vigil', The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, Italy (exh cat)
'Luxe, Calme et Volupté', Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (exh cat)
2010
'Jason Martin New works' Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
'Days Like These_', Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Five embossed Prints' Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Forthcoming Exhibition
'Roaring Forties', The Fine Art Society, London, UK, 14thSeptember 2010 (exh cat)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1992
"Contemporary Artists", Feigen Incorporated, Chicago
1993
"Wonderful Life", Lisson Gallery, London
1994
"The Curator's Egg", Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
"Recent Painting", Lisson Gallery, London
"Surface Tensions", Curwen Gallery, London
1995
"From Here", Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London (Exh. Cat.)
"Four Paintings", PAP Gallery, Tokyo
"Real Art. A New Modernism. British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s", Southampton City Art Gallery (touring to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Leeds City Art Gallery) (Exh. Cat.)
"Postscript", Lisson Gallery, London
"Five Contemporary British Painters", Galerij S65, Belgium
1996
Jerwood Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design, London
"About Vision. New British Painting in the 1990s", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1997
"In Time", Galerie Le Sous-Sol, Paris
"Finish", Spacex Gallery, Exeter
"Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection", Royal Academy, London (touring in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York).
1998
"Short Stories", 1 Tenterground, London
"Natwest Art Prize 1998", Lothbury Gallery, London
"Tension", Robert Miller Gallery, New York
"The Erotic Sublime", Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
"Small works", green on red gallery, Dublin
1999
"Pictures for Pleasure (Twelve Artists Twelve Rooms)", Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria"Angesichts", Städttische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhon, Germany
"Post-Hypnotic", University Galleries, New York (touring to the MAC, Dallas; The Atlanta College Art Gallery, The Chicago Cultural Centre and the Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Naples Museum of Art and Massachusettes College of Art unitl Dec. 2001 (exh cat)
"Postmark: An Absrtact Effect", Site Santa Fe, USA (exh. cat.)
"Abstrakt", Max Gandoff Library, Salzburg, Austria (exh. cat.)
"A Line in Painting", Gallery Fine, London (exh. cat)
"Together: Artists in support for the homeless", The Passage House, London
"John Moores 21", Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, won one of the 10 prizes
"Painting Language", LA Louver, California
2000
"Blue", New Gallery of Walsall, Walsall
"La painture des Martin", Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
"The Gulf prize European Biennial of the Visual Arts", La Spezia, Italy (prize) (exh. cat.)
"Century of Innocence - the Story of the White Monochrome"
Rooseum - Center for Contemporary Art in Malmo, Sweden
2001
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Metropolitan Hotel, Old Park Lane, London
MOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
"British Abstract Painting 2001", Flowers East, London
2002
"Colour White", De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England, (cat.)
2003
'The Galleries Show', The Royal Academy, London
2004
L'Ultima Cena' (The Last Supper), Castel Dell'Ovo, Naples, Italy
'Monochrome', Reina Sofia, Madrid (curated by Barbara Rose)
'Painting as Process', Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle College of Arts, Singapore
2005
14th Rome Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
'Visioni' 20 artisti a Sant'Agostino', Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
'Extreme Abstraction', Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
'Jason Martin', CAC Málaga, Spain
'Skyshout - Painting after Painting', Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2006
'The Art of White', The Lowry, Salford Quays, London
'Monochromed', The Fine Art Society, London
2007
'Art Futures', Bloomberg Space, London
'Painting in the Noughties', Letterkenny Arts Centre, Lettrkenny, Ireland
'Monochromed 2', The Fine Art Society, London
2008
'Black and White' Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
'Las Vegas Collects Contemporary', Las Vegas Art Museum, USA
'Aurum' L'or dans l'art contemporain, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
2009
'In-Finitum' Fortuny Museum, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice, Italy
'Paisajes Cruzados' Miradas a la colleccion de Es Baluard, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
'Artifici Contemporanei e Difformità Barocche', Arcos Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
2010
'3 x 3', LA Louver Gallery, Los Angles, USA
'Arte Contemporanea Per Il Tempio Di Zeus', Tempio Della Concordia e Villa
Aurea, Agrigento, Italy
'Tondo', The Fine Art Society, London, UK
'It must be abstract', Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Government Art Collection, UK
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Jersey Museum, Channel Islands
Hirshhorn Museum, USA
NatWest Art Collection, UK
Deutsche Bank Collection, UK
Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia, Italy
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
Collection Group e Lhoist, Bruxelles, Belgium
FNAC, Paris, France
IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria
Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturiuas, Oviedo, Spain
The Reinhold Würth Collection, Künzelsan, Germany
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Es Baluard Museum, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Catalogues
1995
From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London (Exh Cat);Text by Andrew Wilson
Real Art. A New Modernism. British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s,Southampton City Art Gallery (touring to Stedelijk Museum, Alst; Leeds City Art Gallery), (Exh Cat); Text by Brian Muller
1996
About Vision. New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, (Exh Cat)
1998
Jason Martin, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Lisson Gallery, London. (Exh Cat); Text by Mark Gisbourne
The Natwest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, London (Exh. Cat.); Text by Lynn MacRitchie
1999
A line in painting, Gallery Fine, London (Exh. Cat.); Text by Bryan Robertson
Abstrakt, Max Gandoff Library, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (Exh. Cat.); Text by Christine Buci Glucksmann
1999
This is Modern Art. Matthew Collings
2000
An Intelligent Persons Guide To Modern Art, Steven Farthing
2002
"Colour White", De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England
Articles and Reviews
1993
Michael McNay. "Shooting Stars", The Guardian, London, 2 August
Richard Dorment. "Hypnotised by a handful of stars", The Daily Telegraph, London, 11 August
Victoria Combalía. "Telas con gato", Babelia, Madrid,11 September
Laura Cottingham. "Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery", Frieze, Issue 12, London, September-October
Andrew Wilson. "Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London", Forum International, Belgium, Vol.IV, No.19, Oct/Nov, p.136
"It's a Wonderful Life at the Lisson", Flash Art News, Vol.XXVI, no.172, p.60
Ruiko Harada, "From London", Bijutsu Techo Monthly Art Magazine, Japan, Vol.45, no.678, pp.148 149
1994
Geraldine Norman, "Monochromes Stage a Gallery Comeback", The Independent, London, 1 August
Sarah Kent, "Art Preview", Time Out, London, 17 August
William Feaver, "Art Far from Calling the Kettle Black", The Observer, London, 31 July, p.13
Sacha Craddock, The Times, London, 24 August 1994
Adrian Searle, "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to Work They Go",The Independent, London, 30 August
Brian Muller, "On Painting II", Art Monthly, No. 179, London, Sept., pp. 18-20
1995
Martin Gayford, "The medium that refused to die", The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 April
Michael Archer, "Licensed to Paint", Art Monthly, No.186, London, May, pp.8-10
Brian Muller, "Real Art - A New Modernism. British Reflexive Painters in the Nineties", Art Press, No.202, Paris, May, pp.51-55
David Barrett, "From Here", Everything, No.16, London, p.8
1995
Martin Maloney, "London. Current British Art", The Burlington Magazine, London, June, pp. 405-407
Martin Maloney, "London's Wannabe Art Scene", Flash Art International, No.184, Milan, October, pp.60-61
1996
Charles Hall, Art Review, March, London, pp.32-34
Chris Gray, The Oxford Times, 8 November
Richard Ingleby, The Independent, London, 9 November
Tim Hilton, "The best painting in Britain?", Independent on Sunday, London, 17 November
John McEwen, "It's young, it's British, it's Cool", Sunday Telegraph, London, 17 November
William Feaver, "Crooked Style", The Observer, London, 17 November
Philip Hensher, "Left reeling from the schlock of the new", Mail on Sunday,
Adrian Searle, "The best of British painting?", The Guardian, London, 19 November
Andrew Graham-Dixon, "On the surface", The Independent, London, 19 November
William Packer, "A talent for the derivative", Financial Times, London,
Richard Cork, "Paint your Bandwagon", The Times, London, 31 December
Philip Hensher, "Bad Art", Modern Painters, London, Winter
1997
Andrew Wilson, "The Vision Thing", Art Monthly, London, January
Andrew Lambirth, "Fashion Parade", Spectator London, 4 January
Celia Lyttleton, "Back to the canvas", Tatler, London, February
Iain Robertson, "Absolut vision, New British painting in the 1990's", The Art Newspaper, London, No. 67, February, p.19
Richard Shone, "Exhibition Reviews: Oxford, About Vision", The Burlington Magazine, London, March, pp.208-209
Dawn Fulcher, "Previews - Finish. Ian Davenport, Alexis Harding, Jane Harris, Jason Martin", Contemporary Visual Art, London, Issue 14
Sortiris Kyriacou, "Jason Martin", Galleries, London, July, p.13
Jon Parr, "Insider Dealing: Lisson up", London Museums and Art Galleries, London, August, p.19
Kate Bernard, "Galleries: Choice", Hot Tickets (The Evening Standard), London, 10 July
John Slyce, "Jason Martin, The Lisson Gallery", What's On, London, 6 August, p.19
Sacha Craddock, The Times, London, 26 August
Martin Coomer, "Jason Martin", Time Out, London, 27 August
"Reviews", Attitude, London, August
John Russell Taylor, "Great British Hopes", The Times, London, September 10
Dan Glaister, "Art that hasn't been painted into a corner", The Guardian, London, 29 September, p.18
Peter Wollen, "Thatcher's Artists", London Review of Books, 30 October, p.7
Tony Godfrey, "Exhibition Reviews: London, Recent exhibitions of contemporary art", The Burlington Magazine, London, October, p.714
Eugene Tan, "Jason Martin", Contemporary Visual Arts, London, Issue 16, p.72
Michael Glover, "Jason Martin", Artnews, New York, November, p 241
Jed Perl, "A Tempest in a Teapot", Modern Painters, London, Winter 1997, Vol.10, No.4, pp.53-55
Mark Gisbourne, " The Contemporaries' Contemporaries", Contemporary Visual Arts, London, Issue 17, p.31
Roy Exley, "Raids on the Beautiful", Contemporary Visual Arts, London, Issue 17, p.50-55
1998
Jane Burton, "Jason Martin", Artnews, London, May 1998, Vol.97, No.5, p.158
Genevieve Francon, "Is This Art? You`re the Judge?", The Independent, London, 24 May, p.35-38
Roberta Smith, "Jason Martin", The New York Times, September 25, 1998
Eleanor Heartney, "Jason Martin at Robert Miller", Art in America, December Allan Woods, 'Jason Martin, interview', Transcript, vol 3 issue 2
1999
Keith Patrick, "Ten Years After", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 21.
David Green, "Abstract Paintings", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 21
Rex Weil, "Jason Martin", ARTnews, February, p.113
Anna Moszynska, "Jackson Pollock revisited", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 22, pp. 46-53
Colin Gleadell, "The shape of Things to Come", Art Monthly, no.226, p.45
Martin Coomer, Time Out, 13 Oct 99
L.B., "Our Choice of London contemporary galleries", The Art Newspaper, No.96, p.68, October 1999
Grady Turner, "Sensation - "Sick Stuff"!", Flash Art, p. 57, Nov. - Dec. 99
Barbara Pollack, "Sensation" (Brooklyn), p.191, ART News, Nov 99
2000
Chin -Tao WU, "Special Report: Sensation ends in reason", Art China", Nr. 16, Jan 2000
Nicoletta Cobolli Gigli, "Jason Martin, con i monocronmi scopro un iedita illusione", Arte (Italy), p.96-101, Feb.2000
DD'A, "Moving Imagery", Tate, The Art Magazine, p. 10, Spring 2000
F.M., "Jason Martin", Beaux Arts, p.91, Oct 2000
Edgar Schmitz, "A Shot in the Head", Kunstforum, Germany, pp.417-418, Oct.-Dec.00
"Vogue; The Gold Issue", December, pp. 136
2001
Christopher Miles, "Flaunt Magazine, L.A.", Los Angeles, March, 01
Peter Clothier, "Jason Martin", Artnews, p. 160, February 01
Maite Lorés, "Kulturbro/Cultural Bridge 2000", pp. 72-73, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 33
2002
Sarah Wise, "Mighty white", The Guardian, 11-05-2002, p. 5
Sue Hubbard, "Whiter than white", Art Review, July/August 2002, Vol. LIII, p. 93-94
Martin Gayford, "Spotlight on the middleman", The Daily Telegraph", 13 Sep. 2002
Jared Schiller, "Playing it safe in the art world", Morning Star 2 Oct 2002
"Frame & fortune', Wallpaper, London, July 2002
2003
"Jason Martin", Nick Hackworth, Contemporary (special issue on painting), issue 58, December 2003, 82-85.0
2004
"Where do we go from here", Sue Hubbard, The Independent 26/04/04
TELEVISION
Open University, Abstract Art, BBC2
Close up, BBC2 for Channel 4
This is Modern Art, Channel 4
SCHOLARSHIPS
1998
Sohen Ryu Tea Ceremony Foundation, Kamakura, Japan