Jack O'Brien
Frieze London 2023 (With Ginny on Frederick)
Installation view
Jack O'Brien, Auguste, 2023.
Double bass, Chrome-plated steel, Venetian blind, Aluminium, Cellophane, Spray paint, Concrete.
183 x 173 x 63 cm
Jack O'Brien, Return, 2023.
Soft pastel, spray paint, photographic print mounted on aluminium, heat-formed PETG plastic, aluminium pipe, butchers netting.
46.8 x 33.1 x 8.7 inches
118.9 x 84.1 x 22 cm
Jack O'Brien, Phaedrus, 2024
Cellos, cellophane, chrome-plated steel, spray paint, seat-belt webbing, bolts, shock cord
52.4 x 43.3 x 17.2 inches
133 x 110 x 45 cm
Jack O’Brien (b.1993) lives and works in London. He received his BA in Fine Art from Kingston University, London in 2014.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Reward, Camden Art Centre, London (2024); Nectar, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024); Love Triangle, Aro, Mexico City (2024); The Theatre and Its Double, curated by Viscose Journal, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE (2023); The Answer, Sans Titre Invites, Paris (2023); To More Time, Lockup International, London (2022) and Waiting For The Sun To Kill Me, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2021).
Recent group exhibitions include Air de repos (Breathwork), CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (2024); PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Poetics & politics of maintenance: Show me you’re not the light I called to, but the darkness behind it, Fluent, Santander, Spain (2024); Non-Specific Objects, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2024); Right Now, Wrong Then, King’s Leap, New York (2024); Memory of Rib, N/A Gallery, Seoul (2022); Chômage Technique, Lovaas Projects, Munich (2022); Something is Burning, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia (2022); An Insular Rococo, Hollybush Gardens, London (2022) and Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin (2018).
O’Brien also received the Camden Art Centre Artist Prize at Frieze London, 2023.
