Jimmy Merris

Jimmy Merris (b.1983, UK) lives and works in West Norwood, UK.
“Jimmy Merris currently works from an old funeral parlor in West Norwood. If you know his work, you’ll understand why this makes a fitting studio. Absurd and macabre — Jimmy works across video, painting and animatronic sculpture — with each piece more sinister, yet humorous, than the last. “My first show was called Finding Your Feet in the Times of the Worried Man, and I haven’t really moved on from that. I don’t want to find my feet anyway! Imagine I found them. I’d probably be really bored and really safe.” I-D, 2018

Recent solo exhibitions include Die Hoffnung, Seventeen, London , 2016; Life eh, Tut, at SWG3, Glasgow, Julie og Jimmy go dogging, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, (with Julie Verhoeven), 2014, London, Bloomberg SPACE, London, 2013 (curated by Paul Pieroni) and Deep Joy on Home Soil, Studio Voltaire, London, 2012. Group Shows include Awesome Tapes From Africa Mate, Bold Tendencies, London, 2013, Yes I Will Yes, American Contemporary, New York, 2013 and Young London, V22, London, 2012.