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Jordy Kerwick

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Biography

Born in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Albi, France

Jordy Kerwick’s figurative vocabulary is, without a doubt, a pretext for painting. His brightly colored compositions, almost entirely devoid of perspective, capture both wholly imagined subjects and more autobiographical ones, often brought together on the same canvas. He also revisits classical themes in painting, notably still lifes and vanitas. Into these, he incorporates everyday elements with opposing connotations, such as flowers and cigarettes, thus juxtaposing the seductive and dull aspects of life.

His immediately recognizable iconography is based on a set of recurring graphic elements, almost like motifs, including cobras, wolf heads, feathers, nude women, and vegetal elements. Predatory animals are increasingly present in his recent works, as if to remind humankind of its primitive nature.

His works are held in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami, FL, USA), the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (Rizhao, Shandong, China), Fulton Ryder (New York, NY, USA), the Yusaku Maezawa Contemporary Art Foundation (Tokyo, Japan), the Bunker Art Foundation (Miami, FL, USA), the Maki Collection (Tokyo, Japan), and Colección Solo (Madrid, Spain).

Curriculum vitae

Solo and two-person exhibitions
  • 2024
    In The Year of the Dragon, with Kazuma Koike, Aishonanzuka, Hong Kong, CN
  • 2023
    Jordy Kerwick, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, ES
  • So many sheep, so few wolves, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, CH
  • 2022
    So many sheep & so few wolves, Vigo Gallery, London, GB
  • Vertical Planes, Wellington Arch, Vigo Gallery, London, GB
  • Pink sunsets, cigarettes, 3 regrets and hope to haunt the future, Old Santa Monica Post Offi ce, Vito Schnabel Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
  • Anastasia Bay + Jordy Kerwick, with Anastasia Bay, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, US
  • Année du tigre, l’heure du tigre, Woaw Gallery x Allouche Benias Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
  • 2021
    Between Consciousness and Sleep, Vigo Gallery, London, GB
  • Things we talk about, things we see, Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York, US
  • Le singe qui transpire, with Humberto Poblete-Bustamante, cadet capela, Montpellier, FR
  • I’ll Come Back Again, curated by William Gustafsson, Union Gallery, London, GB
  • Union Gallery, cadet capela, Paris, FR
  • Don’t burn the house down yet, Allouche Benias, Athens, GR
  • Drawings and Pictures and Time, Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, US
  • 2020
    Project Room, cadet capela, Paris, FR
  • The Complexity of Grey; on one hand this, on the other hand that, Pt. Gallery, Oakland, US
  • The Three Month Dream, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, AU
  • 2019
    I Love You. What’s Your Name, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, US
  • Fatal Purity, Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • Fatal Purity, Masahiro Maki Gallery, Paris, FR
  • Summer Marathon, Beers London, London, GB
  • Sweep The Leg, Johnny, Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, US
  • Macro/Micro, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, AU
  • Fatal Purity, Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • Dancing in the Dark, with Francisco Moreira (Portugal), Galerie 42B, Paris, FR
  • Comme-ci, comme-ca, with Rachael McCully, Andenken Gallery, Lisbon, PT
  • A Declaration of all things Irreverent, Beers, London, GB
  • Ich Bin DB Cooper, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, DE
  • The Best Hologram Party Host, Boom Gallery, Newtown, AU
  • Smuggling Vanilla, with Francisco Mendes Moreira, Galerie 42B, Paris, FR
  • 2018
    Diary of an Introvert, Delphian Gallery, London, GB
  • Outro, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, AU
  • Dancing in the Dark, with Francisco Mendes Moreira, Vigo Gallery, London, GB
  • Down & Up (but mostly down), Galeri Wolfsen, Alborg, DK
  • Peep, with Alexander Katz, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT, US
  • She came back to see that she wasn’t their…, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, AU
  • Looking For Sunshine, Lindberg Galleries
  • Jordan Kerwick & Henrik Godsk, with Henrik Godsk, Galerie Wolfsen, Alborg, DK
  • Diary of an Introvert, Delphian Gallery, London, GB
  • Outro, Piermarq, Sydney
  • Looking For Sunshine, Linberg Galleries, Melbourne, AU
  • Tonight, Ive loved you forever, Linberg Galleries, Melbourne, AU
  • 2017
    Forth Time Around, Linberg Galleries, Melbourne, AU
  • Cut the chords to the moon, with Justin Williams, Galerie L’inlassable, Paris, FR
  • 4th Time Around, Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
  • 2025
    Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self., The Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbouorne, AU
  • 2024
    ART OnO, cadet capela, Seoul, KR
  • A Dream About a Horse, Vigo Gallery, London, GB
  • 2023
    West Bund Art & Design, Galeria Mayoral, Shanghai, CN
  • Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach, Vigo Gallery, Miami, US
  • Substance, Collect, Monaco, MC
  • 2022
    The Armory Show, Vigo Gallery, New York, US
  • Taipei Dangdai, cadet capela, Taipei, TW
  • Frieze Sculpture,, The Regent’s Park, Vigo Gallery,, London, GB
  • Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Reimagined, LA County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
  • 2021
    the_Ogre.net, curated by Lucien Murat and Clément Thibault, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, FR
  • Domesticity, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Volery Gallery, Dubai, AE
  • Contaminations, G/ART/EN Contemporary Art Space, Como, IT
  • Brindar con extraños, Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, ES
  • Hybrids, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
  • Hey! Follow Me! It’s happy hour time!, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, ES
  • Art Busan, Choi & Lager, Busan, KR
  • Figuration/Abstraktion, Kunstbygningen, Engelund Sämlingen, Kunstbygningen, Engelund Sämlingen, Vrå, DK
  • Nur Bomben I, NBB Gallery, Berlin, DE
  • LIMBO, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, BE
  • 2019
    From Europe with Love, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, DK
  • Play, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, DE
  • Stilleben, Kunstbygningen I Vra Museum, Hojskolevej, DK
  • Sydney Contemporary, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, AU
  • Sydney Contemporary with Piermarq Gallery, Sydney
  • One Night Only, Hunted Projects, Edinburgh, GB
  • #Favorites, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich, DE
  • You Yangs, Boom Gallery, Newtown, AU
  • 2018
    Juxtapose Club House, Pt. 2 Gallery, Miami, US
  • All Things Nice, Pt. 2 Gallery, San Francisco, US
  • Royal Commission Travelling Group Show,, showing with 19 other paintings, at varying galleries, Australia, AU
  • Coffee for Eight, Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, US
  • Internal Voices, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK
  • CHRISP, Helium Cowboy, Hamburg, DE
  • Flowers, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, AU
  • Black/White/Bled All Over, The Hole, New York, US
  • Angry Boys Part Two, Museum Det Ny Kastet, Thisted, DK
  • The Radical Familiar, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, AU
  • Summer Projects V, Boom Gallery, Geelong, AU
  • 2017
    Summer Show, Linberg Galleries, Melbourne, AU
  • Paper Cuts, curated by Kristian Day, London, GB
  • FreshAF, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, AU
  • Works on Paper, Beers Gallery, London, GB
  • We Are The Ones…, CSK Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
  • Summer Cool, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City, US
  • Angry Boys, Galerie Rompone, Cologne, DE
  • Micro Salon #7, Galerie L’inlassable, Paris, FR
  • Precious Memories, Auto LP, Melbourne, AU
  • 2016
    New Slang, Den-holm Studio’s, Melbourne, AU
  • Local Group Show, Seventh Gallery, Gertrude Street, Melbourne, AU
Collections
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
  • Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, ES
  • Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, US
  • Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, RiZhao, CN
Editions

Le singe qui transpire
Jordy Kerwick, Humberto Poblete-Bustamante

Catalogue
Bremond Capela
Jordy Kerwick
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