GašPer Jemec

Gašper Jemec is an artist whose work is both timeless and unique. The son of a painter and of an art historian, he became aware of his own creativity at a precocious age and devoted his life to cultivating a restless and experimental nature. Jemec's multi-media work is both sensual and cerebral, and he blends technology with tradition in order to manipulate texture, color and light in new and stimulating ways. Jemec often works in several disciplines at one time, freely moving from painting to sculpture, photography and installation. In some works he demonstrates a virtuosity of color; in others it is the absence of color which makes an aesthetic or philosophical statement.
Jemec constantly alters his materials and techniques to imbue each phase of his career with freshness and mystique.

Gašper's work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in a variety of international institutions, art fairs, art festivals, museums and galleries, including Art Paris, Art Madrid, Art Moscow, Essl Museum, European Central Bank in Frankfurt, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and Venice Biennale, from America to France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Austria, Japan, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia.

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Gašper was born on 25th of October 1975 in Kranj, Republic of Slovenia, former SFR Yugoslavia.
He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where he studied painting and new medias both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student with professors Janez Bernik (1994-1996), Gustav Gnamuš (1996-1998), Bojan Gorenec (1998-2000) and Srečo Dragan (2000-2002).
Jemec also did graduate work in painting at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in America with professor Vaughn Clay in 1999. As a Herder scholarship winner of Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS from Hamburg, he further trained in sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with professor Gerda Fassel (2001-2002).

Gašper Jemec works as an independent artist.His work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows all over the world, from Slovenia to America, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Japan, United Kingdom and Australia. He has resided and worked in Indiana, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Hamburg, Sakaide, Valencia, Moscow, Normandy, Paris, Tasmania, Barcelona, Galway and London.

Selected awards, grants and honors:
2022 Hamano Special Award, 2nd prize, Utazu Art Award Biennale 2022, Utazu, Japan
2018 Cité internationale des arts and Association of Visual Artists of Slovenia, Artist Residency, Paris, France
2018 Q Bank Gallery, Artist Residency, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
2016 126 Gallery, Rare Exports #2 Grant, Galway, Ireland
2015 Espronceda/encontrArte BCN, Artist in residence Grant, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Fallani Venezia, Mondonovo Project; selected artist, Venice, Italy
2011 European Central Bank, Contemporary Art from Slovenia; selected artist, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2011 European Parliament, EU Parliament's Art Collection; selected artist, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award 2010 Nominee, Lachen, ...