Anya Gallaccio

Selected Biography

Born in Scotland, 1963
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, 1985-88
Kingston Polytechnic, 1984-85

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

Lehmann Maupin, New York

2008

Kinsale Arts Festival

Comfort and Conversation

Annet Gelink, Amsterdam

Camden Arts Centre, London

2007

Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves

Gimpel Fils, curated by Alice Correia, London

Three Sheets to the Wind

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Thomas Dane Gallery

2006

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Galeria Leme, São Paulo

One Art

Sculpture Center, New York

2005

Shadow on the things you know

Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

Silver Seed

Mount Stuart Trust, Isle of Bute, Scotland (catalogue)

The Look of Things

Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (catalogue)

2004

love is only a feeling

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2003

Ikon

Birmingham, England (catalogue)

Sometimes with one I love

Annet Gelink Gallery

Turner Prize Exhibition

Tate, London

2002

beat

Duveen Sculpture Commission, Tate Britain, London (catalogue)

2001

blessed

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2000

now the leaves are falling fast

fig-1, London

Falling from grace

annet gelink gallery, Amsterdam; Projektraum, Kunstalle, Bern, Switzerland

1999

Glaschu

Tramway at Lanarkshire House, Glasgow

All the rest is silence

Anya Gallaccio at Sadler's Wells, London

1998

Chasing Rainbows

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam; Delfina, London (catalogue)

Two Sisters

Minerva Basin, Hull (Locus+ as part of Artranspennine)

1997

Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

Art Pace

San Antonio, Texas

Keep off the grass

Serpentine Gallery Lawn, London

1996

Harvest of the winter months

Galerie im KünstlerHaus, Bremen

absolute

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

intensities and surfaces

Wapping Pumping Station, London (Womens Playhouse Trust)

Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich

A Multiple

Ridinghouse Editions, London

1995

Towards the rainbow

Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

Stephen Friedman, London

1994

La Dolce Vita

Stephania Miscetti, Rome

stroke

Karsten Schubert, LondonBlum and Poe, Los Angeles

Couverture

Filiale, Basel

1993

Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich

Brown on white

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

1992

red on green

ICA, London

1991

Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

Inaugural Exhibition

Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

Radical Nature

The Barbican, London

2008

Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art

Japanese American National Museum, LA (curated by Karen Higa)

Freeze 20

The Hospital, London

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Barbican Centre, London

Red Wind

Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

2007

The Flower of Life: an exhibition about art, love and nature

James Hyman Gallery, London

Après la pluie

Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves

Gimpel Fils, London (curated by Alice Correia)

Turner Prize, A Retrospective (touring exhibition)

Tate Britain, London, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Play

Bearspace, Cello Factory, London

2006

Core

Illuminate Productions, Union Works, London

2005/06

Monuments for the USA (touring exhitibion)

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; White Columns Gallery, New York

2005

Sad Songs

University Galleries, Illinois State University, Illinois

2004

Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

Domestic (Futility)

New Art Centre, Wiltshire

Von Pop bis Heute

Das Grosse Fressen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Art of the Garden

Tate, London

Forest

Wolverampton Art Gallery (Touring Exhibition)

2003

Purloined Nature

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA

Micro Macro

Budapest

Urban Baroque

Plane Space, New York

FlowerPower

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

2002/03

Caldic Collection in Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

Words from the Arts Council Collection

City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth; Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; City Art Gallery, York; Gallery, Oldham and The City Gallery, Leicester (selected by Isobel Johnstone and Fiona Bradley)

Art and Nature

Pavillon de Verbeelding, Holland (catalogue)

In Print

The Art Pavilion Gallery, Belgrade; Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Arts, Urals Museum of the Youth at Yekaterinburg; Centre of Graphics and Printmaking; Akhmatova Museum and Novosibirsk Fine Art Gallery (catalogue)

Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (curated by Henry Meyric Hughes + Gijs van Tuyl)

Different States

Spacex Gallery, Exeter

2001/02

Multiplication

A British Council touring exhibition of Artists' Multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest; Muzeul de Arta, Brasov; Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu, and then to venues in Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia and Poland in 2003

en verder

Annet Gelink, Amsterdam

Artline 5, Nature and Architecture

Borken, Germany, (curated by Jan Hoet)

arte y naturaleza

Montemedio Arte Contemporaneo, Cadiz, Spain

Egofugal: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence

7th International Istanbul Biennial (curated by Yuko Hasegawa)

Field Day, sculpture from Britain

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Pawel Althamer, Anya Gallaccio

Amden, Switzerland

Airline 5 (Interaktionen Natur & Architektur)

Broken, Germany

2000

Lemon Tree Hill

Asprey Jacques, London

The Greenhouse Effect

Serpentine Gallery, London (curated by Lisa Corrin + Ralph Rugoff)

The Invisible Touch

The Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (curated by Maia Damianovic)

Art in the Park

Compton Verney, (commission curated by Locus+)

1999

Graphic! British prints Now

Yale Centre for British Art, New York

Releasing Senses

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan (curated by Mami Kataoka)

Natural Dependency

Jerwood Gallery, London

Viereck und Kosmos: Amdenener Rundang

Amden, Switzerland (Roman Kurzmeyer)

Flower Show

Fruitmarket, Edinburgh

Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?

Elga Wimmer, New York (curated by Maia Damianovic)

60s/ 90s Two Decades of Art and Culture

Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne

Prime

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (curated by Andrew Nairne + Katrina Brown)

1998

Real Life- New British Art

Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum, Tokyo MOCA, Ashiya City Museum, The British Council

New Art from Britain

Kunstraum Innsbruck (curated by Peter Murray)

Tokyo MOCA, Ashiya City Museum, The British Council

Still

Laurent Delaye Gallery (curated by Jenefer Winters)

Thinking Aloud

(curated by Richard Wentworth) National Touring Exhibitions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester and Camden Arts Centre, London

Fifty years of Sculpture Works from the Arts Council Collection

Lothbury Gallery, London

Here to stay: Arts Council Collection purchases of the 1990s

National Touring Exhibitions, Plymouth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 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 (curated by Claude Gosselin)

Organic

Les Abattoirs, Toulouse

1997

Der Verlorene Garten

Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestral, Switzerland (curated by Roman Kurmeyer)

Private Face/Urban Space, A new generation of artists from Britain

The Gasworks, Athens (curated by Katerina Gregos + Henry Meyric Hughes)

Pictura Britannica - Art from Britain

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia and Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand (curated by Bernice Murphy)

Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and '90s

Hayward Gallery, London (curated by Michael Archer + Greg Hilty)

1996

The pleasure of aesthetic life

The Showroom, London (curated by Amikam Toren)

Private View: Contemporary British and German Artists, A New Collection for John and Josephine Bowes

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham (curated by Penelope Curtis)

Time Wise

Swiss Institute, New York

From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings

Frith Street Gallery, London and Karsten Schubert, London

1995

Where you were even now

Kunsthalle Winterthur (curated by Roman Kurzmeyer)

Anya Gallaccio and Fortun O'Brien

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

On Beauty

Regina Gallery, Moscow (curated by Dan Cameron)

The British Art Show4

National Touring Exhibition: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh: Cardiff

Chocolate!

The Swiss Institute, New York

Brilliant! New Art from London

Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis; CAM, Houston, Texas

1994/95

Art Unlimited: Multiples from the 1960s and 1990s

National Touring Exhibition

1994

inSITE 94, (Chrematis)

Aqua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico; MOCA San Diego

Sarah Staton Supastore Boutique

Laure Genillard Gallery, London

A Group Show

Gallery Artists, Karsten Schubert, London

Punishment and Decoration

Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne (curated by Michael Corris)

Choix de Bruxelles

Espace Jacqmotte, Brussels

Domestic Violence

Gio Marconi, Milan (curated by Alison Jaques)

Le Shuttle

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1993

Home Alone, with Angus Fairhurst

85 Charlotte Street, London

Ha-Ha

Spacex Gallery, Exeter

Sarah Staton Supastore

Poster Studio, London

Mandy Loves Declan 100%

Mark Boote Gallery, New York

Le Principle de Réalité

Villa Arson, Nice

Yours

Wooster Gardens, New York (curated by Michael Jenkins)

Le Jardin de la Vierge

Musée Instumental, Brussels

1992

With Attitude

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Life Size

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Prato, Italy

20 Fragile Pieces

Galerie Barbara et Luigi Polla, Geneva (curated by Gianni Romano)

A Group Show: Lea Andrews, Keith Coventry, Anya Gallaccio, Liam Gillick, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Steven Pippin, Marc Quinn, Marcus Taylor and Rachel Whiteread

Barbara Gladstone Gallery and Stein Gladstone Gallery, New York (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)

Fifth Anniversary Exhibition

Karsten Schubert Ltd, London

15/1

Malania Basarab Gallery, London

Sweet Home

Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Gwynedd; South London Gallery, London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall; Aberystwyth Arts Centre

1991

The Times: London’s Young Artists

Art '91 Olympia, London

Broken English

Serpentine Gallery, London

Rachel Evans, Anya Gallaccio, Bridget Smith

The Clove Building, London

Museum of Installation Site Three

Surrey Docks, London

Confrontaciones

Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid

1990

Next Phase

Wapping Pumping Station, London

East Country Yard Show

Surrey Docks, London

1989

The Drum Show

Broadgate Arena, London

New Year New Talent

Anderson O'Day, London

1988

Poetic Figuration in the Eighties

Laudale House, London

Freeze

Surrey Docks, London Projects

Awards

2004

Headlands Center for the Arts

Sansalitos, CA

2002

1871 Fellowship, Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University and San Francisco Art Institute

California, USA (January - December)

1999

Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, London

Kanazawa College of Art

Japan

1998

Sargeant Fellowship

The British School at Rome, Italy (April - July)

1997

Art Pace

Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio Texas, USA, International Artist-In-Residence Programme (January - March)