Monica Ursina Jäger
* 1974, Thalwil, Switzerland
lives and works in London
 
Education
2006-08 Goldsmiths College, London, Master of Fine Art
1999 LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
1997-2000 University for Art and Design, Lucerne, Switzerland, BA Art and Education
 
Awards and Residencies
2010 IBK Art Award/Förderpreis 'Drawing'
2008 Art Award/Werkbeitrag Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland
2007 Swiss Art Award
2006 Grant Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2005 Artist Residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
 
Solo Shows (Selection)
2011 Certitude of Speculative Thought Gallery Christinger de Mayo Zurich
  Back Drop, sic! Raum für Kunst Lucerne
  Monica Ursina Jäger & Blue CurryNextex St. Gallen
2010 Equivocal Clarity of Dawn Gallery Christinger de Mayo, Kunst Zurich
2009 Sea of Tranquility Visual Drugs Zurich
  OutlandsGalerie Rupert Pfab Dusseldorf
  Half Forgotten DreamsKunstraum Sandra Romer Chur
2008 Projektraum Enter, Kunstmuseum Thun
2007 After NatureGalerie Habres + Partner Vienna
  Out of the woodsVisual Drugs Zurich
2004 Quality WorksVisual Drugs Zurich
  Where the wild roses growGalerie Artothek Zurich
 
Group Shows (Selection)
2011 The Saatchi Gallery & BBC 4's New Sensations and The Future Can Wait Victoria House London
  Platznot-PlatzwechselBündner Kunstmuseum Chur
  On Destructiveness and BeautyGalerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt
  Summer TimeGalerie Rupert Pfab Dusseldorf
  Festival of the AnimalsMuseum Essl, Vienna
  Much Ado about Everything – Baroque in Contemporary ArtHaus für Kunst, Uri
  Swiss Art AwardsThe Woodmill, London
  S.A.G.SArt Basel
  Polemically SmallTorrence Art Museum, California
  Long live Painting! Works from the CollectionMuseum Essl, Vienna
2010 Catch of the Year IIDienstgebäude Zurich
  Kopf oder ZahlKunstraum Sandra Romer Chur
  Kopien und Zitatesic! Raum für Kunst Lucerne
  The Future Can WaitShoreditch Townhall London
  Julius Baer CollectionGallery von Bartha Basel
  Drawing - 3 PositionsKunstraum Sandra Romer Chur
  4. Biennale der ZeichnungKunstverein Eislingen (cat.)
  Landschaft im WandelKunstmuseum Thun (cat.)
  Art Awards City of ZurichHelmhaus Zurich
  Paradise Is Somewhere ElseGalerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt
  Verein für OriginalgrafikVerein für Originalgrafik Zurich
2009 The Jack Goldstein ConnectionsGalerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt
  Annual Art ExhibitionKunstmuseum Chur
  Werkschau'09Grants Canton Zurich F+F Zurich
  Swiss Art AwardsArt Basel
  The Audacity of ImaginationGalerie Römerapotheke Zurich
  Future or RuinCharlie Smiths London
  Compilation IVKunsthalle Dusseldorf (cat.)
  Notes From the UndergroundJames Taylor Gallery London
  The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery London
  New London School, Ellis Rumley Projects, Berlin
  Wallis Dies and Goes to ParadiseParadise Row London
2008 Grants and Residencies, City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich
  Degree Show MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College London (cat.)
  Paper Love, devening projects Chicago
  Works on Paper #1, Gallery Smits, Amsterdam
  Jargon of Landscape, The Wallis Gallery London
  Is the world flat?, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2007 Beziehungsweise - Works on Paper from the Holzer CollectionGalerie Winter Vienna
  Annual Art ExhibitionKunstmuseum Chur
  Grants for visual Art of Canton Zurich (Werkbeiträge Kanton ZH), Zurich
  Swiss Art Awards, Basel (cat.)
  Celeste Art Prize, London / Edinburgh (cat.)
  Aesthetics of AnxietyGalerie Marc de Puechredon Basel
  Fall in Theatre, The Basement Project Space, London (cat.)
2006 Emergin Artists SwitzerlandEssl Collection Vienna
2005 Scabs, Guns and Peanutbutter, Gallery Artone Zurich
 
Collections and acquisitions
Essl Collection, Vienna
Kunstmuseum Thun
Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur
Canton Zurich
Canton Graubunden
Canton St. Gallen
Julius Baer Art Collction
Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland
Sparda Bank, Nordrhein Westfahlen
Holzer Collection, Vienna
Collection von Bartha, Basle
and further private collections in Switzerland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, USA, Japan
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