Jack O'Brien
Fringe, 2025
French horn, trumpet horn, spring, silver-plated spoons, spray paint
35 x 6 x 45 in
88.9 x 15.2 x 114.3 cm
Jack O'Brien, The Reward, Camden Art Centre, London, UK, 2024.
Installation view.
Photo: Rob Harris.
Jack O'Brien
Lengthening I, 2025
Leather dress shoes, spray paint, glass door handles
11.5 cm x 50.5 cm x 36 cm
Jack O'Brien
Chest, 2025
Table, gramophone horns, bollards, stockinette, spray paint
16 ×140 ×92.5 cm
Jack O'Brien, Cue the Cue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, DE, 2025.
Installation view.
Jack O'Brien
Allowance, 2024
Sousaphones, Barbican Centre street light, PVC coated steel rope, PETG plastic and aluminium armature wire
41 3/4 x 59 x 23 5/8 in
106 x 150 x 60 cm
Jack O'Brien, A Formality, Ordet, Milan, IT, 2025.
Installation view.
Jack O'Brien
Wrest, 2024
Street Lamps, spray paint, industrial pallet netting, medical grade polycarbonate film, metal cable-ties
21 x 81 x 245 1/2 in
53.3 x 205.7 x 623.6 cm
Jack O'Brien
Boundary II, 2024
Medical grade polycarbonate film, ribbon, epoxy putty, electrical cord, Soft pastel and spray paint on digital print mounted on aluminium
32 3/4 x 46 1/2 x 7 3/4 in
83.2 x 118.1 x 19.7 cm
Jack O'Brien, Air de Repos: Breatwork, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2024.
Installation view.
Jack O'Brien, Return, 2023.
Soft pastel, spray paint, photographic print mounted on aluminium, heat-formed PETG plastic, aluminium pipe, butchers netting.
46.8 x 33.1 x 8.7 inches
118.9 x 84.1 x 22 cm
Jack O'Brien, Phaedrus, 2024
Cellos, cellophane, chrome-plated steel, spray paint, seat-belt webbing, bolts, shock cord
52.4 x 43.3 x 17.2 inches
133 x 110 x 45 cm
Jack O’Brien (b.1993) lives and works in London. He received his BA in Fine Art from Kingston University, London in 2014.
O’Brien’s work is currently on view with the British Art Show: A Chorus of Strangers, UK (2026-28).
Recent solo exhibitions include Leisure, Morena Di Luna, Maureen Paley, Hove, UK (2026); A Formality, Ordet, Milan (2025); Cue the Cue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, GR (2025); Cascade, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2025); The Reward, Camden Art Centre, London (2024); Nectar, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024); Love Triangle, Aro, Mexico City (2024); The Theatre and Its Double, curated by Viscose Journal, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE (2023); The Answer, Sans Titre Invites, Paris (2023); To More Time, Lockup International, London (2022) and Waiting For The Sun To Kill Me, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK (2021).
Recent group exhibitions include Nocturnal, David Zwirner, Hong Kong (2026); Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change., Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Netherlands (2026); Air de repos (Breathwork), CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (2024); PROGRAM, Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Poetics & politics of maintenance: Show me you’re not the light I called to, but the darkness behind it, Fluent, Santander, Spain (2024); Non-Specific Objects, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2024); Right Now, Wrong Then, King’s Leap, New York (2024); Memory of Rib, N/A Gallery, Seoul (2022); Chômage Technique, Lovaas Projects, Munich (2022); Something is Burning, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia (2022); An Insular Rococo, Hollybush Gardens, London (2022) and Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin (2018).
O’Brien also received the Camden Art Centre Artist Prize at Frieze London, 2023.
O’Brien has a forthcoming group exhibition Sculpture Beyond The Solid, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2026).
