1971 Born 1971, Glasgow, Scotland
Currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and Fossombrone, Italy
1993-1995 MFA GSA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1989-1993 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting GSA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997-2001 Lecturer in Drawing & Painting, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland
 

Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and Fossombrone, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2024

 Vetrina, Jessica Silverman, San Fransisco CA, USA

2023

A Warm Articulation, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles LA, USA

2021

SLEEP LINE, The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane Bricks Space, Glasgow, Scotland

Pedal Point, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

HOMEWORK #7: Pedal Point Notes, Sadie Coles HQ online

2020 Excitation, The Modern Institute online on Vortic Collect
2019

Treat Fever with Fever, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, Scotland

2016

My Mother Was A Reeler, Etro, London, England

Spoken Yeahs From A Distance, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

2014

The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow, Scotland

Upstairs at The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow, Scotland

Mouth Wave, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)

2012

Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy

Tapestry (RADIO ON), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA, USA (cat.)

2011

Her Guitars, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Independent, New York NY, USA

Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England

2010

Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)

2008

ba BA ba, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

2007

with Katy Dove, Sun by Ear, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

2005

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland

2004

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (cat.)

Curiosity Action Crowd, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

2003

Blue Dog Tooth, Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy

Careless Freedom, Roma, Roma, Roma, Rome, Italy

2002

Night Geometry, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA

Plus and Minus, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)

Pleasure & Practice, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2000

Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel, Germany

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

1999

DECAPODA, The Changing Rooms, Stirling, Scotland (cat.)

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland

1997

Dirty Burning, 33 Great Sutton Street, London, England

Gallery TRE, Stockholm, Sweden

1996

Out of the Web, Fringe Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland (cat.)

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1995 Wilkes, Glasgow, Scotland

Group Exhibitions

2023 

Merlin James and Victoria Morton: Double Shuffle, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 

2022

Painters Paint Paintings: LA Version, Nino Mier, Los Angeles CA, USA

Abstraction Now, The Corn Hall, Diss, England

Entheos, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England

2020

Fieldwork, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

2019

Sipgate Shows Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island, Sipgate, Dusseldorf, Germany

Du coq à l’âne, Le Bel Ordinaire, Billère, France 

2018

unintelligible truths, A-M-G5, Glasgow, Scotland

What you Do, I Like, Hospitafield Arts, Arbroath, Scotland

Foundation Painting Show, Glasgow International 2018, British Heart Foundation, Glasgow, Scotland

Artists who make music Musicians who make art, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Surface Work, Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, London, England

2017

Von Pablo Picasso bis Robert Rauschenberg Schenkung Céline, Heiner und Aeneas Bastian Hommage à Ingrid Mössinger, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Berlin, Germany (cat.)

2016

Out of the Frame: Scottish Abstraction, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, Dundee, Scotland

I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland

The Appearance, Galerie Born Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2015

CONTINUUM, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath, Scotland

Devils in the Making, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2014

GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

That Petrol Emotion, MAS Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon

2013

40/40, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland

A Picture Show, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2012

Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII, Mackintosh Museum, GSA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Chromatropic Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Rose Kallal, Victoria Morton, The Hidden Noise, Glasgow, Scotland

2010

Every Night I go to Sleep, Modern Art, London, England

12 Artists at Fairfield, Fairfield Shipyard Drawing Rooms, Glasgow, Scotland

Our TV, film reel, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, Scotland

2009

Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA, USA

Directions, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

Small Works from Private Collections, Grieder Contemporary Sils-maria, Sils-maria, Switzerland

2006 Gastrophobia, Pumphouse Gallery, London, England
2004

Glasgow in Viaggio, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone, Italy

Edge of the Real: A Painting Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

Auftritt, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

2003

Love Over Gold, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Contemporary Abstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland

Matisse and Beyond, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA
Painting Not Painting, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, England

2002

Half the World Away, Hallwalls CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY, USA

New, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)

Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York NY, England

Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy

2001

Pippo, Lloyd Jerome Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Casino 2001, S.M.A.K Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)

Studio International, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
with Elizabeth Go, One for One, Circles Project, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

with Elizabeth Go, Circles 4 One Fo(u)r, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

Here and Now, Scottish Art 1990-2001, DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (cat.)

Scotland & Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (cat.)

2000

Surface, An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree, Skye, Scotland

Tecknigar, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills CA, USA

In Glass Loopholes, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

with Elizabeth Go, A Very Nice Film Club, Vilma Gold, London, England

with Elizabeth Go, Film Club,Gallery Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

1999

The Queen Is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)

with Elizabeth Go, Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War – You take it from my Heart, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.)

with Elizabeth Go, Love, Speed, Thrills, Holden Gallery, MMU Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England

1998

Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Monoprint, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland

Reverend Todd’s Full House, Grassy Knoll Productions, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Select, The Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland

Tronway Arts Centre, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Slant 6, Jacob Javis Center, New York NY, USA

with Elizabeth Go, Floatina Happiness, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

with Elizabeth Go, Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

1997

Stepping Up, 33 Great Sutton Street, London, England

Sunderland Group Show, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Gallery TRE, Stockholm, Sweden

with Elizabeth Go (performance) and Andrew Mummery, Every Night You Show Me The DF, at Connected, NGCA Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England

Art ‘97’, Transmission Gallery at London Art Fair, London, England         

Evel Machines, Street Net Project, New York NY, USA

Intelligible Lies, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Elizabeth Go with Tompkins, Tripp and Wilkes, Hit ‘em With This Antoinette, Satellite City, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland

with Elizabeth Go, You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me, performance at Connected, NGCA Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England

Transmission Gallery at Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, Scotland

1996

Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

Art ‘96’, Andrew Mummery Gallery at London Art Fair, London, England

Satellite, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.)

Smart Show, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland

Stepping Out, 33 Great Sutton Street, London, England

insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt Gallery, London, England (touring)

insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland (touring)

Art for People, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland

1995

SBC European Art Exhibition, Smith Gallery, London, England / Paris, France

New Rose Hotel, Contemporary Art & Design, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland

Swarm, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, Glasgow

30 Secs + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1994

New Art in Scotland, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.)

Modern Art, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1993 In a Still Climate, Newberry Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

 



Public Collections

 

The Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Mackay + Partners/MAK Architects, London, England

RCM Royal College of Music Museum, London, England

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

 

Awards and Commissions

2021

RCM Royal College of Music Museum, London, England

2019

MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, England

2018

The Perse School Commission, Cambridge, England

2009

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Residency, Boston MA, USA

1999 DECAPODA Commission funded by Stirling District Council and SAC
1998 SAC Small Assistant Grant, to attend Triangle Artists Workshop, New York NY, USA
1997 British Council Visual Art Award, to assist solo exhibition at Gallery Tie, Sweden Hope Scott Trust Award
1996 SAC Small Assistance Grant Award, to fund new work for a solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland