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DAVID SHRIGLEY
Born: 17 September 1968. Macclesfield, England.
Education: Glasgow School of Art 1988-91
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Proposals for Record Covers, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 - 2022
K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2021
Sayaka Murata’s Utopias—Violence and the Structure of Normality: David Shrigley & Teppei Kaneuji in dialogue with Murata’s worldview, Gyre, Tokyo, Japan (two-person)
Before the Lawn Takes its Revenge…, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
MAYFAIR TENNIS BALL EXCHANGE, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2020
CLARITY: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
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)
2022
The Horror Show!, Somerset House, London, England
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)