Andrea Medjesi
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
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2017
Factory Floor, Painting Installation, Warton House, ACME Studios, London
2015
The making of Ned Ludd, Bank Gallery, CASS, London
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
2009
Exiled Lines, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2005
Artist of the Day, Flowers Central, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020-21
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, May 2021
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
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
2019
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.
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
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
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
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
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