Bio

Jeremy Welsh cv. (updated 04-21)

Education

Jacob Kramer College of Art, Leeds, 1972 - 73
Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, 1973 - 74
Trent Polytechnic School of Art & Design, (Nottingham Trent University), Dept. Fine Art, 1974 - 1977

Goldsmiths College, University of London, Dept. Fine Art  1980 - 1982

Professional engagements

Director, The Film & Video Umbrella, London, 1988 - 1990

Exhibition/distribution project manager, London Video Arts 1982-88

Graphic Designer, Letterstream Ltd. London, 1980 - 82

Community Arts Worker, Mid Pennine Aerts, Burnely, England, 1978-79

Teaching

Nelson & Colne College, Lecturer on Art Foundation Course, 1979 - 1980

Trondheim Art Academy, Associate Professor/Professor of Intermedia, 1990 - 2001

Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Professor of Fine Art since 2001. Dean of Fine Art 2012- 2013.
Professor of Fine Art, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, 2014 - 2020

Public art projects

Video Art for The Street: project with tv rental stores, touring England, 1985, 86

Artists on Spectacolor, Piccadilly Circus, London, produced by Artangel, 1989

Commissioned video installation for reception area, Pirbadet, Trondheim, 2001

Video art projections in Oslo Central Station (Mesén), 2003

Intervall; temporary art projects in public space, produced by Curate.no, Bergen, October - November 2008

Commissioned work for KORO/Halden prison, Norway, completed 2009 (with Jon Arne Mogstad)
Commissioned work for The Norwegian Post Office, main distribution centre, completed 2010 (with Jon Arne Mogstad)

Public Screens, i/oLab, Stavanger, 2010
Media Facades Festival, programme curated by i/oLab, 2010; Berlin/Barcelona/Glasgow

VPSO (Video Paintings for St. Olav's) Commissioned digital work for St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, 2013.

Public collections

The National Museum, Oslo

Trondheim Art Museum

Trondheim City Council

Norwegian Arts Council collection

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Museum of The Moving Image, London

Norwegian Telecom Art Collection

ZKM Mediatheque, Karlsruhe

ICA mediatheque, London

MacQuarie University Art Collection, Sydney

Selected solo exhibitions

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1982

Spectro Photography, Newcastle upon Tyne 1983

B2 Gallery, Wapping, London 1983

Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London 1986

QCA Gallery, Brisbane, 1989

Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim, 1993, 2000

Museum of Contemporary Art Project Room, Oslo 1994

Trondheim Kunstmuseum 2000

Trans Art, Trondheim, 2001 (with Farhad Khalantary)

Christiansands Kunstforening (collaborative project with Jon Arne Mogstad & Trond Lossius) 2004

Trondhjems Kunstforening (collaborative project with Jon Arne Mogstad & Trond Lossius) 2004

Visningsrom USF, Bergen, november 2006, collaboration with Jon Arne Mogstad

Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen,  April 2007, retrospective video programme

Atopia, gallery for film & video art, Oslo, January 2009.
Rom 8 Bergen, 2010, 2012
The Atmospherics - installations in collaboration with Trond Lossius: 

Galleri 3,14, Bergen, 2014

Visningsrom USF, Bergen, 2014

Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal 2015

Heimdal Kunstforening, Trondheim, 2016

Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, 2016

HardingarT, Utne, Hardanger, 2017

Terra Nova Arte e Naturaa, Liminaria Festival, Arpaise, Italy, 2017

Sound and Image Festival, University of Greenwich, London, 2018

TEKS studio, Trondheim, 2019

BEK online archive, video streaming project, 2020 / 21.  https://bek.no/en/tema/to-video/

Light Years, audiovisual installation LMW, Surnadal Billag, 2018

At Any Given Moment / I hvert øyeblikk: Vårsøg festival exhibition 2019, Surnadal Kulturhus

Take Me To The River, Molde Jazz Festival exhibition 2019, Møre & Romsdal Kunstsenter, Molde

Selected group exhibitions and festivals

Travelling Exhibitionists, Projects UK commissioned works, Laing Gallery Newcastle 1987

Travelling Exhibitionists, Projects UK commissioned works, Coernerhouse, Manchester 1987

Travelling Exhibitionists, Projects UK commissioned works, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1987

West Midlands Performance Consortium, commissioned works, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 1988

West Midlands Performance Consortium, commissioned works, Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery, 1988

West Midlands Performance Consortium, commissioned works, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, 1988

The New Pluralism, Tate Gallery, London, 1985

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1989

Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1989

Galerie Medousa, Athens, 1990

Video Formes, Clermont Ferrand, 1989

Locarno Video Art festival, Locarno, Switzerland, 1995

European Media Art festival, Osnabrück, 1986, 89

European Medienkunstpris, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 1997

Oslo Kunstforening 1999

Trondheim Art Museum 2001

Museum for Contemporary Art Oslo, 2002

Short Film Festival, Grimstad, 2002

Galleri F15, Moss, 2002

Video Topiques, Musee d’art Modern et Contemporain Strasbourg, 2002 - 2003

UK-Canadian Video, South London Gallery, 2003

Vestlandske Kunstmisjon, Bergen, 2003

Prøverom Beta 1.0, Teatergarasje, Bergen, 2004

Video Salon, Atopia, Oslo, 2004

B- Open, Bergen, 2004

X-Film, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005

New Horizons: Contemporary Arts from the West of Norway: The Manx Museum of Art, Douglas, Isle of Man  2005

Overtures: Am Wasser, München, 2005

Tracing Space, Bergen Kunsthall, 2005

Östersunds Videokonstfestival, Sweden, 2005

New Horizons: Contemporary Arts from the West of Norway: Hå Gamle Prestegård, 2005

Summer exhibition, Seljord, Telemark, 2006 – collaboration with Jon Arne Mogstad & Trond Lossius

Q-Art, Quart Festival, Kristiansand, 2006 - collaboration with Jon Arne Mogstad & Trond Lossius

Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, Tate Britain December 2006

Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, Anthology Film Archives, New York, January 2007

Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, The Norwich Gallery, UK, February 2007

Definitive Stories: artists’ film programme, National Review of Live Art 07, Tramway, Glasgow

Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, FACT, Liverpool, March 2007

The Exhibitionists, Marseille, May 2007

Samtidsvideokunst, Kunst i Badet, Alvøen, Bergen, July 2007
Ad  Hoc, Visningsrom USF, Bergen, 2008
Contemporary Video Art exhibition; Kabuso, Øystese, Norway, 2008

International film & video festival, Beirut, 2008
Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, touring galleries in Canada, 2008 - 2009
Analogue: pioneering video art 1968 - 88, Museum of Contemporary Art Warsaw, 2008
Transitions: MacQuarie University Gallery, Sydney, 2008

Transitions: travelling exhibition in Australia, 2009-2010

Do Something Different, Barbican Centre, London, 2009

Cities Re-imagined II:  Video Art from Norway - Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad, Serbia. July 2010

Cities Re-imagined III:  Rom for Kunst & Arkitektur, September 2010

Silent Spaces: MacQuarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, March 2010

Minimalen short film festival Nova Kino, Trondheim, March 2010

BGO1 - Bergen Art Museum, October 2010 - January 2011

Retrospective: film & video art in Norway 1970 - 1990: Stenersens Museum Oslo, 2011

Public projections, Håkonshallen Bergen, 2011

ODDS - group exhibition in Odda, Hardanger, 2012
Paradoks: Norwegian Video Art, National Museum, Oslo, 2013
This Must Be The Place: Kino Kino, Sandness, 2013
Borealis Festival, Bergen, 2013
Only Connect Festival Of Sound, Oslo, 2014
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2014
Images, Sounds and Words: Dokkhuset, Trondheim, 2014
Oversettelser (Translations) Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, 2015

Seoul International New Media Festival 2017

Double Lives;  artists making Music: digital film project with Michael Francis Duch at:

MUMOK Vienna, 2018

Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2020 - 21

Ta Deg Tid / Take Your Time; Nordenfjelske Kunstindustrimuseum Trondheim, 2020 - 21

Curatorial experience

The Window Box - a touring video installation project, England, 1986

The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 1986

Genlock - a touring exhibition of video portraits, England, 1987

A Thoughtful Gaze: The video work of Bill Viola, touring exhibition in UK - 1988

Electric Eyes - new video and electronic art,  touring exhibition in UK.1988

The Suitcase Show - touring video installation exhibition, 1989

Breaking Eyes - Nordic Media Art, 1995, exhibition in Helsinki & Stockholm

Screens: Art on, for, through and beyond the screen: - Trondheim Kunstmuseum/Trondheim 1000 year jubilee 1997

Magnetic North - video art from Norway and Britain, 1999

Time Tracks, DVD video programme for Norwegian Telecom Art Collection, 2000

Microscope; a very small video exhibition; KHIB, 2008

Meta Morf; biennale for Art & technology, Trondheim 2010
Strawberry Butterflies and Peppermint Cats, Borealis festival, Bergen 2011

Vatn - Connecting People; video art exhibition for jubilee year of the Telemark Canal

Tracking/Tracing: contemporary photography & electronic art from Australia. Galleri 3,14 Bergen, scheduled January 2012.

Young and Loving: retropsective, 2012: Galleri S12 and Galleri Format, Bergen
Cinema B-Open: temporary screening room showing artists' film & video at Festplassen, Bergen, September 2014.

Flyttestein; digital film by Kaia Hugin, RAKE Visningsrom Trondheim 2016

Pink Shoelaces, co-curated with David Breida. PUNKT Visningsrom, Trondheim, 2016

Guest curator in film programme for Fotogalleri, Oslo, jubilee year, 2017

It's Painting Today (Like any other day), new works by Jon Arne Mogstad, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, 2018

Billag Festival 2021 - a six month programnme of exhibitions and events at art centre Surnadal Billag, Møre & Romsdal, April - October 2021