John Gerrard: links

Official website: a chronological record of the simulation works, with exhibitions and biography.

The artist's biography page: academic training, solo exhibitions, collections, and a selected media and press list.

The dedicated Western Flag site, on the 2017 Spindletop simulation commissioned by Channel 4.

Petro National on Art Blocks: 196 nations as generative gasoline spills on the world ocean, 196 editions, Art Blocks × Pace, 2022.

World Flag on Art Blocks: 195 national flags in coloured virtual smoke, released by greenhouse-gas rank, 195 editions, Art Blocks × Pace, 2023.

Pace Gallery journal on Petro National, the first Web3 project in the Art Blocks and Pace Verso collaboration.

Pace Gallery journal on World Flag and its on-chain release.

SPIRITS, Gerrard's year-long, browser-based solo presented by the LACMA Art + Technology Lab, comprising 96 scanned sandals and shoes across four seasonal events from December 2025 to September 2026, culminating in the Atlantic chapter on 22 September.

LACMA Unframed on the spring-equinox phase of SPIRITS, the Indian Ocean works rising on the museum's homepage.

TBA21 collection entry on Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017, the work as an "invisible sculpture" and warning of climate change.

Pace Gallery journal announcing that John Gerrard had joined the gallery's program.

Desert X 2019, Western Flag installed at the gateway to the Coachella Valley as a reminder of resource exploitation.

Phileas (Vienna), A conversation with John Gerrard with curator Anna Hugo, on the occasion of Leaf Work, March 2023.

Art Basel, Are touchscreens the next art frontier? Digital pioneer John Gerrard thinks so: Gerrard on digital touch, art tokens, human judgement in software production, and the Atlantic chapter of SPIRITS.

Le Random, John Gerrard on Ecology, Technology & Power, with Peter Bauman: SPIRITS, Zero 10, and why he believes the game engine is the most important medium of our time.

Right Click Save, The Interview: generative sound, algorithmic geometry, and ecological-restoration partnerships in the crystalline work.

Sean Capone in conversation with Gerrard at Pace, July 2022 (on the Endling show): the game engine as stage, "this is information, not image," and Petro National.

The Nomad Magazine, The Power of Oil, with Kimberly Bradley: the Flags series, the thin-film refraction algorithm, and the toxic sublimity of petroleum.

ARTnews on Gerrard dedicating proceeds from his generative work to restoring Ireland's temperate rainforest with Hometree.

Artforum review of John Gerrard, on the simulations and their real-time logic.

Wikipedia entry on the Irish artist, biography, works, and collections.

Ocula artist profile: biography, works for sale, and exhibition history.

Artnet artist page: market record, exhibitions, and bibliography.

Artsy artist profile: biography, CV, and works.

MOTZKO documents five collected works by Gerrard, including Petro National, World Flag, and Smoke Hands.

TateShots: John Gerrard on Western Flag and the real-time simulation behind it.

Alejandro Cartagena's eleven-minute documentary interview with Gerrard for Fellowship, on making art with the tools of today and his claim that computing power is the most contemporary tool an artist has.

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