JohnCourt
  • 2017 - 2012
    • Performance 2017 >
      • An Idea
      • Present
      • SIGNAL 1
      • SIGNAL 2
      • New Perforrmance
      • UP-ON
    • Perfrormance 2016 >
      • Beijing Live
      • Longyearbyen
      • Pyramiden
      • Interakcje
      • Room for Performance
      • Live Time
      • Performing Drawology day 2
      • Performing Drawology day 1
    • Performance 2015 >
      • Viva
      • Venø Gård KUNST Day 2
      • Venø Gård KUNST Day 1
      • Scores Berlin
      • Infr’Action Venice 3 day 2
      • Infr’Action Venice 3 day 1
    • Performance 2014 >
      • 7a*11d
      • INFR'ACTION 10 day 4
      • INFR'ACTION 10 day 2
      • Live Action 9
      • 15 Minutes of Censorship
      • DigitaLive
    • Performance 2013-12 >
      • Draw to Perform
      • Guangzhou Live 4
      • Uprooted
      • Fake Finns / Wannabe Swedes
      • Infr’Action Venice 2 day 2
      • Infr’Action Venice 2 day 1
      • Spacex
    • SpaceX Gallery 2012 >
      • SpaceX Gallery 1
      • SpaceX Gallery 2
  • 2011 - 2009
    • Performances 2011 >
      • Ikra live art festival
      • Be Captivated!
    • Art is Art
    • B/W Video >
      • Perspicuous / Helppotajuinen
      • Chair (Interrogative)
      • Allround (Morpheme)
      • Nothing / Don’t Know (Untitled)
    • Blank Page
    • Impossibility of the Word
  • 2008 -1999
    • Performance >
      • ART TRA
      • Pushing Space
      • 8 - hours Standing
      • Marking Space
      • White Out
      • Without Space
      • Between Space
  • 2008 -1996
    • Drawing 2006 -2008 >
      • 2008
      • 2007 - 2008
      • 2006 -2007 >
        • Institutionalization of the Doodle
        • John Court Drawing Book
    • Early Drawings >
      • 2005 - 2004
      • 2003 - 2000
      • 1999 - 1996
  • CV
JOHN COURT
Lives and works in Tornio, Finland
courtblemey@gmail.com / www.johncourtnow.com
 
EDUCATION
1994–1997              Norwich School of Art and Design, UK, 1st Class BA Honours Fine Art in Sculpture
1993                          Camberwell School of Art, London, UK, Foundation course
 
PERFORMANCES (selected)
2020        Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Finland
                HOUR Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen, Norway

2019        International Conference Sculpture in Process, University of Arts, Poznan, Poland
2018        State of Move, Performance Art Festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
                Das Dicke Ende, Art Museum Bern, Switzerland

                ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland
2017        UP-ON Live Art festival, Chengdu, China
                SIGNAL Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2016        Beijing Live - Danish Cultural Center & Goethe Institut Beijing, China
                China-UK Year of Cultural Exchange, Potters Fields Park, London, UK
2015        Viva! Art Action Festival, Montreal, Canada
                Rapid Pulse Festival, Chicago, USA
2014        DigitaLive, Guangzhou, China
                Live Action 9, Gothenburg Art Centre, Sweden
                 7a*11d, Toronto, Canada
2013        Guangzhou Live 4, Guangzhou, China
2012        SpaceX Gallery, Exeter, UK
2011        Be Captivated Live Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
2010        Shenzhen Action Live Art Festival, Shenzhen, China
                Guangzhou Live Festival, 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
                 ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland
2009        TRACE: Artspace, Cardiff, Wales, UK
                 Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
2006        Amorph 06 Live Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland
                 Live Action Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
                 Infr’Action Festival, Sète, France
2005        Reaction collateral event, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
                Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
                 Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2004        Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
                Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
                 Liverpool Biennial, Walker Art Gallery, UK
2003        ARS Arctica, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
                Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
                Perfect Performance, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
                LAW Live Art Weekend, Ferens Gallery, Hull, UK
2002        Mope 02 Festival, Vaasa, Finland
                Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
                Forum Box, Là-bas 2002, Helsinki, Finland
2001        MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1996        Transmutations 96 Zap Art, Brighton, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018        MA, Art Museum, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
2012        SpaceX Gallery, Exeter, UK 
2010        Ålands konstmuseum, Åland, Finland
                Galleria Aarni, Espoo, Finland

2009        Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
                Pihatalon Studio, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
                The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland

​2008        Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
2007        Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2004        Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020        By Nature, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Finland
2018        Scandinavian-Japanese Art Collaboration, Gallery Monma, Sapporo, Japan
                 A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Gallery Rankka, Helsinki, Finland
2014        DigitaLive, Guangzhou, China
2011        Sinne Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
                 Aistikaaos, The Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2010        53 Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2008        The Union of Finnish Art Associations (SKJL) grant winners show, Gallery Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland
                Institut Finlandais, Paris, France
               
TRACE, Artspace, Cardiff, Wales, UK
                Changing lines, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
2006        Amorph 06, Helsinki, Finland
2005        Mänttä Art festival, Mänttä, Finland
2003        Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002        1st Barents Triennial Svolvaer, Norway
 
TEACHING
2012–present         Guest lecturer on drawing & performance, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2012–2016              Guest lecturer on drawing and performance at the Nordic Art School, Kokkola, Finland
2011 & 2013            Guest lecturer on drawing at the Novia University of Applied Sciences, Nykarleby, Finland
2001–2005              Guest lecturer on performance at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
2000                        Guest lecturer on performance at the Svefi Academy, Haparanda, Sweden
1999                        Guest lecturer on performance at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
 
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland, Rovaniemi Art Museum Finland, Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
 
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017   Berlin Sessions, Berlin, Germany
2003  Migration project, Kirkenes, Norway
 
GRANTS & AWARDS
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
(1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005-07, 2010, 2012-14, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020-2022)
Alfred Kordelin Foundation (2010, 2017)
Arts Promotion Centre Lapland (2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2017)
The Finnish Cultural Foundation (2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018)
Nordic Culture Point (2015)
Frame Contemporary Art Finland (2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art - NIFCA (2001, 2002, 2003)
The British Council (2006, 2010)
Award For Best Appealing Artist Of Phoenix Art Omnimedia China-UK Year Of Cultural Exchange (2016)
Ars Arctica prize (2003)
 
MEMBERSHIPS
Lapland Artists' Association
 
PUBLICATIONS
John Court, A Body of Acton Performance Work 1996-2018, Finland 2020
John Court, An idea of performance a idea of art, Finland 2017
Aistikaaos (Chaos of The Senses), The Oulu Museum of Art 2011 (catalogue)
Ferm, U., Ångerman, M. (eds), Don’t look back: Eleven Years of Contemporary Art, Platform, Vaasa 2011
Strek i bevegelse. Tegnekunst gjennom 150 år (Lines in Motion. 150 years of drawing), Lillehammer Art Museum, Labyrinth Press, Oslo 2008 (catalogue)
John Court and Steve Pratt, John Court  Drawings 2006-2007, Finland 2007
Marshall, R. and Sawdon, P. (eds), Hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, I.B.Tauris, London 2012