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Anya Gallaccio
1963 Born in Paisley, Scotland
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1985-1988 Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK
1984-1985 Kingston Polytechnic, London, UK
Residencies and awards
2004 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sansalitos, California, US
2003 Nominee for the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK
2002 1871 Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK
San Francisco Art Institute, California, US
1999 Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, London, UK
1999 Kanazawa College of Art, JP
1998 Sargeant Fellowship, The British School at Rome, IT
1997 Jan-March Art Pace, International Artist-In-Residence Programme, Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio Texas, US
Solo Exhibitions
2017 To see if time was there, Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX
Beautiful Minds, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Lehmann Maupin, New York, US
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2014 Stroke, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
SNAP, Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, UK
Blum&Poe, Los Angeles, US
2013 This much is true, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, US
Creation/destruction, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012 Red on Green, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Highway, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Where is Where it’s at, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010 Unknown Exhibition, The Eastshire Museums in Scotland including the Dick Institiute, the Annet Gelink Gallery,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Baird Institute and the Doon Valley Museum, Kilmarnock, UK
2009 Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
So Blue Coat, Liverpool, UK
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, US
2008 Comfort and Conversation, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
That Open Space Within, Camden Arts Center, London, UK
Kinsale Arts Festival, Kinsale, IE
2007 Three Sheets to the Wind, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils, curated by Alice Correira, London, UK
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2006 One Art, Sculpture Center, New York, US
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE
Galeria Leme, Såo Paulo, BR
2005 Shadow on the things you know, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
Silver Seed, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK
The Look of Things, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, IT
2004 Love Is Only A Feeling, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, US
2003 Sometimes with one I Love, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
De verbeelding, Zeewolde, NL
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Love Is Only A Feeling ,Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate, London, UK
2002 Beat, Duveen Sculpture Commission, Tate Britain, London, UK
2001 Blessed, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, US
2000 Falling from grace, Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam, NL
Falling from grace, Projektraum Kunsthalle Bern, CH
Now the leaves are falling fast, fig-1, London, UK
1999 Glaschu, Tramway at Lanarkshire House, Glasgow, UK
All the rest is silence, Anya Gallaccio at Sadler's Wells, London, UK
1998 Chasing Rainbows, Delfina Studios, London, UK
Two sisters, Minerva basin (for Locus + and Artranspennine), Hull, UK
Chasing Rainbows, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, US
Keep off the grass, Serpentine Gallery Lawn, London, UK
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, US
1996 Intensities and Surfaces, Wapping Pumping Station, London, UK (for the Woman's Playhouse Trust)
Ars Futura Galerie, Zürich, CH
Harvest of the winter months, Galerie im Künstlerhaus, Bremen, DE
Absolute, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
A Multiple, Riding House Editions, London, UK
1995 Stephen Friedman, London, UK
Towards the Rainbow, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1994 La dolce vita, Stephania Miscetti, Rome, IT
stroke, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK
Couverture, Filaile, Basel, CH
Stroke, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, US
1993 Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Ars Futura Galerie, Zürich, CH
Brown on white, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT
1992 Red on green, ICA, London, UK
1991 Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2019 The Aerodome – An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
NOW, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2018 SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, 21st Biennial of Sydney, AU
Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaer, NL
2017 Connected vessels, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, PL
Poor Art, Arte Pover: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection, London, UK
Coming Out: Art and Culture 1967-2017, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
From Duchamp to Cattelan. Contemporary Art on The Palatine, Roman Forum, Rome, IT
[Re]construct: An Arts Council Collection exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK
On the Nature of Things, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Plant Culture, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
Flora, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
2015 About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, CH
Beyond Limits. Sotheby’s at Chatsworth : A Selling exhibition, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
Then for Now, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2014 InSite: Four Rehearsals on that which is public, on another scenario, Proyecto Siqueiros:
Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros – La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, US
Stroke, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013 Something about a tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Performer as Curator, The Lowry, Salford, UK
Creation/Desctruction: Anya Gallaccio, Mark Lewis, Rut Blees Luxenburg, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
Green acres: Artist Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, USA
The house of seven gambles, University Galleries, Normal (IL), USA
Tipping Point, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Chasing Rainbows, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The House of the Seven Gables, University Galleries, Illinois State University College of Fine Arts, Illinois, US
2012 VIP Showroom, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Dissecting Nature, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, US
THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, UK
Green Acres: Artists Framing Fields, Green Houses and Abandoned Lots, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Ohio, US
I Followed you into the water, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Ideal Home, Chelsea Space - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Vantage Point, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, US
2010 The Drawing Room, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amstrdam, NL
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
On and on, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
Buon Domani\A Better Tomorrow, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, IT
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US
Eat Art. Vom Essen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart – Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
From Here to There, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in collaboration with the Arts Council Collection, Coventry, UK
Alpha &, On Stellar Rays, New York, US
On the Edge of the World, John Hope Gateway Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Eating the Universe – Vom Essen in der Kunst, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT
2009 Eating the Universe. Vom Essen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, DE
Radical Nature, The Barbican, London, UK
Ferne Naehe. Natur in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
Pot Luck: Food And Art, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
PhotoBooth, Jealous Gallery, London, UK
4x4, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2008 If I was a painter, but then again, no, Kinsale Arts Week, Charles Fort, Kinsale, IE
Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, US
Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY, US
Turner Prize: A Retrospective (touring exhibition), Tate Britain, London, UK; Moscow
Museum of Modern Art, RU and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Freeze 20, The Hospital, London, UK
Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, US
2007 Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fills, (curated by Alice Correia), London UK
Apres la Pluie, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rouchechouart, FR
Chanel, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moskow, RU
Kim Light Gallery Early 90’s, Kim Light Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA, US
Relationships: Contemporary Sculpture, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, US
The Flower of Life: an exhibition about art, love and nature, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK
Turner Prize. A Retrospective (touring exhibition), Tate Britain, London, UK; Moscow
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Play, Bearspace, Cello Factory, London, UK
2006 Still Life, New Art Centre, Wiltshire, UK
Core, Illuminate Productions, Union Works, London, UK
If It didn’t exist you’d have to invent it...A partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, UK
Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
2005 Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US,
White Columns Gallery, New York, US
Sad Songs, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Illinois, US
2004 Forest, Wolverampton Art Gallery, Wolverampton, UK
Von Pop bis Heute, Das Grosse Fressen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
Art of the garden, Tate, London, UK
Turning Points: 20th
Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, IR
Domestic (Futility), New Art Centre, Wiltshire, UK
Vis Vitalis, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
Lust Warande 04, Triennial on Contemporary Art, Tilburg, NL
2003 Urban Baroque, Plane Space, New York, US
Purloined Nature, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, JP
FlowerPower, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
Micro Macro, Budapest, BG
2002 Art and Nature, Pavillon de Verbeelding, NL
Blast to Freeze, British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
In Print, The Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Arts, Urals Museum of the Youth, Yekaterinburg, Centre of Graphics and Printmaking, Akhmatova Museum and
.. Novosibirsk Fine Art Gallery
Words from the Arts Council Collection, City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK; Arts
.. Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; City Art Gallery, York, UK; Gallery, Oldham, UK and The City Gallery, Leicester, UK (selected by Isobel Johnstone and Fiona Bradley)
Caldic Collection in Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, NL
Different States, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
2001 En verder... Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Field Day, sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TW
artline 5, nature and architecture (cur. by Jan Hoet), Borken, DE
arte y naturaleza, Montemedio Arte Contemporaneo, Cadiz, ES
Egofugal: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence, Istanbul Biennale (cur. by Yuko Hasegawa), TR
Multiplication, A British Council touring exhibition of Artists' Multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, RO; Muzeul de Arta, Brasov, RO; Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu, RO and
.. then to venues in Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia and Poland in 2003
Pawel Althamer, Anya Gallaccio, Amden, CH
2000 Lemon Tree Hill, Asprey Jacques, London, UK
Art in the park, Compton Verney (cur. by Locus +), UK
The Greenhouse effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The Invisible Touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, AT
1999 60s/90s Two Decades of Art and Culture, Towner Art Gallery and Museum Eastborne, US
Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts (curated by Andrew Nairne and Katrina Brown)
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green? Elga Wimmer, New York, US (curated by Maia
Damianovic)
Graphic! British prints Now Yale centre for British Art, New York, US
Viereck und Kosmos :Amdenener Rundang Amden, Switzerlarland, CH (Roman
Kurzmeyer)
Releasing Senses, Anya Gallaccio, Christian Marclay, Muraoka Saburo, Martin Walde.
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP (Curated by Mami Kataoka)
Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK
Flower Market, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK
1998 Real Life: New British Art, British Council touring exhibition, Tokyo MOCA, Ashiya City
Museum, Toyo, JP
Thinking Aloud, (curated by Richard Wentworth) National Touring Exhibitions, Kettles Yard
Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Organic, Les Abattoirs,Toulouse, FR
Fifty years of Sculpture Works from the Arts Council Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London,
UK
Still, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, UK
Here to Stay: Arts Council collection purchases of the 1990s, National Touring
Exhibitions, Plymtouth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Metropole Arts Centre,
Folkstone, The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle, and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (selected by Susan May)
Les Capteurs de Rêves, La Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, CA
1997 Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and ‘90s, Hayward Gallery,
London, UK (curated by Michael Archer and Greg Hilty)
Real Life- New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Hiroshima,
JP; City Museum, Tokyo, JP; MOCA, Ashiya City Museum, British Council
Kings Cross planting project, Camden Council and Public Art Development Trust
Pictura Britannica, MOCA, Sydney, AU
Private Face/Urban Space, A new generation of artists from Britain, The Gasworks,
Athens, GR (curated by Katerina Gregos and Henry Meyric Hughes)
Der Verloren Garten, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestral, CH (curated by Roman Kurzmeyer)
1996 Private View: Contemporary British and German Artists, A New Collection for John and
Josephine Bowes, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham, UK
From Figure to Object: A century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London and
Karsten Schubert, London, UK
The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, The Showroom, London, UK
Time Wise, Swiss Institute, New York, US
1995 Art Unlimited: Multiples from the 1960's and 1990's, National Touring Exhibitions
Anya Gallaccio and Fortuyn O'Brien, Bloom gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Where you were even now, Kunsthalle Winterthur (curated by Roman Kurzmeyer))
Brilliant, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis; CAM, Houston, Texas, US
The British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibition: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester,
Edinburgh: Cardiff, UK
Chocolate! The Swiss Institute, New York, US
On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, RU (curated by Dan Cameron)
1994 Domestic Violence, Gio Marconi, Milan, IT (curated by Alison Jaques)
Insite, 94, MOCA, San Diego; Agua Caliente, Tijuana, MX
Art Unlimited: Multiples from the 1960s and 1990s,
Sarah Staton Supastore Boutique..., Luara Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Le Shuttle, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
South Bank Centre touring exhibition
Punishment and Decoration, Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, DE (curated by Micheal
Corris)
Choix de Bruxelles, Espace Jacqmotte, Brussels, BE
1993 Home Alone, with Angus Fairhurst, 85 Charlotte Street, London, UK
Mandy loves Declan 100%, Mark Boote Gallery, New York, US
Ha-Ha, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
Yours, Wooster Gardens, A Group show, (curated by Michael Jenkins)
Le Principe de Réalité, Villa Arson, Nice, FR
Le Jardin de la Vierge, Musée Instrumental, Brussels, BE
1992 Fith Anniversary Exhibition, Karsten Ltd, London, UK
Life Size, Museo D`Arte Contemporanea, Prato, IT
A Group Show, (Curated by Clarrissa Dalrymple) Barbara Gladstone Gallery and Stein
Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
20 Fragile Pieces, Glerie Barbara et Luigi Polla, Geneva (curated by Gianni Romano)
With Attitude, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
15/1, Malania Basarb Gallery, London, UK
Sweet Home, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Gwynedd, UK; South London Gallery, London, UK;
Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK
1991 The Times; Londons Young Artists, Art'91 Olympia, London, UK
Museum of Installation, Site Three. Surrey Docks, London, UK
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Rachel Evans, Anya Gallaccio, Bridget Smith, The Clove Building, London, UK
Confrontaciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, ES
1990 Next Phase, Wapping Pumping Station, London, UK
East Country Yard Show, Surrey Docks, London, UK
1989 The Drum Show, Broadgate Arena, London, UK
New Year, New Talent, Anderson O`Day, London, UK
1988 Poetic Figurations in the Eighties, Laudale House, London, UK
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK
Artists Publications / Monographs
2013 Anya Gallacio. Artist book about her work going back to 1988, Ridinghouse, UK
2005 Anya Gallaccio. Silver Seed. Artist book on the ocassion of the exhibition at Mount Stuart,
Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK
2003 Anya Gallaccio. Artist book on the ocassion of the exhibition at the Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham, UK
2002 Anya Gallaccio. Beat. Artist book on the ocassion of the exhibition at tate Britain, London,
UK
1999 Anya Gallaccio. Chasing Rainbows, Artist book on the ocassion of the exhibition ‘Glaschu’
at the Old Court House, Glasgow, Scotland, Tramway and Locus
1993 Anya Gallaccio, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 1993
1991 Broken English. exh. cat., essay A. Graham-Dixon, London, Serpentine Gallery
Collections
Het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Caldic Collection, The Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
ABN Amro, The Netherlands