EDUCATION AND AWARDS

Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School in Rome

January – March 2014

 

PhD Studentship in Contemporary Painting

Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2009-2012

 

MA Fine Art

Goldsmiths College London, 2002-2004

BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory

Goldsmiths College London, 1995-1998

 

Warden’s Purchase Award, Goldsmith College, 2004

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS 

2017

Factory Floor, Painting Installation, Warton House, ACME Studios, London

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2015

The making of Ned Ludd, Bank Gallery, CASS, London

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2013

Ventriloquist, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London

What will the community think? CASS Gallery, London Metropolitan University and BSU Gallery, Bath School of Art and Design

Who is afraid of the invisible hand?, Bäckerstrasse4, Vienna

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2009

Exiled Lines, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

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2005
Artist of the Day, Flowers Central, London

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2020-21

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Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, May 2021

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Circling the Square, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, May 2021

Kiera Bennett, Biggs & Collings, Juan Bolivar, Jane Harris, Heike Kelter, Ansel Krut,

Scott McCracken, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Mali Morris, Tim Ralston, Graeme Todd,

David Webb and Victor Willing

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BAUHAUS- Utopia in Crisis

Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, Curated by Professor Daniel Sturgis

Artists: Juan Bolivar, David Diao, Liam Gillick, Maria Laet, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Ad

Minoliti, Sadie Murdoch, Judith Raum, Helen Robertson, Eva Sajovic, SAVVY

Contemporary, Schroeter und Berger, Alexis Teplin, Ian Whittlesea

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2019

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Collision Drive 3

RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Artists: Stephanie Leigh, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Laurence Noga, Bronte Webster,

Hiroi Komai, Benet Spencer and Steven Rendall.

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The Inhuman/ difficult transition/, Thames Side Studios Gallery, 2019, curated by Andrea Medjesi-Jones

Alice Browne, Günther Herbst, Robert Holyhead, Rannva Kunoy, Scott McCracken, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Selma Parlour, Yelena Popova, Kes Richardson, Shaan Syed

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2018

Destroyed by Shadows (Dominic Beattie, John Bunker, Neil Gall, Peter Lamb, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Harland Miller, Selma Parlour, DJ Simpson, Michael Stubbs, Shaan Syed, Clare Woods and Vicky Wright), The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool

Notes on Painting, The Koppel Project Hive, London

Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

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2017

ExRoma IV, APT Gallery, London

Painting and Structure (Sophia Starling, Mali Morris, Daniel Sturges, Kes Richardson, James Campion), Kennington Residency, London 

Mannequin, Griffin Gallery (Parameter Space), London

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2016

Ghetto Anglaise (Phillip Allen, Dan Coombs, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Barry Reigate, Babette Semmer, Barbara Wesolowska, Isabel Yellin, Peter Ashton Jones), The Observer Building, Observer Arts, Hastings

Slide (Gabriel Hartley, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Sam Windett), Turps Gallery

 

2015

Autocatalytic Future Games, Second Floor Studios and Arts, London

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance

At the Point of Gesture, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London

 

2014

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, World Museum, Liverpool and ICA, London

Painting About Painting, Simmons Contemporary, London

March Mostra, British School in Rome

 

2013

Exchange Project, Part 2, APT Gallery, London

This Glitch, Blyth Gallery, London

Dirty Pop: Contemporary British Painting, & Model Gallery, Leeds

Once More, Unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More, Lokaal01, Breda

At a Point of Gesture, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London

 

2012

Picture Tableau Screen, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury

Hallogallo, CASS Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London

 

2011

Correspondences, Bäckerstrasse4, Vienna

Modern Love, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London

Cabinet of Curiosities, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon

 

2010

END AND, l’Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Valance

A sort of Night to the Mind, Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart. 

2009

Fascination with Ulysses, Museo Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz.

 

2008-2010

Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008, Jerwood Foundation, London and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.

Fascination with Ulysses, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon.

Space Now, SPACE, London.

The Thames Mudlarks, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas.

 

2007-2006

Oh Deborah, Contemporary Art Project, London.

Foreign Policy, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon.

Layer Cake, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna.  

Burning Marle, LOCAAL 01, Breda.

John Moores 24, Liverpool Biennial, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Celeste Art Prize, The Well, London.

 

2005-2004

Sovereign Art Prize, Bonhams, London.
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London.
Yabba-Dabba-Doo, Cell Project Space, London.
Caution Uneven Surfaces, TemporaryContemporary, London.
New British Painting, Part 2- John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

 

2003-2000
RCA Summer Exhibition 2003, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Made in UK, Arch Gallery, London.
Photo Spin, The Photographers Gallery, London.
 

SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES 

2015

At the Point of Gesture Visual Symposium, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art

David Ryan, Daniel Sturgis, Gabriel Hartley, Alaena Turner, Andrea Medjesi-Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUL6vrEJyKU  

 

2013

Paint Club Visual Symposium, Beaconsfield, London

 

Symposium: Picture Tableau Screen, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coxbnIeK-wo

 

2011

Symposium: Tableau-Painting Photo Object, Tate Modern, London

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/tableau-painting-photo-object-conference-day-1

 

Tableau Project, Central St. Martins College of Art, London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6-yJ1WXVk0

 

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2010

Symposium: Space, Time and The Image, APT Gallery, London.

Third International Deleuze Study Conference, Amsterdam

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gunther Herbst, ‘The Absence of Myth’, exhibition catalogue with text by Andrea Medjesi-Jones, published by Gallery AOP, Johannesburg.

 

Sean Dawson, ‘Relics and Remixes’, published by Mannheimer Kunstverein & Peter Zimmermann Galerie, with texts by Martin Stather and Andrea Medjesi-Jones, 2015

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2014, exhibition catalogue

 

British School in Rome, Fine Arts 2013-2014, exhibition catalogue

 

Exchange Project (Obscured Exchange), ‘The Project of Exchange’, APT Gallery

publication, text by Andrea Medjesi-Jones, 2013

 

Once More, Unto the Breach, Locaal01 Gallery, Breda, exhibition catalogue, 2013

 

Journal of Visual Art Practice, Mediated Image, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2013

 

The Minimal Gesture, Abstract Critical, July 2011

www.abstractcritical.com/article/the-minimal-gesture

 

A sort of Night to the Mind, Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting, exhibition catalogue, 2011

 

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, exhibition catalogue, 2008

 

Foreign Policy, Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, exhibition catalogue, 2007

Layer Cake, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, exhibition catalogue, 2007

 

John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, exhibition catalogue, 2006

 

Celeste Art Prize, London, exhibition catalogue, 2006

 

New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, exhibition catalogue, 2005.

 

COLLECTIONS

Simmons and Simmons Collection

BBC Your Painting, Uncovering the Nation’s Art Collection, Public Catalogue Foundation

www.bbc.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/unearthed-224636

David Roberts Collection

Louis Serpa Foundation

 

PRESS

Resonance FM radio broadcast (104.4 FM), 16th April 2008,

Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Contemporary Culture Review

Hackney Gazette, 4th April 2008

Huston Press, 12th February 2008

Flash Art Italy, October- November 2007

Tema Celeste 124, November 2007

QUINTESSENTIALLY, July 2006

Art Review, London’s Top 25 New Artist, May 2004

The Times, 20 July 2004