Jason Dodge (Pennsylvania, 1969) lives on Møn, Denmark. 

Over the past twenty years, Jason Dodge has been producing sculptures and exhibitions that speak of absence, distance, haptic and visual perception. His work is often compared to poetry and, like much poetry, demands the reader or viewer to be present and to look into themselves as conduits of meaning. By reading a poem or a sculpture something new is made. Dodge says: “it is not what something means that is important, it is how something means”. His works are not meant to be deciphered, but are rather machines for deciphering

His work has been shown in solo exhibition in international public and private Institutions, including: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome, Italy (2021); Guimarães, Vienna, Austria; Akwa Ibom, Athens, Greece; Gern en Regalia, New York, USA; Gilles Drouault galerie/multiples, Paris, France; MOREpublishers with Gevaert Editions, Brussels, Belgium; Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (2020); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, (Rivoli), Torino, Italy; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy (2019); The University of Chicago, USA (2018); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (2017); Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France (2016); American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (2013); Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nurnberg, Germany (2012); MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA (2011); Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover,  Germany (2010); Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf , Germany (20019); The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK (2008).

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in Institutions such as: Jeu De Paume, Paris, France (2022); Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, Italy (2022); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2020); MCA Chicago, USA (2019); Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2018); Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2018); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2017); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA (2017); Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Genéve, Switzerland (2016); Witte de Whith, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2014); MUDAM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2013);  Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2011); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (2010); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2009); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.

His work has been shown in biennials and international group exhibitions such as: 9th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2016); 55th Biennale di Venezia, Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice, Italy (2013); 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2013); 3rd La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); 8th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (2012); 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil (2011); 6th Nordic Biennial for Nordic Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway (2011).

Besides his artistic practice, Dodge is the founder of the poetry imprint Fivehundred Places which has published 25 monographic books of poems by contemporary poets including Ishion Hutchinson, Eileen Myles, CAConrad, Dorothea Lasky and Matthew Dickman.

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