Past Resident
2011: Canada Council for the Arts
Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw’s artistic practice incorporates photo, video, sound, and various studio-based mediums in a quasi-documentary style while discussing altered states. By reinterpreting the conventional aspects of minimalism, documentary, pop and psychedelic art within a conceptual framework, his interest lies in creating work that establishes a dialogue within and around cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map transcendental experience.
Jeremy Shaw is Vancouver-born, Berlin-based artist. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Storming Heaven (From Home), Everest, Zurich, Switzerland; Single-Channel Higher States, Samsa, Berlin; and Solo Presentation – Jeremy Shaw, Fotofestival 4, Mannheim. Upcoming group exhibitions include: The 2011 Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Quebec;Leistungsschau, Berlin, Germany; and The New Psychedelic, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Shaw is also known as the electronic music artist Circlesqure and has recorded numerous albums and EPs for the now-defunct Output Recordings and Berlin’s !K7 Records.
Jeremy Shaw, Transcendental Capacities (Donna Summer – I Feel Love [Patrick Cowley Megamix], 1982), 2011, Kirlian polaroid photograph, 3 × 4 in. (7.62 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Representative Measurements, 2008, Black light silkscreen posters with UV lights, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Untitled (Home Deprivation Study), 2010, Lacquered birch, 42 × 96 × 42 in. (106.68 × 243.84 × 106.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, DMT (Detail – Sara), 2005, 8 channel video installation, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Love Rose In Blue, 2008, Readymade synthetic flower in glass tube, 6 × 4 × 4 in. (15.24 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
