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Curriculum Vitae

DAVID SHRIGLEY

Born: 17 September 1968. Macclesfield, England.

Education: Glasgow School of Art 1988-91

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. *
  • 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)