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Charles Avery has dedicated himself to a singular world-building project through the depiction of an imaginary island. Titled The Islanders, this project describes the formation of Avery's extensive fiction through drawings, writing, objects, architecture, and design.
The Island at the center of Avery's constructed world is located among an archipelago of innumerable constituents. The gateway to the Island is the town of Onomatopoeia, a highly-textured metropolis that bears the hallmarks of an evolving urban landscape. Once the stepping off point for the pioneers who first came, the town experienced rapid transormation from a colonial outpost, to boom town, bustling metropolis, depression-ravaged slum, and finally a regenerated city of culture and tourist destination. The culture and fabric of the Island continue to evolve, further illuminated with each successive work.
The spirit of Avery's imaginary Island is highly engaged with the disciplines and currency of mathematics, philosophy, economics, and anthropology, and he takes inspiration broadly from literature and comedy. Key elements from his drawings are rendered in physical form in his sculptures and installations. As Avery has said, the Island is "a gymnasium for the imagination and an earnest attempt to align the experience of the viewer with that of the artist."
Charles Avery (b. 1973 in Oban, UK) lives and works in London and on the Island of Mull (UK). Selected and recent solo exhibitions include, The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL) in 2022; Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT); a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side- show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) in 2021; The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) in 2020; The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) in 2019.
His work is part of numerous collections including, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Arts Council England Collection, London (UK); The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); Deutsche Bank Collection, THE EKARD COLLECTION, Frankfurt am Main (DE); FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK) and Tate Modern, London (UK), among others.
The Island at the center of Avery's constructed world is located among an archipelago of innumerable constituents. The gateway to the Island is the town of Onomatopoeia, a highly-textured metropolis that bears the hallmarks of an evolving urban landscape. Once the stepping off point for the pioneers who first came, the town experienced rapid transormation from a colonial outpost, to boom town, bustling metropolis, depression-ravaged slum, and finally a regenerated city of culture and tourist destination. The culture and fabric of the Island continue to evolve, further illuminated with each successive work.
The spirit of Avery's imaginary Island is highly engaged with the disciplines and currency of mathematics, philosophy, economics, and anthropology, and he takes inspiration broadly from literature and comedy. Key elements from his drawings are rendered in physical form in his sculptures and installations. As Avery has said, the Island is "a gymnasium for the imagination and an earnest attempt to align the experience of the viewer with that of the artist."
Charles Avery (b. 1973 in Oban, UK) lives and works in London and on the Island of Mull (UK). Selected and recent solo exhibitions include, The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL) in 2022; Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT); a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side- show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) in 2021; The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) in 2020; The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) in 2019.
His work is part of numerous collections including, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Arts Council England Collection, London (UK); The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); Deutsche Bank Collection, THE EKARD COLLECTION, Frankfurt am Main (DE); FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK) and Tate Modern, London (UK), among others.
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Artist Charles Avery talks about his project and working with glass in Berengo Studio's Furnace for Glasstress 2017
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VandenBroek Foundation
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Arts Council Collection, London (UK)
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b. 1973 in Oban, Scotland (UK)
Lives and works in London (UK)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT)
a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a sideshow, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2019
The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2018
Independent Brussels, GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Charles Avery: What is it about the red-headed girl with the weak chin? New Portraits of the Onomatopoeians, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2017
These Waters, GRIMM, New York (US)
Study #15, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia : Part 2, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2016
Charles Avery, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Charles Avery, Pilar Corrias, London (NL)
2015
The Impossible City, Edinburgh Art Festival (UK)
Charles Avery: The People and Things of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
What’s the Matter with Idealism?, GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL)
Fig-2 2/50 Charles Avery, ICA Studio, London (UK)
2014
What’s So Great About Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia – Part 2, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
What’s so Great about Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2013
It Means It Means! curated by Tom Morton, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
Vitrines: Charles Avery, L’Antenne, Le Plateau, FRAC, Paris (FR)
Solo Exhibition, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
It Means It Means!, curated by Tom Morton, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2012
New Works from the Islanders Project (Concerning the Qoro-qoros, the Jadindagadendar and the Eternal dialectic), GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2011
New Drawings of Onomatopoeia, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome (IT)
A Million Miles from Home, The Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (UK)
Place de la Revolution, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2010
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, Kunstverein, Hanover (DE)
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, EX3 – Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT)
Onomatopoeia, Part 2: The Port, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2009
Onomatopoeia, Part 1: Creeds, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
2008
The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit, London; touring to TheNational Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (UK, NL)
2007
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part III, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH)
Maquette of the Eternity Chamber, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH)
2006
The Plane of The Gods, Cubitt Gallery, London (UK)
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part II, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
Charles Avery & Keith Wilson, Alexandre Pollazzon, London (UK)
2005
The Islanders: An Introduction, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Hunting the Noumenon, Galleria Archimede Staffolini, Nicosia (CY)
Avatars, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome (IT)
2004
The Hunter, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
It Thinks, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
2003
The Square Root of 2, Sleeper, Edinburgh (UK)
The Freedom of the Universe, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2002
The Truth about the Truth, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Triangle Land, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
2001
The Palace of the Gulls, Percy Miller Gallery, London (UK)
2000
The Last Yolk, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Pordenone (IT)
The Riddle of Pooch Avery, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
The Ghost of Scirribin, Nylon Gallery, London (UK)
1999
Charles Avery, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
The Life and Times of Nancy Haselswon, Tablet Gallery, London (UK)
1998
The Creation of the Omniverse, Nylon, London (UK)
Portraits of People Who Never Existed, Entwistle Gallery, London (UK)
1997
The Underground Exhibition, Aldwych Tube Station, London (UK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
GLASSTRESS: Venetian Glass Today, Millesgården Museum, Lidingö (SE)
Cubitt 30th Birthday Fundraising Exhibition, Victoria Miro, London (UK)
Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, (IT)
We, on the Rising Wave, Busan Biennale 2022, Busan (SK)
The Hunter’s return, Paradys, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Arcadia, Triennial of Friesland, Oranjewoud (NL)
Le Voci della Sera, Vistamarestudio, Milan, (IT)
Art is the Antidote, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
2021
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
The City & The City & The City, curated by Tom Morton, Frestonian Gallery, London (UK)
Other.Worldly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
Common Ground 2: Connect in Color, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
NOW: Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélian Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles Empire, Zineb Sedira, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
16th Istanbul Biennale : The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR)
2018
Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Common Ground, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Rhapsody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
On A Pedestal, Castletown House, County Kildare (IE)
2017
Plurivers, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier (FR)
GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT) Arts Night, London (UK)
Exhibition paintings, Kunst Meran, Merano (IT)
Prix de Dessin, Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris (FR)
2016
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London (UK)
Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence (US)
Constructing Nature, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam (NL)
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kunnumpuram (IN)
2015
Animals in art – Collectie De Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac, Barneveld (NL)
The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival 2015,Edinburgh (UK)
Fig-2 (2/50), ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, London (UK)
2014
Feels Like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
Manifest Intention, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, (IT)
Huidige Zaken, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, (NL)
Generation: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Year after Year: Works on Paper From the UBS Art Collection, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Milano (IT)
Potent Wilderness, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
2013
Drawing Rroom 2013, curated by Ami Barak, Carre St Anne, Montpellier (FR)
Mijn Derde Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, Collection and Usher Gallery, curated by Tom Morton, Lincolnshire (UK)
Beastly Hall: A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall Place, Bexley (US)
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape, The Courtauld Gallery, London (UK)
2012
A parliament of lines, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
A parliament of lines, The RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
Haunts & follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary arts, St. Kilda (UK)
Machines for living, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem (IL)
Hedendaagse surreële tekeningen uit Rotterdam, collectie Boijmans van Beuningen, Institut Neerlandais, Paris (FR)
The Comic Side of Art, Nest, Den Haag (NL)
Galicia: Topographies of Myth, SOKOL, Nowy Sacz (PL)
A Parliament of Lines, ECAC, Scotland (UK)
Le Mirir et l’encyclopedie, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (FR)
2011
Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles From Home, Folkestone (UK)
As the World turns: New Art from London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2010
Recent British Sculpture, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NY)
British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet, Hayward Touring Exhibition, touring to: Nottingham (Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Castle Museum, New Art Exchange), London (Hayward Gallery), Glasgow (Centre for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Tramway), Plymouth (Peninsula Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth College of Art) (UK)
Acquisition Presentation Contemporary Drawings, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Languages and Experimentations, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Trento (IT)
2009
Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, BALTIC, Gateshead (UK)
Altermodern: Fourth Tate Triennial, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Tate Britain, London (UK)
Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
2008
Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007 - Charles Avery, Simon Starling and Cathy Wilkes, The Pier Orkney (UK)
Made Up, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 5th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
Irony & Gesture, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (KR)
Artfutures 2008, Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
2007
Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
The Lyon Biennale 2007, Lyon (FR)
The Athens Biennale, Athens (GR)
Every Eye Sees Differently as The Eye, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
Timer, Triennial Bovisa, Milan (IT)
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London (UK)
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano (IT)
2006
Charles Avery and Keith Wilson, Alexander Pollazzon Ltd., London (UK)
Flip, Francois Ghebaly/Chung King Project, Los Angeles US)
2005
Sculpture Garden, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (UK) Memphis, Flaca, London (UK)
Theoroma, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Avignon (FR)
Inaugurazione Nuovo Spazio, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2004
Premio del Golfo, La Spezia (IT)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London touring to Pitville Gallery, Cheltenham; Bayart, Cardiff; The Mac, Birmingham; EICH, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester (UK)
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
Io mi Ricordo, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2003
Il Premio per La Giovanne Arte Italiana, Padiglione di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale (IT)
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK)
Necessary Kids, Charles Avery and Piotr Uklanski, Costa Vece, Gallerie Civico d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily (IT)
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Works on Paper, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
2002
Contemporary Art Project, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle (US)
A Measure of Distance, Magnani, London (UK)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London touring to MAC Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester (UK)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
Supersonic and Alien, S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
Flights of Reality, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (UK)
Flights of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (group show with Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson and Matthew Ritchie) (UK)
2001
Ghosty, Mille Eventi, Milan (IT)
Works on Paper, S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2000
Made Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, touring to Changing Room, Stirling (UK)
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London (Uk)
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
Made Space, Pekao Gallery, Toronto (CA)
1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York (US)
Selection from the Files, Nylon, London (US)
The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone (IT)
Untitled, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago (US)
Fine Line, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London (UK)
1998
Golf Sale, Merc House, London (UK)
1997
The Underdogs, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
1996
Charles Avery and Peter Harris, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
Conversation Pieces, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
Selected Collections
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Arts Council England Collection, London (UK)
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK)
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Edinburgh City Art Centre Collection, Edinburgh (UK)
THE EKARD COLLECTION
FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv (IL)
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK)
ProWinko Collection, Amstelveen (NL)
Tate Modern, London (UK)
LAM, Lisse (NL)
Lives and works in London (UK)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT)
a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a sideshow, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2019
The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2018
Independent Brussels, GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Charles Avery: What is it about the red-headed girl with the weak chin? New Portraits of the Onomatopoeians, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2017
These Waters, GRIMM, New York (US)
Study #15, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia : Part 2, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2016
Charles Avery, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Charles Avery, Pilar Corrias, London (NL)
2015
The Impossible City, Edinburgh Art Festival (UK)
Charles Avery: The People and Things of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
What’s the Matter with Idealism?, GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL)
Fig-2 2/50 Charles Avery, ICA Studio, London (UK)
2014
What’s So Great About Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia – Part 2, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
What’s so Great about Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2013
It Means It Means! curated by Tom Morton, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
Vitrines: Charles Avery, L’Antenne, Le Plateau, FRAC, Paris (FR)
Solo Exhibition, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
It Means It Means!, curated by Tom Morton, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2012
New Works from the Islanders Project (Concerning the Qoro-qoros, the Jadindagadendar and the Eternal dialectic), GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2011
New Drawings of Onomatopoeia, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome (IT)
A Million Miles from Home, The Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (UK)
Place de la Revolution, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2010
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, Kunstverein, Hanover (DE)
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, EX3 – Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT)
Onomatopoeia, Part 2: The Port, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2009
Onomatopoeia, Part 1: Creeds, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
2008
The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit, London; touring to TheNational Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (UK, NL)
2007
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part III, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH)
Maquette of the Eternity Chamber, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH)
2006
The Plane of The Gods, Cubitt Gallery, London (UK)
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part II, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
Charles Avery & Keith Wilson, Alexandre Pollazzon, London (UK)
2005
The Islanders: An Introduction, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Hunting the Noumenon, Galleria Archimede Staffolini, Nicosia (CY)
Avatars, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome (IT)
2004
The Hunter, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
It Thinks, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
2003
The Square Root of 2, Sleeper, Edinburgh (UK)
The Freedom of the Universe, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2002
The Truth about the Truth, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Triangle Land, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
2001
The Palace of the Gulls, Percy Miller Gallery, London (UK)
2000
The Last Yolk, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Pordenone (IT)
The Riddle of Pooch Avery, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
The Ghost of Scirribin, Nylon Gallery, London (UK)
1999
Charles Avery, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
The Life and Times of Nancy Haselswon, Tablet Gallery, London (UK)
1998
The Creation of the Omniverse, Nylon, London (UK)
Portraits of People Who Never Existed, Entwistle Gallery, London (UK)
1997
The Underground Exhibition, Aldwych Tube Station, London (UK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
GLASSTRESS: Venetian Glass Today, Millesgården Museum, Lidingö (SE)
Cubitt 30th Birthday Fundraising Exhibition, Victoria Miro, London (UK)
Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, (IT)
We, on the Rising Wave, Busan Biennale 2022, Busan (SK)
The Hunter’s return, Paradys, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Arcadia, Triennial of Friesland, Oranjewoud (NL)
Le Voci della Sera, Vistamarestudio, Milan, (IT)
Art is the Antidote, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
2021
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020
The City & The City & The City, curated by Tom Morton, Frestonian Gallery, London (UK)
Other.Worldly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
Common Ground 2: Connect in Color, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
NOW: Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélian Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles Empire, Zineb Sedira, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
16th Istanbul Biennale : The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR)
2018
Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Common Ground, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Rhapsody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
On A Pedestal, Castletown House, County Kildare (IE)
2017
Plurivers, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier (FR)
GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT) Arts Night, London (UK)
Exhibition paintings, Kunst Meran, Merano (IT)
Prix de Dessin, Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris (FR)
2016
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London (UK)
Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence (US)
Constructing Nature, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam (NL)
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kunnumpuram (IN)
2015
Animals in art – Collectie De Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac, Barneveld (NL)
The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival 2015,Edinburgh (UK)
Fig-2 (2/50), ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, London (UK)
2014
Feels Like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
Manifest Intention, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, (IT)
Huidige Zaken, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, (NL)
Generation: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Year after Year: Works on Paper From the UBS Art Collection, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Milano (IT)
Potent Wilderness, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
2013
Drawing Rroom 2013, curated by Ami Barak, Carre St Anne, Montpellier (FR)
Mijn Derde Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, Collection and Usher Gallery, curated by Tom Morton, Lincolnshire (UK)
Beastly Hall: A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall Place, Bexley (US)
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape, The Courtauld Gallery, London (UK)
2012
A parliament of lines, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
A parliament of lines, The RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
Haunts & follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary arts, St. Kilda (UK)
Machines for living, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem (IL)
Hedendaagse surreële tekeningen uit Rotterdam, collectie Boijmans van Beuningen, Institut Neerlandais, Paris (FR)
The Comic Side of Art, Nest, Den Haag (NL)
Galicia: Topographies of Myth, SOKOL, Nowy Sacz (PL)
A Parliament of Lines, ECAC, Scotland (UK)
Le Mirir et l’encyclopedie, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (FR)
2011
Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles From Home, Folkestone (UK)
As the World turns: New Art from London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2010
Recent British Sculpture, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NY)
British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet, Hayward Touring Exhibition, touring to: Nottingham (Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Castle Museum, New Art Exchange), London (Hayward Gallery), Glasgow (Centre for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Tramway), Plymouth (Peninsula Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth College of Art) (UK)
Acquisition Presentation Contemporary Drawings, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Languages and Experimentations, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Trento (IT)
2009
Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, BALTIC, Gateshead (UK)
Altermodern: Fourth Tate Triennial, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Tate Britain, London (UK)
Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
2008
Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007 - Charles Avery, Simon Starling and Cathy Wilkes, The Pier Orkney (UK)
Made Up, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 5th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
Irony & Gesture, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (KR)
Artfutures 2008, Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
2007
Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
The Lyon Biennale 2007, Lyon (FR)
The Athens Biennale, Athens (GR)
Every Eye Sees Differently as The Eye, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
Timer, Triennial Bovisa, Milan (IT)
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London (UK)
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano (IT)
2006
Charles Avery and Keith Wilson, Alexander Pollazzon Ltd., London (UK)
Flip, Francois Ghebaly/Chung King Project, Los Angeles US)
2005
Sculpture Garden, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (UK) Memphis, Flaca, London (UK)
Theoroma, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Avignon (FR)
Inaugurazione Nuovo Spazio, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2004
Premio del Golfo, La Spezia (IT)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London touring to Pitville Gallery, Cheltenham; Bayart, Cardiff; The Mac, Birmingham; EICH, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester (UK)
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
Io mi Ricordo, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2003
Il Premio per La Giovanne Arte Italiana, Padiglione di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale (IT)
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK)
Necessary Kids, Charles Avery and Piotr Uklanski, Costa Vece, Gallerie Civico d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily (IT)
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Works on Paper, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
2002
Contemporary Art Project, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle (US)
A Measure of Distance, Magnani, London (UK)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London touring to MAC Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester (UK)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
Supersonic and Alien, S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
Flights of Reality, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (UK)
Flights of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (group show with Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson and Matthew Ritchie) (UK)
2001
Ghosty, Mille Eventi, Milan (IT)
Works on Paper, S.A.L.E.S., Rome (IT)
2000
Made Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, touring to Changing Room, Stirling (UK)
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London (Uk)
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York (US)
Made Space, Pekao Gallery, Toronto (CA)
1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York (US)
Selection from the Files, Nylon, London (US)
The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone (IT)
Untitled, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago (US)
Fine Line, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London (UK)
1998
Golf Sale, Merc House, London (UK)
1997
The Underdogs, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
1996
Charles Avery and Peter Harris, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
Conversation Pieces, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
Selected Collections
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Arts Council England Collection, London (UK)
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK)
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Edinburgh City Art Centre Collection, Edinburgh (UK)
THE EKARD COLLECTION
FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv (IL)
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK)
ProWinko Collection, Amstelveen (NL)
Tate Modern, London (UK)
LAM, Lisse (NL)
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