WORK
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JOHN SLEIMAN JURAYJ
Born 1968
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2016 | Untitled (October 23rd, 1983), Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Untitled Artifact (The More Present I Become, The Harder It Is to See Myself), Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2013 | What’s Left, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | No Paradises, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy |
| Undead, Participant Inc., New York, NY | |
| 2010 | Untitled Lebanon (fragments), The Third Line, Dubai, UAE |
| Untitled (Undead), Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | Untitled (Not Here), Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy |
| Untitled (We Might Be Heroes), Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | Not Here, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Untitled Lebanon #7, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 | Untitled Lebanon, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY |
| 2000 | White Room, White Columns, New York, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2017 | I.D., Please! works by Hung Liu, John Bankston, Lezley Saar, John Jurayj, Maria E. Piñeres, Nike Schröder, Dana Weiser and Monica Lundy, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2016 | A Star Is Born: Ten Years Later, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ALOE: A Language of Exaltation: Seven Artists Reflect on Their Work, Amy Jenkins. Christopher K. Ho, Erika Ranee, John Jurayj, Rob Swainston, Sally Webster, Tyler Vlahovich, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 | A Star Is Born: Ten Years Later, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2014 | Gulf Labor 52 weeks, John Jurayj, week 32, 30 Untitled Men, http://gulflabor.org/ |
| Illusions of a Perfect Utopia: Contemporary Landscape, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Like a Flower Waiting to Bloom, Like a Light Bulb in a Dark Room, video program curated by Amanda Abi Khalil, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon | |
| 2013 | Art Space, London, UK |
| Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | |
| 2012 | Fact/Fission, Aicon Gallery, NY, NY |
| Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | |
| Summer Group Show, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| (Space): Constructing the Intangible, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | |
| 2011 | Reprise, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Take Over, Public Ad Campaign, Toronto, Canada |
| Translation/Tarjama ,curated by Leeza Ahmady and Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY | |
| Malleable Memory, curated by Nitin Mukul, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Identity Based Vertigo, Walter Maciel Gallery, Showroom B261, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA | |
| 2009 | Noise, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
| Translation/Tarjama ,curated by Leeza Ahmady and Iftikhar Dadi, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Exposure 2009, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon | |
| Political Draw, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | Independent Drawing Gig #4, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2007 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder, curated by Kristine Bowen, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los |
| Angeles, CA | |
| Art Under Glass Fall 2007, Macy’s, New York, NY | |
| Selection/Reflection, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | One Night Stand, November 18, 165 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY |
| Gimme Shelter, curated by Megan Riley, Arts Corporation, Shelter Island Heights, NY | |
| Cityscape, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2005 | Mélange, Sarah Gavlak Productions, Palm Beach, FL |
| 2004 | Repeat Performance, Artist Space, New York, NY |
| The Warm Weather Is Holding, UBS Gallery, Bard College, Red Hook, NY | |
| Works on Paper: Marsha Goldberg, Haesun Lee, John Jurayj, Jim Morris, Michelle | |
| Provenzano, Suzanne Kammin, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ | |
| SIX: recent MFA graduates of Bard College, Supreme Trading Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2001 | Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY |
| It’s A Wild Party And We’re Having A Great Time Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1999 | Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1998 | UTZ A Collected Exhibition, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | New Directions, Barret House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Benefit for the Little Red School House, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY | |
| 1996 | Salon de Tree, Central Park, New York, NY |
| Around New York, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY | |
| 1995 | Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY |
CATALOGS AND ESSAYS
Porter, Venetia, Behind The Image, Catalog for Light From The Middle East, New Photography, November 2012
Weiss, Marta, Light From The Middle East, Catalog for Light From The Middle East, New Photography , November 2012
Fadda, Reem, Un/Layering Cultural Intentions Through Art, Catalog for Tarjama/Translation, May 2009
Ahmady, Leeza, Translation As Significance, Catalog for Tarjama/Translation, May, 2009
Balaghi, Shiva, A Special Kind of Wasteland: John Jurayj’s Painting of Beirut, Catalog for Tarjama/Translation, May, 2009
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sharma, Dinesh, Cultural diffusion of news: New blood in the American News Media, Al Jazeera, January, 14, 2013
Adamo, Ariann, Il Libano Raccontato da John Jurayj, it.ibtimes.com, January 17, 2012
Rodi Andrea, In Cerca del Paradiso, www.insideart.eu, January 5, 2012
Reale, Barbara, Traumi e Ipnosi, www.artribune.com, December 18, 2011
Tripp, Charles, The Power and the People: paths of resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Shuraka, Violet, Art, John Jurayj, Q&A, Cheap & Plastique, Issue #9, December, 2011
Motta, Carlos & Lubin-Levy, Joshua, Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, Forever & Today Inc., 2011
Moon, Timur, correction for Beirut Burning, The National, January 11th, 2011
Moon, Timur, Beirut Burning, The National, December 30, 2010
Brown, Amelia, Neon Homeland, The Cornell Daily Sun, September 14th, 2010
Patel, Vibhuti, The Medium of Memory, The Wall Street Journal, NY Culture online September 4,
2010
Melwani, Lavina, Malleable Memory: How True is Truth, Lassiwithlavina.com, August 5th, 2010
Mizota, Sharon, Art Review: John Jurayj at Walter Maciel Gallery, Culture Monster, All the Arts, All the Time, LA Times, April 26, 2010
Cotter, Holland, Tarjama/Translation, Art in Review, The New York Times, August 13, 2009
Quilty, Jim, Reviews, Bidoun, image, Summer 2009
Dyari, Hanadi, Exposure 2009, Nahar Ash-Shabab, June 4, 2009
Khalaf, Colette, Young Talents on the Chessboard of Art, Le Orient-Le-Jour, May 13, 2009
Arsanios, Mirene, Exposure, Flash Art Online, May, 2009
Exposure 2009 – An Exhibition for Young Lebanese Artists, Al Hayat, April 24, 2009
Asian Contemporary Art Week 2009, Open Portfolios Online: Interview with John Jurayj, www.acaw.net, April 21, 2009
Conti, Tiziana, John Jurayj at Alberto Peola Gallery, Exibart.com, December 11, 2008
Gili, Angiola Maria, Jurayj: La Guerra Senz Gli Orrori, La Stampa–TorinoSette, November 14, 2008
Buckley, Annie, John Jurayj, Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene of Southern California – Artscenecal.com, October 2008
Gibson, Allison, John Jurayj, Daily Serving: An International Forum For The Exposure of Contemporary Art, September 17, 2008
Mallory, Vanessa, New Art, Hirshhorn Museum of Art quarterly newsletter, summer 2008
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, The Art of Destruction, The National, May 22, 2008
John Jurayj, Goings on About Town. The New Yorker, December 3, 2007, pg. 23
Robinson, Andrew Cornell, Those Who Would Not See, Gay City News, November 15-21, 2007
Cotter, Holland, Prevailing Climate, Art in Review, The New York Times, August 11, 2006
Untitled (Cedars of Lebanon, 1968, #5), [Reproduction], Harper’s Magazine, June 2006, p. 30
Spiher, David, On the Edge of Chaos, Gay City News, Nov. 10-16, 2005, p. 16
Johnson, Ken, Repeat Performance, Art in Review, The New York Times, June 11, 2004
PUBLICATIONS
| 2015 | Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, I.B.Tauris and Ibraaz Publishing |
| Art of the Middle East, Saeb Eigner | |
| 2009 | Tarjama/Translation, ArteEast, New York |
| 2002 | 5 Paintings/Poems, Granary Press, New York |
| 2001 | “White Columns, Exhibitions”, White Columns, New York |
| 2000 | “White Columns, White Rooms: 1997-2000” White Columns, New York |
ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES AND PANELS
| 2012 | The Light of the Middle East, panel discussion at the V&A, London, UK Nov. 13 |
| 2010 | Tarjama Symposium, Cornell University, Sept. 9 |
| 2009 | “Middle Eastern Art” in Translation, A Conversation with Critics, Arts and Curators, New York University, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Sept. 25 |
| Interview with Leeza Ahmedy and John Jurayj, Radio Tahrir, WBAI, New York, Aug. 25 | |
| 2008 | Speaking From Experience, The Other Half: How To Build A Creative Career, ArteEast at New York University, Sept. 27 |
| 2007 | THE SUN HAS GONE UNDER: Lebanese American artist on art, Sumayyah Samaha, Mariam Ghani, and John Jurayj, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Feb. 2 |
| 2006 | Culture & Power: An Artists’ Roundtable with Meir Gal, John Jurayj, Tom McCarthy, and Susan Youssef, New York University, New York, NY, Sept. 28 |
GRANTS
| 2011 | Puffin Foundation Award |
| 2011 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Award |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cornell University, Undergraduate, 2011 -15
Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts, Undergraduate, 2008-2016
Visiting professor, MFA Cornell University, 2010
PERTINENT COLLECTIONS
British Museum of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Schwartz Collection, Harvard University
EDUCATION
| 2005 | MFA, Bard College, New York |
| 1990 | BA in Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri |