In Brief
Ben Judd is based in London. His work examines collectivity and participation through performance, moving image and installation, enabling different forms of communities to be explored in relation to site and context. He often works with collaborators as a method to develop self-reflexive folk histories and construct temporary communities.
Judd has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, recently including ICA, London; Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool; Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo; The Barbican Art Gallery, London; Royal Academy, London; International Center of Photography, New York; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Rotterdam International Film Festival; The David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; Chisenhale Gallery, London. In 2019 he was awarded the Stanley Picker Fellowship in Art and Design, Kingston University, London.
| Education | 1995-1997 | Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, MA Fine Art |
| 1991-1994 | University of Humberside, BA Fine Art | |
| Solo Exhibitions and Performances | 2022 | The Push & the Pull, Whitstable Biennale, UK |
| 2021 | The Absolute, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, UK The Origin, Stanley Picker Gallery, London |
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| 2018 | The Part Versus the Whole, Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool, UK Nothing Human is Strange to Me, The Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK |
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| 2017 | It Grows Like a Strange Flower, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK | |
| 2015 | Apart, We are Together, fig-2 ICA, London A Deep and Tenebrous Unity, Bloc Projects, Sheffield |
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| 2014 | Vast as the Dark of Night and as the Light of Day, Whitstable Biennale, UK |
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| 2013 | I Am on Top of the World, Swedenborg Society, London | |
| 2012 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK | |
| 2011 | Mysterium, James Taylor Gallery, London | |
| 2010 | The Island of Lost Conceits, La Galleria, New York Concerning the Difference Between the Delights of Pleasure and True Happiness, Swedenborg Society, London |
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| 2009 | Conversations with the Other Side, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (with Sidsel Christensen) Polyrhythm, Union Square, New York Observance, PS Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| 2007 | I Will Heal You, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia | |
| 2005 | The Truth Will Set You Free, Vilma Gold, London Kunstbunker, Nuremberg |
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| 2003 | Vilma Gold, London | |
| 2002 | PS Galerie, Amsterdam Michael Janssen, Cologne |
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| 2001 | Vilma Gold, London | |
| 2000 | Vier de Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam Parking Meters, Cologne |
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| 1999 | The Trade Apartment, London Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, with Thomas Grunfeld PS Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions | 2022 | Whitstable Biennale, UK |
| 2018 | Art Night, London Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe, Sheffield, UK Farfuglar – Birds of Passage, Skeftfell Centre for Visual Art, Iceland |
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| 2016 | Stories in the Dark, Whitstable Biennale and Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK A Weekend of Weird, Radar / Loughborough University Arts, UK |
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| 2015 | Neither Seen Nor Known, Galerie Grand E’Terna, Paris In Search of Paradise, Tafelhalle Theatre, Nuremberg, Germany |
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| 2014 | Onsite, TAP, Southend, UK Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Field Broadcast, Flatford Mill, UK The Second Sex, Les Salaisons, Paris |
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| 2013 | Exile, Les Salaisons, Paris Emergency6, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK Open, Pump House Gallery, London |
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| 2012 | Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Tanto Raggio, Cusio Artists Residency Space, Omegna, Italy Pliny, The Golden Fleece, York, UK |
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| 2011 | The Edge of Reason, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway Superhybrid, Highlight Club, Leeds Love Video 2011, Center of Contemporary Art of Tbilisi, Georgia Stephanie Busson, Jefford Horrigan, Hunt & Darton, Maria Theodoraki, Ben Judd, James Taylor Gallery, London The Spirit is a Radium in Decay, Apiary Projects, London |
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| 2010 | Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg Society, London To Believe, La Galleria, New York Celebration, Uqbar, Berlin Are You Experienced? SPACE, London JT Project 10, James Taylor Gallery, London Gods and Rockers, Sideshow, Nottingham, UK All That Glitters Is Not Institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London Xray, Perseverance, London |
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| 2009 | Hunter, Guest Projects, London For Your Eyes Only, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris Concerning Dual Transmissions, Royal College of Art, London The Object of the Attack, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London City Beats, Dorsky Gallery, New York PS 1999-2009, PS Galerie, Amsterdam Errant Ways, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada |
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| 2008 | The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg The Smallest Cinema, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, UK Out of Place, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam City Beats, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai Stationed, Winchester House, London |
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| 2007 | Seeing is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London Co-curated By, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London The Juddykes, John Jones, London Odoo / Current, Mongolian National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar Abandoned Protocol, Ritter/Zamet, London |
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| 2006 | Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti, Istanbul Point of View, Jardin des Sculptures, Dunkirk, France Rotterdam International Filmfestival, Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam Evolution, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK Sweetex, Standpoint Gallery, London Projektor, Café Gallery Projects, London |
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| 2005 | Portrait, Galeria Leme, Sau Paulo As If By Proxy, Redux, London Offpop Vision, Glashaus, Berlin Courtisane, Gent, Belgium Ben Judd, Julian Dashper, Kyle Jenkins, CCNOA, Brussels Avecom, Filmhuis, Arnhem, The Netherlands Space Open, The Triangle, London The London Connection, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria Filmguest, Filmhuis Leeuwardene, Groningen, The Netherlands |
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| 2004 | Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Trackers, Pitzhangar Museum, London The Futurians, Taro Nasu, Tokyo Lost and Found, Bernal’s, Los Angeles, and Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam Tape, 291 Gallery, London Island Art Film and Video Festival 2004, Prenelle Gallery, London Rooie Oogjes, Showroom Mama, Rotterdam Stuft, Red Gallery, Hull, UK Wanting, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottowa, Canada Contemporary Belém Art Flux, Belém, Brazil Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| 2003 | PS 1999-2003, Raid Projects, Los Angeles Space Open, The Triangle, London Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York Red Light District 3, Artwalk, Amsterdam Ponce, The Ship, London Someone To Share My Life With, The Approach, London, The Queen Mother Show, One in the Other, London Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London |
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| 2002 | The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London Die First, One In the Other, London Naturellement, Espace Fauriel, St Etienne, France Red Light District 2, Winston Hotel, Amsterdam JAM: Tokyo-London, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo |
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| 2001 | Unheard Of, Cuchifrutos, New York Just History, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Albanian Biennale, UK Section, Tirana, Albania New Releases, Gallery 4a and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia JAM: Tokyo-London, Barbican, London Desert Rose, Victoria House, London Dogleg, Guildhall Road, Northampton Me and Them, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam Insider Trading, Mandeville Hotel, London |
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| 2000 | Cover Versions, The Trade Apartment, London Include Me Out, 48 Provost Street, London A Very Nice Film Club, Vilma Gold, London The Songs I Like, Michael Janssen, Cologne My Living Doll, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA I’m Really Really Sorry, Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy PS1999, Archipel Gallery, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Same Player Shoots Again, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam These Epic Islands, Vilma Gold, London |
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| 1999 | Festival Atlântico, Lisbon Cave, Sali Gia, London Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London |
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| 1998 | Post Neo-Amateurism, Chisenhale, London The Powder Room, The Powder Room, Rotterdam, Netherlands Printemps 2, DBF, London Red Light District, Galerie Y-Burg, Amsterdam Humdrum Red, The Trade Apartment, London |
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| Curated Exhibitions | 2016 | Stories in the Dark, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK |
| 2013-14 | Ensemble, Backlit, Nottingham (with Dave Charlesworth) | |
| 2011 | The Edge of Reason, Kino Kino, Sandnes, Norway (with Sidsel Christensen) | |
| 2010 | From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient and Modern, London | |
| 2008 | The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London |
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| 2007 | The Juddykes, John Jones, London (with Howard Dyke) | |
| 2003 | The Queen Mother Show, One in the Other, London (with Howard Dyke) | |
| 1998 | Printemps 2, Deutsche Britisch Freundschaft, London (with Paul Morrison) | |
| 1997 | Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London (with Paul Morrison) | |
| Catalogues and Publications | 2017 | Fatos Ustek, fig-2, ICA, London |
| 2014 | Emma Cocker, Alun Rowlands, Pandora Syperek, Ben Judd: Communion, Black Dog Publications, London Traci Kelley, Seers in Residence, Nottingham, UK |
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| 2011 | Sidsel Christensen and Ben Judd, The Edge of Reason, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway | |
| 2010 | Stephen McNeilly, Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg Society, London | |
| 2009 | Berit Fischer, City Beats, Dorsky Gallery, New York | |
| 2007 | Jill Morgan, Odoo / Current, Mongolian National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar Ben Judd and Howard Dyke, The Juddykes, John Jones, London Andrew Hunt, Abandoned Protocol, Ritter/Zamet, London |
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| 2004 | Contemporary Belém Art Flux, Belém, Brazil Patricia Drück and Inka Schube Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Ed Krcma, Trackers, Pitzhangar Museum, London JJ Charlesworth, The Futurians, Taro Nasu, Tokyo |
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| 2003 | Thyrza Goodeve, Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York | |
| 2001 | Patricia Ellis, Albanian Biennale, Tirana, Albania Catherine Wood, JAM: Tokyo-London, Barbican, London |
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| Residencies and Awards | 2022 | Arts Council England: Project Grant for The Push & the Pull, Whitstable Biennale, UK |
| 2020 | Arts Council England: Project Grant for Stanley Picker Fellowship Art Fund: Small Project Grant for Stanley Picker Fellowship Arts Council England: Project Grant for The Absolute, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University |
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| 2019 | Stanley Picker Fellowship in Art and Design, Kingston University, London | |
| 2018 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for The Part Versus the Whole, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, UK | |
| 2017 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for It Grows Like a Strange Flower, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK | |
| 2016 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Who Shall Separate Us Now?, Radar / Loughborough University Arts, UK Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Stories in the Dark, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, UK |
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| 2015 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Apart, We are Together, fig-2, ICA, London, UK |
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| 2014 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for residency at Skaftfell Centre of Visual Art, Iceland Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for The Conventicle, Bloc Projects, Sheffield Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for A Deep and Tenebrous Unity, Whitstable, UK |
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| 2013 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for I Am on Top of the World, London | |
| 2012 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Vast as the Dark of Night and as the Light of Day, Whitstable Biennale | |
| 2011 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Mysterium, James Taylor Gallery, London | |
| 2010 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Concerning the Difference Between the Delights of Pleasure and True Happiiness, Swedenborg Society, London | |
| 2009 | Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for Observance, Barbican Art Gallery, London Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts award for residency at Banff Centre, Canada |
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| 2007 | Arts Council England / Triangle Arts / Gasworks award for residency at Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia | |
| 2004 | British Council award for residency at Contemporary Belém Art Flux, Belém, Brazil | |
| Articles and Reviews | 2018 | Mike Pinnington, Ben Judd: The Part Versus the Whole, www.thedoublenegative.co.uk Gareth Harris, Art Night, The Art Newspaper, 22 June |
| 2017 | Wayne Burrows, A Weekend of Weird, www.thedoublenegative.co.uk |
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| 2016 | Tracy Affleck, WOW, Stories in the Dark: Contemporary Responses to the Magic Lantern, April Anonymous, Pick of the Week (Stories in the Dark, The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury), The Guardian, April |
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| 2015 | Anonymous, Best New Art in London (Apart, We are Together, ICA, London), Time Out, June |
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| 2014 | Anonymous, The 7th Whitstable Biennale 2014, www.publicartonline.org.uk Suz Elvey, Ben Judd, Whistable Gazette, June |
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| 2013 | Jennifer Gleadell, Ensemble, Nottingham Visual Arts, May Sarah Gill, Ensemble, Nottingham Post, March |
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| 2012 | In the Studio, EXIT, May Merce Santos Mir, Ben Judd – Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Leftlion, March Anonymous, Ben Judd – Songs of Innocence and of Experience, woodenwalrus.wordpress.com, April |
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| 2010 | Dan Smith, Concerning the Spiritual, Art Monthly, July/August | |
| 2009 | Emma Cocker, Still Unresolved: Inconsistency as Strategy, Intersections (35th Association of Art Historians Conference), April | |
| 2008 | Peter Lewis, Ben Judd, www.slashseconds.org, no. 8 Alia Pathan, Persona Non Grata, www.a-n.co.uk, March & www.slashseconds.org, no.8 Katharina Erlenwein, The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Donnerstag, 17 April Stephanie Siebert, Was führt die Bruderschaft im Schilde?, Nurnberger Zeitung, 17 April Georg Kasch, Bruderschaft aus Pappmaché, Abendzeitung, 18 April Beth Greenacre, Abandoned Protocol, ArtRabbit, 18 September |
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| 2007 | Charlie Danby, Ben Judd, Miser and Now, Summer | |
| 2006 | Charlie Danby, Surveillance, Wonderland, September/October | |
| 2004 | Usuki Naoko, The Futurians, Artit, Summer / Autumn Melissa Nix, The Futurians, The Daily Yomiuri, 29 July Michael Stoeber, Soziale Kreaturen, Kunstforum, May / June Nina Madden, Trackers, a-n Magazine, July Helen Sumpter, Trackers, Time Out, June 16 – 23 Anon, Trackers, Ealing Gazette, May 14 Kerstin Stremmel, Soziale Kreaturen, Neue Zuricher, 16 April Enno Kaulhold, Soziale Kreaturen, Photonews, Issue 16 Christina Tilmann, Soziale Kreaturen, Er Tagesspiegel, 11 April Anon, Trackers, Absolute Arts, April |
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| 2003 | Jen Ogilivie, Space Open 2003, Time Out, November 26 – December 3 Asher Penn, Looking at ‘Strangers’, Workflow, Vol 1, Issue 1 David Levi Strauss, Strangers: International Center of Photography, New York, Art Forum, November Jamie Lau, The Queen Mother Show, Contemporary, August / September Anon, The Queen Mother Show, Kultureflash, April Martin Coomer, Someone To Share My Life With, Time Out, April 23-30 Anna Honigman, Someone To Share My Life With, Zing Magazine, issue 19 Roos Gortzak, Ben Judd, I Miss, Tubelight, February |
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| 2002 | Dan Smith, Die First, Art Monthly, October Ned Denny, Doing the Rounds, New Statesman, September 23 Helen Sumpter, Die First, Evening Standard, September 13 Martin Herbert, Die First, Time Out, September 11-18 Jessica Lack, Die First, The Guardian, August 17 |
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| 2001 | Martin Coomer, JAM, Time Out, May | |
| 2000 | Patricia Ellis, I’m Really Really Sorry, Flash Art Italia, June Sally O’Reilly, These Epic Islands, London Art, February Paul O’Kane, Ben Judd, Contemporary Visual Art, February Sally O’Reilly, Ben Judd, London Art, January |
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| 1999 | Jan van der Ploeg, Utopia II – Same Player Shoots Again, De Nieuwe Maatschappij, 6/3 Jacques Meijer, Fotografie in Kunstgaleries, P/F, September Erik Hagoot, de Volkskrant, September |
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| 1998 | Front and back covers, Creative Camera, October / November Tank, September Olivier Gunning, High Anxiety, ID, July John Slyce, Ben Judd, Flash Art, May / June |
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| 1996 | John Stathatos, Angels, Untitled, Spring Peter Owen, Is That a Fact?, Creative Camera, March / April David Brittain, New Typologies, Creative Camera, May/June |
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