Profile
John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound. His practice is fluid and responds to his working conditions, resulting in artworks that can take many forms. Recent installations include multichannel immersive audio, performance, video, image and object-making, writing, and scientific techniques related to biology and chemistry. He has collaborated with glass blowers, coders, scientists, percussionists, and poets, and values the impact that working with others can have on the final outcome of a project. His artwork has been exhibited in both domestic and international venues, and he has been an artist in residence at numerous organizations, including Triangle Artist Workshop, The Glazenhuis Museum, The Marble House Project, and most recently, Zion National Park.
John has taught a wide variety of courses at Parsons since 2002, ranging from pre-college to graduate, in multiple programs and schools. He is currently the Associate Dean of First Year in the School Of Art & Design History & Theory.
Degrees Held
MFA - Hunter College
BFA - Rutgers University
Recent Publications
Books and catalogues
2018
Half Life. Machines/ Organisms, Artistic Positions in the context of Climate Change and Extinction. Käthe Wenzel/Manfred Blohm (eds.) Fabrico Verlag Hannover, 2018.
2017
The Internal Machine, New York Center for Book Arts. Exhibition Catalogue
2017
Ocean Imaginaries, RMIT Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue.
2014
Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. Exhibition Catalogue.
2012
Architectural inventions – Visionary Drawing Building. Matt Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb. Laurence King Publishing,
2011
Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves, Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications.
2006
Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, And the Paranormal
Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching. Exhibition Catalogue Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC Center. Exhibition Catalog.
Performances and Appearances
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Colony - Radiophrenia
2023 Scorched Honey Archive - Biobat Art Space, Sunset Park Brooklyn
2023 Scorched Honey Archive - NARS, Sunset Park Brooklyn
2022 Colony - Port Austin Bee Barn, Port Austin MI
2020 Frozen Words - Local Project Art Space, Long Island City NY
2018 Earlid, Liminal Sounds, Skin Rubbed Smooth Issue. The Vein Flows Below.
2018 TEST BED no. 2, a Modern ABATON. A collaboration with Pillow Culture. Sheila Johnson Design Center. Aronson Gallery, The New School University. New York, NY.
2018 LIGO – The Art of Science. Collaboration with Scientist John Burns. Littlefield Gallery, Brookyn, NY.
2018 Tacoma Museum of Glass One week residency to develop objects for the ongoing project Frozen Words Tacoma, WA
2018 Pushing Buttons, Urban Glass. Brooklyn, NY
2017 Oceans Imaginaries (with Emma Critchley). RMIT Gallery. Melbourne Australia
2017 Frozen Words Hot Air, Urban Glass. Brooklyn, NY
2016 Earlid, Liminal Sounds, The Intermediary Issue. I am a Radio (with Caroline Bouissou)
2016 Whereabouts, GlazenHuis Museum. Lommel, Belgium (Curated by Hyperopia, catalogue)
2016 Gene Splicing, 9E2, A Festival of Art, Science, and Technology. Seattle, WA.
2016 The Tactile Transducers , GlazenHuis Museum. Lommel, Belgium
2016 Siren Earthquake Radio (with Craig Dongoski). The Ionion Center for Arts and Culture. Kefalonia, Greece
Research Interests
sound, installation art, music, new genres, video, collaboration
Awards And Honors
Residencies
2022 Port Austin Artist in Residence, MI
2022 Teton Arts Lab, Uncommon Arts Residenct, WY
2022 Zion National Park Artist in Residence, UT
2021 The Inferno Project
Cities & Memory. Online Sound Exhibition. Direct link to my project HERE.
2020 Earlid: The Dream Had Me
Curated by Joan Schuman, Online
2019 Outpost Artist Resources
Cuts and Burns residency to support the project Frozen Words
2018 Ligo Project
Year-long art/science project with scientist John Burns to realize the project Symbiotext New York, NY
2017 Marble House Project
Three week residency to develop project Stone Cold Groove. Dorset, VT
2017 Tacoma Museum of Glass
One week residency to develop objects for the ongoing project Frozen Words, Tacoma, WA
2016 Glazen Huis
Residency to develop and perform the work The Tactile Transducers Lommel, Belgium
2015 NARS - New York Artist Residency and Studio Foundation
Three Month studio residency to develop the project Instrument as Studio Brooklyn, NY
2015 Triangle Artist Workshop
Two week international intensive studio residency
Salem, NY
2015 The Ionion Center for Arts and Culture (with Craig Dongoski)
Three week residency to develop the project Siren Earthquake Radio
Kefalonia, Greece
2015 Pilchuck Glass School
By Invitation. Three week residency to develop work that explores sound and glass
Stanwood, WA
2007 Free103.9 – Wavefarm Residency (with James Rouvelle)
One week residency to develop the project Trailhead.
Acra, NY
1997 Experimental Television Center
One week media-based artist residency
Owego, NY
Selected Grants
2019 Queens Council for the Arts. Queens Arts Fund
2018 Team Mentoring Grant. To support the Sound@ research group (With Julie Napolin, Edward Keller, Shannon Mattern)
2018 Parsons School based Funds. In support of technical training in Max/MSP
SAPPI Ideas That Matter Grant For the project Sound the Mound (with Andrew Shea)
2017 New School Collaboratory Faculty Fund for Multimedia Documentation of Engaged Learning. In support of the project Sound the Mound with Andrew Shea.
2016 9e2 Project Funding grant. In support of the project Gene Splicing.
2015 New School Research Grant. In support of the project Siren Earthquake radio.
2015 Mentoring Fund Grant To support Sound and the Mind with Alex Joseph
2012 Innovations in Education Awards. in support of Sound@Newschool Research Group
2006 American Embassy in Budapest Travel Grant. In support of the performance at the King Saint Stephen Museum, Hungary
2006 Turbulence.org. New American Radio Grant. In support of the project The Simultaneous Translator
2004 Experimental Television Center. To support he project Simultaneous Translation Finishing Funds Award
Portfolio
http://johnroach.net/