Jason Martin
Born 1970 in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK. Lives and works in London and Melides, Portugal.
Education
1990–93 BA (Hons), Goldsmiths, London, UK
1989–90 Foundation Diploma, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
Grants and Awards
2000 ‘Premio del Golfo’, Biennale Europea di Arti Visive, La Spezia, Italy
1999 Prizewinner, John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2025
De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2024
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
2023
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
2022
Lisson Gallery, New York
Thaddeus Ropac, Seoul, Korea
2021
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
Lisson gallery Shanghai, China
2020
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Lisson Gallery East Hampton, NY, USA
2019
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
Lisson Gallery, London
STPI Gallery, Singapore
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Centro Cultural de São Lorenço, Almancil, PT
2018
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany (cat.)
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporeanea, Milan, Italy
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2016
Pavilhão 31, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Júlio de Matos, Lisboa, Portugal
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca,Spain
2014
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2013
Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain
LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA
Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy (cat.)
2012
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2011
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galeria Javier Lopez-Mario Sequeira, Madrid, Spain
2010
Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca,Spain
Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Fine Art Society, London, UK
2009
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Espace Jean Legendre, Compigne, France
2008
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Centro Brasileiro Britanico, Sao Paulo, Brazil
LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, Spain
2007
Kunstverein Kreis Guetersloh, Guetersloh, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
2006
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
2005
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2004
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2002
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2000
LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporaneo, Milan, Italy
1999
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1998
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1996
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Lisson Gallery, New York, USA
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
Group Exhibitions
2025
CI Istanbul, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
On The Matter II, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy and MO.CA - Centro per le nuove culture, Brescia, Italy
Sunny Side Up, Close gallery, Somerset, UK
Buchmann Galerie at Art Düsseldorf, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
30 Years Buchmann Galerie – A celebratory group exhibition, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Web of Being: The Living Network, Tang Contemporary Art, Singapore
L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years 1975 to Now, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
2024
Città irreale, Buchmann Box, Berlin
Chromascopic, Art in PerpetuityTrust gallery, London, UK
The Image of Colour, the Mystery of Image, The MODEM Center For Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary
2023
Transcendent variables, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2022
So Far So Good, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
Boules de Berlin, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Everywhere Was Nowhere, and Nowhere Everywhere, Pi Artworks, London
Interaction, Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy
2021
London Calling. Arte británico hoy. De David Hockney a Idris Khan, Fundació Bancaixa, Valencia, Spain
Fluxo e Metamorfose, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2020
Pop-up Exhibition: Pulpable Moments, STPI Gallery, Singapore
Turning the Axis of the World, STPI Gallery, Singapore
Group show, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, BE
Art Protects x Yvon Lambert 2020, Yvon Lambert Bookshop, Paris, France
Group show, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai
Photosynthesis, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
45 at 45, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
2019
Fluid Time, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Jingle Bells III, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, USA
Beyond Color, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2018
London Shadow. La rivoluzione inglese da Gilbert & George a Damien Hirst, Gallerie d’Italia, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples, IT
Twentyfourseven, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Shaping Color, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Evolver, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
It Comes in Waves, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
La necesidad de lo infinito, Obras monocromas en la Collección olorVISUAL, CICUS - Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
De Calder à Koons, Bijoux D'Artistes Exhibition, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
2017
la mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Dark deep darkness and splendor, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Modulaciones, Pintura: 1898 – 2016, Sinaloa Art Museum, Sinaloa, Mexico
Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan?, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Materialised Condition, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
The Centre Cannot Hold, Near East, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (cat.)
2016
Continuum, VIGO, London, UK
Paper in Profile, Mixografia and Taller de Gráfica Mexicana, Georgia, Museum of Art, Athens, GA, USA
2015
PEACEMINUSONE: Beyond the Stage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Black: An Idea of light, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
20 Anni e poi, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The Monochrome Symphony, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden
Collaborations, Lisson Gallery & STPI Gallery, Singapore Tyler Print, Institute, Singapore
Precious – from Picasso to Jeff Koons, Jewellery by Artists, Vitraria Glass + A Museum, Venice, Italy
Touch, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Collaborations: Prints from Mixografia, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA, USA
Collecció Permanent, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern I Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2014
Paper, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Eurasia, A View on painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
La quarta edizione di Bocconi art gallery, Bocconi Art Gallery-BAG, Milan, Italy
Metaphysical, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2013
The Nature of Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nostalgic for the Future, Centro Brasileiro-Britanico, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Great Men Die Twice, Casa da Cultura, Comporta, Portugal
Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Moving: Norman Foster on Art’,, Carré dʼArt, Nîmes, France
Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Song of Myself, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Out Of The Blue, Cortesi Contemporary, Lugano, Switzerland
2012
The Materiality of Paint, The Fine Art Society, London, UK
Ululation, Vigo Gallery, London, UK
Set, Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Cara Domani: Opere dall collezione Ernesto Esposito, Museo d’Arte, Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Le Monde comme volonte et comme papier peint, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Together We Connect, Anima Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2011
Sixty Years of British Art, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
Cream, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
The Schaufler Foundation, Sindelfingen, Germany
It must be abstract, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Arte Contemporanea per il Tempio di Zeus, Tempio della Concordia e Villa Aurea, Agrigento, Italy
No Lipstick, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Inaugural exhibition, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Tondo, The Fine Art The Fine Art Society, London, UK
3 x 3, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angles, CA, USA
2009
Artifici Contemporanei e Difformità Barocche, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Paisajes Cruzados, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Majorca, Spain
In-Finitum, Museo Fortuny, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2008
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, USA
AURUM l’or dans l'art contemporain, Kunsthaus Centre d’Art, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Black and White, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
2007
Painting in the Noughties, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Beyond Sensation, Jersey Museum, Channel Islands, UK
ARTfutures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Whiteout, The Fine Art Society, London, UK
2006
Seven Rooms Seven Artists, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Inaugural opening of new wing, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London, UK
Until it makes sense, Seventeen, London, UK; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
The Art of White, The Lowry, Salford, UK
2005
‘Visioni’ 20 artisti a Sant’Agostino, Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy
Skyshout – Painting after Painting, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
14th Rome Quadriennale, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2004
Painting as Process, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore
L’Ultima Cena (The Last Supper), Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy
Monochrome, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
2003
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2002
Colour White, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
2001
Blue, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers, London, UK
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2000
The Gulf Prize: European Biennial of the Visual Arts, La Spezia, Italy
Century of Innocence: The Story of the White Monochrome, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
La peinture des Martin, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1999
Post-Hypnotic, Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA; The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA (2000); The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA (2000); The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA (2000); SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (2001); The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, USA (2001); Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, USA (2001)
Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Angesichts, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London, UK
Abstrakt, Max Gandoff Library, Salzburg, Austria
Pictures for Pleasure (Twelve Artists Twelve Rooms), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
John Moores 21, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, USA
Painting Language, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Together: Artists in Support for the Homeless, The Passage House, London, UK
1998
Tension, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Short Stories, One in the Other, London, UK
NatWest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK
Small Works, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Erotic Sublime, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection’,, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
In Time, Galerie Le Sous-Sol, Paris, France
Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
1996
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Jerwood Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
1995
Real Art: A New Modernism – British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (cat.)
Five Contemporary British Painters, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
Postscript, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1994
Recent Painting, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Curator's Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Surface Tensions, Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1993
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Selected Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Collection Groupe Lhoist, Brussels, Belgium
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Deutsche Bank Collection, UK
Le Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
Government Art Collection, UK
Jersey Museum, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria
Stadtische Gallerie, Nordhorn, Germany
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Contemporary Art Centre CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Würth Collection, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
The Schaufler Foundation, Sindelfingen, Germany
Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA Museum, Espoo, Finland
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Fundación Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
The Antal-Lusztig Collection, Debrecen, Hungary
Mart, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto, Italy
Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin, Germany