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Paul Harrison born 1966, Wolverhampton, GB
Lives and works in Birmingham and Bristol

John Wood born 1969, Hong Kong
Lives and works in Bristol

Both artists graduated from Bath College of Higher Education and began collaborating in 1993.

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Answers to questions Frist Centre, Nashville, USA

2011 Answers to questions Contemporary Arts Museum,Houston, USA
Answers to questions H&R Block Artspace, Kansas, USA

2010 No beginning No middle No end Kunstmuseum Thun , Thun, Switzerland
Answers to questions University of California Santa Barbara, USA
John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works Gallerie Ho, Marseille, France

2009 Some words, some more words Ikon gallery, Birmingham, England
Plan B Chateau de Rochechouart, Rochechousrt, France
No Time Vera Cortes art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal
There or thereabouts Von Bartha Garage ,Basel, Switzerland
John Wood and Paul Harrison Studiotrisorio, Rome, Italy
White Shirt: Empty Cube Appleton Square, Lisbon, Portugal
Notebook NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Geramny (web project)

2008 Something and something and something else Lowry, Manchester
Notebook PICA, Perth, Australia
From one thing to another Picture This, Bristol

2007 Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan

2006 Selected Works Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
5 Rooms Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Selected Works Villa du parc, France
Another Pair Beckett Centenary, Forbury Square, Reading

2005 Selected Works Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Notebook Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
The Only Other Point f a projects, London

2004 Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London
John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works MOMA, Queens, New York
John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works MIT, Boston, USA

2003 Hundredweight f a projects, London

2002 Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things) Chisenhale Gallery, London and tour
John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin

1999 Obstacle Course John Hansard, Southampton and tour

1998 John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works Gallerie Articule, Montreal
Video Fenster Geneva, Switzerland
Artimia ICA, Dunaujvaros, Hungary

1996 John Wood and Paul Harrison, Selected Works Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Rewind Foundation de lavache qui rit, Lons, France
Remote viewing Pacific design centre, Los Angeles, USA
Remote viewing Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
The artist in the (art) society Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Ecce Homo Ludens Museum Contemporary Art, Serigan, France
2 De Copas Vera Cortes Art Agency, Lisbon

2009 Space Revised Kunstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany
The Genius of Things Barcelona, Spain
Composition rouge Parc culturel de Rentilly, Rentilly, France
Nuit Blanche Metz, France
Remote Viewing, New Video Art from Europe Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles, USA
The Source of Inspiration Von Bartha Garage, Basel, Switzerland
Fresh out of the box New Art Gallery, Walsall
Artist’s Publications Galeriavermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008 El cuerpo (con)sentido Saragossa, Spain
Long Distance Information Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh
All that cinema Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Tongue-twister Vera Cortês Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Dimensionen Von Bartha Garage, Basel, Switzerland
Weder entweder noch oder WKV, Stuttgart, Germany
I Am Making Art Contemporary Art Center Centro Huarte,Navarra, Spain
Video, Un Art, Une Histoire Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France

2007 Breaking Step Salon, Belgrade
Echo Room Alcala 31, Madrid
Les Jeux Sont Faits Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
MIMA Collection Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
I Am Making Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva

2006 Le Mouvement des Images Centre Pompidou, Paris
You’ll Never Know Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
Smart Art Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany
Still Villa du parc, France
What Makes You and I Different Tramway, Glasgow

2005 Irreducible CCA Institute, CA, USA
To Be Continued Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland
Twenty six (Drawing and Falling Things) Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh
Supernova British Council Touring Exhibition
Modern Times Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
Both Ends Burning Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
-tainment Neue Gesellschaft bildende kunst,Berlin
Crossing Borders Berwick upon Tweed

2004 Density+_0 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts,Paris
Occurrences: Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, USA

2003 A Century of Artists Film in Britain Tate Britain, London
Bienal de Jafre Jafre, Spain
Printemps de septembre Toulouse
Orifice Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

2002 Sudden Glory CCAC Institute, CA, USA
Gwangju Biennale Korea
Still Life British Council Touring Exhibition, South America
Exhibition, le corps en situation Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans
Modesty Pavel-House, Laafield. Austria
Dichotomy Schauspielhaus, Vienna, Austria

2000 The British Art Show 5 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (and tour)
Lets go to work Marcel Sitcoske, San Francisco

2001 Monitor: Volume One Gagosian Gallery, New York
Lets Go to Work 2 Susquahana Art Museum, USA
Body Worlds Gallerie Markus Richter, Berlin
Video Project Room Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London

1999 This Other World of Ours TV Gallery, Moscow
Triple X Amsterdam
Physical Evidence Kettles Yard, Cambridge
New Video from Great Britain Sala Mendosa, Venezuela,Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico

1998 Lets Play Risk Juice, London
Partners Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

1997 New British Video MOMA, New York
Bittersweet Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Video Positive Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Ostranenie Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany

1996 Cell 2 Barbican Centre, London
Electronic Undercurrents Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Denmark
Instant Camden Arts Centre, London and tour

1995 Composite Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Sixth Mostyn Open Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

1994 East Norwich Gallery

Selected Screenings 1993 – 2010

Fresh Moves Guangzhou Triennial, China
Late night Lido Endeavour Plymouth Arts Centre
Nouvelle creation anglaise Centre pour l’image contemporaine Geneva, Switzerland
Pas de Deux imagespassages, France
Combine Platter MOCA, Los Angeles
Exploding Television – Satellite of Love Witte de With, Netherlands; Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Walter Benjamin Festival Berlin, Germany
32nd International Film Festival La Rochelle, France
Shipwrecks and the Sea Tate Britain, London
The Video Art Foundation Barcelona
Stuttgart Filmwinter Germany
Forum de L’lmage Toulouse, France
Moderna Museet Stockholm
In The Mean Time De Appel, Amsterdam and tour
Arts Plastiques/ Espai video Barcelona, Spain
Video Chroniques Marseille, France
Performing Bodies Tate Modern, London
Royal College of Art London
Carte Noire: CineCafe, Centre Pompidou,Paris
Viper Basel, Switzerland
Fourth Wall National Theatre, London
De Geuzen Foundation Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kasseler Documentarfilm Kassel, Germany
Oberhausen Short Film Festival Germany
Performing Buildings Tate Modern, London
Sixpackfilm Vienna, Austria
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada
Architectural Association London
Pleasure Dome Toronto, Canada
Montreal Festival Canada
7th International Video week Geneva, Switzerland
Film Laden Kassel, Germany
Flights of Fancy Anthology Film Archive, New York
Pandaemonium ICA, London
29th New York Expo New York, USA
Forumbhzvideo Bello Horizonte, Brazil
European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, Germany
Copenhagen Film and Video Festival Denmark
Impakt Utrecht, Netherlands
The Reading Room Camden Arts Centre, London
World One Minute TV Brazil
Mediawave Gyor, Hungary

Collections

Arts Council Collection
British Council Collection
Centre Pompidou
Government Art Collection
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London
Walsall Art Gallery
Ludwig Collection, Aachen
Tel Aviv Museum

Private collections; France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, North America, South America

Bibliography

John Wood and Paul Harrison
Critics Picks, Miguel Amado, Artforum.com, July 2009

Le Burlesque en Video de John Wood and Paul Harrison
Le Monde, 13th August 2009

We Are Not Dancers (Obviously)
Sarah Cunliffe, Dance Theatre Journal, Volume 22 no. 4, 2008

Things Fall Apart
Sally O’Reilly, Frieze Magazine, Issue 110, October 2007

New Art From London
Chris Townsend, p.76-87 2006

Not King Kong! Comedy is King!
Shumon Basar, Domus 889 February 2006

Irreducible Contemporary Short Form Video
Ralph Rugoff , Exhibition Catalogue, 2005

Video Art, A Guided Tour
Catherine Elwes, I.B.Tauris, 2005

Now and Then. Art Now at Tate Britain
Tate Publishing

Artist Interview
Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper 137 June 2003

A Room with a View
Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2003

Double Take
Morgan Falconer, What’s on in London April 2003

Room with a View
Tom Lubbock, Independent Review 13th May 2003

Exhibition Review
Kate Zamet, Flash Art, July-September 2003

Printemps de Septembre
Fabienne Fulcheri, Exhibition Catalogue 2003

Exhibition Review
Sally O‚Reilly, Time Out , 4-11th June 2003

Exhibition Review
Eugene Tan, Contemporary Magazine, issue 52 Summer 2003

A Dazzling Box of Tricks
Ian White, Art Review May 2003

Des vrais Saisons
Dr Fabian Stech, Kunstforum Nov – Dec 2003

Still Life
Ann Gallagher, Exhibition Catalogue The British Council, 2002

Exhibition Review
Sarah Kent, Time Out February 2002

Sudden Glory
Ralph Rugoff, Exhibition Catalogue, 2002

Video:Un Art Contemporain
Francoise Parfait, Regard , Paris, 2001

Artistic Ideas: The Action Videos of John Wood and Paul Harrison
Lars Henrik Gass, 45th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen,
Festival Catalogue, 1999

A Private Encounter with the Real
Oliver Sumner, 13th Rencontres Video Art Plastique. Catalogue 1999

Walking the Plank
Gilda Williams, Art Monthly 205 April 1997

Monographs

A123456
48 Pages (Boxed Publication), Ikon Gallery
2009, ISBD-10: 190486452X

Colouring Book
96 pages, Paperback, Lowry Press
2008, ISBD-10: 1902970365

124 Minutes
224 pages full colour published by Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2006, ISBN-10: 1 872771 64 5

In Profile: John Wood and Paul Harrison
DVD published by Picture This, Bristol
2005, ISBN: 0-95398772-6-4

Notebook
56 page full colour, published by MIMA, Middlesbrough
2005, ISBN: 0-86083-065-9

Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things)
Essay by Claire Doherty. 26 texts inc. contributions by:
MatthewHiggs,Richard Wentworth, David Curtis
Picture This, Bristol 2002, ISBN: 0-9539872-3-x

John Wood and Paul Harrison
With essays by Charles Esche and David Batchelor
Ellipsis, 2000, ISBN: 1 84166 026 4