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 Surrender (Flag) 2023 at Hayward Gallery, London, Western Flag at Dark MOFO, Tasmania, NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Plásmata II, Onassis Foundation, Greece, Corn Work at Galway International Arts Festival, travelling 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. His work Western Flag (2024) was the first tokenized artwork (NFT) to enter LACMA's permanent collection. 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.