Sue Tompkins is a British visual and sound artist.
Sue Tomkins' object-based works include collages and sculptures formed from the pages of high fashion magazines, and assemblages. She uses found objects, magazines and text to create her own very unique and individual aesthetic. Since the late 90s the majority of Tomkins' work has been in the field of live spoken word and performances and musical recordings. Tompkins was lead singer in the acclaimed art-rock band Life Without Buildings from 1999-2002. In her performances she uses repetition and rhythm to create a genuinely emotive reading.
Sue Tompkins lives and works in Glasgow (UK).
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Sue Tompkins
Born 1971, Leighton Buzzard
Lives and works in Glasgow
Education
1990—1994 BA (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Awards
2011 Paul Hamlyn Award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘On Top of the White Foam’, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
2018 ‘All the Time’. The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2018 ‘Sue Tompkins’, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2018 ‘Milk, Gluck, Handel, Fame’, DKUK, Peckham, London
2017 ‘Country Grammar’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2017 ‘Don’t be far from me (with Matthew damhave), Tenderbooks, London
2016 ‘When Wayne went Away’, Lisa Cooley, New York
2015 ‘Before After’, YOUNG TEAM, London
2014 'Zog, I’m Not Over Today', Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2014 'dug nature', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014 Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (performance of Orange Brainwash Tribute)
2014 'Tramway Performance Programme', Tramway, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (performance (Glasgow International))
2014 ‘Orange Brainwash Tribute', BBC Scotland, Glasgow (performance (Glasgow International))
2014 'Letherin through the grille', White Columns, New York (performance)
2014 'Come to Ozark', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow ((Glasgow International))
2013 ‘Skype Wont Do’, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2013 'Expressions', The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow
2013 Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA), Portland (curated by Chris Johanson and Kristan Kennedy, for 2013 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA)
2012 'Its chiming in Normaltown', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
2012'Country Grammar', 22:37, Bungenäs, Gotland (www.canellwatkins.org/2237.html)
2012 'SEA DEEP', Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2011 My Kind Book', Dia Art Foundation, New York (Web based project: online book http://65.181.178.190/tompkins/book/mykindbook.html)
2011 The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow
2011 Inverleith House, Edinburgh (with Claude Cahun)
2011 'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Performance)
2010 'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Ocean Front at Collins Park between 21st and 22nd Streets, Miami Beach (Performance Presented by Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time In Partnership with Tramway)
mima Soundspace, Middlesbrough
2009 'Salute to the Dataday', Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
2007 Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2007 'Apple', The Showroom, London (Performance Country Grammar, available to view at
2007 'Grease: Transfer', Spike Island, Bristol (live performance; with Hayley Tompkins)
2006 The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2006 'Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2006 'Spike Island', Bristol (café design commission with Hayley Tompkins, in collaboration with Caruso St John Architects)
2005 'Elephants Galore', opening, Scottish Pavillion (live performance; Selective Memory)
2005 'In the zone of your eyes', West London projects, London (two person show/live performance with Hayley Tompkins)
2005 'On Stage', Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin (live performance with Jamie Isenstein, Sean Landers, Charlemagne Palestine)
2005 When it broke', ArtForum Berlin, Giti Nourbaksch Gallery (two person show with Hayley Tompkins)
2004 Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects, Cologne (Solo presentation and performance)
2004 Kunstrai Art Fair, Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam (Live Performance)
2004 Solo presentation and performance, Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects
2004 'Feast of Silenus', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (live performance)
2004 'Live Performance', Museum of Garden History, London (in association with the Sonic Arts Network and Resonance FM)
2004 'Midwest Casinos', Manchester (live performance)
2004 'More Cola Wars', Switchspace, Glasgow (live performance)
2003 'Country Grammar', doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2003 'Northern Grammar', Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway
2001 'Solo', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2000 'Evil Eye', Glasgow Independent Studios (with Hayley Tompkins)
'And If It Was It Can’t Be Is', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Art and Music Festival, Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
1999 'Sounds of Grass', Transmission, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
2021 Des Champs de Fraises pour L’éternité, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-Le-Sec
The Zany’, Lateral Roma, Rome
2021 ‘Day for Night’, Hackesche Höfe, Berlin
2021 ‘Crocodile Cradle’, PEER, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
2019 ‘Trade Syllables’, Andreas Melas at Martinos Pandrossou, Athens
2019 ‘I'll be your city’, Good Press, Glasgow
2019 ‘Nobody's World’, Gordon Robichaux, New York
2018 ‘Conversation Pieces’, Tenderbooks, London
2018 ‘How to kill a Siren’, Boom Boom Room, Brooklyn, NY
2018 ‘Against Time’, Civic Room, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018)
2018 ‘Fillette’, Francesca Pia, Zurich
2018 ‘SIGNALS’, Marc Selwyn Gallery, LA
2018 ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2017 ‘Working/Not Working’, CANADA, New York (Curated by Matt Connors)
2017 ‘Beauty and Room’, Sion, Swiss Alps (Organized by Miriam Laura Leonardi, Balthazar Lovay and Ben Rosenthal on the occasion of PALP)
2017 ‘The Painting Show’, British Council touring exhibition, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2016 ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2016 ‘Pfeil Magazine launch’, Spike, Berlin
2016 ‘Sighs Trapped by Liars: Language in Art’, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (Live performance 'Like Sake' 19/05/2016)
2016 ‘The Lasting Concept’, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland
2016 ‘The Painting Show’, British Council touring exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 ‘Stereo Birthday Party!’, Stereo, Glasgow (live performance)
2015 ‘So Cometh King Laugh’, The Laughing Bell, London
2015 ‘The Spirit of the Staircase’, Sunday Painter, London
2015 ‘The Grass is Singing’, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
2015 ‘I want to be. Inside Out’, MOT International, Brussels, BE
2014 ’Cacophony of Things’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne.
2014 ‘I’m Yours’, The Modern Institute at Standard (OSLO), Oslo.
2014, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland', Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
2014, 'Itself Not So', Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York (curated by Rachel Valinsky)
2014, 'Contort Yourself', Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (curated by The Modern Institute)
2014 'Let the Day Perish', Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath (Part of GENERATION 2014 (with Fiona Jardine))
2014, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2014, 'Discordia', Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014, 'In NO time', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow
2014, 'Semiotics of the Kitchen; What Happened After', Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2014, ‘Return Journey', Mostyn, Lladudno
2013, Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm (Live Performance ‘Letherin through the grille’)
2013, 'Composing through Words', Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam
2013, 'House Music', Broompark Drive, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘My Forrest Gump’)
2013, 'Out Of Doors', Supplement Gallery, London (Laura Aldridge, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins)
2013, 'Repertory', Palazzo Cavour, Turin (curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, by invitation of Artissima)
2013, 'Artifacts of A Life Lived By the Living ( To Live )', The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2013, 'Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend', Arnolfini, Bristol (‘My Dataday’)
2013, '40/40', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2013, 'Analogue Other', Poor Farm, Manawa
2013, 'Public Address: HELLO, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?', Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘Smallland’)
2013, 'Laura Aldridge, Sara Barker, Sue Tompkins', Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago
2013, 'In Praise Of Shadows', Charlton Bond Building, Newcastle (Live performance)
2013, 'Grow Fins, Salute the Captain', The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (Live performance ‘More Windows’)
2013, 'six memos for the next…', Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
2013, 'Words to be Spoken Aloud', Turner Contemporary, Margate (Festival)
2012 'OO', Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (curated by Rob Halverson / C-o-o-l Art)
2012 'Last Chance', SWG3, Glasgow
2012 'Now Here is also Nowhere', Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2012 'And If It Was It Can’t Be Is', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Art and Music Festival, Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
2012 'The Medium is the Message: Words in printmaking since the 1960s', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Ben Harman)
2012 'Neu!Reekie!', The Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh (Live perfomance ‘More Windows’)
2012 'SOUNDWORKS', ICA, London
2012 'Film and performance: The Voice Is A Language', Tate Modern, London (Live Performance ‘My Dataday’)
2012 'Patricia Fleming Projects - Everything Flows', Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘More Windows’ 21 April 2012)
2011 'MakeUp', A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia
2011 'To Pay Respect to the Generosity of The 3 Minute Punk-Rock Song', Crate Project Space, Margate
2011 'Underwood', Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2011 'Works on paper and other works', Project Room, Glasgow
2011 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (Performance)
2011'The Waste Land', Tranzitdisplay, Prague (includes Performance 11/10/11)
2011 'A Bee crawling around in the flower dome', The Hole, London (Performance: 8.30 - 8.55 pm)
2011 'Flaca/Tom Humphreys', Portikus, Frankfurt
2011 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street (A Version) 2pm)
2011 'Dirty Literature', National Portrait Gallery, London (Performance)
2011 'An Exhibition to hear read', David Robert Arts Foundation Fitzrovia, London
2011 'The Queen of Sciences', Dek 22, Rotterdam
2011 'Free Poems', Podium, Oslo
2011 'British Art Show 7: ‘In The Days Of The Comet’', Hayward Gallery, London (Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street)
2010'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (Performance)
2010 'Speak and Spell', COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna (Performance)
2010 'Loot! the art swapmeet', High Desert Test Sites HQ, Joshua Tree, California
2010 Common Guild, Glasgow (Performance (part of Robert Bary exhibition))
2010 Podium, Oslo
2010 'São Paulo Biennale', Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo
2010'Be Glad For The Song Has No End - A Festival of Artists’ Music', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Performance)
2010 Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (Performance)
2010 'A Theatre to Address - A Festival of Textual Form - Concrete, Material, Scripted, Performed', Arnolfini, Bristol (Performance)
2010 Whitechapel, London (Performance)
2010 'On Publications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2010 'The Voice is a Language', Tramway, Glasgow
2010 'Fizz Up and Dissolve', The Project Rooms, Glasgow
2009 'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2009 'Blank Tape Spillage Fete 2009', Cecil Sharp House, London
2009 'HEAVEN', Athens Biennale, Athens
2009 'Inverleith House', Edinburgh, Cardiff (with Hayley Tompkins)
2009 'Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.', ICA, London
2009 'Sculpture Show', Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2008 Shane Campbell, Oak Park
2008 'A Time to Play', APT Web Gallery (http://aptglobal.org/)
2008 'Behind', Monitor Gallery, Rome
2008 'Gut of the Quantifier', Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
2008 'Niemand bedarf der Bedürftigen - No one needs the needy', Sandra Buergel Gallery, Berlin
2008 'r e p ’ e . t ’ t i on', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2008 'TYPED', Sadie Coles HQ, London
2008 'Wollust - The Presence of Absence', Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
2008 'Word Event', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2007 'Bare Words', Lautom Contemporary, Oslo
2007 'Country Grammar', Project Space, Leeds (live performance)
2007 'End of Burning/Brennschluss', Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
2007 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Overgaden, Copenhagen (live performance)
2007 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (live performance)
2007 'Learn to Read', Tate Modern, London
2007 'Re-Mission', Torstrasse 140, Berlin
2007 'Untitled – Works on Paper', Art:Concept, Paris
2007 'Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2006 Beck's Futures, ICA (nominee; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol)
2006 'Attitude', c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2006 'BMAC', Blackpool (live performance)
2006 'Death And The Compass', FOUR, Dublin
2006 'Flaca Gallery', London (with Karla Black and Sally Osborn)
2006 'Grease', Tate Britain, London (Art Now Live Work: Rory Macbeth, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, and Sue Tompkins)
2006 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution', De Appel, Amsterdam
2006 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Artists Space, New York
2006 'Satellites', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2006 'The Three Cities: Berlin, Milan, London', The Warehouse/ Bethnal Green, London (live performance)
2006 'Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.', Momentum 2006, 4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art
2006 ‘Writing in Strobe', Dicksmith Gallery, London
2006 'You always say no to Ibitha', Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
2006 'Youth of Today', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2005 'Art is where the heart is (part 2)', Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
2005 'Dealing kindly with insects in the home', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2005 'Elephants Galore’ (live performance), ‘In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', CCA, Glasgow
2005 'Herald St. and The Modern Institute', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
2005 'Radiance', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2004 Switchspace, Glasgow Art Fair
2004 'Country Grammar', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2004 'Group show', Rennes, France (with Transmission Gallery)
2004 'Haute Street', Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (with Scott Myles and Alan Michael)
2003 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
2003 Transmission stand, Frieze Art Fair
2003 'Be Dear Crazy Loud', Flourish Nights, Glasgow (a performance with Luke Fowler and P6)
2003 'Contemporary Abstraction', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2001 'Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go)
2001 'October', St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley)
2000 'Avalon', The Changing Room, Stirling (with Sue Tompkins)
2000 Film Club', Glasgow (with Elizabeth go; curated by Scott Myles)
2000 'Film Club 2', Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe)
2000 'Tonight', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
1999 'Faces and Names', performance as part of Education in Reverse, The Corinthian (with Hayley Tompkins)
1999 'Fields and Rays and Green Numbers', The Pinapple, Malmö
1999 'Love, Speed, Thrills', Manchester Metropolitan University (with Elizabeth Go)
1999 'Museum-a-go-go', Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
1999 'Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart', Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go)
1999 ‘White Bear zz', Roslea Drive, Glasgow (With Scott Myles, Alan Micheal and Sue Tompkins)
1999 'You are an Orange Orchid', performance for Radio Tuesday at the B.U.F.F. Club, Glasgow (with Sue Tompkins)
1998 'Floatina Happiness', Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go; Host)
1998 'Various Artists', East Kilbride Arts Centre, Glasgow
1997 'Art ‘97', Transmission Gallery at the Business Design Centre, Islington
1997 'Hit ‘em With This Antoinette', Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Satellite City’)
1997 'Wetness into Music', Wilkes, Glasgow
1997 'You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me', NGCA, Sunderland (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Connected’)
1996 'Art for people', Transmission, Glasgow
1996 'Artists’ Multiples', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 'Brainmail', Studio 17, CalArts
1996 'Life/Live', ARC Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1996 'Transmissions', Gallery Free Parking, Toronto
1996 'World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow
1996 'Young Black Italian/Garage in Yellow', Leighton Buzzard
1995 'Look! Nuovo Miti', Wilkes, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins)
Born 1971, Leighton Buzzard
Lives and works in Glasgow
Education
1990—1994 BA (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Awards
2011 Paul Hamlyn Award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘On Top of the White Foam’, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
2018 ‘All the Time’. The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2018 ‘Sue Tompkins’, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, NO
2018 ‘Milk, Gluck, Handel, Fame’, DKUK, Peckham, London
2017 ‘Country Grammar’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2017 ‘Don’t be far from me (with Matthew damhave), Tenderbooks, London
2016 ‘When Wayne went Away’, Lisa Cooley, New York
2015 ‘Before After’, YOUNG TEAM, London
2014 'Zog, I’m Not Over Today', Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2014 'dug nature', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014 Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (performance of Orange Brainwash Tribute)
2014 'Tramway Performance Programme', Tramway, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (performance (Glasgow International))
2014 ‘Orange Brainwash Tribute', BBC Scotland, Glasgow (performance (Glasgow International))
2014 'Letherin through the grille', White Columns, New York (performance)
2014 'Come to Ozark', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow ((Glasgow International))
2013 ‘Skype Wont Do’, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2013 'Expressions', The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow
2013 Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA), Portland (curated by Chris Johanson and Kristan Kennedy, for 2013 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA)
2012 'Its chiming in Normaltown', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
2012'Country Grammar', 22:37, Bungenäs, Gotland (www.canellwatkins.org/2237.html)
2012 'SEA DEEP', Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2011 My Kind Book', Dia Art Foundation, New York (Web based project: online book http://65.181.178.190/tompkins/book/mykindbook.html)
2011 The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow
2011 Inverleith House, Edinburgh (with Claude Cahun)
2011 'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Performance)
2010 'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Ocean Front at Collins Park between 21st and 22nd Streets, Miami Beach (Performance Presented by Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time In Partnership with Tramway)
mima Soundspace, Middlesbrough
2009 'Salute to the Dataday', Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
2007 Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2007 'Apple', The Showroom, London (Performance Country Grammar, available to view at
2007 'Grease: Transfer', Spike Island, Bristol (live performance; with Hayley Tompkins)
2006 The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2006 'Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2006 'Spike Island', Bristol (café design commission with Hayley Tompkins, in collaboration with Caruso St John Architects)
2005 'Elephants Galore', opening, Scottish Pavillion (live performance; Selective Memory)
2005 'In the zone of your eyes', West London projects, London (two person show/live performance with Hayley Tompkins)
2005 'On Stage', Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin (live performance with Jamie Isenstein, Sean Landers, Charlemagne Palestine)
2005 When it broke', ArtForum Berlin, Giti Nourbaksch Gallery (two person show with Hayley Tompkins)
2004 Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects, Cologne (Solo presentation and performance)
2004 Kunstrai Art Fair, Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam (Live Performance)
2004 Solo presentation and performance, Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects
2004 'Feast of Silenus', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (live performance)
2004 'Live Performance', Museum of Garden History, London (in association with the Sonic Arts Network and Resonance FM)
2004 'Midwest Casinos', Manchester (live performance)
2004 'More Cola Wars', Switchspace, Glasgow (live performance)
2003 'Country Grammar', doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2003 'Northern Grammar', Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway
2001 'Solo', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2000 'Evil Eye', Glasgow Independent Studios (with Hayley Tompkins)
'And If It Was It Can’t Be Is', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Art and Music Festival, Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
1999 'Sounds of Grass', Transmission, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
2021 Des Champs de Fraises pour L’éternité, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Noisy-Le-Sec
The Zany’, Lateral Roma, Rome
2021 ‘Day for Night’, Hackesche Höfe, Berlin
2021 ‘Crocodile Cradle’, PEER, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
2019 ‘Trade Syllables’, Andreas Melas at Martinos Pandrossou, Athens
2019 ‘I'll be your city’, Good Press, Glasgow
2019 ‘Nobody's World’, Gordon Robichaux, New York
2018 ‘Conversation Pieces’, Tenderbooks, London
2018 ‘How to kill a Siren’, Boom Boom Room, Brooklyn, NY
2018 ‘Against Time’, Civic Room, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018)
2018 ‘Fillette’, Francesca Pia, Zurich
2018 ‘SIGNALS’, Marc Selwyn Gallery, LA
2018 ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2017 ‘Working/Not Working’, CANADA, New York (Curated by Matt Connors)
2017 ‘Beauty and Room’, Sion, Swiss Alps (Organized by Miriam Laura Leonardi, Balthazar Lovay and Ben Rosenthal on the occasion of PALP)
2017 ‘The Painting Show’, British Council touring exhibition, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2016 ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2016 ‘Pfeil Magazine launch’, Spike, Berlin
2016 ‘Sighs Trapped by Liars: Language in Art’, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (Live performance 'Like Sake' 19/05/2016)
2016 ‘The Lasting Concept’, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland
2016 ‘The Painting Show’, British Council touring exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 ‘Stereo Birthday Party!’, Stereo, Glasgow (live performance)
2015 ‘So Cometh King Laugh’, The Laughing Bell, London
2015 ‘The Spirit of the Staircase’, Sunday Painter, London
2015 ‘The Grass is Singing’, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
2015 ‘I want to be. Inside Out’, MOT International, Brussels, BE
2014 ’Cacophony of Things’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne.
2014 ‘I’m Yours’, The Modern Institute at Standard (OSLO), Oslo.
2014, GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland', Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
2014, 'Itself Not So', Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York (curated by Rachel Valinsky)
2014, 'Contort Yourself', Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (curated by The Modern Institute)
2014 'Let the Day Perish', Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath (Part of GENERATION 2014 (with Fiona Jardine))
2014, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2014, 'Discordia', Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014)
2014, 'In NO time', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow
2014, 'Semiotics of the Kitchen; What Happened After', Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2014, ‘Return Journey', Mostyn, Lladudno
2013, Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm (Live Performance ‘Letherin through the grille’)
2013, 'Composing through Words', Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam
2013, 'House Music', Broompark Drive, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘My Forrest Gump’)
2013, 'Out Of Doors', Supplement Gallery, London (Laura Aldridge, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins)
2013, 'Repertory', Palazzo Cavour, Turin (curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, by invitation of Artissima)
2013, 'Artifacts of A Life Lived By the Living ( To Live )', The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2013, 'Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend', Arnolfini, Bristol (‘My Dataday’)
2013, '40/40', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2013, 'Analogue Other', Poor Farm, Manawa
2013, 'Public Address: HELLO, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?', Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘Smallland’)
2013, 'Laura Aldridge, Sara Barker, Sue Tompkins', Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago
2013, 'In Praise Of Shadows', Charlton Bond Building, Newcastle (Live performance)
2013, 'Grow Fins, Salute the Captain', The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (Live performance ‘More Windows’)
2013, 'six memos for the next…', Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
2013, 'Words to be Spoken Aloud', Turner Contemporary, Margate (Festival)
2012 'OO', Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (curated by Rob Halverson / C-o-o-l Art)
2012 'Last Chance', SWG3, Glasgow
2012 'Now Here is also Nowhere', Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2012 'And If It Was It Can’t Be Is', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Art and Music Festival, Live Performance “LL Bedrock”)
2012 'The Medium is the Message: Words in printmaking since the 1960s', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Ben Harman)
2012 'Neu!Reekie!', The Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh (Live perfomance ‘More Windows’)
2012 'SOUNDWORKS', ICA, London
2012 'Film and performance: The Voice Is A Language', Tate Modern, London (Live Performance ‘My Dataday’)
2012 'Patricia Fleming Projects - Everything Flows', Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘More Windows’ 21 April 2012)
2011 'MakeUp', A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia
2011 'To Pay Respect to the Generosity of The 3 Minute Punk-Rock Song', Crate Project Space, Margate
2011 'Underwood', Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2011 'Works on paper and other works', Project Room, Glasgow
2011 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (Performance)
2011'The Waste Land', Tranzitdisplay, Prague (includes Performance 11/10/11)
2011 'A Bee crawling around in the flower dome', The Hole, London (Performance: 8.30 - 8.55 pm)
2011 'Flaca/Tom Humphreys', Portikus, Frankfurt
2011 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street (A Version) 2pm)
2011 'Dirty Literature', National Portrait Gallery, London (Performance)
2011 'An Exhibition to hear read', David Robert Arts Foundation Fitzrovia, London
2011 'The Queen of Sciences', Dek 22, Rotterdam
2011 'Free Poems', Podium, Oslo
2011 'British Art Show 7: ‘In The Days Of The Comet’', Hayward Gallery, London (Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street)
2010'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (Performance)
2010 'Speak and Spell', COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna (Performance)
2010 'Loot! the art swapmeet', High Desert Test Sites HQ, Joshua Tree, California
2010 Common Guild, Glasgow (Performance (part of Robert Bary exhibition))
2010 Podium, Oslo
2010 'São Paulo Biennale', Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo
2010'Be Glad For The Song Has No End - A Festival of Artists’ Music', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Performance)
2010 Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (Performance)
2010 'A Theatre to Address - A Festival of Textual Form - Concrete, Material, Scripted, Performed', Arnolfini, Bristol (Performance)
2010 Whitechapel, London (Performance)
2010 'On Publications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2010 'The Voice is a Language', Tramway, Glasgow
2010 'Fizz Up and Dissolve', The Project Rooms, Glasgow
2009 'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2009 'Blank Tape Spillage Fete 2009', Cecil Sharp House, London
2009 'HEAVEN', Athens Biennale, Athens
2009 'Inverleith House', Edinburgh, Cardiff (with Hayley Tompkins)
2009 'Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.', ICA, London
2009 'Sculpture Show', Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2008 Shane Campbell, Oak Park
2008 'A Time to Play', APT Web Gallery (http://aptglobal.org/)
2008 'Behind', Monitor Gallery, Rome
2008 'Gut of the Quantifier', Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
2008 'Niemand bedarf der Bedürftigen - No one needs the needy', Sandra Buergel Gallery, Berlin
2008 'r e p ’ e . t ’ t i on', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2008 'TYPED', Sadie Coles HQ, London
2008 'Wollust - The Presence of Absence', Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
2008 'Word Event', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2007 'Bare Words', Lautom Contemporary, Oslo
2007 'Country Grammar', Project Space, Leeds (live performance)
2007 'End of Burning/Brennschluss', Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
2007 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Overgaden, Copenhagen (live performance)
2007 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (live performance)
2007 'Learn to Read', Tate Modern, London
2007 'Re-Mission', Torstrasse 140, Berlin
2007 'Untitled – Works on Paper', Art:Concept, Paris
2007 'Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2006 Beck's Futures, ICA (nominee; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol)
2006 'Attitude', c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2006 'BMAC', Blackpool (live performance)
2006 'Death And The Compass', FOUR, Dublin
2006 'Flaca Gallery', London (with Karla Black and Sally Osborn)
2006 'Grease', Tate Britain, London (Art Now Live Work: Rory Macbeth, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, and Sue Tompkins)
2006 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution', De Appel, Amsterdam
2006 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Artists Space, New York
2006 'Satellites', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2006 'The Three Cities: Berlin, Milan, London', The Warehouse/ Bethnal Green, London (live performance)
2006 'Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.', Momentum 2006, 4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art
2006 ‘Writing in Strobe', Dicksmith Gallery, London
2006 'You always say no to Ibitha', Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
2006 'Youth of Today', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2005 'Art is where the heart is (part 2)', Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
2005 'Dealing kindly with insects in the home', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2005 'Elephants Galore’ (live performance), ‘In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', CCA, Glasgow
2005 'Herald St. and The Modern Institute', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
2005 'Radiance', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2004 Switchspace, Glasgow Art Fair
2004 'Country Grammar', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2004 'Group show', Rennes, France (with Transmission Gallery)
2004 'Haute Street', Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (with Scott Myles and Alan Michael)
2003 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
2003 Transmission stand, Frieze Art Fair
2003 'Be Dear Crazy Loud', Flourish Nights, Glasgow (a performance with Luke Fowler and P6)
2003 'Contemporary Abstraction', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2001 'Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go)
2001 'October', St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley)
2000 'Avalon', The Changing Room, Stirling (with Sue Tompkins)
2000 Film Club', Glasgow (with Elizabeth go; curated by Scott Myles)
2000 'Film Club 2', Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe)
2000 'Tonight', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
1999 'Faces and Names', performance as part of Education in Reverse, The Corinthian (with Hayley Tompkins)
1999 'Fields and Rays and Green Numbers', The Pinapple, Malmö
1999 'Love, Speed, Thrills', Manchester Metropolitan University (with Elizabeth Go)
1999 'Museum-a-go-go', Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
1999 'Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart', Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go)
1999 ‘White Bear zz', Roslea Drive, Glasgow (With Scott Myles, Alan Micheal and Sue Tompkins)
1999 'You are an Orange Orchid', performance for Radio Tuesday at the B.U.F.F. Club, Glasgow (with Sue Tompkins)
1998 'Floatina Happiness', Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go; Host)
1998 'Various Artists', East Kilbride Arts Centre, Glasgow
1997 'Art ‘97', Transmission Gallery at the Business Design Centre, Islington
1997 'Hit ‘em With This Antoinette', Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Satellite City’)
1997 'Wetness into Music', Wilkes, Glasgow
1997 'You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me', NGCA, Sunderland (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Connected’)
1996 'Art for people', Transmission, Glasgow
1996 'Artists’ Multiples', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 'Brainmail', Studio 17, CalArts
1996 'Life/Live', ARC Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1996 'Transmissions', Gallery Free Parking, Toronto
1996 'World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow
1996 'Young Black Italian/Garage in Yellow', Leighton Buzzard
1995 'Look! Nuovo Miti', Wilkes, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins)
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