Vishal Jugdeo
vjugdeo@gmail.com

(b. 1979 Regina, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His recent artworks emerge from amassments of intimately gathered video and sound--archive oceans--which chart the ebbs and flows of his friendships with interlocutors. In doing so, the works track broader political histories as they unfold through a lens that is both queer and diasporic. Recent screenings and exhibitions have occurred at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, ICA, Los Angeles, CCA Berlin, Cinema Akil, Dubai, and Commonwealth and Council Gallery in LA. Jugdeo is associate professor at UCLA, where he serves as New Genres area head in the Department of Art.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Master of Fine Arts, New Genres
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2007

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Skowhegan, ME
2005

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
2003

Exhibitions and Screenings

Awards and Residencies

Creative Capital Award
2025

Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2023

UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
2021

Joseph S. Stauffer Annual Prize in Visual Arts
2018

MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH
2017

BOFFO Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY
2016

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts
2015

Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue
2013

California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts

Art Matters Foundation Grant
2012

Center for Cultural Innovation Grant
2012

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2011

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005

Books and Catalogues

Ellegood Anne and Anna Sew Hoy, Scratching At The Moon, ICA Los Angeles, 2024

Ellison, Buck and Vishal Jugdeo, Interview with Buck Ellison in Risk, IDEA Books, 2024

Jugdeo, Vishal and Paul Kajander, Every Moment Is A Chance To Get Something That Lives On, in Peripheral Review Print Annual 2020-2021, 2022, pp 184-188

Citron, Beth, et al, “O Horizon, A conversation among Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun, Vishal Jugdeo and Beth Citron,” in A Lost Future, exhibition catalogue, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2018 pp 43-72

Vikram, Anuradha, “Vishal Jugdeo: Queering Gender and Nationalism Through Speculative Documentary Film,” 18th Street Arts Center 2015-16 Catalog, ed Vikram and Sue Bell Yank, 2016

ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, ICA Philadelphia, 2014

Goldberg, RoseLee and Kathleen Madden, eds, Performa 13: Surrealism, The Voice, Citizenship, Gregory R Miller & Co, 2015.

Ellegood, Anne, and Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, Ali Subbotnick, Made in LA 2012, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2012

Gaitan, Juan, ed. The End of Money, Rotterdam: Witte De With Publications, 2011

Bancroft, Sarah, ed, California Biennial 2010, Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2010

Press

Boyd, Natasha, “Vishal Jugdeo: Commonwealth and Council,” Artillery Magazine, January 2, 2024

Sward, Brandon, “From Guyana with Love,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 6, 2023

Arundhati Thomas, Skye and Pranav Kuttaiah, “How Vqueeram and Vishal Jugdeo Challenge Political Faultlines,” Frieze, March 2022

Ni Fheorais, Iarlaith, “Love, Longing and George Michael at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts,” Frieze, Issue 225, March 2022

2021 Kajander, Paul, “Every Moment is a Chance to Get Something That Lives On,” Peripheral Review, November 2021

Anuk Arudpragasam, “On Friendship: Does Your House Have Lions”

Binghao, Wong, “Dolls at Dusk,” AFTER HOPE, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco 2020

Pauwels, Isabelle, “Every Inch Flattens Your World,” BlackFlash Magazine, Issue 32.4, May 2015

Green, Kate, “Vishal Jugdeo: A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight,” Artforum, February 2014

Linares, Marleen, “Vishal Jugdeo: A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight,” Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, February 28, 2014

Milewski, Selena, “Filmmakers Examining the Actor's Craft,” Express Milwaukee, January 29 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

Moshayedi, Aram, “Work In Progress: Empty Observation,” Bidoun, Issue #27, September 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

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

Gaines, Malik, Quadruple Consciousness, Philadelphia: Vox Populi, 2011

Lassry, Elad, “Vishal Jugdeo: Violent Broadcast,” FlashArt International No. 278, May/June 2011

Van Gelder, Hilde, “The End of Money,” Artforum Critics' Picks, July 21, 2011

Smets, Sandra, “Versnipperde bankbiljetten zijn kunst geworden,” NRC Handelsblad, June 29 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

Cotter, Holland, “Restoring the ‘Eek’ to Eking Out a Living,” The New York Times, June 24, 2009

Kajander, Paul “Square Configuration (Decorum) Study,” exhibition essay, Helen Pitt Gallery

Taft, Catherine, “The Best Shows in Los Angeles in 2008,” Saatchi Online, January 3, 2009 2008

Schad, 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 2004

Turner, Michael. “Thoughtful exhibit mixes art, labour and form,” The Vancouver Sun, August 14

Teaching

Assistant Professor, New Genres,
Department of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2018

MFA Faculty, Film and Video,
Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
2018

Lecturer,
Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2018

Part-time Assistant Professor, Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty,
Parsons, New School, New York, NY
2017

Lecturer, School of Art and Architecture,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2017

Lecturer, Sculpture/Intermedia,
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2015

Practicum instructor,
CalArts, Valencia, CA
2015

Visiting Faculty Intermedia,
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2014

Advisor,
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2014

Adjunct Faculty, Intermedia,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2013

Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture and 4D,
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2011

Instructor, Summer Art Institute,
UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008

Teaching Assistant/Associate,
Art, World Arts and Culture / Dance, Design Media Arts and Art History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2004-7

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