John Russell was born in 1963; he lives and works in London. He was a founder of the artists’ group BANK, of which he was a member for ten years participating in over fifty exhibitions and events and a range of publications. Since leaving BANK in January 2000, John Russell has worked both independently and collaboratively to produce exhibitions, publications as artworks and curational projects.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
The Paint, MOT International, London

2007
Off Modern in collaboration with Fabienne Audeoud La Station, Nice
Frozen Tears III, including texts by Dennis Cooper, Kool Keith, Bonnie Camplin, Stewart Home, Paul Buck, Jeffrey Vallance, Mark Titchner and Patricia McCormack. Published by Article Press. Events in collaboration with Koenig Books/Cabinet Gallery, London; Creative Time/Dexter Sinister, New York; SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Ocean Pose, Matt’s Gallery, London

2006
Restaging of the Withdrawl From Conversation… Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

2005
The Visable and the Expressible: Flesh Doesn’t Travel Well These Days
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2005
Geniess, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
POURQUOI LES FEMMES AIMENT-ELLES L’ENFER? Confort Moderne, Poitiers

2004
Voicing the Vagina in collaboration with Fabienne Audéoud, part of INFRA THIN PROJECTS, commissioned by Bookworks and curated by Mark Beasley
Commercial Tavern, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; International 3, Manchester and Belfast
Frozen Tears II: The Sequel, including texts by Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Sue de Beer and Pierre Guyotat. Published by Article Press. Book launch and readings: Skylight Books, Los Angeles; Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco; Maccarone Inc, New York; Vilma Gold Gallery, London; Cabinet Gallery, Moonlighting Night Club, London
Sleaze Nation magazine, commissioned artist project, pages 105–111.

2003
Frozen Tears I, including texts by Lucy McKenzie, Art & Language, Jake Chapman and Bernard Noel Cabinet Gallery, London
Restaging of The Withdrawl From Conversation…. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Fabienne Audeoud and John Russel, Ideal Standard, Brussels

2002
Arturas Raila, IBID.projects, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Withdrawl From Conversation/The Return to the Oceanic: The Weight of the Beast. Twenty Women Play The Drums Topless, South London Gallery, London
the Collagist, The Trade Apartment, London Abstract Painting, The International 3, Manchester
There is Nothing So Profane to a Man as An Ugly Woman, in collaboration with Fabienne Audéoud. Beaconsfield, London

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS (2000 – present)
2009
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity In British Art, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
East International selected by Raster Gallery and Art & Language,
Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich

2008
Sudden White (After London) curated by Mark Beasely as part of GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2007
Selection Of Works From The FMAC Collection, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris
Surrealist Ball, V&A, London
Lost In Thinking in collaboration with Damon Packard & Mark Beasley
Sketch Gallery, London

2006
Bring The War Home, curated by Dave Beech Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York & QED Gallery, Los Angeles
Festival (week one), Space Station Sixty Five, London
Right-on/Write off, curated by J.J. Charlesworth and The Great Unsigned,
Chapman Fine Arts, London
New Art From London, curated by Anthony Gross and Jen Wu, Mogashan Art
Village, Shanghai and DIAF 06.798 Space, Beijing
Writing In Strobe, curated by Andy Hunt, Dicksmith Gallery, London
On Platforming, curated by Gean Moreno, Locust Projects, Miami
Painter Without Paintings And Paintings Without Painters, curated by Gareth James, Orchard Gallery, New York

2005
Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York

2004
Slimvolume 2004, organised by Andrew Hunt Redux, London (touring 2005)
Axxpresssunizm/Brusselz, in collaboration/co-curated with Mark Beasley,
Aliceday Gallery, Brussels
Centrefold Publication, Zoo Art Fair, London
So You’re Afraid of What?, Redux, London
Axxpresssunizm, in collaboration/co-curated with Mark Beasley, Vilma Gold, London
Romantic Detachment, curated by Grizedale Arts, PS1/MOMA, New York
Publish and Be Damed (exhibiting Frozen Tears I & II), Crypt of Clerkenwell Church and reading room at Cubitt Gallery, London
Videodreams: Between the Cinematic and the Theatrical, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
v, Rockwell, London

2003
Ram Lounge, The Ship, London
Now What? Dreaming a Better World In Six Parts, BAK Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht
Tourettes II, W139, Amsterdam
Still Life, British Council touring show curated by Anne Gallagher
Museo de Belas Artes, Caracas; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Columbia; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City; Museo de Arte Moderno, Guatamala; MAC Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro; SESI, San Paolo
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Subscribe: Recent Art in Print, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Centrefold, Bart Wells Institute, London
The Greatest Show On Earth, Folkestone Art Gallery, Folkestone, Kent
Rendez-Vous 2003, Gallerie des Terreaux, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
White Window, La Malterie, Lille
Hurts So Good, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania

2002
To Whom It May Concern, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco
Strike, curated by Gavin Wade, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
John Moores 22, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Art Crazy Nation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
What If I told You the Truth? Cell Project Space, London

2001
Woof Woof, curated by Grant Watson and Beata Veszely Austrian Institute, London and Project Space, Dublin
Gymnasium, curated by Peter Lewis and Wolfgang Fetz Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Becks Futures 2, ICA, London and touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh;
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Sotheby’s, New York; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Insider Trading, curated by Lisa Prior, Mandeville Hotel, London

2000
Cover Versions, The Trade Apartment, London
Include Me Out, curated by John Chilver and Kerstin Karsher, Provost St, London

BIOGRAPHY (2000 - present)
2009
Jonathan Jones On Art Blog, The Guardian website, 6 January
2008
Maria Fusco, ‘Frozen Tears III’, Art Monthly, February

2007
Andy Hunt, ‘John Russell’. Art Monthly, no 307, June, 31-32
Sally O’Reilly, ‘John Russell. Ocean Pose’, Art Review, March, 151
Richard Dorment, ‘On Seas of Unreality’, The Telegraph, 8 May.
Kultureflash 204, ‘John Russell,’ 16 May.
JJ Charlesworth. ‘25 artists to look out for in 2007’, Art Review, March, 85

2006
Gean Moreno. ‘The new zombie: tupac-n-biggie in clichy-sous-bois’. Art US, issue 12,
March–April
Matthew Herbert. ‘What is the alternative?’ Art Monthly, number 290, October
JJ Charlesworth. Review: ‘Geniess’. Flash Art, July–September
JJ Charlesworth, Review: ‘Geniess’. Modern Painters, July–Sept
Robert Clark. Picks of the week: ‘Geniess’. The Guardian, 2 May
Maria Fusco. Review. Untitled magazine, spring
Holly Walsh. Review: ‘Slimvolume poster publication 2004’. Frieze, issue 89, page 75, March
Heidi Hadley. Glitter that stays with you. Review of ‘Slimvolume poster publication 2004’. Eastern Daily Press, page 31, 7 February
JJ Charlesworth. ‘Curating doubt’. Art Monthly, March
Neil Mulholland. Review: ‘The visible and the expressible’. Modern Painters, February

2004
Kieron Corless. The big chill. Time Out, December
Michael Bracewell. ‘Molotov cocktails’. Frieze, November–December
Jessica Lack, Preview: ‘Like beads on an abacus designed to calculate infinity’. The Guardian, The Guide, page 37, 17 April

2003
Steve Rushton ‘Dead calm: a conversation with John Russell’. dot dot dot magazine, winter
Martin Vincent. Review: ‘Now what? dreaming a better world in six parts’. Art Monthly, December–January
Hannah Shuckburgh. Review: ‘The greatest show on earth’. Art Review, March
Sascha Bronwasser. ‘Denken aan de Zijlijn’, De Volkskrant, 6 November
Thea Figee. ‘Creativiteit in de strijd voor een betere wereld’. Utrechtse Dagblad, 6 November
Andrew Hunt. Review: ‘Anglo-ponce’. Frieze, issue 78, October
Sally O’Reilly. Review: ‘Anglo-ponce’. Time Out
Andrew Hunt. Interview with John Russell: ‘Prophetic extremism’. Untitled magazine, summer
Alisdair Hopwood. ‘Frozen Tears’. Sleaze Nation, July

2002
Anne Hilde Neset & Lina Dzuverovic-Russell. Review: ‘The withdrawal from conversation […]’. Wire, November
‘Rhubarb, rhubarb’. The Guardian, 15 October
Louisa Buck. ‘Topless drumming in South London’. The Art Newspaper, October
Mark Wilsher. Review: ‘Sum of the parts’. Art Monthly, October
Carol King, ‘Life after YBA-mania’. Art In America, October
Dan Smith. Review: ‘John Russell, The Trade Apartment’. Art Monthly, July–August
Mark Wilsher. ‘John Russell: the collagist’. What’s on in London, 19–26 June
Matthew Collings, ‘The experts guide to 2002: art’. Arena magazine, January

2001
Rosie Millard. The tastemakers: UK art now. Thames & Hudson, pages 145–6
Matthew Collings. Art crazy nation. 21 Publishing, pages 37, 95–9, 132–5
Life is good in Manchester. Trice publications, ISBN 09531919-5-8
Robert Garnett. BANK. dot dot dot magazine, number 2, winter
Momo Nonaka. ‘Imaginative power of London’. Sotokoto, October
Carol Vogel. ‘Inside art’. New York Times, 14 September
Chris Turner. ‘Century city’. Freize, June–August
Dave Beech. ‘Century city’. Untitled, Springv
Review: ‘Becks futures 2’, On magazine, June–July
John Calcutt. ‘Becks futures’. E.G. magazine, 27 May
Helen Monaghan. ‘Becks futures 2’, The List, 24 May
Sarah Kent. ‘Futures prospects’. Time Out, 11–18 April
Waldemar Januszczak. ‘Best of British?’ Sunday Times magazine, 8 April
Richard Dorment. ‘Beauty in surprising places’. The Daily Telegraph, 4 April
Rachel Cambell-Johnston. ‘Lots of cash, but less cachet’, The Times, 4 April
Adrian Searle. ‘Been there done that’. The Guardian, 3 April
Mark Irving. ‘Tipped for the top’, Independent on Sunday, 25 March
Lucy Spriggs, ‘The future is now’. Art Review, volume LIII, April
Londoner’s diary: ‘killed off’. Evening Standard, 30 March
Charles Darwent. ‘Becks Futures 2’. Metro, 30 March
Something for the weekend: ‘something arty’. ES magazine, 30 March
Fiachra Gibbons. ‘Hot shot – murder in the name of art’. The Guardian, 28 March
Martin Coomer. ‘Mind your Becks’. Time Out, March–April
‘Blowing up big time’. The Face, April
Nicky Bidder. ‘New school rules: anti-anti art’. Dazed and Confused, April
Charles Harrison. Conceptual Art and painting, MIT Press, page 70
Matthew Collings. ‘Good night ladies’, Becks’ futures 2, catalogue, March
BANK, Black Dog Press.

2000
Mark Currah. ‘Fabienne Audéoud & John Russell’, Time Out, 13–20 September
Jonathon Jones. ‘Protest and survive’. The Guardian, 19 September
Art & Language. ‘BLAHY’. Everything magazine, 3.3
Julian Stallabrass. High art lite. Verso, pages 69–74, 168, 182, 260
Matthew Higgs, British Art Show 5, catalogue
Matthew Higgs/Paul Noble (eds). Protest & survive, catlg. Whitechapel Art Gallery (poster insert)