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Date of Birth: 01.02.72

E-mail: jaspar.j@virgin.net

Education

2006
PhD Fine Art
Goldsmiths College, London.
1998
MA Fine Art
The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
1994
BA (hons) Fine Art and Art History
Goldsmiths College, London.
1991
Foundation Certificate
Central St Martins School of Art, London.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
The Mortar of Distribution, curated by Matthew Poole, LoBe, Berlin.

2009
Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, Warwick.

2008
13+ (DomoBaal Gallery), shown at Florence Lynch Gallery, New York.

2007
One Way Street, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno (Feb-March 07) and KX Gallery, Hamburg (Nov-Dec 07). Included works by Pierre Bismuth and Roman Vasseur. Co–curated project.
Pilot: 3, Monastery of St Damien and St Cosimo, La Giudecca, Venice Biennale, (June 07) and Arco Art Fair, Madrid, (Feb 07).

2006
Freud in Translation, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. Included works by: David Bate, Bill Furlong and Mark Lewis.
Episode, Temporarycontemporary, (London, Dec-Jan 05). Leeds Met Gallery, (Leeds, April-June 06), South Florida Art Space (Miami, Sept-Oct 06). Co-curated project with Amanda Beech and Matthew Poole.

2005
ALL FOR SHOW, UK Video Works Retrospective, curated by Lee Campbell. Venues included: Studio 1.1, London, Café Gallery, London, Edgezones, World Arts Building, Miami, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA. Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand. Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Soap factory, Minneapolis, USA. Mighty Screenland Theatre, Kansas City, USA. International film festival, Rotterdam, Gallerie Verticale, Montreal, Nexus, Philadelphia. Participating artists include: Beagles and Ramsay, Marion Coutts, Doug Fishbone, Angela Hicks, Elizabeth McAlpine.
13+, domoBaal Gallery, London and the Thai Film and Video Biennale, Bangkok. Participating artists include Ron Haselden, Jenny Perlin and Kim Noble.

2004
Pilot:1, Limehouse Old Town Hall, London (nominated artist).

2002
Predator, KX Gallery, Hamburg. Participating artist include Julie Henry, Seth/Talentire, and Italo Zuffi.

2001
Rutger Hauer, Perry’s Motors, London. Included works by Anne Tallentine, Julie Henry and Karin Ruggaber.

2000
New Work (solo), Perry’s Motors, London.
Without Touch, Margaret Street (Birmingham). Curated by Nayam Kulkarni as part of the Wheatley Fellowship.

1999
New Work (solo), Asprey Jacques Gallery.
210-297, Arthur R Rose Gallery, London. Participating artists include Andrew Grassie, Matthew Higgs, David Musgrave, Elizabeth Price and Mark Titchner.

1998
Instruments of Deceit, curated by Nayam Kulkarni, Gasworks Gallery

1997
New Work (solo), The British School at Rome.

1995
Multiple, curated by Martin Maloney, Lost in Space.
Neo Naïve, curated by Martin Maloney, Lost in Space

1994
Little House on the Prairie, curated by Marc Jancou, Marc Jancou Gallery. Participating artists included: Carl Andre, Dan Graham and Martin Creed.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

2009
Revisiting the Bonaventure Hotel, ed. Yve Lomax, London: Copy Press
Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens Based Media, (co-editor and contributing writer), Artwords Press, London.

2004
Spectacle and Disorientation in Retail Architecture, co-authored with Nayan Kulkarni, London, Artwords Press.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Forthcoming
Non-relational Regimes of Urban Modernisation, Anti-humanist Curating, ed. Matthew Poole. JVAP (Journal of Visual Arts Practice).

2010
Dream Stuff, an interview with Amanda Beech, in Sanity Assassin, Falmouth, Urbanomic.
Spirit (photo essay), Vicissitudes: histories and destinies of psychoanalysis, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London: Routledge.

2007-2010
Transmission Chapbooks: ‘Bevis Martin, Charlie Youle and Sharon Kivland’ (2010) ‘Wouter Davidts’ (2009), ‘Roman Vasseur’ (2008), ‘Michael Corris & Sharon Kivland’ (2008), London: Artwords Press.

2008
Image Synchronicity and the Bonaventure Hotel, in Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media, London: Artwords Press.

2007
Working from the Collection (guest editor/curator), ‘Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities,’ Volume 12, Number 2, London, Routledge.

2006
The Artists Talk, ‘Dialogue’, ‘Axis: Contemporary Art Journal’.
Daily Encounters, ‘Transmission: Speaking and Listening’, vol. 5, Sheffield: Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University.
Becky Shaw, Commissioned by The Yorkshire Art Society.

2004-06
Transmission: Speaking and Listening, (co-editor, vols 4-5), Sheffield: Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University.

2005
De-transubstantiation, Art and Text: Inscription, www.art-omma.org (Online Contemporary Art Journal), issue 11.
Sharon Kivland, ‘The Internationaler’, Pilot Issue.

2000
Phantoms of Reason, ‘Without Touch’, London: Darwin Press.

EDITORIAL WORK

2010
Transmission Annual: Hospitality, London: Artwords Press.
The Contingency of Curation, symposium publication, London: Tate Britain.

2009
Project Biennale, Sheffield: Another Space.

2008
Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media, London: Artwords Press.

2004-06
Transmission: Speaking and Listening (vols 4-5), Sheffield: Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PUBLIC TALKS

2010
Transmission: Hospitality (conference Chair/organiser), Sheffield Hallam University, www.transmission.uk.com
The Contingency of Curation (symposium organiser), Tate Britain.
The Jerde Masterplan, Imploded action, dissonant affect: Towards a new politics of non-relationality (exhibition panel discussion, organised by Amanda Beech), Spike Island, Bristol.
On Display, Artists & Shops (artists talk), symposium organised by Becky Shaw, Site Gallery, Sheffield.

2009
Spectacle and Social Space, Leverhulme Public Lectures Series, Department of French, Sheffield University.

2008
Episode (organiser/convener), Tate Britain. www.curatingvideo.com
Transmission: Host (symposium organiser/convener), Sheffield Hallam University/Site Gallery
Curating Video Symposium (organiser/convener), Chelsea School of Art, UAL. www.curatingvideo.com
Revisiting the Bonaventure Hotel (conference paper), ‘Vicissitudes: histories and destinies of psychoanalysis,’ Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. Keynote speaker, Mark Nash.

2007
One Way Street (Panel Presentation), KX Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
Spectacle and its Fragmentation (Conference paper), ‘Ubiquitous Media’, University of Tokyo, Japan. Keynoter Speaker: Rem Koolhaas.
Is Art a form of Debate? (Chair/respondent) Venice Agendas, Venice Biennale.
One Way Street (Panel Presentation), University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
Working From the Collection (Coordinator/Chair), Transmission: Speaking and Listening. Sheffield Hallam University/Site Gallery

2005
Episode: Experiencing the Pleasure and Persuasion of Lens Based Media (Coordinator/respondent), Leeds Met Gallery.
Daily Encounters, Transmission: Speaking and Listening (Coordinator/Chair), Sheffield Hallam University/Site Gallery

2004
Provenance (Coordinator/Chair), Transmission: Speaking and Listing, Sheffield Hallam University/Site Gallery.

2003
Experiential Placemaking and the New Real (Conference paper), ‘The State of the Real Conference’, Glasgow School of Art. Keynote Speakers: Slovoj Zizjek and Linda Nochlin.

SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

2005
Amelia Ishmael, British Video Artists at Fahrenheit and Screenland, Kansas Review, Sept 05, pp. 60–61.

1999
Mark Godfrey, Image Sickness: Jaspar Joseph-Lester’s New Work, text commissioned by Asprey Jacques Gallery.

1997
Christina Perrella, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, text commissioned by the British School at Rome.

RESEARCH GROUPS

2004-
Founding member of Curating Video

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

2010 -
Reader in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University

2009-12
External Examiner, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London: MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice, MA Fine Art, MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design, MA Textile Design.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

2002-04
Lecturer in Fine Art (0.5) Sheffield Hallam University. Responsibilities included: Leading and developing BA and MA course modules. Conducting weekly group and individual studio tutorials, assessing degree shows.

2003-04
Lecturer in Fine Art (0.25) Middlesex University, Foundation Studies. Responsibilities: Writing and delivering the Contextual Studies lecture series, co-ordinating seminars, tutorials, marking essays.

2001-2003
Lecturer in Fine Art (0,25), Goldsmiths College, BA Fine Art and Art History. Teaching duties: Lectures, studio tutorials, seminars, degree show assessments.

1999-2001
Lecturer in Fine Art (0.25), Goldsmiths College, Postgraduate Certificate in Fine Art. Teaching Duties: Lectures, studio tutorials, seminars, assessments.

VISITING LECTURER

1999-
Goldsmiths College (PhD programme, MA Fine Art, Postgraduate Diploma, BA Art and Art History), Chelsea School of Art, UAL, Wimbledon School of Art, UAL, Nottingham Trent University (BA Fine Art), Kent Institute of Fine Art (BA Fine Art).

EXTERNAL EXAMINER

2010
University of Wales, Newport, PhD viva examination.
University of Essex, course validation.

2007-10
University of East Anglia, BA Fine Art.
Northbrook College, BA Media Arts.