Jessica Voorsanger
Selected Education
1991 – 1993 Master of Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1987 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), European Hons Program, Rome, Italy
1983 – 1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
Selected Solo Exhibitions (1994-2007)
2007 The Agony & The Ecstasy, George Rodgers Gallery, Maidstone
2006 You’re Going Home in a Fucking Ambulance, Gallery 33, Berlin
2004 Beep Beep Toot Toot Yeah, 1,000,000mph Project Space, London
2003 I Think I Love You, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Jessica Voorsanger, Guido Carbone.to, Turin, Italy
2001 Bono & Sting Wouldn’t Be Anything Without: JV’s The Davids, International 3, Manchester
1999 Stinky Village, Virgin Megastore, London
1998 Art Stars, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
1996 The Retrieval Series: Bob Geldof, Modern Culture, Brooklyn, New York
1995 Baby Shower, Camden Art Centre, London
Selected Group Exhibitions (1998-2007)
2007 Beacon, curated by Sally O’Reilly & John Plowman, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
2007 Seja Marginal, Seja Herói (Be Marginal, Be a Hero), curated by Danger Museum, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2007 So Sad, Guy Hilton Gallery, curated by Mark McGowan, London
2006 Hearing Voices, Seeing Things, Serpentine Gallery, London
2006 Forward/Backward Reloading, Island 6 Art Center, Shanghai China
2006 No News From Nowhere, William Morris Gallery, London
2005 Summer Daze, South London Gallery, London
2005 Mervielles du Monde, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France
2004 Beacon, 7 commissioned site specific installations in Lincolnshire (mine: Tupholme Abbey)
2004 Board Meeting, Customized surf boards for Greenpeace organized by Fake London Genius
2004 Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2004 Mothers, Oxford House, London
2004 Platform for Art, TV Swansong poster campaign on the London Underground
2003 Bad Behaviour, curated by Emma Mahony for the Hayward Gallery National Touring show
2003 Independence, South London Gallery, London
2002 Extra-Art: A survey of Artist’s Ephemera 1960-1999, ICA, London
2002 Air Guitar, touring show including Milton Keynes Gallery & Cornerhouse, Manchester
2002 To Whom it May Concern, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCAC, San Francisco, CA
2001 Century City, Tate Modern, London
2001 CRYlawn, curated by Artlab, Goldman Tevis Gallery, Los Angeles California
2001 Record Collection, VTO Gallery, London & International 3, Manchester
2001 Across the Pond, The Practice Space, Los Angeles CA
2001 Extra-Art: A survey of Artist’s Ephemera 1960-1999, CCAC, San Francisco CA
2000 Tectonic, Mexico City, Mexico
2000 Playmaker, Galerie Paula Boettcher, Berlin Germany
2000 In the City, Modern Culture at the Gershwin Hotel, New York NY
1999 The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England
1999 My Eye Hurts, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1999 Cab Gallery, Art exhibited on the inside and outside of a London Taxi, London
1998 Date with an Artist, NGCA, City Library & Art Centre, Sunderland
1998 Vauxhall Gardens, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England
1998 Channel 3, Team Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Host, Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1998 Cloth-Bound, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
1998 Global Housewarming, 1st Floor, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Again Again, Galerie Carbone & Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanae, Turin Italy
1998 Fame, 1st Draft, Sydney, Australia
Selected Events/Performances/Projects (1998-2006)
2007, 2006 & 2004 Art Car Boot Fair, Truman Brewery, London (Specially commissioned Vauxhall Car in 2004 event)
2006 How to Improve the World British Art 1946-2006, Hayward Gallery (Performance series)
2006 The Singer & The Song: A Celebration of Vocal Performance, Theatre Museum, London, curated by home (Performance)
2004 ‘An Evening with Kylie’, Kathy Temin’s Kylie Minogue impersonators, (I judged), ICA London
2003 “Lunch With David Cassidy”, (Commissioned article) What’s on in London Magazine
2002 TV Swansong, live internet broadcast 20/02/02, www.swansong.tv (archival images available)
1999 The Articultural Show, Factual Nonsense @ The South Bank Centre, London, England
1998 Laurie Anderson’s ‘Meltdown Festival’, Royal Festival Hall, London (commissioned video)
Panels/Gallery Lectures/workshops
2003 Survival Skills, Artists Panel, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2002 Air Guitar, Discussion panel chaired by Tony Wilson, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2002 TV Swansong, 2 day symposium, The Baltic, Newcastle
2000 Jim Shaw, ICA, gallery talk, London
1998 NWUK (New Work UK), member of the selection panel, Chisenhale Gallery, London
1997 Yoko Ono & Fluxus, gallery talk/performance w/Clive Philpott, Royal Festival Hall, London
1997 Yoko Ono, gallery talk/performance (2 day), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Bibliography, Published Projects by Jessica Voorsanger in Print Media
Fantastic Cities: Guides to Unvisited Cities, "Springfield", Lucy Harrison, 2004, ISBN: 1-870522-38-9
What’s on in London Magazine, “Lunch With David Cassidy”, (Commissioned article), 2003
fash ‘n’ riot, Kunst Chaos Kraft, issue 2, 2003
A Magazine (as part of My Kylie Collection) 2002, by Kathy Temin, 2003
fash ‘n’ riot, fashion issue, issue 1, 2002
Words + Pictures, “Matthew Collings Thumb Print” Issue 10, 1996
Words + Pictures, "Abbey Road," Issue 5, 1996
Dazed and Confused, "Star Stories," January 1995, p. 104 - 105
Bibliography, Published Projects by Jessica Voorsanger in Electronic Media
eBC1, ICA, Live Internet Broadcast & Screening (20 April 1998), London
Jim Morrison’s Grave, 1998 (www.backspace.org/everything/e/project/jessie/text/jv.htm)
Star Stories, 1997 (www.pixeldom.com/jv/star_stories.html)
TV Swansong, 2002 (www.swansong.tv/jessicavoorsanger/outline.htm)
Selected Catalogues/Books
2006 Hearing Voices Seeing Things, published by The Serpentine Gallery, (ISBN to follow)
2006 Forward/Backward Reloading, Exhibition catalogue, Island 6 Art Center, Shanghai China
2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, Published by temporarycontemporary 2006
2004 Beacon, essays from David Lillington & John Plowman, Beaconarts, ISBN: 1-860501-95-8
2003 'Bad Behavior' from Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery Publishing, ISBN: 1-85332-235-0
2003 Art and Celebrity, by John A Walker, published by Pluto Press, ISBN: 0-7453-1849-5
2002 Air Guitar, edited by Emma Mahony, published by Milton Keynes Gallery & , ISBN:
2002 TV Swansong, edited by: Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie, ARTicle Press, ISBN: 1873352581
1996 Installation Art, by N De Oliveira, published by Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0500278288
Selected TV/Radio
Resonance FM, Jessica Voorsanger’s Celebrity Question (weekly part of Make Your Own Damn Music)
Resonance FM, Make Your Own Damn Music, played my piece “Beatles Fans Screaming”, October 2005
Resonance FM, Interview with Andy James, May 2004
Resonance FM, "Lunch with David Cassidy" aired as part of the 'Radio Radio' exhibition, April 2004
BBC Advent Calender, BBC3, short interview, aired December 2003
CBBC, SMart, children’s art making program interview & conception of art project, aired Nov 2001
South Bank Show, “Yoko Ono”, interview and performance, ITV, 1998
Fresh, Art Bands, ITV as part of The South Bank Show, May 1998
Death of a Curator, Program about the death of Joshua Compston, LWT, 1997
UK Living, "Living Magazine," live television interview, May 1995
The Big Breakfast, Channel 4 (England), live television interview, August 1996
The Late Show, "A Real Work of Art," BBC2, October 1994