Born 1980 in Livonia, MI. Lives in New York, NY.
(HE/HIM/HIS)
Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.
Jeremy Couillard received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York, NY), Phillips Auction House (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), and Flux Factory (Queens, NY). He has produced numerous projects with Daata (London, UK) and has screened his work at the New Museum (New York, NY), Rhizome (New York, NY), Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment (New York, NY), The Bass Museum’s Soundscape Park (Miami, FL), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA). Couillard’s work has been featured and reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, Artnet news, ARTNews, The Huffington Post, and The Observer. Jeremy Couillard is represented by Denny Gallery (New York).
Review the article and experience with an exhibit showcasing games using technology to tell stories, and expand upon ideas, concepts and spaces that the makers experienced.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start on the Upper East Side to Jeremy Couillard on EFA Project Space.
At NADA, the sort of digital artworks that were so noticeably absent from other fairs were on display at booths like Denny Dimin Gallery’s, which featured computers playing Jeremy Couillard’s video game/video art piece Fuzz Dungeon on loop alongside paintings of old-school arcade consoles by Stephen Thorpe.
Stephen Thorpe’s paintings of vultures and vintage gaming cabinets chatted with Jeremy Couillard’s digital artworks, from a game of his own design to deconstructed consoles and colorful 2D works like circuit boards.
“We thought of it as a counter to the NFT world,” Robert Dimin said of the gallery’s presentation, which included a video game by Couillard with paintings of old-school video game consoles by Thorpe.
The British painter Stephen Thorpe and the American digital artist Jeremy Couillard have collaborated to create an environment suggestive of a video game arcade
Denny Dimin Gallery has found an innovative way to sell the work of new media artist Jeremy Couillard
Jeremy Couillard’s list of finalists for each category of the 2022 IGF Awards.
Jeremy interviewed, “There is a place in your head where a thought slowly morphs into a real thing…”
Jeremy’s Alien Afterlife: Let’s Play 2056, and JEF_Stream in CYFEST-13.
‘Life is really weird and nobody knows what’s going on. One big thing that drives my work is how we all do things that nobody wants to do—nobody wants to go to war, and nobody wants to have a job—but we do them anyway. It’s weird and stupid but it’s human,’ [Couillard] said.
Jeremy Couillard is presenting a new video “Voluntary Associations” with the Daata Fair in Miami, The Bass and the New World Symphony.
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JEF is a cosmology, inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, fully automated luxury space communism fantasies and human/computer interaction. This project brings together for the first time various elements that have featured with Daata at Phillips New York, Joyous Dystopia at The Bass Museum Miami and New World Symphony and on Infinite Objects.
The Phillips x Daata artist commissions
In Jeremy Couillard’s HOTR Home Furnishing, an IKEA-like warehouse store serves as a re-education camp for billionaires following the Earth‘s salvation at the hands of aliens. As a necessary condition of the transition to a more equitable and climate-friendly society, the aliens are attempting to retrain the billionaires of the old world to perform humble and useful tasks—specifically, to assemble prefab furniture.
As a necessary condition of the transition to a more equitable and climate-friendly society, the aliens are attempting to retrain the billionaires of the old world to perform humble and useful tasks—specifically, to assemble prefab furniture.
You wake up in a hospital. There is a doctor standing over you in scrubs, running his hand down a clipboard, a mask pulled tight across his face. There’s a vague beeping behind you and the sounds of miserable sobbing coming from somewhere. The beeping grows longer and louder until, all of a sudden, it flat-lines and your consciousness (soul? being?) rises up out of your body. “Let me tell you a secret. . .” a calm, female, British voice says from somewhere as your consciousness floats into a cosmic, hallucinogenic light show on the way to your alien afterlife.
The installation’s centerpiece is a video game designed and engineered by Couillard, unfurling as a quest for reincarnation amid kaleidoscopic landscapes and eccentric extraterrestrials.
Enter an ‘Alien Afterlife’ Inside a Video Game Installation.
The Last Platform: What it’s like to stand on the precipice of virtual reality
Denny Dimin Gallery streamed Fuzz Dungeon—a never ending, animated simulation of an inescapable mess of information that goes back and forth from being an intelligible narrative to a hypnagogic mania—as part of a Virtual Exhibition from June 8th through July 8th, 2021. To learn more about Fuzz Dungeon please visit the exhibition page here.
This video is a 45 minute recording of that live stream.
JEF: An expansive video project by Jeremy Couillard
JEF is a cosmology, inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, fully automated luxury space communism fantasies and human/computer interaction. The project takes on many forms from animation and simulation to video games and stand-alone video objects from Infinite Objects. This project brings together for the first time various elements that have featured with Daata at Phillips New York, Joyous Dystopia at The Bass Museum Miami and New World Symphony and on Infinite Objects. Jeremy is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery. This project launches the release of JEF on the Steam gaming platform.
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Made for the waiting room in Jeremy Couillard’s exhibition “Out of Body Experience Clinic” at Louis B James, 143b Orchard St, NY, NY, April 3rd-May 10th, 2015.
