Jeroen van Dooren
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, In-Flux 4, 2022£ 1,625.00 -
Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Re-Construct, 2022£ 2,180.00
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Still Alive, 2022£ 975.00
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Reconstruction 1, 2018£ 2,120.00
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Building Croydon, 2016£ 920.00
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Fading Trees, 2016£ 920.00
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Jeroen van Dooren, Fred Robeson, Gentrification, 2016£ 1,495.00
I work on the interface of visual arts and literature. In my practice I invent fictional artists. I write a biography, artist statement and character sketch. After this I imagine what kind of art the fictional artist makes, I make the art imagining to be them. My output has been performance, sculpture, installation, painting, print, text-based work and audio/visual work.
My ongoing project is enquiring contemporary notions of subjectivity, performativity, and the role of the contemporary artist. Through the generation and demonstration of multiple selves and personas. I do this by using heteronyms. A heteronym refers to one or more maginary character(s) created by a writer to write in different styles or to write from a
different perspective.
I am questioning how the adaptation of the literary concept of the heteronym from fictional writing to contemporary art practice affect the artist’s identity and resulting narratives? And what does it mean to create and embody a fictional artist who is separate from the self, and
how does this alter our perceptions of selfhood? I bring together the literary concept of the heteronym, contemporary art, fictional writing, and considerations of the relationship between the self and other, originating from a personal experience of mental health issues relating to divided subjectivities. In my work I create fictional worlds within contemporary
art to offer a new perspective on practice-led enquiries into the relations between heteronyms, transparency, fiction and the presentations of the self in everyday life and art.
The use of the idea of heteronyms within my work and research offers a way to investigate working from a multitude of different perspectives and personal narrations. It is also a form of depersonalisation and simulation, moving from the self to the other and back again. In doing so, my research understands how the heteronym can function within contemporary
art. Autobiografictional characters are invented, their personas are assumed, and artworks are produced according to their own separate voices and ways of being. Making work as the fictional personas, these characters come alive via performances, text and audio pieces. The
fictional characters are not there as a tool for hiding or for masking but are used as an instrument to investigate character development and the potential for multiple artistic personas within contemporary art.
Born 1977 in Erp, The Netherlands
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2020 PhD Practice Based, Art and Humanities, Performance, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 MA Printmaking (Distinction), Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008 BFA Fine Art (Honours), Kunst Academie Minerva Groningen, The Netherlands
2007 BFA Exchange student, Hunter College New York City, United States of America
2000 BSc Wildlife Management, specialism animal welfare (Honours), Van Hall Instituut, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Viva examination show, Royal College of Art London
2019 El Leyak, The Intuitive Machine, Santiago de Chile
2018 Molten Capital Artist Residency, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Gesticulator, ASC Gallery, London. A group exhibition with Jesse Ash, Desmond Brett, Nicky Coutts, Jeroen van Dooren,
Jacqueline Felstead, Vicky Kim Liz Murray, Shira Wachsmann, Sharon Young.
Performance, ASC Gallery, London. Performance about why I don’t want to do performances.
2022 She Speaks Up, Chingford Pop Up, London. Performance with amongst others: Victoria Ahrens, Gemma Blackshaw,
Liz Murray, Charon Singh and Nadage Meriau.
2018 Five Trillian Times, China Academy of Art Hangzhou Museum
The Masters Screen and Stone, The Royal Society for Painter-Printmakers, London
Valentia Place Studios, London Design week
Royal Academy Summer Show 2018, London
2017 Daybreak, Safehouses, London
Valentia Place Studios, London Design week
Member Show, 126 Gallery, Galway Ireland
2016 Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland
Me/You, You/Me, Sensei Gallery, London
Lost in the Woods, The Square Gallery, London
Performing Identities, Dyson Gallery, London
The Maverick Expo 2016 Art Fair, during Frieze week at Oxo Tower, London
Matter, Woo Studios, London
Gala No3: Disappointment, Unit 37, London
2015 Fluorescent Arts Festival Soho, London
No Time for Hysteria, The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, participating artists; Thomas Hirschhorn, Ryan Gander, Paula Rego
RCA Secret Dubai, Art Dubai, Dubai
2014 Royal Academy Summer Show 2014, London
Royal College of Art Graduation Show 2014, London – I invited Sacha Craddock, Chris Fite Wassilak, Jareh Das and
Nigel Rolfe to curate my final show. They picked the works and each curated a show with my work.
Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London
Bainbridge Open 2014, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
Wild at heart and Weird on Top, Café Gallery, London
2013 A letter to Cyprus, Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus
Notes to Self, Royal College of Art, Dyson Gallery, London
Parallax Art Fair, London
At Random, Opperclaes, Rotterdam
In Visable, Café Gallery, London
2012 Unrequited Hatred, The Shed, Galway, Ireland
Unrequited Hatred, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Múscailt Arts Festival, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
2011 Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland Curated by Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, participating artists ao;
Monica Bonvicini, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Omer Fast, Hans Peter Feldmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jannis
Kounellis. Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
Open Winter Show, RuaRed, Dublin, Ireland, Curated by Ann Mulrooney Curator at the National Craft Gallery and Hilary
Murray, Curator of the Collections at Irish Museum of Modern Art.
In_Flux, occupy space, Limerick, Ireland
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2019 We Are Not Ourselves All of the Time and We Are Not All of Ourselves at Any Time, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
2018 6 weeks residency performance in Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
2017 Audiograft, Oxford
The Place, Stoller Coaster, London
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, London
2016 Me/You, You/Me, Sensei Gallery, London
Agreement, Sensei Gallery, London
Matter, Woo Studios, London
ZAT Festival, Montpelier, France
2015 Fluorescent Arts Festival Soho, London
2014 Royal College of Art Graduation Show 2014, London
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist of the Week, Saatchi Art
2021 Artist of the Day, Saatchi Art
2018 Postcode lottery, People’s Postcode Trust, UK
2016 Royal College of Art, student-led event competition, UK
The Art House, Royal College of Art, student competition, UK
2015 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Young Talent Award, The Netherlands
2014 FutureCity Riverlight Student Award, UK
Thames Barrier Print Studio Graduate Award, UK
2013 Royal College of Art Secret Grant, UK
2012 Royal College of art study Grant, UK
2012 Travel and Training award Arts Council, Ireland
2011 Annual Programming Grant, The Arts Council Ireland
2011 Galway City Arts Grants, 126 Gallery, Ireland NY
2009 Mondriaan Fund, Stichting WEP, The Netherlands
2007 Grootbrugmansfonds Travel Grant, The Netherlands
COMMISSIONS
Silkroad, The Art House, London, United Kingdom
Future City/ St James/ Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Private commissions in The Netherlands and Ireland
COLLECTIONS
Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile
St James Berkeley Group
FutureCity London
Royal College of Art Collection
Office of Public Works, National Art Collection Ireland
National University of Ireland Galway
Private collectors: The Netherlands, Ireland, USA, Belgium, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Israel, Italy, China, Chile and Japan
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Post in the Post (print), The 2nd CAA international Printmaking Triennial, China Academy of Art (Hang Zhou: China)
Artist-run democracy: sustaining a model, 15 years of 126 gallery, Editor Jim Ricks (Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2022)
2021 Where Are You, How Are You Feeling, London College of Communication MA Photography Graduation Catalogue
Catalogue of Failures 2, Artist work I Regret to Inform You That…, Editor Alice Clough
2020 PhD thesis, We Are Not Ourselves All of the Time and We Are Not All of Ourselves at Any Time: Heteronyms, Personas and Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art
2018 Prova, (RCA: Arts & Humanities Research Journal,2018)
2016 The Headless City, Artist work Fred Robeson, Tulca Galway
2011 Dublin Contemporary Guidebook, Fred Robeson, Brunswick Press Limited
2008 Examenexpositie Academie Minerva, Jeroen van Dooren, Groningen
