Based in Sydney (Gadigal/Garigal), Australia.
b. 1999
Jordan Dempsey’s practice examines how we exist in and move through space, and how subtle gestures can reshape the conditions of encounter. Working across installation, sculpture, video, performance, and dispersed actions, he creates works that resist spectacle, privileging quiet shifts, traces, and contingent relations over fixed or monumental forms.
His projects often blur the boundaries between art and life, reframing the exhibition space as a site of ambiguity, interruption, and participation. At the core of his practice is a belief in subtlety as a radical act. Through situational aesthetics, poetic disobedience, and quiet forms of resistance, Dempsey reveals alternative ways of being, seeing, and valuing. His works unsettle expectations of authorship and value, proposing art as contingent, relational, and inseparable from the lived conditions in which it takes place.
Education
2022 - present, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), University of New South Wales
2018 - 2019, Advanced Diploma of Interior Design, Sydney Design School
Exhibitions
2025
During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed, Solo exhibition, Tiny Gallery
30 Maps + 30 Artists, Goodspace Gallery, Group exhibition, Curated by Leigh Russell and Vanessa Hyde
Document, Goodspace Gallery, Group exhibition, Curated by Angelique Ford
Return of Fluxus, El Faro Gallery, Group exhibition, Curated by Keira Garland
City Piece, Live-In Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Carey Cheng
Objects in Orbit, Kudos, Group exhibition, Curated by Carey Cheng
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