About the speaker

John Gerrard (b. 1974, Tipperary, Ireland) is regarded as a leading figure in the development of simulation within contemporary art. Selected solo and group exhibitions include John Gerrard; Solar Reserve, Public Art Fund in association with the Lincoln Center, New York (2014); John Gerrard: Solar Reserve, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2018); Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (2019); Water After All, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019); Mirror Pavilion, Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland (2020); Immaterial / Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020); Minds Rising Spirits Tuning: 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2021); Thailand Biennial, Korat, Thailand (2021); Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery, London (2023); NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (2023); Plásmata II, Onassis Foundation, Ioannina, Greece (2023); John Gerrard: Farm, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); Leaf Work, Phileas, Vienna, (2023); Tongues of Fire, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, (2024) and Folkestone Triennial, Creative Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom, (2025). Gerrard's work is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; M+, Hong Kong; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Tate, London, among others. The artist is represented by Pace Gallery.