page_title: Jay Gard
section_title: Life
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caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jay Gard, Touristic Hint, Nah und Fern, Skulpturen-Triennale Bingen, 2017
context_page_description: Jay Gard is a German artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
context_section_description: Jay Gard was born in Halle/Saale and raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed Chemnitz in 1990). He spent his early childhood in the waning years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) where his mother worked as a textile designer and his father as a product designer. Gard studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design (Burg Giebichenstein) in Halle/Saale. From 2006 to 2008 he worked for the American artist Tom Sachs in New York and the German artist Thomas Demand in Berlin. In 2008 he continued his higher education at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (HGB) in Joachim Blank’s Class for Installation and Space. Gard founded the label VEGA-Leipzig  in 2010 for which he designed and built various audio-objects. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2012.
  In spring 2019 he presented his first solo museum exhibition "Gabriele" at the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz. Later that year he received an artist residency of the Bauhaus Foundation  at Oskar Schlemmer's Meisterhaus in Dessau to create an artist edition for Thonet of Marcel Breuer's classic ′b9-Hocker′. They were first launched at the opening of the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau and will be permanently on display.
caption: Jay Gard, Touristic Hint, Nah und Fern, Skulpturen-Triennale Bingen, 2017
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