Jan's puberty was bleak. Apartheid was raging and so were his hormones!
-- Adam Baran


Jan Wandrag

Born in Phalaborwa, South Africa. Lives in New York, New York. 


OUT NOW

My iconic pictures of Charlotte Rampling starring Nathan Carrera as Ms. Rampling are featured in the new CRUSHfanzine Issue #4. Now on sale at www.CRUSHfanzine.com

A tribute to Michael Jackson entitled Lost Boys, Time Square, July 7, 2009 are featured in edition #7 of French/English art magazine Kaiserin


RECENT SHOWS

HUNG
15th – 30th October, 2010
Private view Thursday 14th October 7:30pm-9:30pm
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, United Kingdom

Brian Kenny, Bruce LaBruce, Billy Miller, Slava Mogutin, Gio Black Peter, Walter Pfeiffer, Jesse Finley Reed, Paul Mpagi Sepya, Stuart Sandford, Conrad Ventur, Jan Wandrag

HUNG is an exhibition curated by the artist Stuart Sandford featuring photographic, video, installation works and works on paper. The show brings together a group of both emerging and established international artists whose work explores ideas of sex and sexuality and the male form. Taking inspiration from the LA and NYC sex clubs and gay movie theatres of the 70s and 80s, the exhibition space will be transformed into a place where sex, money and the smell of amyl nitrate are the order of the day.

Summer Camp II at Exile in Berlin
Opening July 17, 2010
A group show with artist like Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Michael Bilsborough, Kathe Burkhart, TM Davy, Michael Economy, Fritz Haeg, Christian Holstad, Brian Kenny, Lisa Kirk, Paul Kopkau, Steve LaFreniere, Michael Magnan, Genesis P. Orridge, Dean Sameshima, Desi Santiago, Paul Sepuya and many more!

Straight to Hell presents an installation by Jan Wandrag
at White Cubicle Toilet Gallery in London
Opening July 24, 2010
An installation celebrating the living legend "Straight to Hell, The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts" at a great space in London.


Exhibits

2010
Your Last Chance, NY Art Book Fair, P.S.1, New York
HUNG, The Horse Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Straight to Hell, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London, UK
Lost Horizon/Head Shop, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Instant by the Fearless project, Robert Goff Gallery, New York
Power to the People, May Day, 2010, Feature Inc., New York
Gasoline Rainbow, CS13, Cincinnati, OH
The World is Not Enough, Curated by Carl J. Ferrero, Online
Postcards From the Edge, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York
Small Works for Big Change, Participant Gallery, New York

2009
Out of Order, Edlin Gallery, New York
Love For Sale, NY Art Book Fair, P.S.1, New York
Crush, Envoy Gallery, New York, New York
Summer Camp III, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Look At Me, Look At Me, BETA Spaces Festival, New York

2008
Straight to Hell: In Cock We Trust, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Artist as Publisher, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
K48 Benefit, John Connelly Presents, New York, New York
In a Box, Canco, Jersey City, New Jersey
The Other Side, The 58 Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
No Milk Today, Autoversion Gallery, New York, New York

2007
Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Rencontres Internationales 2007, Berlin, Germany
Outfest 2007: the 25th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles
North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Durham
Rencontres Internationales 2007, Madrid, Spain
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Miami
Images Of David+Jonathan, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami
6th Annual Photography Fundraiser, Stivers School for the Arts, Dayton, OH

2006
V-day, R-Bar, Brooklyn, New York
Lumas Editions, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Germany
NewFest 2006: The 18th New York LGBT Film Festival, New York
Images Of David+Jonathan, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York
Summer Show, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York
Beyond Glamour, Lumas, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Germany
The 2006 SPE-MA Conference, Philadelphia
25th Annual REELING 2006 Film Festival, Chicago
8th Annual OUT TAKES Film Festival, Dallas
17th Annual Jewish Film Festival, Washington, DC
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France
NewFest Local Shorts Showcase, New York

2005
See What I Mean?, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Re:Vision, Walter Reade Theater, New York

2004
Male Trouble, Westside Gallery, New YorkVideo Culture @ Remote, Remote Lounge, New York
Martha and Me, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York
Chamber's: 95 Canal Project: Out of Our Element, Video Projects, New York

1998
Mir(ror)age:10 Photographers, Oudtshoorn, Pretoria, Capetown, South Africa


Bibliography/Press

New York Magazine, ”Approval Matrix”, November 5, 2010
Planet Notion, Exhibition Review, October 2010
Vice Magazine, ”Hung Exhibition”, October 18, 2010
Frieze Magazine, ”Summer Camp”, August 8, 2010
Crush Fanzine, Issue 4, 2010
Slava Mogutin's Pinko Commie Fag blog, January 2010
New York Times, ”All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle”, October 3, 2009
New York Times, “The Objects of Their Obsessions”, October 1, 2009
BUTT Magazine, Calendar 2010
Kaiserin Magazine, #07, Premier Semestre, 2009
The/End, Issue 13, 2009
Crush Fanzine, Issue 2, 2009
New York Blade: Bible Study, Monday, July 03, 2006
NY Arts Magazine: Beyond Glamour—Melancholy Behind the Glitter, Nov/Dec 2006
Six Degrees Magazine, May Issue, 2007
H Magazine, July Issue, 2007
Straight to Hell, Issue 66, 2007
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Issue 1, 2007
Six Degrees Magazine, October Issue, 2007
SMASH Magazine, Winter Issue, 2007
No Milk Today, Issue 1, 2008
K48, Issue 1, 2008


School

BFA in Information Design from the University of Pretoria, South Africa
MFA in Photo and Video from the School of Visual Arts in New York