CURRICULM VITAE
DAVID SHRIGLEY
Born: 17 September 1968. Macclesfield, England.
Education: Glasgow School of Art 1988-91.
David Shrigley
Born: 1968, Macclesfield, UK
Lives and works in Brighton, England
Education
1988-91
Glasgow School of Art, BA Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Do Not Touch the Worms, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark Fond Memories of Giant Bug, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Fluff War, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA Kindness: Prints & Drawings by David Shrigley, Newstead Abbey Historic House & Gardens, Nottinghamshire Do it (do not do it), Museo de arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico David Shrigley: To Be of Use, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, USA Exhibition of Inflatable Swan Things and Other Things, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark David Shrigley, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand 2018 Power Station of Art & Design, Shanghai, China Life Model II, Fabrica, Brighton, UK Laughterhouse, Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Athens, Greece Exhibition of Inflatable Swan Things, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Anton Kern Gallery, New York Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan Skip Gallery, London Hall Art Foundation, Reading
2016-2018 Really Good, The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London,uk
2016 Printemps en Septembre, Toulouse Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Mass, USA MAC, Santiago, Chile Stephen Friedman Gallery, London BQ, Berlin Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen 2015 Instituto Cultural Cabanas,Guadalajara, Mexico Anton Kern Gallery, New York Two Rooms, Auckland 2014-2018 Sketch, London, England 2014 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Pinakothek, Munich Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen 2013 Anton Kern Gallery, New York BQ, Berlin 2012 Hayward Gallery, London Stephen Friedman, London YBCA, San Francisco Cornerhouse, Manchester Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen 2011 BQ, Berlin Yvon Lambert, Paris Turku Art Museum, Finland Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen 2010 Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow Anton Kern Gallery, New York Museum M, Leuven 2009 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich. Kunsthall, Bergen. Kunsthall, Mainz. 2008 BQ Galerie, Cologne. Ludwig Museum, Cologne Baltic, Gateshead, England CASM, Barcelona Anton Kern Gallery, New York 2007 CAB, Burgos, Spain Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Malmo Konsthalle, Malmo, Sweden Stephen Friedman, London. 2006 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. DCA, Dundee Neils Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin. Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. 2005 BQ Galerie, Cologne. Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Anton Kern Gallery, New York. 2004 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. Stephen Friedman, London. Francesca Pia, Bern. 2003 Galerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. BQ Galerie, Cologne. Kunsthaus, Zurich. 2002 Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Domaine de Kerguehennec, France.* Camden Arts Centre, London. UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 2001 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. CCS Museum, Bard College, New York* Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. 2000 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. 1999 Francesca Pia, Bern. Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. 1998 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam. Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. 1997 Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee. CCA, Glasgow. Francesca Pia, Bern. Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Photographers' Gallery, London. 1996 Catalyst Arts, Belfast. 1995 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2020–2021 Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark (catalogue) 2020 Figure Up, BCMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue) State of the Arts, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany 2019–2020 Lines from Scotland, St Andrews Museum, Fife, Scotland; touring to Dunfermlines Carnegie Library & Galleries, Dunfermline, Scotland Drawn World: Drawings from Menzel to Warhol, Galerie Ludorff, Germany Playmode, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal Stance & Fall: A Wavering World, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany 2019 Dog Show, CGP London: The Gallery & Dilston Grove, London, England There’ll Never be a Door You’re Inside: Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain The Lie of the Land, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England The Stage is Yours, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 2018 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Here & Now, Peter Harrington Gallery, London, England TYPE, Hang-Up Gallery, London, England Collaborationism, Peter Harrington Gallery, London, England BRIT ART, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London, England Sweats & Tears, Saasfee Pavilion, Berlin, Germany And I Will Take You To Paradise, Kunstmuseet Kube, Ålesund, Norway 2017 Partizipation Als Künstlerisches Prinzip, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, England, England You Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Hang-Up Gallery Collections 2017, Hang-Up Gallery, London, England JUMP, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen News/Prints, International Print Centre, New York, USA Donde Esta La Playa? The Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen 2016 Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Toulouse International Art Festival, Toulouse, France Alice in Crisis, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece Found, Foundling Museum, London, England The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason 1945 to the present, Dovecot Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England Joia De Artista, Galeria Bergamin Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil 720, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Problem In Toulouse, Institut Supérieur Des Arts De Toulouse, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse 2015 I Dropped the Lemon Tart, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, USA Eyes on the Prize, The Travelling Gallery in association with Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England All Of Us Have a Sense of Rhythm, David Robert’s Art Foundation, London, England Drawing Now: 2015, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria Below Another Sky, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland Idiot Box, Kate MacGarry, London, England Devils in the Making, Gallery Of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2014–2015 Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; touring to Itami City Museum of Art & The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi; Japan and Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan ARCHIVE FEVER!, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2014 Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Below another sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland Reclaimed: The Second Life of Sculpture, The Briggait, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland More Than This, Theodore: Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, England 2013–2014 Old School Anachronism in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany 2013 Fourth Plinth Commission, The Crypt, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England Lightness of Being, Public Art Fund, New York, USA The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, USA Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich, England The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan, USA Homelands, British Council Touring Exhibition, curated by Latika Gupta; travelling to Delhi; Kolkata; Mumbai; Bengaluru, India SUPER Visions – Drawing and Being, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany Turquoise Heid, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2012 What are you like?, House of Illustration, Holburne Museum, Bath, England A Parliament of Lines, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland Punkt-Systeme, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany Curators Series 5, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England A Perfect Day, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Musique Plastique, agnès b. Galerie Boutique, New York, USA Mothers, Contemporary Art Space Chester, Chester, England Zoo, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA Adventureland Golf, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England Danish and International Art after 1900, Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, København K, Demark Sous influences, arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2011 Placement, Oriel Mostyn, Wales 2010 The More I Draw, Museum Für Gegenwartkunst, Siegen, Germany 2009 Fumetto, Luzern.* 2008 Laughing In A Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London.* Life On Mars, 55th Carnegie Biennale, Pittsburgh.* Irony and Gesture, Kukje Gallery, South Korea.* Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center.* Order, Desire, Light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.* 2007 Parasol Unit, London Off The Wall, Aspen Museum Of Art 2006 Defamation of Character, PS1, New York Under God's Hammer; William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Wqestern Australia, Perth* Humor Me, Kansas City Art Institute* The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005 Situation Comedy, MCA, Chicago * Emotion Pictures, MUHKA, Antwerp * 2004 Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Living Dust, Norwich Gallery, Norwich * State of Play, Serpentine, London.* Britannia Works, Xippas Gallery, Athens.* 2003 Splat,Boom,Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. 2002 Reality Check, (Various venues) * Jokes, MAMCO, Geneva. Sudden Glory, CCAC, San Francisco.* 2001 Rendezvous III, Collection Lambert, Avignon.* Out of Line, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU, Los Angeles. Televisions, Kunsthalle, Vienna* Under Bridges and Along The River, Casino Luxembourg. * The Fantastic Repetition of Certain Situations, Isabel II, Madrid (+tour).* 2000 Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne.* The British Art Show 5, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (+tour).* Beck's Futures, ICA, London (+tour). 1999 Love Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (+tour). Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester.* Zac 99, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.* Green, Exedra, Hilversum (NL). Bildung, Kunstverein, Graz.* Common People; British Art Between Phenomenon & Reality, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Guanine D'Alba (Italy). 1998 Surfacing, ICA, London.* Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.* Works on Paper, Alexander & Bonin, New York. Real Life, Galleria SALES, Rome. 1997 Tales of the City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.* Blueprint, De Appel, Amsterdam.* Caldas Biennale, Caldas da Rainha. (Portugal)* About Life in the Periphery, Wacker Kunst, Darmstadt.* Young British Photography, Stadthaus, Ulm.* Appetiser, Free Parking, Toronto. Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich. 1996 Sarah Staton Superstore, Up & Co, New York. Absolute Blue & White, Imverleith House, Edinburgh. The Unbelievable Truth, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam/ Tramway, Glasgow. * 1996 Fucking Biscuits and other drawings, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam. Big Girl/Little Girl, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. White Hysteria, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Melbourne.* Toons, Gallerie Cambells Occaisionally, Copenhagen. 1995 Scottish Autumn, Bartok 32 Galeria, Budapest.* 1994 Some of My Friends, Galerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen. New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow. 1992 In Here, Transmission, Glasgow. (*catalogue) PUBLICATIONS 2014 Weak Messages Create Bad Situations, Canongate 2012 How are You Feeling?, Canon gate 2011 Fragments of Torn Up Drawings, BQ, Berlin 2010 What The Hell Are You Doing?, Canon gate 2009 Red Book, Redstone Press 2008 Grip (New Edition), Redstone Press Man In A Room, Blue Q, USA Hand, BQ, Cologne 2007 Ants Have Sex In Your Beer, Redstone Press/Chronicle 2006 Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others, Azuli, London (spoken word recording 12" Vinyl & CD) This Is A Paper Trinket For You To Wear, Bywater Bros. Editions, Toronto Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve), Tomlab, Cologne 2005 Photographs With Text, BQ, Cologne The Book of Shrigley, Redsone Press/ Chronicle Books 2004 Blocked Path, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Let's Wrestle, Redstone Press, London. Rules, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards). Kill Your Pets, Redstone Press, London. Kill Your Pets, Revolver, Frankfurt. Joy, Chronicle Books, San Francisco. 2003 Yellow Bird With Worm, Kunsthaus Zurich. Who I Am And What I Want, Redstone Press, London. Leotard, BQ, Cologne. Joy, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards). Evil Thoughts, Chronicle Books, San Francisco (book of postcards). 2002 Human Achievement, Redstone Press, London. Evil Thoughts, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards). 2001 Do Not Bend, Redstone Press, London. 2000 Grip, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh. Hard Work, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. 1999 The Beast is Near, Redstone Press, London. Fel, Ruins, Sweden (Swedish translation of Err). 1998 Why We Got The Sack From The Museum, Redstone Press, London. To Make Meringue You Must Beat The Egg Whites Until They Look Like This, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Centre Parting, The Little Cockroach Press, Toronto. Blank Page and Other Pages, The Modern Institute, Glasgow. 1996 Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot, The Armpit Press. Glasgow. Err, Bookworks, London. Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow. 1995 Enquire Within, Armpit Press, Glasgow. 1994 Blanket Of Filth, The Armpit Press, Glasgow. 1992 Merry Eczema, Black Rose, Glasgow. 1991 Slug Trails, Black Rose, Glasgow. REVIEWS (Selected) 2005 The Guardian, September 10, Laura Barton. 2004 The Observer, September 12, Miranda Sawyer. The Independent, November 8, Deborah Orr. The Scotsman, November 8, Ajay Close. 2003 ArtForum, January. Flash Art, May/June, Craig Garrett. 2001 Art Monthly, April, Mark Wilshire. 2000 Creative Review, October, Helen Walters. Time Out, Oct 11, Sophie Davies. Flux, August, Jim Medway. 1999 Les Inrockuptibles, Sept 16-23, Jade Lingaard. The Guardian, 23 Mar, Adrian Searle. Time Out, 31 Mar-7 Apr, Martin Coomer. 1998 The Guardian, 5 Dec, Michael Bracewell. Arena, Dec, Anna Chapman. The Independent, 19 Nov, Judith Palmer. New York Times, 10 July, Roberta Smith. 1997 Time Out, 2-9 April, Sarah Kent. Art Monthly, March, David Beech. 1996 Flash Art, Nov/Dec, Lars Bang Larsen. Circa, winter, Mike Wilson. Art & Design, Public Art, Judith Findlay. Flash Art, Jan/Feb, Judith Findlay. 1995 Zing Magazine, winter, Judith Findlay. Frieze, Nov/Dec, Michael Bracewell. MAGAZINE PROJECTS (Selected) 2009-2011 New Statesman (bi-weekly political cartoon) 2005-2009 Guardian (weekly cartoon every Saturday) 2005 The Stranger (Seattle, WA) 2001 Cabinet Magazine, Issue 2. 1999 Independent On Sunday Review (Weekly Cartoon 1.99 to 2.00) 1998 Parkett, Number 53, Insert. MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION (Selected) Arena (UK) Du (Switzerland) The Stranger (USA) Esquire (UK) Esquire (Japan) Harpers & Queen (UK) The Walrus (Canada) Third Bed (USA) Maisonneuve (Canada) Saturday Night (Canada) Donna (Italy) ANIMATIONS 2012 Headless Drummer (Self-produced) 2011 Sleeper (Self-produced) 2010 A Short Film About Pringle of Scotland (commercial) An Important Message About The Arts (commission) The Letter, (Self-produced) 2009 Ones, (Self-produced) Conveyor Belt, (Self-produced) 2008 Sleep, (Self-produced) 2007 The Door (Commission for Frieze Film/ Channel 4) The Flame, (Self-produced) Lightswitch, (Self-produced) 2006 Laundry, (Self-produced) New Friends, (Self-produced) Hallam Foe (feature film title sequence) 2005 'Who I Am And What I Want' Animate! Commission for Channel 4 (Collaboration with Chris Shepherd) 2004 BBC.co.uk/collective (ongoing weekly animation) Bonnie Prince Billy 'Agnes Queen of Sorrow' promo 2003 Blur 'Good Song' promo (collaboration with Shynola) 2002 What Happens After You're Dead Channel4.com biro project