John Gerrard

John Gerrard is widely regarded as a key figure in the development of simulation within contemporary art. Deceptively looking like film or video, his works are virtual worlds, made using real-time computer graphics, a technology developed by the military and now used extensively in the gaming industry. Recent exhibitions include Corn Work at Galway International Arts Festival, traveling to Gwangju Biennial; X. laevis at Okayama Art Summit, Japan; Western Flag at Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid; Solar Reserve, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA; Western Flag, Somerset House with Channel 4, London, England,; Power. Play, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; and Solar Reserve, Lincoln Center in Association with the Public Art Fund, New York, New York. Gerrard's work is in the collection of Tate, London; MoMA, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Kistefos Collection, Norway; IMMA, Dublin; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; M+, Hong Kong and many private collections internationally. John Gerrard received a BFA from Oxford University in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. He is represented by Pace Gallery globally.