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solo exhibitions

'The Offset, Aside, But'  (Part 4)

Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany

('Shepherd's Delight - an ananalysis of humour' 26/6-10/7/10)

'Flag Mountain / Black Tower'

Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany

('Flag Mountain', 'The Black Tower' 12/6-24/7/10)

'Worst Case Scenario'

Gallery 210, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

('Worst Case Scenario' 1/4-29/5/10)

'John Smith: Solo Show'

Royal College of Art Galleries, London, England

(major retrospective exhibition of 22 installed works 19/3-13/4/10)

'I'm lying, I promise'

Sala Diaz Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA

(rotating screening of 19 works 26/2-28/3/10)

 

group exhibitions

TBA Festival   Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon, USA

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 10/9-17/10/10)

6th Berlin Biennial   KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

('Frozen War', 'The Girl Chewing Gum' 11/6-8/8/10)

'Session 8 - Video'   Am Nuden Da, London, England

('Home Suite' 28-30/5/10 with Michel Auder, Bestué/Vives, Oliver Laric, Dan Rees, Jack Strange, Viola Yesiltac)

'Mulberry Tree Press'   SE8 Gallery, London

('Associations' 7/5-11/7 with Roderick Bucannan, Hollis Frampton, Gary Hill, Anthony McCall, George Quasha)

'Nothing is in the Place'   Photo Month,  Krakow, Poland

('Blight' 4-31/5/10 with Mark Lecky, Tim Macmillan, Christopher Morris, Vinca Petersen, Martin Parr)

'The Talent Show'   Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 10/4-15/8/10 with Stanley Brouwn, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, Peter Campus, Graciela Carnevale, Phil Collins, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Tehching Hsieh, David Lamelas, Piero Manzoni, Adrian Piper, Amie Siegel, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Shizuka Yokomizo, Carey Young)

'What if...'   Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, England

('Beside the A-Side' installation, 'Lost Sound', 'Hotel Diaries' series 7-11/4/10 with Simon Aepli, Graeme Miller, Lucy Cash, Cornelia Parker, Becky Edmunds, Sally Potter, Sheila Ghelani, Nic Sandiland, Nik Haffner, David Hinton, Chirstinn Whyte, Jaki Irvine, Fiona Wright, Claudia Kappenberg)

'After Architects'   Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

('Hotel Diaries' monitor installation 28/3-24/5/10 with Latifa Echakhch, David Jablonowski, Charlotte Moth, James Welling, Haegue Yang)

'Work Force'    National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England

('Slow Glass' 5/3-2/5/10 with Amber Films, Star and Shadow Collective)

The Armory Show - 'Focus: Berlin'   New York , USA

('Associations', 'The Girl Chewing Gum', 'Om' 4-7/3/10)

'A Very, Very Long Cat'    Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA

('Shepherd's Delight' 14/1-13/2/10 with Nina Beier & Marie Lund , Walead Beshty, Alexandre da Cunha, Sean Edwards, Ian Law, Dan Rees, Kerry Tribe)

'Associations'   Arcade Gallery, London, England

('Associations' 21/1-21/2/10 with Charlotte Moth and Jeremiah Day)

'La Otra' Contemporary Art Fair    Bogota, Colombia

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 22-26/10/09)

'Der Schnitt durch die Oberfläche legt neue Oberflächen frei'  

(The cut through the surfaces reveals new surfaces)

Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany

('Slow Glass' 31/7-29/8/09 with Anetta-Mona Chisa/Lucia Tkacova, Clegg & Guttmann, Liz Deschenes, Jan Paul Evers, FAMED, Claudia Kugler, Gyan Panchal, Martina Sauter)

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition    London, England

('Om' 8/6-16/8/09)

KW Institute for Contemporary Art   Berlin, Germany

('Dirty Pictures' 11-25/1/09 - 'Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne')

‘Never let the truth get in the way of a good story’

Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
(‘The Girl Chewing Gum’ 22/11/08-31/1/09 with Hollis Frampton, Stuart Croft, Ryan Gander, Wilhelm Sasnal)

‘Smoke’   Pump House Gallery, London, England
(‘Om’ 8/10-14/12/08)

'Hotel MariaKapel, A Portrait by Katie Jane' 

Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
('The Black Tower' 7-28/9/08 with Milan Bosnic & Milica Milicevic, Jirí Cernický, Cláudia Cristóvão, Hadassah Emmerich, Eva Kotatkova, Mladen Miljanovic, Will Self, Jamie Shovlin)

September Show   Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
(‘The Girl Chewing Gum’ 6/9-18/10/08 with Ayreen Anastas, Alejandro Cesarco, Jeremy Deller, Rene Gabri, Aurélien Gamboni, Lucas Ospina, Dan Rees, Oscar Tuazon)

 

solo screenings

'Glowing Rectangles'   Arnolfini, Bristol, England

('Hotel Diaries' series 12/6/10)

'Associations: The Short Films of John Smith'   

Rooftop Cinema, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA

('Associations', 'Leading Light', 'The Girl Chewing Gum', 'The Black Tower', 'Om', 'Gargantuan' 4/6/10)

Cafe Oto   London, England

('Lost Sound' 4/3/10)

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth    Texas, USA

One person screening, personal presentation, 23/2/10)

'Kill Your Timid Notion' Festival    Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland

('Hotel Diaries' series 21-28/2)

Hull Screen    Hull, England

('Hotel Diaries' series 1/12/09)

Greek Film Archive Avant Garde Film Festival     Athens, Greece

('Hotel Diaries' series, personal presentation, 11-19/10/09)

Jeonju International Film Festival   South Korea
('Hotel Diaries' series, personal presentation, 30/4-8/5/09)

Hull International Short Film Festival    England
(retrospective programme, personal presentation, 21-26/4/09)

'Migrating Forms' Festival   Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
('Hotel Diaries' series 15-19/4/09)

'Images' Festival    Toronto, Canada
('Hotel Diaries' series 2-11/4/09)

'Punto de Vista'  Navarra International Documentary  Film Festival

Pamplona, Spain
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series 13-21/2/09)

'John Smith: Le cinema, art de combat'

Scratch Projection, Paris, France
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series, personal presentation, 16/12/08)

Tyneside Cinema   Newcastle upon Tyne, England
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series, personal presentation, 27/11/08)

Leeds International Film Festival    England
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series, personal presentation, 4-16/11/08)

‘Travels’, Tate Triennial Prologue    Tate Britain, London
(‘Frozen War’, ‘Museum Piece’, 'B & B', ‘Pyramids / Skunk’, plus discussion with curator Andrew Wilsaon 18/10/08)

Curzon Soho Cinema    London
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series and one person retrospective screening, personal presentations, 5-6/10/08)

Nova Cinema    Brussels, Belgium
(‘Hotel Diaries’ series and one person retrospective screening, personal presentations, 27-28/9/08)

 

group screenings

25 FPS International Experimental Film & Video Festival  Zagreb, Croatia

('Flag Mountain' 21-26/9/10)

Melbourne International Film Festival   Australia

('Flag Mountain' 22/7-8/8/10)

Poetry International Festival   Rotterdam, Netherlands

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 12-18/6/10)

Hamburg International Short Film Festival   Germany

('Flag Mountain' 1-7/6/10)

Sound and the City   Monoquini, Bordeaux, France

('Lost Sound' 19/5/10)

Voice / Under   Sixes & Sevens, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, England

('Gargantuan' 7/5/10)

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen   Germany

('Flag Mountain' 29/4-4/5/10)

New Zealand Film Archive   Wellington

('The Girl Chewing Gum', 'The Black Tower' 15/4/10)

'Architecture and its Discontents'   Kaleidoscope, Milan, Italy

('The Black Tower' 4-13/3/10)

'Bricks and Mortar - Artists' films about architecture'

Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upom Tyne, England
('Blight' 11/2/10)

Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art    Beijing, China

('Om' 29/1/10)

'Silver and Salt' Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

('Associations' 18/1/10)

Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre    Budapest, Hungary

('Blight' 11-12/12/09)

Domaine de Kerguéhennec    Bignan, France

('The Black Tower' 3/12/09)

'The Filmic Conventions'    FormContent, London, England

('Blight', 'Om' 20-22/11/09)

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam    Netherlands

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 19-29/11/09)

Three Rivers Film Festival   Pittsburgh, USA

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 6-21/11/09)

E & M Arts Independent Film Show    Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

('Associations' 3-7/11/09)

Chelsea Arts Club    London, England

('The Black Tower' 19/10/09)

The Hex    Three Sisters, London, England

('Hackney Marshes' 17/10/09)

'Evento 2009'    A Suivre, Bordeaux, France

('Frozen War', 'Museum Piece', 'Throwing Stones' 12/10/09)

'Experimental 3' Film Festival     Osaka, Japan

('Worst Case Scenario' 1-10/10/09)

Forum des Images     Paris, France

('Om' 27/9/09)

Adelphi Club   Hull, England

('Associations', 'Om' 28/8/09)

Dislocation Festival   Luton, England

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 21-22/8/09)

Rooftop Film Festival     Brooklyn, New York, USA

('Dirty Pictures' 14/8/09)

Bandjoun Station     Bandjoun, Cameroon

('Worst Case Scenario' 8/8/09)

'Home Alone'     The Green House, Chicago, USA

('Associations' 10/7/09)

Cinema Jove International Film Festival     Valencia, Spain

('The Girl Chewing Gum', 'Om' 20-27/6/09)

Le Grand T     Nantes, France

('Hotel Diaries' parts 1-3 12/6/09)

Hamburg International Short Film Festival     Germany

('Lost Sound' 2-8/6/09)

'These are the Times: The image on the Threshold'  

'Vertigo' magazine launch, Birkbeck Cinema, London

('Dirty Pictures' 28/5/09)

'Thou Shalt Not Know What Thou Do But Thou Shalt Do It'  

BFI Southbank, London

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 27/5/09)

Centre Pompidou    Paris, France

('Dirty Pictures' 16/5/09)

Documenta Madrid Film Festival    Spain

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 1-10/5/09)

Cinecity  Brighton, England
('Associations' 27/4/09)

'Hackney, That Red Rose Empire'    East End Film Festival, Rio Cinema

London, England
('The Girl Chewing Gum', 'Blight', 'Lost Sound', plus panel discussion with Iain Sinclair and other filmmakers 26/4/09)

'Garden Pieces'   BFI Southbank, London
('The Kiss' 14/4/09)

'Kinodance' International Dance Film Festival   St. Petersburg, Russia
('The Girl Chewing Gum' 7-18/4/09

The Nightingale   Chicago, USA
('The Kiss' 4/4/09)

Wisconsin Film Festival   USA
('Dirty Pictures' 2-5/4/09)

La Casa Encendida    Madrid, Spain
('Worst Case Scenario' 31/3/09)

Ann Arbor Film Festival     Michigan, USA
('The Girl Chewing Gum' 27/3/09)

Museo Reina Sofia   Madrid, Spain
('Dirty Pictures' 23/3/09 & 30/3/09)

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm    Frankfurt/Main, Germany
('Lost Sound' 22/3/09)

FIFA International Festival of Films on Art   Montreal, Canada
('Blight' 19-29/3/09)

The Magic Lantern Glasgow, Scotland
('Worst Case Scenario' 18/3/09)

7 Inch Cinema  Birmingham, England
('Associations', 'Dirty Pictures' 14/3/09)

Flatpack Festival    Birmingham, England
('Dirty Pictures', 'Associations' 11-15/3/09)

'On the Contrary: Artists' Videos Concerning War in the Middle East' SCOPE Art Fair, Lincoln Centre, New York , USA
('Frozen War' 5/3/09)

'Poésie/nuit'   Théâtre de Caen, France

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 4-5/3/09)

Fundacio la Caixa    Barcelona, Spain
('Worst Case Scenario' 1/3/09)

FLEXfest 2009    Gainesville, Florida, USA
('Dirty Pictures' 20-26/2/09)

Glasgow Film Festival    Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
('Dirty Pictures' 15/2/09)

Séance Tenante    Lille, France
('Gargantuan', 'The Girl Chewing Gum' 14/2/09)

Nickelodéon   Liège, France
('Blight' 12/2/09)

Broadway Cinema    Nottingham, England
('Associations' 9/2/09)

Smoke   Institute of Contempory Arts, London

('Om' 6/2/09)

Magic Lantern Cinema    Providence, Rhode Island, USA

('Pyramids / Skunk'  4/2/09)

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival    France

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 30/1-7/2/09)

Kino Arsenal   Berlin, Germany

('The Girl Chewing Gum' 13/1/09)

Museum of Garden History   London

('The Kiss' 6/1/09)

'Kill Your Timid Notion' Festival Tour     BFI Southbank , London;

Arnolfini, Bristol; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
'Associations' and 'The Girl Chewing Gum' 29/11-7/12/08

Monoquini   Bégles, France
('Om' 28/11/08)

'Beyond Film' Festival   Durham, England

('Dirty Pictures', 'Om'  22-23/11/08)

Maison Folie Wazemmes   Lilles, France
('Gargantuan' 22/11/08)

'Time and Language'   Flat Time House, London
('Associations'  19/11/08)

'I don't want to tell you who I am'    Cinema Parallele, Montreal, Canada

('Dirty Pictures' 14/11/08)

Aurora Film Festival    Norwich, England
('Leading Light' 12-16/11/08)

Reading Experimental Film Festival    England
('The Girl Chewing Gum' 1-2/11/08)

Sacred Music Festival    Uppsala, Sweden
(‘Om’ 30/10-2/11/08)

'Urban Audiovisual'    Salvador, Brasil
('Worst Case Scenario' 30/10/08)

Chicago Underground Film Festival    USA
(‘Dirty Pictures’ 29/10-2/11/08)

‘CanariasMediaFest’    Gran Canaria, Spain
(‘Dirty Pictures’ 28/10-1/11/08)

Le Maki    Angoulême, France
(‘The Girl Chewing Gum’, ‘Om’, ‘Blight’ 23/10/08)

‘Genre Trouble’, Light Industry    New York, USA   

(‘Gargantuan’  21/10/08)

Ourense International Film Festival    Spain
(‘Dirty Pictures’ 11-18/10/08)

Arcades Project    Cardiff, Wales
(‘The Girl Chewing Gum’, ‘The Black Tower’, ‘Slow Glass’ 4/10/08)

'Unbelievable Truth: Recent British Video'   

Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
('Dirty Pictures' 1/10/08)

‘Video Dumbo’ Festival    New York, USA
(‘Dirty Pictures’ 26-28/9/08)