Tess Jaray
Vienna-born British artist Tess Jaray is known for her simple shapes and flat color, intersecting to produce enigmatic forms. Exploring spatial ambiguities and perception, Jaray’s work was heavily influenced by Renaissance architecture in addition to German Expressionist artists such as Gustav Klimt. After spending time studying art in Paris, London and Italy, Jaray began heavily experimenting with pattern, repetition, color, and space, eventually taking up a teaching position at Slade School of Fine Art—the first woman to do so in the school’s history. Later in her career Jaray began to develop large-scale public commissions for architectural spaces, as well as extensive critical and theoretical writings.
Jaray’s recent solo exhibitions in the United Kingdom include Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Piper Gallery, London, Lyon & Turnbull, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Clifford Chance, London, Todd Galley, London, Serpentine Gallery, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her public paved designs can be seen in Centenary Square, Birmingham and the forecourt of Victoria Station. In 2010 she published a book of her collected writings, Painting: Mysteries and Confessions. She is a Royal Academician and an Honorary Fellow of RIBA …
Vienna-born British artist Tess Jaray is known for her simple shapes and flat color, intersecting to produce enigmatic forms. Exploring spatial ambiguities and perception, Jaray’s work was heavily influenced by Renaissance architecture in addition to German Expressionist artists such as Gustav Klimt. After spending time studying art in Paris, London and Italy, Jaray began heavily experimenting with pattern, repetition, color, and space, eventually taking up a teaching position at Slade School of Fine Art—the first woman to do so in the school’s history. Later in her career Jaray began to develop large-scale public commissions for architectural spaces, as well as extensive critical and theoretical writings.
Jaray’s recent solo exhibitions in the United Kingdom include Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Piper Gallery, London, Lyon & Turnbull, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Clifford Chance, London, Todd Galley, London, Serpentine Gallery, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her public paved designs can be seen in Centenary Square, Birmingham and the forecourt of Victoria Station. In 2010 she published a book of her collected writings, Painting: Mysteries and Confessions. She is a Royal Academician and an Honorary Fellow of RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects).
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany Sundsvall Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Croatia
The British Council, London, UK
The British Museum, London, UK
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA, US
The Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
The Tate Collection, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
University College London, London, UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth, Australia Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, UK
