3812 Contemporary Art Projects


*Biography* Jason Brooks (UK)		*Selected Group Exhibition*
		2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993	Do You Believe?, 3812, Hong Kong The Bhopal Project (Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Jason Brooks, Marc Quinn, Matt Colishaw), Phillips de Pury, London, UK The Tattoo Show, The Center, New York, USA Hyping the Real, Gallery Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium Straw Dogs: Dinos & Jake Chapman and Jason Brooks, Spring Projects, London, UK Capturing Claudia: portraits by the Chapmans Brothers, Keith Tyson, Marc Quinn, Jason Brooks and Gillian Wearing. Colnaghi Gallery, London, UK 40 Artists, 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Powys, UK Unforgiven, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA Formula One Project, Renault/ING, Monaco & London Fresh Eyes, ING, ING Headquarters, London, UK George Stubbs, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (cat) Timer, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy Heads, Flowers East, London, UK Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, UK Museum of Art, Donna Regina, Naples, Italy Darkness Visible, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull & Southampton City Art Gallery, UK Drawing Breath, The Gallery at Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK Appearance, Whitewall Waterfront, Leeds, UK (cat.) ID: Recent Purchases on the Theme of Identity Made through the Contemporary Art Society’s Special Collection Scheme, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UKJohn Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (cat.) Blow Up!, St Paul’s Gallery, Birmingham, UK (cat.) Yes! I am a long way from home, The Nunnery, London and UK tour (cat.) Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (cat.) I am a Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat.) Psycho Some, Lombard Fried, New York, USA No FuN Without U: The Art of Factual Nonsense, Jeremy Cooper, London, UK (cat.) Painting Lab, Entwistle, London, UK (cat.) The NatWest Art Prize 1999, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK (cat.) The Flower Show, Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, UK Rome Scholars, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, UK John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (cat.) Fresh Paint, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK National Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK 1998 The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK New Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat.) Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge and UK tour (cat.) Near, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (cat.) Likeness: Representing Sexualities, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK John Moores 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (cat.) Trojan, Paton Gallery, London, UK (cat.) Tutti-Frutti, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, UK Fellows’ Show, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, UK Pet Show, 63 Union Street, London, UK Masks, Soho Gallery, London, UK BT Commission, Waterloo Station, London, UK To Boldly Go…, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK BT New Contemporaries, Serpentine Gallery, London and UK tour (cat.) Abstractions from the Domestic Suburb Scene (SIN), Benjamin Rhodes Gallery,London, UK
1968 1992 1991 1988	Born in Rotherham, UK MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London BA Fine Art, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Art & Design, Cheltenham, UK Goldsmiths College, London Currently lives and works in UK
*Selected Solo Exhibition*
2008 2006 2005 2002 2001 2000 1998	National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA Auto, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK (cat.) Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, UK (cat) Entwistle, London, UK Entwistle, London, UK
*Judging*
2007 2006	Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, London, UK BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, UK Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, London, UK
*Awards / Residencies*
1999 1997 1994 1990	The NatWest Art Prize, UK (winner) John Moores Painting Prize, UK (co-prize winner) British Telecom, London, UK (residency) British School, Rome, Italy (residency)
*Forthcoming Shows*
2012	Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague Marlborough Contemporary, London, UK
*Press Coverage*
2008 2005 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997	Artists & Illustrators, Profile Painted Lady Stars…, Evening Standard, 23 May Photographs? Look carefully… they’re paintings, Alex Stephens, Evening Standard, 23 May, p 25 We’re fascinated by faces, Fiona Maddocks, Evening Standard, 10 June, p 41 Richard Dyer, London News, Contemporary, no.73, Summer Issue, pp 12-13 Archimede Staffolini, He is a camera, but more, The Cyprus Weekly, 12-18 April William Packer, I am a Camera, Financial Times, London, 20 April, pp 14-15 Simon Ryder, The Eyes Have It, The Guardian, 30 March, p12 Fiano Rattray, I am a Camera, The Independent on Sunday, London, 7 January, pp 20-23 Morgan Falconer, Life under the Microscope, Art Review, London, February, pp 44-45 Besides, It Is Always Other Who Die Post Viral, Time Out, London, 27 January Marcus Field, Pick of the Galleries, The Independent on Sunday, London, 7 May, p 5 Mark Gisbourne, Oculus Imaginations From the Photograph to the Real, Contemporary, Issue 31, November, pp 44-51 Mark Sladen, Painting Lab, Contemporary, London, Spring, Issue 21, pp 32-37 John Tozer, From Today Painting is Dead, Contemporary, London, Spring, Issue 21, pp 60-65 Valerie Reardon, Postcards on Photography, Art Monthly, London, February, Issue 223, pp 25-26 Rosanna Negrotti, Painting Lab, What’s On, London, 10 March, pp 24-25 Chris Townsend, Postcards From the Edge, Hotshoe International, UK, March/April, Issue 101, pp 27-30 Alex Farquharson, Painting Lab, Art Monthly, London, April Jane Burton, Wall-to-Wall Talent, The Times (Metro section), London, 24 April, pp 24-25 Adrian Searle, Withdrawal Symptoms, The Guardian, London, 22 May Lucinda Bredin, A Very Peculiar Statement, The Sunday Telegraph, London, 30 May Joanna Lowry, Covering Up: the Case for Photo-Realism, Creative Camera, London, June/July, pp 30-35 Anthony Thorncroft, NatWest Art Prize, The Financial Times, London, 16 June NatWest Art Prize Named, The Times, London, 16 June Martin Coomer, 1999 NatWest Art Prize, Time Out, London, 16 June Jonathon Jones, Postcards on Photography, The Guardian Guide, London, 30 June Rosanna Negrotti, NatWest Art Prize, What’s On, London, 9 June Martin Maloney, Bad Painting, Flash Art, January/February, pp 94-99 Martin Coomer, Jason Brooks, Time Out, London, 7 January, p 52 James Delingpole, Believe it or not, this is a painting, The Daily Telegraph, London, 9 January, p 29 William Feaver, It will be a nice painting…, The Observer, London, 11 January, p 10 Sophia Phoca, In Your Face, Third Text, Summer, Issue 43, pp 90-91 Zoe Williams, All you need to know about the New Neurotics, Evening Standard, London, 11 November, pp 28-29 Robert Mills, Art for Sex’s Sake, City Life, Manchester, 16 April, p 5 Robert Clarke, Likeness, The Guardian, London, 20 May Sacha Craddock, Around the Galleries, The Times, London, 2 December, p 35 Simon Grant, Jason Brooks, The Guardian, 13 December, p 32 John Russell-Taylor, Great British Hopes, the Times, London, 31 December, p 32 Robin Dutt, The Spice of Life, The Bond Street Magazine, London, Winter Issue, pp 31-35
		*Publications*
		2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1997 1996 1993	George Stubbs, Leeds City Art Gallery Timer, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy The Portrait Now, Sandy Nairne & Sarah Howgate, National Portrait Publications, London Auto, Norman Rosenthal, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK Appearance, Whitewall Waterfront, Leeds, UK John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Blow Up!, St Paul’s Gallery, Birmingham, UK Yes! I am a long way from home, The Nunnery, London, UK Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea I Am A Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Jason Brooks, Mark Gisborne, Harewood House, Leeds, UK No FuN Without U: The Art of Factual Nonsense [sic], Jeremy Cooper (Ed.), Ellipsis, London, UK Portraits of Artists, Nicholas Sinclair (Ed.), Lund Humphries Publishers, Aldershot, UK Painting Lab, Entwistle, London, UK The NatWest Art Prize 1999, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK New Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom, UK Near, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates John Moores 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Trojan, Paton Gallery, London, UK BT New Contemporaries, Serpentine Gallery, London