Jason Dodge

Jason Dodge has been making exhibitions in galleries, museums, biennials, art centers, and artist run spaces since the late 1990's.

Dodge is the founder of the poetry imprint fivehundred places, which has published over 30 books of poetry by living poets, including Alice Notley, Ishion Hutchinson, Donika Kelly, Eileen Myles, Ilya Kaminsky, and CAConrad.

Recent solo exhibitions include Tomorrow I walked to a dark black star. MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT; Cut Door in the Wolf, MACRO, Rome, IT; They lifted me into the sun and packed my empty skull in cinnamon, a six-part exhibition held at Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR; Guimaraes, Vienna, AT; MOREpublishers with Gevaert Editions, Brussels, BE; Franco Noero's Fetta di Polenta space, Turin, IT; and Gern en Regalia, New York, USA; at the height of the pandemic each exhibition was installed by different artists including Eva Barto, SoiL Thornton, and Giorgio Griffa.

Other exhibitions include: Jason Dodge with Ishion Hutchinson: The Broad Church of Night, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, curated by Deiter Roelstraete, Chicago, USA; Water Paper Cut, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE; Behind this machine anyone with a mind who cares can enter IAC Vuillerbanne, FR. Dodge co-curated Enemy of the Stars with Krist Gruijthuijsen at KW Institute, Berlin, DE and has participated in biennials in Venice, IT; Lyon, FR; Liverpool, UK; Porto Alegre, BR; and the Baltic Triennial.

Dodge's work is held in many public collections including: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA; D.C. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; LACMA, Los Angeles, USA; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE; MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU; Castello de Rivoli, Turin, IT; The Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE; and IAC Villeurbanne, FR.

JASON DODGE

Born in 1969 in Newton, PA, US
Lives and works on Møn, DK


EDUCATION

1996
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US

1992
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, US

1991
Independent Study, Studio Art Centers International, Florence IT

1990
Independent Study, in association with Maryland Institute, MW


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
A Model: Epilogue - Jason Dodge, MUDAM, The Contemporary Museum of Art, LU
(exhibition), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT

2023
Jason Dodge feat. Florence Jung, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Coins and Coffins Under My Bed, Franco Noero, Milan, IT

2022
Odor Immaterial Sculptures, Museum fu?r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE

2021
Cut a Door in the Wolf, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome, IT

2020
They lifted me into the sun and packed my skull with cinnamon, Guimarães, Vienna, AU; Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR; Gern en Regalia, New York, US; Gilles Drouault galerie/multiples, Paris, FR; MOREpublishers with Gevaert Editions, Brussels, BE; Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT
A work for no public audience, Castello di Rivoli Museo d?Arte Contemporanea, Torino, IT

2019
As Soon As The Invented Language Enters Us Something Else Will Vibrate In Our Skin, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

2018
The Broad Church of Night, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, IL, US
Hand in hand with the handless, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Jason Dodge, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT

2017
Liberty, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, DE
Jason Dodge/Paul Thek, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE

2016
Behind this machine anyone with a mind who cares can enter, Institut d?Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR
Jason Dodge with CAConrad Width of a Witch, Mercer Union and Kunstverein Toronto, Toronto, CN

2015
Shoes that have been made for someone with three legs, Centre d?édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH

2014
These, ours., Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT
We are the meeting, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US

2013
What we have done, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, US
Jason Dodge, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AU
Jason Dodge | Martino Gamper, American Academy in Rome (with Martino Gamper), Rome, IT

2012
Jason Dodge, Kunstverein Nu?rnberg, Nu?rnberg, DE
Jason Dodge, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT

2011
Jason Dodge, Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Jason Dodge, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT

2010
Jason Dodge, Lu?ttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
Jason Dodge, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin, DE
Jason Dodge, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
I woke up. There was a note in my pocket explaining what had happened, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, FR; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DE

2009
And for this I will call you the listener, Project Space, Kunstverein Du?sseldorf, Du?sseldorf, DE
When I woke up. There was a note in my pocket explaining what had happened, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Jason Dodge, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

2008
Jason Dodge, Lu?ttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
Jason Dodge, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT
Rituals: Jason Dodge / Tereza Buskova, One One One (The David Roberts Art Foundation), London, UK

2007
Jason Dodge, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

2006
Jason Dodge, REC., Berlin, DE
Jason Dodge, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US

2005
Installation Series, Villa Arson, Nice, FR

2004
Installation Series, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, US

2003
Mercury Vapor Lamp & a Month of Sundays, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US

2002
Milton Keynes New City, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT
Milton Keynes New City, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, DE

2001
Biathlon, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY, US

2000
Jason Dodge, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Jason Dodge, Taka lshii Gallery, Tokyo, JP

1999
Anders Contrave: Part 1, Art Statements, Art/30/Basel, Messe Basel, Basel, CH
Anders Contrave: Part 2, Your Description of an Impossible Scenario of How We Could Be Together is What Made Me Love You and Broke Both our Hearts, Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm, SE

1998
Helsinki, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2025
What are you thiking, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Works on Paper, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2024
2019, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT
Three Tired Tigers, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, UAE
AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS Opere dalla Collezione Enea Righi, Museion, Bolzano, IT
Same Day, 15th Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Condo Mexico City, Mexico City, MX
Water Papercut, BASE Firenze & BASE temporary situations ? Torino, IT

2023
APA/RT, Torino, IT
Full of Days, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Everybody Talks About the Weather, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Fondazione Prada, Venice, IT
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA3), curated by Rene Block, Riga, LV
Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists? Books as Statements (1960-2022), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Du?ren, DE
Oltre il buio, Rocca di Angera - Ala Scaligera, Terre Borromeo, Angera, IT
SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, CA

2022
Odor, Immaterial Sculptures, Museum fu?r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
Fata Morgana, curated by Beatrice Gross and Katinka Bock, Jeu De Paume, Paris, FR
Es-senze, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, IT

2021
In Search of the Miraculous, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
Apophenia, Las Palmas, Culturgest Porto, PT

2020
My Body Holds Its Shape, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, HK
local talent, Spru?th Magers, Berlin, DE

2019
Just Connect, MCA Chicago, IL, US
Time Is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien, AT
Second Hand, Art Jameel Centre, Dubai, UAE
Auguries Cast Aside, Karma, New York, US
Chinese Whispers #5, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
Josephine Meckseper, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Phenomenon 3, Anafi, GR
Political Affairs - Language is Not Innocent, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2018
Double Take, Last Tango, Zurich, CH
She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Mostyn, Wales, UK
Painting the Night, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FR
Triennial Beaufort, Belgium, BE
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, HK
Centre D?Edition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH

2018
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, HK
Centre D?Edition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH

2017
An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, US
The Transported Man, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, US
More Than Just Words [On the Poetic], Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, AU
No Place Like Home, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL

2016
Group show - Andrea Bu?ttner, Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Dodge, Van Hanos, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
Resonating Surfaces, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR
9th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Can I Step on It?, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, IT
No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AU
Fluidity, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT

2015
Collection?15, Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne/ Rhône-Alpes, FR
Artists? Voices, Centre d?édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH
WOOSH, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, CN
A Space is a Space is a Space, DAZ, Berlin, DE
The doorstep, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, IN
Out of Office, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
The Blue Distance, curated by Courtenay Finn, Art Museum, Aspen, CO, US
You?re in the Right Place, curated by the AIRBNB Pavilion, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino, IT
Conversation sur l?Invisible, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, FR

2014
@ the shrink, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
Never Look Back When Leaving, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AU
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, curated by Cristina Ricupero, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL

2013
55th Venice Biennale, Lithuanian Pavillion, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, IT
1966-79, Institut d?art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, FR
12th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Lyon, FR
A House of Leaves, curated by Vincent Honoré, Third Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Specific Collisions, curated by Melissa Gordon, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY, US
A Stone Left Unturned, curated by Simon Castets, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, US
Now Here is Also Nowhere II, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, US
L?Image papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, LU
Group exhibition, curated by Luca Cerizza, Vistamare, Pescara, IT
?Struktur & Organismus?, Muhldorf, AU
Sin motivo aparente, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
Night (1947-2015), curated by Jordan Stein, Philip Johnson?s Glass House, New Canaan, CT, US
The 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, BR

2012
No. 17, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Economy of Means: Toward Humility in Contemporary Sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, US
La triennale- Intense Proximity, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Modern Monsters/Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Biennial curated by Anselm Franke, Taipei, TW
Metaphoria, Guimaraes, PT
Dimensions Variables, Institut d?Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR
A House of Leaves. Second Movement, curated by Vincent Honoré, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

2011
In the Name of the Artists - American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, in cooperation with the Sao Paulo Biennale, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, BR
Arte Essenziale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Adrift, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, US
The Bell Show, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
The Workers, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
Light in Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, US
Language of less (then & now), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Essential Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT
Barely There, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Detroit, MI, US
Blessedness, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna, AU
MOMENTUM 2011, 6th Nordic Biennial for Nordic Contemporary Art, Moss, NO
More or Less: A Few Pocket Universes, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, FI

2010
En Cada Instante, Ruptura, curated by Carla Herrera-Prats and Susan Cross, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, MX. Travelling to: Mass MoCA, The Workers: Contemporary Representations of Labor, North Adams, MA, US
21st Century Outlook, Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris, FR
En Cada Instante, Ruptura, curated by Carla Herrera-Prats, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, MX
L?Exposition Lunatique, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR
Objects are like they appear, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, BE
Exhibition, Exhibition, curated by Adam Carr, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Piazza, Turin, IT
Reflection: 15 Years, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
The Berlin Box, curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
Freeze, Nils Staerk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Woodman Woodman Spare That Tree, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE

2009
Into Black... et pas blanc comme neige, Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montreal, CN
Cargo Manifest, Kunsthalle Autocenter, Berlin, DE
Scorpios Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE
Plus Général En Particular, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Spatial Works, curated by Theodor Ringborg, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE
Cargo Manifest, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Straatsoper, Munich, DE
The Quick and the Dead, curated by Peter Eleey, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US
Gallery III, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US

2008
The Awakening of the Birds: Homage to Olivier Messiaen, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Tell me everything you saw and what you think it means: Jason Dodge / Lisa Oppenheim / Elisabeth Magdalena Reitmeier, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, DE
I Vedenti, curated by Luca Cerizza, Uovo Open Space, Basel, CH
Neutre Intense, MITIM La Maison Populaire Centre D?Art, Montreuil
Le Cabinet des Merveilles, Eternuements de Corneilles, Pieds d?Huîtres et Oeufs de Léopard, la Galerie du Conseil Général in Aix-en-Provence, FR
Arts Le Havre: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Le Havre, FR
The Store, curated by Adam Carr, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT
Visions/Nocturnes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, FR
Ultramoderne, CAC Passerelle, Brest, FR

2007
From a distance, curated by Vincent Honoré, Wallspace, New York, NY, US
This Winter, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
You Always Move in Reverse, curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY, US
Ultramoderne, Luxembourg et Grande région capitale européenne de la culture 2007, Luxemburg City, LU
Vincent Honoré Curates, Wallspace, New York, NY, US
SOME TIME WAITING, curated by Adam Carr, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR

2006
Into Black, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, US
When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine, curated by Robert Meijer, The Breeder, Athens, GR
Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
Ars viva 05/06 - Identity, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2005 Ars viva 05/06 - Identity, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE traveling to Extra City - Museum for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, DE; Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
24th Incidental, part of Performa Biennial 2005, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US
Parallel Life, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
Goodbye Fourteenth Street, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Therefore Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal- Unteröwisheim, DE

2004
None of the Above, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US
The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small..Stay As You Are (Part II), Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE; traveling to Studio Manuela Klerkx, Milan, IT
Formalism. Modern Art Today, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, DE
Repeat Performance, Artists Space, New York, NY and Villa Arson, Nice, FR

2003
160 Meisterzeichnungen, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, DE
Nation, Franfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
Adorno, Franfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
Unbuilt Cities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE

2002
The Fall, curated by Jesper N. Jørgensen, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK
Lap Dissolve, Nathan Carter, Jason Dodge, Ceal Floyer, Liam Gillick, Carsten Höller & Simon Starling, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
Gallery Luhman, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK

2001
The Wedding Show, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY, US
Casino, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE

2000
The Rules of Croquet, The Rules of a Fluttering Heart, part of Halcyon Days, organized by the Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, US
10 - 6, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, US
What if?, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Game On!, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, US
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000, Niigata, JP
Luggage, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE
All You Can Eat, Galerie Fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, DE

1997
Clean and Sane, curated by Maria Lind, Edsvik Konst Kultur, Sollentuna, SE, traveled to Galleri F15, Moss, NO

1995
Familiar places/Currents ?95, ICA, Boston, MA, US
Verisimilitude, curated by Gregory Crewdson, White Columns, New York, NY, US


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2005/2006
Ars Viva, DE

2004
Residency at Villa Arson, Nice, FR

1999
IASPIS, International Artists? Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm, SE

1996
Fannie B. Pardee Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US

1995
Schickle Collingwood Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US


PROJECTS

2015
Tomorrow night I Walked to a dark black star, Curated by Raimundas Mala?auskasv and Jason Dodge, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, AR

2014
Ronald Jones: 1987-1992, Curated by Jason Dodge and Krist Gruijthuijsen, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AU

2013-ongoing
A permanently open window, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, IT


COLLECTIONS

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, DE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Institut d?art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, FR
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Montreal Museum of Fine Art, CN
Castello de Rivoli, Rivoli, IT
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin DE