Jeremy Deller
1965
Born in London
Lives and works in London
Education
1985-1988
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
1991-1992
Sussex University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
'Joy in People', Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2011
Upstairs at the Modern Institute, Glasgow
2010
'Baghdad, 5 March 2007: A New Display with Jeremy Deller', Imperial War Museum, London
"Local Artist," Void, Derry, Ireland
2009
Jeremy Deller British Council Collection: My Yard, Gallery 7, Whitechapel Gallery, London (curated with Alan Kane)
Three M Project, New Commissions: “It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, touring: Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2008
D’une revolution à l’autre: Carte Blanche à Jeremy Deller, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, France
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum, CO
2006
The Art Gallery at York University, Toronto, Canada
Edited Rushes 1998-2001 With Extras, Modern Institute, Glasgow
Mercer Union, Toronto
de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
Folk Archive, The New Art Gallery, Walsall UK
Villa Arson, Nice
Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York
2005
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria (screening of “Battle of Orgreave”)
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstverein, Munich
Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK; Barbican Art Gallery, London (curated by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane), touring: Milton Keynes Gallery, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; New Art Gallery Walsall
2004
This is Us, Music from Appenzell, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Germany
The Uses of Literacy, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2003
New Works: 03.3, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
Memory Bucket, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
This is Us, a CD produced in association with the center for Curatorial Studies, Red Hook, NY
2002
I Love Melancholy, Low Gallery, Los Angeles
After the Goldrush, a guidebook and treasure hunt around California. Commissioned by the Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Art : Concept, Paris
2001
The Battle of Orgreave, with Mike Figgis, Orgreave, South Yorkshire, co-production Artangel/Tate Britain, London
1999
Unconvention, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
1998
Art : Concept, Paris
1997
The Uses of Literacy, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
1996
At Home, Cabinet Gallery, London
Migrateurs, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1994
Paris Loves Croydon, Poster Studio, 148 Charing Cross Road, London
The Search for Bez, Weekenders / Kings Cross, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, London
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paolo
At Home/Not At Home (From the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg), Hessel Museum, Bard College, New York
2009
Parades & Processions: Here Comes Everybody, Parasol Unit, London
2008
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Accessories to an Artwork, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
The Cinema Effect Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time and Space, Folkestone, Kent
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ralph Rugoff
On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Just Play: Music As Social Praxis, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg,
Germany
2007
History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate
Liverpool, UK
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Turner Prize Retrospective, Tate Britain, London
The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, curated by
Matthew Higgs
Silence, Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino,
Italy
Sound of Music, Broelmuseum Kortrijk, Belgium, France
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London
Sculpture Project Muenster ’07 (cat.)
2006
Thank You For the Music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery: Focal Point Gallery, Southend; Freud Museum, London
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
A historic Occasion: Artists Making History, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
Of Mice and Men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2005
Thank You For the Music, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, CCA, Glasgow
Variety, de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, curated by Adam McEwen Faces in the Crowd, Castello Di Rivoli, Torino
Populism,:Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; National Museum of Art and Architecture, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2004
‘An Injury to One is an Injury to all,’ The Battle of Orgreave Archive, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Carnegie International, Carnegie, PA
Taipai Biennale, Taipai, Taiwan
From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Art: Concept, Paris
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London (winner)
Manifesta 5, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian, Spain
Recall, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England (with Phil Collins,
Jasmila Zbanic)
Candyland Zoo, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
Britannia Works, Brititsh Council at Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens
This Much is Certain, The Royal College of Art, London
2003
Utopia Station, Venice Biennial, Venice
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
The 4th Age, Pitti Imagine, Florence
Electric Earth, British Council touring video show, Saint Russian Museum, St Petersburg
III Communication, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Art & Music Unite, Govett Brewster Museum, New Zealand
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY
Don’t hate the Media, Become the Media, Videozartes, Espace Delrue, Nantes
Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton
2002
Rock My World, CCAC Gallery, San Francisco
Biennale de l’Image en Movement, Geneva
Happy Outsiders, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
2001
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London
Pyramids on Mars, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Record All-Over, mamco, Geneva
City Racing 1988-1998: a partial account, ICA, London
2000
Social Hackers, Muv Gallery, Helsinki; Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
Protest and Survive, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Democracy!, Royal College of Art, London
The British Art Show 5, National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery, London)
Presumes Innocents, CAPC, Bordeaux
Village Disco, Cabinet, London
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Triennial, London
1999
Expander 1.0, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Changing the Air, Musee d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Asq
1998
Crossing, Kunsthalle, Wein; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
White Night, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Voiceover, National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery, London)
Lovecraft, CCA, Glasgow; South London Gallery, London
1996
Life/Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and tour
Co-operators, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1995
The Butterfly Ball, with Alan Kane and Peter Stringfellow, Stringfellows Nightclub, London
Knob, organised by Jeremy Deller, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco
1994
Imprint 93, Cabinet Gallery, London
1993
Group Show, City Racing, London
The Love Show, Daniel Bucholz Galerie, Cologne
Selected Projects
2009
The Posters Came From The Walls, a film by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams, Artprojx in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise and the Modern Institute, London
2006
Steam Powered Computer with Internet Access, commissioned by Turner Contemporary
2003
This is Us, a CD project made in association with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Red Hook, NY
2002
After the Goldrush, an interactive guidebook to California
2000
Folk Archive, with Alan Kane, www.folkarchive.co.uk
1999
Now It Is Allowable, event at the Swedenborg Society, London
1998
Billboards for the Museum in Progress, located throughout Europe
Selected Projects (cont.)
1997
Throwing Stones at Next Doors Pussy, South London Gallery, London
Acid Brass, live concerts with the Williams Fairy Brass Band
1994
Constable can’t you see my Predicament?, Clacton-on-sea
Brian Epstein Died For You, street sign, London
1993
The Chelsea
Selected Bibliography
2012
Basciano, Oliver, “Jeremy Deller: Joy in People,” ArtReview Magazine, May
“All Rock n Roll is Homosexual,” FAD, February
Emery, Louisa, “Review: Jeremy Deller at the Hayward Gallery,” wharf.co.uk, February 29
Rich, Amy, “£10 Pick: Jeremy Deller,” DIY Magazine blog, February 29
Petridis, Alexis, “Straight and narrow: how pop lost its gay edge,” The Guardian, February 28
“Jeremy Deller: Middle Class Hero,” The Guardian, February 24
“Jeremy Deller – Joy in People – London Art Exhibition,” Flux, February 24
Hudson, Suzanne, "Jeremy Deller," Artforum, January
2011
Sutton, Benjamin, "Art Seen Through the Prism of 9/11," The L Magazine, October 12
Smyth, Diane, "Ways of Looking Bradford photography festival," British Journal of
Photography, October
Azimi, Negar. “Good Intentions,” Frieze, March 2011
2010
Babayan, Siran, “A New Documentary Profiles Obsessed Depeche Mode Fans
Around the World,” LA Weekly, January 28
Longworth, Karina, “Depeche Monde,” LA Weekly, January 28
2009
Hatherley, Owen, “A Curious Faith,” Sight & Sound, December
“Chrissie Iles: Best of 2009 Film Picks,” Arforum, December
Pulver, Andrew, Review “The Posters Came from the Walls,” The Guardian, November 30
Sparham, Maddy, “Jeremy Deller on Depeche Mode: The Posters Came From the Walls,” The Quietus, September 30
Lack, Hannah, “Jeremy Deller Captures a Particular Obsession,” Another Magazine, August 20
Prince, Suzy, “In the Mode,” Nude Magazine, August 12, p. 40-44
Estreich, Cecilia, “It Is What It Is, But What Is It?” Flavorwire, March 9
Hromack, Sarah, “What It Is: A Conversation With Jeremy Deller,” Art in America, March 4
Carlin, T. J., “Jeremy Deller at the New Museum”, TimeOut.com, February 26, 2009
Devi, Sharmila, “Art Project has people talking about Iraq”, TheNational.ae, February 16, 2009
Johnson, Ken, “From China, Iraq and Beyond, but Is IT Art?” The New York Times, February 19, 2009
The Associated Press, Review, International Herald Tribune, February 11, 2009
Kilston, Lyra, “Jeremy Deller on Conversations About Iraq,” Artinfo, February 10
2008
PALAIS Magazine 07, Autumn 2008
Rabottini, Alessandro, “From One Revolution to Another,” frieze, September
Davies, Lillian, “Report Carte,” Scene & Herd, Artforum.com, September 30
Oksenhorn, Stewart, “American History,” Aspen Times Weekly, February 2008
Collings, Matthew, Modern Painters, February 2008
McDaniel, Liz, “Father Time,” Men’s Vogue, February 2008
2007
Morgan, Jessica, “It’s All True,” Tate Etc., Issue 11, Autumn 2007, p. 70-75
Bush, Kate, “Provisional Authority,” Artforum, September 2007, p. 418-423
Franzen, Brigitte, ed., Sculpture Projects Muenster 07, p. 60-73
Volz, Jochen „Looking Back: Biennials/Survey Shows“ Frieze, January-February,
p. 126
2006
Gronlund, Melissa, ed., Frieze Projects: Artists’ Commissions and Talks, p. 46-47, 174-185
Moulène, Claire, “Imaginaire: Mode d’Emploi, ‘Art contemporain et lien social’” published by Editions Cercle d’Art, Paris
Teerlinck, Hilde “What……now” published by CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
Tramaseur, Stacey, “Creating a sense of unease in the viewer,” Bexhill Observer, Sept. 1, p. 23
Wright, Karen, “Mechanical Rainbows, Politics Enliven U.K. Shows,” Bloomberg.com,
August 23
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, “His Heart Belongs to Dada,” Sunday Telegraph: Seven Magazine, Aug. 6, pp.30-31
Smith, Matt, “From riddler to bat man,” Times, July 18, Sec. 2, p. 19
Gronlund, Melissa, “Opening Doors,” ArtReview, March, pp. 48-49
2006
Bonami, Francesco and The Wrong Gallery, “The Wrong Way,” Modern Painters, March. pp. 86-91
Bishop, Claire, “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents,” Artforum,
Feb. , pp.178-83
2005
Grosenick, Uta, “Art Now: Vol. 2,” published by Taschen
Korotkin, Joyce, “Outside the Box,” ArtReview, December, pp. 45-46
Morton, Tom, Review, “Folk Archive:Barbican Gallery,” Frieze, September, pp.133-34
Jacob, Sam, “Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s Folk Archive,” Modern Painters, May, pp. 75-77
Deller Jeremy; Kane, Alan; ‘Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK,’ published by Book Works, London
Feaver, Wiliam, “Reviews: International,” ArtNews, March, p.126
Volk, Gregory, “Report From Pittsburgh: Let’s Get Metaphysical,” Art in America March
Lingwood, James and John Slycem , “Artangel,” Arco Contemporary Art, Winter 2005
pp. 26-29
Trainor, James, Review: “Back -2004 Carnegie Int’l,” Frieze, Jan./Feb. p. 109
“News: Prizes and Competitions”, Flash Art, January-February, p. 45
2004
Wright, Modern Painters, December-January 04/05, p. 116
Wainwright, Jean, “The Carnegie International,” Art Monthly, Dec. ‘04 –Jan ‘05, pp. 282-83
Johnson, Ken, “Pittsburgh Rounds Up a Globe Full of Work Made in Novel Ways,” The New York Times, November 4, pp. 1,6
Jones, Jonathan, “I heart Jeremy Deller,” The Guardian, Wednesday October 20, pp. 12-13
Scotini, Marco, “Gazing at the New Europe: Two Views of Manifest 5,” Flash Art, July- September,p. 39, 56.
“Electoral Collage, a portfolio,” Artforum, September, Vol XLIII, No. 1, p. 237
2003
King, Emily, Frieze September, p. 99
Morton, Tom, “Mining for Gold.” Frieze, January February, pp. 70-75.
Slyce, John, “Fables of the Reconstruction,” Flash Art, January-February, p. 74-76
2002
The English Civil War Part II: personal accounts of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, Artangel, London,
After the Gold Rush, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2001
Etchells, Tim, “The Battle of Orgreave,” Tate 26, Autumn
Farquharson, Alex, “Jeremy Deller The Battle of Orgreave,” Frieze, p 108
Butler, David, “Battle of Orgreave, “ [a-n] Magazine for Artists, p. 24
Beech, Dave, “Jeremy Deller,” Art Monthly, July-August pp. 38-39
Morrison, Richard, ‘”Battle of Orgreave,” The Times, November 22, p. 7
Life is to Blame for Everything: Collected work and projects 1992-1999, Salon 3, London
1998
Bradley, Will; Blincoe, Nicholas, “The Uses of Illiteracy,” Afterall, No. 1, pp. 9-23
1997
Freedman, Carl, “Acid Brass,” Frieze, November/December, pp. 38-39
Awards
2004
Turner Prize