ANDREA MEDJESI-JONES                            

Born 1973 in Vukovar, Croatia. Lives and works in London

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

PhD Studentship in Contemporary Painting

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

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

Exiled Lines, Ruskin Gallery, CAMBRIDGE, NOVEMBER 2009

'Where Dove, Snake and Swine Convene’, TONI HEATH GALLERY, LONDON 2006
Artist of the Day, FLOWERS CENTRAL, CORK STREET, LONDON 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010-11

Correspondences, Bäckerstrasse4, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Justin Gainan, Michael Helfman, Janus Hochgesand, Markus Hofer, Andrea Medjesi-Jones

Cabinet of Curiosities, GALERIA LUIS SERPA, LISBON

Christina Inglesias, Pedro Calapez, Juliao Sarmento, Juan Munoz, Pedro Proenca, Pedrocabinet Cabrita Reis, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Miguel Navas, Hamish Fulton, Nuno Cera, Susanne Themlitz, Michael Biberstein, Fernando Calhau, Robert Barni, Jose Maria Sicilia, Daniel Blaufuks, Joao Biscainho, Angelo De Sousa, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Alberto Carneiro

END AND, l’Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, VALANCE, FRANCE

Tom Dale, Jamie George and Andrea Medjesi-Jones

A sort of Night to the Mind, Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting, ARCH 402 GALLERY, LONDON and ARTARY GALLERIE, STUTTGART

A sort of Night to the Mind, Illusion and Materiality in Contemporary Painting, HERBERT READ GALLERY, CANTERBURY

Fascination with Ulysses, MUSEO IBEROAMERICANO de ARTE CONMTEMPORANEO, BADAJOZ, SPAIN

Unrealised Projects, ongoing artist collaboration (www.unrealisedprojects.org)

Mill, MONIKA BOBINSKA GALLERY, LONDON

Metro-Land, Merriscourt, OXFORDSHIRE

2008-2009

Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008, JERWOOD FOUNDATION, LONDON and ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE, WALES

Fascination with Ulysses, GALERIA LUIS SERPA PROJECTOS, LISBON, PORTUGAL

Space Now, SPACE celebrates 40 years with an exhibition selected by Caroline Douglas, Head of Arts Council Collections, LONDON

The Thames Mudlarks, CTRL GALLERY, HOUSTON, TEXAS

St Joseph’s Hospice Auction, Christ Church Spitafields, LONDON

2007-2006

Oh Deborah, CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECT, LONDON

Foreign Policy, GALERIA LUIS SERPA PROJECTOS, LISBON, PORTUGAL

Layer Cake, FABIO TIBONI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, BOLOGNA, ITALY

Burning Marle, LOCAAL 01, BREDA, HOLLAND

John Moores 24, Liverpool Biennial, THE WALKER ART GALLERY, LIVERPOOL

The End of Civilization, PORT ELLIOT
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 -TEMPORARYCONTEMORARY, LONDON
New British Painting, Part 2- JOHN HANSARD GALLERY, SOUTHAMPTON

 -scope London Art Fair – LONDON

2003-2000
RCA Summer Exhibition 2003 - ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON
Made in UK – ARCH GALLERY, LONDON
Photo Spin- THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, LONDON
Common Ground - VORTEX GALLERY, LONDON
Out of Sync - EXMOUTH MARKET GALLERY, LONDON

TEACHING

Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Lecturer, Postgraduate and Undergraduate Programmes

Goldsmiths, University of London, Visiting Lecturer, Undergraduate Programme

Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University, Visiting Lecturer, Undergraduate Programme

Bath Spa University, Visiting lecturer, Postgraduate and Undergraduate Programmes

Camberwell College of Art, Visiting lecturer, Undergraduate Programme

The University of Huddersfield, Visiting lecturer, Undergraduate Programme

SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES 

Symposium: Tableau-Painting Photo Object, Tate Modern, London, October 2011

Paper: A shock to thought – conditions of the emerging image

Keynote presentations by Philip Armstrong, Fulvia Carnevale, Jean-François Chevrier, Michael Fried, Michael Newman and research papers by Moyra Derby, Adi Efal, Françis Gaube, Atsuhide Ito, Cédric Loire and Andrea Medjesi Jones

Symposium: Space, Time and The Image, APT Gallery, London, May 2010

Paper: Image as thought: gesture movement chaos

Third International Deleuze Study Conference, Amsterdam, July 2010

Paper: Image as a shock to thought

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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

Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008, London

Foreign Policy, Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal 2007, supported by British Council

Layer Cake, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy 2007

John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2006

Celeste Art Prize, London 2006

New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2005

COLLECTIONS

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