| 1964 | Born in Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1990-94 | BA (Hons) Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland |
Solo Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
SHINE ON, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
| 2023 |
Tales from the Morra Greco Collection II, Morra Greco Collection, Naples, Italy |
| 2022 |
The Dynamic Eye: Op and Kinetic Art from the Tate Collection, MAP Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China STATUS need a world interlude,The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow, Scotland Mythical Political, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Scotland REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2021 |
PIN Benefit Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany A Collection Without Boundaries: International Art since 1990, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy Big Medicine, GIANT, Bournemouth, England Casa Balla, From the house to the universe and back, MAXXI. Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy ColourSpace, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy |
| 2020 |
NOW ON VIEW AT 16 EAST 55TH STREET, Anton Kern, New York NY, USA Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art, RSA Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland MY C ART OGRAPHY. The Erling Kagge Collection, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles, France (touring) Remix 2020, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany MY C ART OGRAPHY. The Erling Kagge Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain (touring) |
| 2019 |
Artworks from the Videoinsight® Collection, The Art and Science Videoinsight® Foundation, Turin, Italy The TURNER, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, Scotland Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York NY, USA Reason Gives No Answers: Selected Works from the Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London, England Cut and Paste | 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Alan Kane: 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England Surface Tension, Carolina Nitsch, New York NY, USA |
| 2018 |
Op Art In Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band Part 2, Rob Tufnell, London, England Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia (touring) Innovative Printmaking, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland If I go there, I won’t stay there, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA The Anthropologist in me, Altice Forum Braga, Braga, Portugal Open House, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA Five Plus Five: Sculptures from China and Great Britain in Hainan, Haiku the Sun and Moon Plaza, Hainan, China |
| 2017 |
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England An Eyeful of Wry, Brynmor Jones Library gallery, University of Hull Art Collection, Hull, England Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always, An Arts Council Collection National Partner Exhibition, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia (touring until 2018) L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte, Castello di Rivoli and GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy |
| 2016 |
Artistic Differences, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco CA, USA Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco CA, USA, curated by Anton Kern and Andrew Kreps Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England |
| 2015 |
Devils in the Making: GSA Glasgow School of Art & the Collection, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Summer Exhibition 2015, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England 2015 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York NY, USA A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA Sleepless – The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, curated by Mario Codognato |
| 2014 |
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Itami City Museum of Art / The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan On The Devolution Of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London, England Urs Fischer curated show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England DISCORDIA, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, Scotland That Petreolemotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX, USA Mutant Moments and Memorabilia, Voidoid Archive, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 2013 |
Alexander McQueen, women’s store, London, England Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner Berlin, Berlin, Germany Somos Libres, MATE Museo Mario Testino, Lima, Peru, curated by Neville Wakefield, Sculpture in the City, various locations, London, England Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert CA, USA |
| 2012 |
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany AKA PEACE, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria Untitled (Works from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection), Riverview School, Cape Cod MA, USA The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY, USA Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, USA Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany |
| 2011 |
Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami FL, USA, curated by Sarah Aibel, Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York NY, USA Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami FL, USA Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard of York Gave battle in Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England At Work. Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England Raw, Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, The Netherlands Space Oddity, CCA Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain Compass, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 |
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY, USA Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Highlights From The Collection, Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas TX, USA Nature, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey Selections from the Hara Museum, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, England Languages and Experimentations, MART Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey Peeping Tom, VEGAS Gallery, London, England, curated by Keith Coventry SHAZAM!, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 |
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland Le sang d’un poete, Hangar a bananes, ile de Nantes, Nantes, France Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 |
Malcolm Mclaren: Musical paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, MAC Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada IKFU Internationell Konst Film Utställning, Jönköping, Sweden (screening) Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria FILMS, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, England |
| 2007 |
Fit to Print: printed media in recent collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY, USA Wild West, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York NY, USA Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Melting Point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle & Gardens, Winchcombe, England Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections, MUSEION Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy Substance & Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY, USA Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA BREAKING STEP / U RASKORAKU, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Echo Room, Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France Off the Wall, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2006 |
This is Not For You : Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London, England Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester MA, USA Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA JaGGy-edge, The Travelling Gallery, Scotland (touring) Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, England Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York NY, USA IMPLOSION, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden / Total Damage,Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany If it didn’t exist you’d have to Invent it: a Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London, England abstract art now – strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany In the darkest hour there may be light: works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery / Other Criteria, London, England |
| 2005 |
Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France Omaggio al Quadrato, Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA Prisms & Shadows, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, curated by Toby Paterson About Beauty, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 |
Works from the Boros Collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.) 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France Brand New and Retro, Up Empire, London, England Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London, England Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT, USA Stalemate, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Tamayo and MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico Ouroboros, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland Last Winter Spring Never Came, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey Genesis Sculpture – Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France |
| 2003 |
Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA with Simon Starling and Clare Barclay, Scottish Pavillon, 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.) Days Like These - Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, England (cat.) The Fourth Sex, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy Painting Not Painting, Tate St Ives, St Ives, England (cat.) Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell’arte Contemporanea (The Tale of the Other Thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contemporary Art), MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy Object in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany The Moderns, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Love Over Gold, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Outlook International Art Exhibition, Athens, Greece I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan Plunder, Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England (touring to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England; Tullie House, Carlisle, England) The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England |
| 2002 |
VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (cat.) EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, organized by NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (cat.) New – Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.) Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Francis and Sol, SMBA Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Roma Roma Roma, project by Gavin Brown, Toby Webster and Franco Noero, Rome, Italy Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (cat.) Early One Morning – Five Young British Sculptors, Tate Britain, London, England My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.) Hello, My Name Is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA (cat.) Superlounge, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY, USA Electric Dreams, Barbican Centre, London, England Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York NY, USA Life Is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy |
| 2001 |
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MI, USA (cat.) SchattenRisse/Shadows, Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich, Germany (cat.) Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (cat.) Between Object and Arabesque, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark (cat.) Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (cat.) Tailsliding, British Council, London, England (touring) (cat.) |
| 2000 |
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ off-site: Hoxton House, London, England British Art Show 5, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Hayward touring exhibition) (cat.) Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland Mapin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England and Camden Arts Centre, London, England (cat.) Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland Off the Record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg PA, USA Raumkörper, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Black Gloss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Heart and Soul, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 1999 |
Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London, England Creeping Revolution, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland To be Continued…, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England (cat.) Dots and Loops, Mk Expositieruimte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.) Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London, England Silk Purse, Waygood gallery, Newcastle, England Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, curated by Mathew Higgs |
| 1998 |
Lovecraft, Spacex, Exeter, England (cat.) All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery Triangle, Marseille, France Slant6, Javits Center, New York NY, USA Ultralow, Carnival Cinema, London, England (solo video screening) The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.) Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1997 |
This is…These are (curated by Kirsty Ogg), Norwich Gallery, Norwich School Art & Design, Norwich, England European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1996 |
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, Scotland Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Valencia CA, USA Girls High, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, England (cat.) Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt, London, England Sick building, Globe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France |
| 1995 |
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland |
Residencies
| 2000 | Triangle, New York NY, USA |
| 1998 | Triangle, Marseille, France |
Public collections
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AAGM Aberdeen City Art Gallery Collections, Aberdeen, Scotland Arts Council Collection, London, England Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo NY, USA British Council Collection, London Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH, USA The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, USA CMOA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA Contemporary Art Society, London, England Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany de la Cruz Collection, Miami FL, USA DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Government Art Collection, London, England Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA Instituto Horizontes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England MFA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA mora art foundation, London, England National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland NGA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA Rubell Museum, Miami FL, USA Ruby City (previously Linda Pace Foundation), San Antonio TX, USA Tate Collection, London Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN, USA |
Awards and Commissions
| 2023 |
Shanghai·Jing’An International Sculpture Project 2023, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 | Zobop (Cerulean) Stairs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 2018 | Spiral Scratch, Swire Properties, Pacific Place, Hong Kong |
| 2013 | Alexander McQueen, women’s store, London, England |
| 2010 | A Forest, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2009 | Nervous Track, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea |
| 2006 | Adidas Originals Store, London, England |
| 2003 | BBC Underground Award |
| 2000 |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, London, England |
| 1998 |
British Council award for residency at Triangle, Marseille, France Ultralow, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |