Born Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Master of Fine Arts, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2005Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, Skowhegan, ME
2003Bachelor of Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
An Education in the Logic of the Leaves, ICA Philadelphia, PA
A Weight Dangles Above Your Head, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2013The Thing That Precedes The You, Thomas Solmon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010Violent Broadcast, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009Square Configuration (Decorum) Study, Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC
2008Surplus Room, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2005Video About Sculpture, Western Front, Vancouver, BC
2004An Arrangement of Things, Xeno Gallery, Vancouver, BC
ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, ICA Philadelphia, PA
Magical Thinking, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Fragmented Realities, Delaware County Community College Art Gallery, PA
Enacting Acting, INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), UWM Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
And How Are We Feeling Today, UC San Diego, University Art Gallery
Artadia Award Exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2013Performa 13, New York, NY
Would You Ever Write A Tract?, Autocenter, Berlin, DE Fanatic, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2012Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Y as in Yet, Shanaynay Gallery, Paris, FR
Out-of-______, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Galerie Dohyanglee, Paris, FR
2011Livret III, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The End of Money, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam, NL
Video Program, Kaleidoscope Arena, ROMA Art Fair, Rome, Italy
Elastic Frames, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2010The Regional at Art Basel Miami Beach, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
California Biennial 2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Quadruple-Consciousness, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Malik Gaines
2009Ulli & Lucrecia's Lustige Guppenausstellung mit Party, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Tables and Chairs, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
The Chef's Theory, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
No Soul For Sale, X-initiative, New York, NY, presented by LA><ART
1999China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Five Night Stand, Bonaventure Hotel, CAA Conference, Los Angeles, CA,
Square Configuration (Decorum Study), special project presented by LA><ART at ArtLA 2009
2008LA25 Half-Life, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA25, Skadden Collection, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Thomas Solomon
Boofthle Booth-Booth, Pauline, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Mateo Tannatt
Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Christopher Eamon
2007Read Me! Text in Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, curated by Malik Gaines
New Insight Exhibition at Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Suzanne Ghez
UCLA MFA Exhibition, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Since Before and After, Invitational Alumni Exhibition, Bartlett Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
2006Sorry Window, window installation at LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY and Q.E.D. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004Production, Consumption, Function, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC (collaboration with The Meeting)
2003On Location, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, BC, curated by Monika Szewczyck
Visiting Professor, Intermedia, California State University Long Beach
2013/14Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Intermedia Area
2011/12Adjunct Faculty, California State University Long Beach, Sculpture and 4D
2008Adjunct Faculty, University of California Los Angeles, New Genres Area
2003/4Studio Manager, Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, BC
Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue
Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Project Grant
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts
2012Art Matters Foundation Grant
Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Grant
2011Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Project Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2006Darcy Hayman Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
Art Council Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
2005Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Lillian Levinson Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2003Summer Studio, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002Helen Pitt Graduating Scholarship in Visual Art, Simon Fraser University
Green, Kate, "Vishal Jugdeo: A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight," Artforum.com, February 2014
"Vishal Jugdeo: A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight," Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, February 28, 2014
Tuck, Geoff, "Artadia awards exhibition at LACE," Notes On Looking, January 28, 2014
Corbett, Sean, "ICA Celebrates/Re-imagines 50 Years of Stellar Exhibitions," Philadelphia Weekly, February 11, 2012
Milewski, Selena, "Filmmakers Examining the Actor's Craft," Express Milwaukee, January 29, 2014
2013Shing, David, Performa 13 Shingerview: Vishal Jugdeo, Huffington Post, November 22, 2013 Wagley, Catherine, "Convenience-store encounter," LA Weekly, July 18, 2013
Guillen, Bianca, "The Thing That Precedes The You," San Francisco Arts Quarterly, July 2013
2012Obrist, Hans Ulrich, "Was Haben Sie Gesehen," Weltkunst, No 63, September 2012
Griffin, Jonathan, "Made in L.A. 2012," Frieze Magazine, Issue 149, September 2012
Moshayedi, Aram, "Work In Progress: Empty Observation," Bidoun, Issue #27, September 2012
Ellegood, Anne, and Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, Ali Subbotnick, Made in LA 2012, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2012
Firstenberg, Lauri, Portfolio: Curators Choice, Modern Painters, June 2012
Meyers, Terry R. "Made in LA 2012," Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2012
Finkel, Jori, "Hammer biennial lends artists a helping hand," Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2012
Simonson, Lily. "Looking at Los Angeles: An interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making 'Goods Carrier' for Made in L.A." Art21 blog, www.blog.art21.org , July 26, 2012
Fitzpatrick, Kyle, "Made in LA; Vishal Jugdeo," LA I'm Yours www.laimyours.com, April 28, 2012
Gaitan, Juan, ed. The End of Money, Rotterdam: Witte De With Publications, 2011
2011Gaines, Malik, Quadruple Consciousness, Philadelphia: Vox Populi, 2011
Van Gelder, Hilde, "The End of Money," Artforum Critics' Picks, July 21, 2011
Lei, Machteld, "The End of Money," Kunstbeeld, Netherlands, August 31, 2011
Smets, Sandra, "Versnipperde bankbiljetten zijn kunst geworden," NRC Handelsblad, June 29, 2011
Lassry, Elad, "Vishal Jugdeo: Violent Broadcast," Flash Art, Vol. XLIV, No. 278, May-June 2011
2010Bancroft, Sarah, ed, California Biennial 2010, Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2010
Fallon, Roberta, "Quadruple Consciousness," Philadelphia Weekly, December 29, 2010
Newhall, Edith, "What Nina Says," The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 2010
Kopp, Celine, "Jesse Aron Green and Vishal Jugdeo," ZeroDeux, Issue 53, March 2010
Coburn, Tyler, "Reclaim the Street (Theater)," ArtReview, Issue 39, March 2010
Firstenberg, Lauri, "Looking Forward 2010," Frieze, Issue 128, January-February 2010
2009Cotter, Holland, "Restoring the ‘Eek’ to Eking Out a Living," The New York Times, June 24, 2009
Peck, Aaron, "Vishal Jugdeo at the Helen Pitt,'" Akimbo.biz, January 20, 2009
Kajander, Paul "Square Configuration (Decorum) Study," exhibition essay, Helen Pitt Gallery, Jan 2009
Taft, Catherine, "The Best Shows in Los Angeles in 2008," Saatchi Online, January 3, 2009
2008Schad, Ed. "Vishal Jugdeo: Surplus Room,'"Art Review, Issue 24, July & August 2008
Gupta, Anjali. "An Apophenia in Practice: Probing the Indefinite," Artlies, Issue 57, Spring 2008
Moshayedi, Aram. "A Passionate Attachment to Things" Art Papers, January 2008
2004Turner, Michael. "Thoughtful exhibit mixes art, labour and form," The Vancouver Sun, August 14, 2004
Forkert, Kirsten. "An Economy of Means," Production, Consumption, Function’ exhibition essay, Helen Pitt Artist Run Centre, January 2004
2003Szewczyck, Monika. "On Location," exhibition essay, Belkin Satellite, September 2004
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA