Jimmy Robert’s practice encompasses performance, photography, film, video, and drawing, frequently collapsing distinctions between these mediums. Using photography as a starting point for his works on paper, Robert blurs the divisions between two and three dimensions, as well as between image and object. This interest in blurred boundaries integrates his performative work—which includes choreographed elements in the context of an exhibition or in relationship to architecture—with his larger practice. In previous works he has explored the politics of spectatorship by reworking seminal avant-garde performances in ways that complicate their racial and gendered readings. Robert’s work has been featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, in commissions by Performa 17 and the Glass House, in performances at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at the Berlin and Dakar biennials, and in a Satellite presentation organized by the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Jimmy Robert lives and works in Brussels (BE).
| 2025 | Thomas Dane, London |
| 2025 | Barakat Contemporary, Seoul |
| 2025 | CCA Islands, Japan |
| 2024 | Joie Noire: Jimmy Robert, Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland |
| 2023 | Asymmetrical Grammar, Moderna Museet, Malmö Pausing, Centre National de la Danse, Paris-Pantin |
| 2022 | The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee |
| 2022 | Framenti, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples |
| 2022 | All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden |
| 2022 | Still Alive, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi |
| 2022 | Portrait of a Movement, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid |
| 2022 | La musique dans la chambre, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen |
| 2022 | When I State That I Am An Anarchist, PLATO, Ostrava |
| 2021 | Tobacco Flower, The Hunterian, Glasgow International |
| 2021 | Akimbo, CRAC Occitanie in Sète |
| 2021 | Akimbo, Museion, Bolzano |
| 2020 | Akimbo, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham |
| 2020 | Plié, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren |
| 2019 | Joie noire, Kaaitheather, Brussels |
| 2019 | Joie noire, KW Institute for Contemprary Art, Berlin |
| 2018 | Many Shades of Brouwn, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam |
| 2017 | AL(LI)TERATION, Performa Commission, The Glass House, Connecticut |
| 2017 | Wanna talk about reading?, Western Front, Vancouver |
| 2017 | European Portraits, Peer, London |
| 2016 | Descendances du nu, CAC-La Synagogue de Delme |
| 2015 | A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Museum M, Leuven, BE |
| 2015 | Museum M, Leuven, BE |
| 2015 | It’s not lame…it’s lame, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE |
| 2013 | Made to Measure, 1857, Oslo, NO |
| 2013 | Draw the line, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA |
| 2013 | F230 Rose dragée, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2012 | Vis-à-vis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US |
| 2012 | Consensus Rouge Noir and Under the Influence: Marguerite Duras, Jimmy Robert,Picture This,Bristol,UK |
| 2012 | The Present is Another Country, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR |
| 2011 | Und das nennt sich Mann…,…Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2011 | Consensus Rouge Noir, performance, Kunsthalle Basel, CH |
| 2010 | Le Bonheur d’etre Dupe (Pas de Deux), Art Concept, Paris, FR |
| 2010 | Art Basel Features (with Maaike Schoorel), Galerie Diana Stigter |
| 2010 | Consensus Rouge Noir, performance, South London Gallery, London, GB |
| 2009 | Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White) FRAC lle-de-France, Paris, FR |
| 2009 | Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White) CAC Bretigny, FR |
| 2009 | Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), I.C.A., London, UK |
| 2009 | Reprise, CCA KITAKYUSHU Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, JP |
| 2009 | Suspended Closure, Suspended, Follow Fluxus prize exhibition, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, DE |
| 2009 | Figure de Style, performance, Frascati, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2009 | Trio A, performance (in collaboration with Pat Catterson and Ian White),Museum of Modern Art,NY,US |
| 2009 | Grey Flannel Suits Any Man, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, UK |
| 2008 | Légèrement Manipulés, CAC, Brétigny, FR |
| 2008 | Elegantly Wasted, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE |
| 2008 | Figure de Style, Cubitt Gallery, London, GB |
| 2007 | Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), De Appel, Amsterdam, NL / STUK, |
| 2007 | Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), Brussels, BE |
| 2007 | Art Basel Statement with Galerie Diana Stigter, Basel, CH |
| 2006 | Manifold Centerfold, White Light, Dusseldorf, DE |
| 2006 | Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| 2006 | Instability, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2004 | 6 Things We Couldn’t Do..., (in collaboration with Ian White) Art Now, Tate Britain, London, GB |
| 2002 | Brown Leatherette, commissioned by Autograph, Platform, London, GB |
| 2024 | Motion Capture: Recent Acquisitions in Media and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| 2024 | ipping through pages keeping a record of time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert, Participant Inc |
| 2023 | The Trembling Museum, The Hunterian, Glasgow |
| 2023 | Drawing Probable Conclusions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| 2023 | Horizons Olfactifs, Fondation Espace Écureuil pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse |
| 2023 | ouch. Politiken der Berührung (The Politics of Touch), EMOP European Month of Photography, Berlin |
| 2023 | Sediments. The Matter-Image, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest |
| 2023 | It Go Have To Adjust, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2022 | Still Alive, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan |
| 2022 | Portrait of a Movement. Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid |
| 2022 | When I State that I Am an Anarchist, PLATO Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 2022 | The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee |
| 2021 | Wild Frictions, CAC Cincinnati and Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin |
| 2021 | Crocodile Cradle, curated by Simon Moretti, PEER, London |
| 2021 | Balade Charlottenburg, The French Institute, Berlin |
| 2021 | A Time to Embrace and to Refrain from Embracing, 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia |
| 2020 | Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 2020 | Studio Berlin, Boros Foundation at Berghain, Berlin |
| 2019 | ...and other such stories, Chicago Architecture Biennial |
| 2019 | Stars are Closer and Clouds are Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG Foundation, Amman |
| 2019 | Tender Buttons, Künstlerhaus Bremen |
| 2019 | Hybrid Sculptures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 2019 | Displacement and Togetherness, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen |
| 2018 | Relational Undercurrents, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago |
| 2018 | XlV Bienal de Cuenca |
| 2018 | A Stong Desire, PS120, Berlin |
| 2018 | Prosecute my Posture, Garage, Rotterdam |
| 2018 | Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin |
| 2018 | Any frame is a thrown voice, Camden Arts Centere |
| 2017 | Palace Potemkin, National Gallery / The Palace, Sofia |
| 2017 | Rest in the Furrows of My Skin,Kunsthaus Hamburg |
| 2017 | Rest In the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg |
| 2016 | Collective Exhibition / Interprétations à l'œuvre, Astéride/Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille |
| 2016 | The Museum of Rhythm, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz |
| 2016 | SCIC Friche la Belle de Mai, Actoral Festival, Marseilles |
| 2016 | Künstlich Natürlich, Sabot Gallery, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj |
| 2016 | AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| 2015 | After Dark, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, CH |
| 2014 | All that falls, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR |
| 2014 | Textile languages, Thalie Art Project, Brussels, BE |
| 2014 | Dak’art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, SN |
| 2014 | 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, DE |
| 2013 | In a Sentimental Mood, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, FR |
| 2013 | Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Iemanja Claus, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2012 | Iemanja Claus, Mendes Wood, San Paulo, BR |
| 2012 | Emma/Mystique, ICA, London, UK |
| 2012 | Suspended closure, suspended, performance, The Imaginary Museum, Kunstverein Munich, DE |
| 2012 | Alice in Wonderland, MART, Rovereto, IT |
| 2011 | Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, UK |
| 2011 | The Second Act: A Festival on Photography Goes Live, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2011 | The Other Tradition, Wiels, Brussels |
| 2010 | Here and Now, Julia Stoscheck, Dusseldorf, DE |
| 2010 | Sheffield Biennial, UK |
| 2009 | 30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum Harlem, NY |
| 2009 | Antidotes, Galeries Lafayettes, Paris, FR |
| 2009 | l’ Image Cabrée, Prix Ricard, Paris, FR |
| 2009 | 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her, duo show with Kate Davis, FOUR, Dublin, IR |
| 2008 | Un-Scene, Wiels, Brussels, BE |
| 2008 | Notorious, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, FR |
| 2008 | Persona, Park Saint- Legér, Saint Leger-en–Bray, Fr |
| 2008 | Palace, The John Institute, St. Gallen, CH |
| 2008 | Gwanju Biennial, CN |
| 2008 | Yokohama Triennial, JP |
| 2008 | 5th Berlin Biennial, DE |
| 2007 | Re-Make / Re-Model, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, UK |
| 2007 | Moving, Contingency, Community, Gallery 27, Seoul |
| 2007 | Act Out, Studio Voltaire, London, UK |
| 2007 | Zes, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2007 | Zes, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Le Ping-Pong d’amour, Whitechapel art gallery, London, UK |
| 2007 | Travaux Sur Papier Art: Concept, Paris, FR |
| 2006 | Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR |
| 2006 | Just In Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2004 | 3 to the Power of 3, Cine Lumiere, French institute, London, UK |
| 2003 | Changing Times, Tate Britain, London, UK |
| 2002 | Brixton Studio, The photographers’ Gallery, London, UK |
| 2002 | F.A.G, Cubitt, London, UK |
