In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen chatted with Jack Hogan. Jack is an artist, music producer and lapsed architect. Born in 1986 in Waterford, Ireland, their work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places. Life can be hard and seem meaningless. Art and music are good ways for Jack to make meaning or find beauty in that meaninglessness. Their diverse artistic investigations, in terms of subject matter and media, are driven by intensive studies, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective.

In addition to Stream, their ongoing solo exhibition of drawing, photography and video at 15 Beautreillis Gallery in Paris, Jack has had solo exhibitions at Performance Epistemology Gallery in Taipei and Flux Factory in New York. They will have a solo presentation at Sukhdev Sandhu’s Colloquium for Unpopular Culture in New York in May this year, and a further solo exhibition at Starling in Limerick at the end of the year.

Jack has shown work in the ICA London, Whitney Museum, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin, New York University, Athens Biennale, Starling Limerick, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Artists Space New York, Documenta Fifteen, Cork International Film Festival, Zurich University of the Arts, Spectacle Theater Brooklyn, aemi Dissolutions Dublin, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Conditions Croydon, Sydenham Community Garden, and Beta Biennial Timișoara.

Photo credit: Sara Sassanelli