Jeremy Shaw (b. 1977, North Vancouver) works with a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often combining and amplifying strategies of vérité filmmaking, conceptual art, music video, esoteric and scientific research, Shaw’s works create a post-documentary space in which disparate belief-systems and histories are thrown into an interpretive limbo.
In 2016, Shaw won the prestigious Sobey Art Award and, more recently, he was awarded a residency at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Germany, and MOCA, Toronto, Canada. Works by Jeremy Shaw are held in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, France, and the National Gallery of Canada. Shaw currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (Yoga Cobra 1965), 2019, Archival black and white photo, acrylic, chrome, 13 x 14.8 x 6 1/3 in. Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin.Installation view,Towards Universal Pattern Recognition, KÖNIG GALERIE, 2016. Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin.Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (Copy 9.3.91. Computers. Sep 23 1991), kaleidoscopic acrylic, chrome, archival black/white photograph, 2016, 37.5 x 42.5 x 16 cm, unique. Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin.Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (9.20.00 Z.N. Prayer. 2-35 Olsen), kaleidoscopic acrylic, chrome, archival colour photograph, 2016, 42.5 x 37.5 x 16 cm, unique. Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin.Degenerative Imaging (4 Years Alcohol), 2015, UV print on glow-in-the-dark vinyl on Dibond, 2015, 32″ x 25″.Variation FQ (#05118), silver gelatin print, 25.5 x 20.4 cm, 2011-13/15.Variation FQ, 2011 – 2013, exhibition view Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, 2013.Transcendental Capacity (Billboard Hot 100 – 1969), 2014, 101 Kirlian Polaroids in frame, 75cm x 305.2cm x 6cm.Unseen Potential (Yopo – Anadenanthera Peregrina), Kirlian Polaroid enlargement, framed, 119.5 x 91.7 cm, unique, 2013.Introduction to The Memory Personality, Single channel video installation with original soundtrack, 2012.Transcendental Capacity (Madonna – Justify My Love, 1990), Kirlian polaroid, 3.25” x 4.25” (8.3 cm x 10.8 cm), 2011.Best Minds Part One, 2008, two channel video installation with original soundtrack, 40’00” loop, dimensions variable – Installation at Stedelijk Museum Offsite (Troeuv), Amsterdam, NL.DMT, 2004, 8 channel-video-installation, dimensions variable3/3 + 2AP.
