Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson is an American artist living and working in New York City and Los Angeles. His work is known for investigating violence, sexism, antisemitism, and racism within popular culture,[1] using video and film, sculptural installation and virtual reality.

Jordan Wolfson
Born (1980-10-09) October 9, 1980
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRhode Island School of Design
AwardsCartier Award
2009
Websitewww.jordanwolfson.org

Biography

Wolfson was born October 9, 1980 in New York City. He is of Jewish heritage.[1] He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2003 receiving his BFA in Sculpture.[2] There his peers were artists Ryan Trecartin and Dan Colen.[3] Starting at that time Wolfson produced early film and video work and computer animation which were shown in the US and Europe.[4]

For his more recent works, Wolfson uses very different media, ranging from digital shine painting to animatronic sculptures and new immersive technology such as virtual reality. These costly works are often produced in collaboration with technology experts.[5]

Wolfson was awarded the Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation in 2009.[6][7]

Work

Institutions which have previously hosted solo shows of Wolfson's work include; the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2011); and the Kunsthalle Zürich (2004).[8] His first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom was presented in 2013 at the Chisenhale Gallery in London.[9]

In 2013, Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur marked the most comprehensive survey of his work to date, organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent.[10]

In 2014, a selection of Wolfson’s video work was exhibited as part of the 6th Glasgow International[11] and he participated in 14 Rooms presented during Art Basel.[12] 14 Rooms was curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition was a collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.[13]

Work by Wolfson is held in public collections worldwide, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.[14]

Female Figure

Wolfson's 2014 work, Female Figure is an animatronic sculpture of a woman dressed in a negligee, thigh high vinyl boots and a green half witch mask, covered in dirt marks and scuffs.[15] The figure dances seductively, speaking in a male voice. Using facial recognition technology, she locks eyes with viewers through a mirror.[15] The work addresses the violence of objectification.[16] In 2019, ARTnews[17] and Artnet News[18] both listed Female Figure as one of the most important artworks of the past decade.

Real Violence

Wolfson's immersive 3-D VR work "Real Violence' is being exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial and immediately became the focus of media attention due to the graphic intensity of the acts portrayed therein.[19][20][21] "Real Violence" was designed to draw debate on the nature of VR as an authentic experience that the viewer has authority over.[21] There has also been criticism over the work "Real Violence" at the New Museum screening of the work (in 2017).[1] The debate was on the role of the artist, Wolfson's responsibility in making a political statement with his art and if there is a role of privilege/power hierarchy that should have been addressed when dealing with the subject matter of violence.[1]

Other notable exhibitions

References
  1. "Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images". Hyperallergic. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  2. "Jordan Wolfson Biography". David Zwirner. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  3. "How Do I Feel More? A Weekend With JORDAN WOLFSON | 032c Workshop". 032c Workshop. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  4. "KALEIDOSCOPE | Interview: Jordan Wolfson". Kaleidoscope.media. 2016-10-17. Archived from the original on 2018-06-09. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  5. "Jordan Wolfson on Transforming the "Pollution" of Pop Culture Into Art". Artspace. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  6. "The Cartier Award". Frieze Foundation.
  7. "The Cartier Award 2009: Jordan Wolfson". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  8. "Jordan Wolfson Biography" (PDF). Sadie Coles HQ. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  9. "Jordan Wolfson: Raspberry Poser". Chisenhale Gallery. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  10. "Jordan Wolfson Ecce Homo / le Poseur". SMAK. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  11. "Jordan Wolfson". Glasgow International. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  12. Schuetze, Christopher. "Where Exhibits Chat and Go Home". International New York Times. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  13. "14 Rooms". Art Basel. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  14. "Jordan Wolfson Biography". David Zwirner.
  15. Times, Los Angeles. "Jordan Wolfson's robot-sculpture finds a home at the Broad museum". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  16. "Jordan Wolfson's robot: In the Moment of Terror". Spike Art Magazine. 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  17. ARTnews, The Editors of (2019-11-28). "The Most Important Artworks of the 2010s". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  18. "The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 3". artnet News. 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  19. Lehrer, Adam (2017-03-14). "10 Art Works You Must See At The 2017 Whitney Biennial". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  20. Eckardt, Stephanie (2017-03-15). ""The Work Is Repellant": All the Horrified Reactions to Jordan Wolfson's Ultraviolent VR Art at the Whitney Biennial". W Magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  21. Freeman, Nate (2017-03-01). "A History of Violence: Jordan Wolfson on His Shocking Foray into VR at the Whitney Biennial". ARTnews. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  22. "Whitney Biennial 2006, Day for Night". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  23. "Jordan Wolfson, Optical Sound". GAMeC. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  24. "Jordan Wolfson". Swiss Institute. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  25. "Jordan Wolfson". CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  26. "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.6 Jordan Wolfson". CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  27. Smith, Roberta (2012-01-26). "JORDAN WOLFSON". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  28. "video of the month # 75". Kunsthalle Wien. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  29. "Jordan Wolfson: Raspberry Poser". REDCAT. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  30. "Archive Past Exhibitions Jordan Wolfson". Chisenhale Gallery. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  31. "Art Basel - 14 Rooms (Jordan Wolfson)". David Zwirner. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  32. "Have you seen Jordan Wolfson's new animatronic?". Phaidon. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  33. "Jordan Wolfson, Riverboat song at David Zwirner, 19th Street, New York, USA". ocula.com. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  34. Questionsandart (2018-05-21). "a critique of the spectacle". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  35. https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/riverboat-song
  36. https://brooklynrail.org/2018/06/artseen/Jordan-Wolfson-Riverboat-Song

Notes
  • "Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur", Texts by Esther Leslie, Linda Norden, and Philippe Van Cauteren. Interview with the artist by Aram Moshayedi. REDCAT, Los Angeles, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2013. ISBN 978-3-863354-14-5
  • Jordan Wolfson, Marion Ackermann (dir.) and Moritz Wesseler. Interview with the artist by Stefan Kalmár. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and Distanz, Berlin, 2012. ISBN 978-3-942405-48-5
  • Cotter, Holland. "Jordan Wolfson." The New York Times (April 11, 2014): C20
  • Tumlir, Jan. "Jordan Wolfson." Artforum (March 2013): 285 [ill.]
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