Brian Jungen

This work was created for the Sydney Biennale 2008 catalogue, in which each artist participating in the Biennale was asked to contribute an original drawing.

By critically reappraising and manipulating familiar consumer goods, Brian Jungen produces startling and insightful works that link the social and environmental effects of our globalized trade in mass-produced objects with the status and power of diversion that such commodities selectively transmit. Jungen has received national and international recognition for his work and has had major solo exhibitions at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (2008), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (2007), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver (2007), the Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver (2006), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2006), the Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006) and the New Museum, New York ( 2005). Other solo shows include the Tate Modern, London (2006), the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2004) and Vienna Secession (2003). Recent major group exhibitions include NeoHooDoo: Art For A Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston,Texas (2008), The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia (2008), The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, The Barbican Art Gallery, London, England (2008), Shapeshifters, Time Travellers and Storytellers, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2007), The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennial , Lyon, France (2007), Crack the Sky, Montreal, The Biennale de Montréal, Canada (2007) and Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (2007). Jungen lives and works in Vancouver and is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York.