Jeremy Welsh
Date of birth: 30-01-1954, Gateshead, England.


Education:

Jacob Kramer College of Art, Leeds
Trent Polytechnic Dept. of Fine Art, Nottingham

Goldsmiths College, University of London

Current position:

Professor, MA Course Leader in Visual Arts
Bergen National Academy of The Arts, Norway


Selected exhibitions, festivals, public presentations:


2007

Analogue & Digital: pioneering artists’ video; Fieldgate Gallery, London
Analogue & Digital: pioneering artists’ video; Anthology Film Archives, New York / FACT, Liverpool / MOCCA, Toronto /
Time Passages: video screening programme at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow


2006

Analogue & Digital: pioneering artists’ video: Tate Britain

Seljord Kunstforening, Telemark, Norway: collaborative installation with

Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

Q-Art, Quart Festival Kristiansand: collaborative installation with

Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

Video production for FEEDING FRENZY, performance by FAST FORWARD

at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall


2005

Tracing Space: Bergen Kunsthall

Overtures Am Wasser: International Art Festival in Munich

X-Film, Sofia, Bulgaria

New Horizons: Contemporary Art from Western Norway:

The Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man

Videokonstfestival, Østersund, Sweden

Stilleben, Project 0047 Berlin, curated by Rakett.


2004

Kristiansands Kunstforening: collaborative installation with

Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

Trondhjems Kunstforening: collaborative installation with

Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

B-Open, Bergen Open Art Exhibition: collaborative installation with

Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

Prøremommet Beta 0.1, Teatergarasjen, Bergen: collaborative

installation with Jon Arne Mogstad and Trond Lossius

Video Salon, Atopia, Oslo


2003

Vestlandske Kunstmisjon, Bergen

UK-Canadian Video, South London Gallery

Video Topiques: Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

Public Art at Oslo Central Station - video projection - arranged by Mesen
Where Am I Now? National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

Artist in residence, Burren College of Art, Ireland


2002

Dream vs. reality, Galleri F15, Alby

Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad

Vestlandsutstilling/Western Norway Contemporary Exhibition

Fredriks Bastion, Copenhagen

2002 2002: online project for kunstnett.no


2001

Trondheim Kunstmuseum, collaborative project with Jon Arne Mogstad
Trans//Form: touring exhibition of Nordic Art: Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo,  Riga, Vilnius
Public site-specific commission for PIRBADET, public swimming pool, Trondheim

Trøndelagsutstillingen, Trondheim Center for Contemporary Art

Trans Art, Trondheim, joint exhibition with Farhad Kalantary


2000

Trondheim Kunstmuseum

Trondheim Center for Contemporary Art

Video art collection for Telenor, Trondheim: curator/producer


1999

Oslo Kunstforening / Oslo Art Society

Artist in Residence, ISCP, New York

ISCP New York, Open Studio exhibition

Fast Forward’s Feeding Frenzy, the Kitchen, New York


1998

Norwegian artists’ film and video, National Film Theatre, London

Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad

Trøndelagsutstillingen


1997

Screens: International Festival of Electronic Art, Trondheim: Curator & project

director

Video Currents: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Video Positive 97 - Liverpool & Manchester - video screning

Mogstad/Welsh, joint exhibition of painting, video & photo, Kunstakademiet i Trondheim


1996

Breaking Eyes: Nordic Media Art, Fargfabriken, Stockholm

Video Formes, Clermont Ferrand, France


1995

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

6th. Cyberconf, University of Oslo


1994

VideoArt festival, Locarno, Switzerland

Norwegian Short Film festival, Grimstad


1993

Nordic Media Art, The Kitchen, New York

Radiant Images: Trondheim Centre for Contemporary Art


1992

Minimalen Film Festival, trondheim

Nordlyd Contemporary  Music Festival, trondheim


1991

Signs of The Times, Leeds City Art Gallery

Hong Kong International Film festival


1990

Signs of The Times, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

Galerie Medousa, Athens

European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck

Wellington Film festival, New Zealand

Video Formes, Clermont Ferrand, France


1989

Video Positive, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

QCA Gallery, Brisbane

Artists on Spectacolor, Artangel, London

International Video Art festival, Skopje, Macedonia

Berlin Videonale


1988

Artist in  Residence, Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery

The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham


1986

Cafe Gallery, London

Channel 6, Video festival, ICA, London

Independent Media Art festival, Bracknell

American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles

The Laing Gallery, Newcastle

Cartwright Hall Museum & Art Gallery, Bradford

The Cornerhouse, Manchester


1985

Channel 5 Video Festival, ICA, London

The New Pluralism, Tate Gallery, London


1984

British-Canadian Video Exchange, A Space, Toronto

Tokyo International Video Festival

Video 84, Montreal

World Wide Video Festival Den Haag


1983

Recent British Video, The Kitchen, New York

ARC, Toronto

SAW Gallery, Ottawa

B2 Gallery, Wapping, London


1982

JVC Video Information Centre, Piccadilly, London

The AIR Gallery, London


1981

The Ikon Galery, Birmingham

Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham

The Basement Group, Newcastle


Works in collections:

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

The Norwegian Arts Council

Trondheim Art Museum

The City of  Trondheim

National Gallery of Canada

ZKM Mediatheque, Karlsruhe

Museum of The Moving Image, London

Telenor / Norwegian Telecom


Other professional activities

Chairman, Norwegian Arts Council Acquisitions Committee, 2006

Chairman, Norwegian Arts Council advisory committee for art and new technology, 2001 - 2005

Member of Visual Arts Committe, Norwegian Arts Council, 2001 - 2005

Member of expert committee on reform in Higher Arts Education, Norwegian Ministry of Education, 1998-99

Chairman, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, 2001

Consultant, public art commission, City of Trondheim, 2005 - 2006

Consultant, public art commission, University of Oslo, 2005 - 2008
Board member, Trondheim Center for Electronic Art, 2007 -


Selected conferences, symposia, seminars

Cyberconf, Oslo 1995

Momentum Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moss, 1998

Arc Art, Tromsø, 2003 & 2005

ELIA (European League of Institutes of Art) Dublin 2001 & Barcelona 2002

Sensuous Knowledge, Bergen, 2004, 2005, 2006
Urban Interface, Oslo, 2007