GALLERI NICOLAI WALLNER

 

 

 

 

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David Shrigley

Born 1968, Macclesfield, Great Britain
Lives and works in Glasgow

Education

1988-91 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland


Solo exhibitions

2008 David Shrigley, books, prints and ephemeras, Christoph Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
  David Shrigley, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A
  David Shrigley, BQ, Cologne, Germany
2007 Monotypes, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Everything must have a name, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  CAB, Burgos, Spain
  Stephen Friedman, London, United Kingdom
2006 David Shrigley, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom
  David Shrigley: Recent Prints, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  New etchings & woodcuts, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  David Shrigley, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 I'm exhausted, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
  Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  Stephen Friedman, London, England
2003 Antidepressants, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Camden Arts Centre, London, England , travelling to Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, England
  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  Domaine de Kerguehennec, France
  Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
  FRAC, Bretagne, France
2001 CCS Museum, Bard College, New York, USA
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2000 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
  Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1998 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
  CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
  Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
  Stephen Friedman, London, England
  Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Contents of the Gap....., Luxus Cont.e.V., Berlin, Germany
  Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1995 Map Of The Sewer, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland


Group exhibitions

2008 Pendre la Crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
  Lots of things like this, apexart, New York, USA
  Contemplating modern art, Galleri Nicolai wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Overkill, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Laughing in a foreign language, The Hayward, London, United kingdom (exh. cat.)
2007 Comix, Brandts, Odense, Denmark (exh. cat.)
  Mad Love, Arken, Ishøj, Denmark (exh. cat.)
  Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Paper Trails, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, MOMA, New York, USA
  Chers Amis, Cce d'art Contemporain Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
  Under God's Hammer; William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
  Old News, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
  Humor Me, Kansas City Art Institute, USA
  The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, MOMA, New York, USA
2005 Situation Comedy, MCA, Chicago, USA
  Emotion pictures, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 About Corporeality, Galerie Lelong Zürich, Switzerland
  Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
  Living Dust, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
  Brittania Works, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
  State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2003 Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
2002 Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, USA
  Reality Check, Various venues
  Sudden Glory, CCAC, San Francisc, USA
  Jokes, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
  Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
  Out off bounds: works on paper, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
  Gymnasion, Bergenz Kunstverein, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bergenz, curated by Wolfgang Fetz and Peter Lewis
  Open Country, Contemporary Scottish Artists, Le Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland.
  The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations: Recent British Art & Photography, Consejeria de Cultura, Madrid, Spain
2001 Out of Line, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  Group Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Rendezvous III, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
  Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
  Under Bridges and Along The River, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  The Fantastic Repetition of Certain Situations, Isabel II Madrid, Spain
2000 The British Art Show 5 , (catalogue) Edinburgh and touring to Southampton, Cardiff, and Birmingham
  Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts Lausanne, Switzerland
  One in the Other, London (with Ewan Gibbs)
  Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, and touring (catalogue)
  Personal History, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
  Becks Futures, ICA, London (catalogue) touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and CCA
1999 Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
  Bildung-information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine arts, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
  Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxi¸me partie), France; curated by Florence Derieux
  Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; curated by Christina Ritchie
  Plug In, Salon 3, London
  Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London; curated by Simon Morissey
  Common People, British Art between Phenomeon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per L'arte, Torino, Italy; curated by Francesco Bonami
  Shopping, London; organised by FAT GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, NL
  A Slip Of The Mind, Centre Regional d' art Contemporain Launguedoc-Roussillon, France.
1998 Young Scene, Wiener Secession, Wien, Austria.
  Surfacing Š Contemporary Drawing, ICA, London
  Real Life, Galerie S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy.
  Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
  Habitat, Centre for Contemporary photography, Fitzroy (Melbourne), Australia.
  Matthew Benedict, Yves Chaudou‘t, Anne-Marie Schneider and David Shrigley, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
1997 Art calls, Copenhagen, Denmark. (curated by Jacob Fabricius)
  CCA, Glasgow, Scotland.
  Tales of the city, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  Blueprint, De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  Caldas Biennale, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
  About Life in the Periphery, Wacker Kunst, Darmstadt, Germany.
  Young British Photography, Stadthaus, Ulm
Appetizer, Free Parking, Toronto, Canada
  Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England.
1996 Sarah Staton Superstore, Up & Co, New York, U.S.A.
  Absolute Blue and White, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  The Unbelievable Truth, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
  Fucking Biscuits and other Drawings, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  Big Girl/Little Girl, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  White Hysteria, Contempory Art Centre of South Australia.
  Toons, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen.
  Upset, James Colman Fine Art, London.
1995 Scottish Autumn, Bartok 32 Galeria, Budapest, Hungary.
1994 Some of my friends, Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark. (curated by Jonathan Monk) (catalogue)
  New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland. (catalogue)
1992 In Here, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. (catalogue)


Publications

2005 The Book of Shrigley, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
2004 Blocked Path, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Rules, Redstone Press, London (forthcoming)
  Kill Your Pets, Revolver, Frankfurt, Germany
  Let's wrestle, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Joy, Chronicle Books, San Francisco (forthcoming)
2003 Yellow Bird With Worm, Kunsthaus Zurich
  Who I Am And What I Want, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Evil Thoughts, Chronicle Books, San Francisco (book of postcards)
  Joy, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Leotard, BQ, Cologne, Germany
2002 Human Achievement, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Evil Thoughts, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
2001 Do Not Bend, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Collaboration with Yoshitomo Nara in Bijutsu Techo
2000 Grip, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh, Ireland
  Hard Work, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Weekly cartoon in the Independent on Sunday
1999 The Beast is near, Redstone Press, London, United Kingdom
  Fel, Rudins, Sweden, (Swedish translation of Err)
1998 To make Meringue you must beat the egg whites- until they look like this; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Centre Parting, Little Cockroach Press, Toronto, Canada
  Why we got the sack from the Museum, Redstone Press, London, England
  Blank Page and Other pages, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot, The Armpit Press, Glasgow, Scotland
  Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
  Err, Bookworks, London. Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon thee, Tramway, Scotland
1995 Enquire Within, The Armpit Press, Scotland
1994 Blanket of Filth, The Armpit Press, Scotland
1992 Merry Eczema, Black Rose, Scotland
1991 Slug Trails, Black Rose, Scotland


Articles and reviews (selected)

2007 Zwei Minuten Bilder by Sandra Danicke, Art - Das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 1 Januar, p. 28-36
2006 Shrigley's simplistic doodles translate into intriguing scenarios, Sunday Herald, July 30
  Pop go the cartoon capers, ScotlandonSunday, July 2, p. 2-3
  Review by David Pollock, The List Festival Magazine, August 3-10, p. 67
  Review in The Herald, July 20, p. 17
  Review in Sunday Herals, July 16, p. 29
  Misshapes, review in Printmaking today, Summer, p. 16
2005 Artforum, summer, review by Emily Hall
  The Guardian, September 10, review by Laura Barton
2004 Flash Art International No. 239, Review by Eliza Williams
  The Scotsman, November 8, Ajay Close
  The List, 10-24 June, interview with the artist
  Art Review, June 2004, Postcard
  Toronto Star, 1 May 2004, review by Murray Whyte
  The Guardian, 19 April 2004
  Art Monthly, March 2004, review by Marcus Verhagen
2003 I-D, December 2003, review by Kevin Braddock
  The Times, 4 November 2003, interview with the artist by Helen Rumbelow
  The Independent, November 8, by Deborah Orr
  Time Out, 24 Sep-1 Oct 2003
  Maisonneuve, Fall 2003
  Artforum, January
  Flash Art, May/June by Craig Garrett
  Kunstbulletin, no 10, October 2003, interview with the artist by Michael Krajewski
2002 Time Out New York, Oct 31 - Nov 7
  Art Review, March 2002 Vol LIII, Review by Morgan Falconer
  Art Press, September 1, review by Marie de Bugerolle
  Profil Femmes, June, "Le Mamco s'offre un rire homérique", review
2001 Art Monthly, April, Mark Wilshire
  The Big Issue, October 15-21 No 459, review
  Art on Paper, July-August, review by Michael Wilson
  The Big Issue, February-March, by Helen Sumpter
  Evening Standard, 3 April
  What's on in London, March-April, review by Jim Healy
  ArtReview, March 2001, Vol. LIII, review
2000 Flux (UK), August, by Jim Medway
  Jonathan Jones, ŌBeckÕs FuturesÕ, The Guardian, 21 March 2000
  Creative Review, October, by Helen Walters
  Time Out, Oct 11, by Sophie Davies
1999 Les Inrockoptibles, Sept 16-23, by Jade Lindgaard.
  The Guardian, 23 Mar., by Adrian Searle.
  Time Out, 31 Mar. 7 Apr., by Martin Coomer.
1998 Independent, November 11, 1998, by Judith Palmer.
  The Guardian, 5 Dec., by Michael Bracewell.
  Arena, December 1998.
  New York Times, 10 July, by Roberta Smith.
1997 Art Monthly, April 1997, by David Beech.
  Tate Liverpool Magazine, Issue no. 13, 1997.
1996 Toons, Flash Art, November/Decmber, by Lars Bang Larsen.
  Circa (Ireland), Winter, by Mike Wilson.
  Flash Art, May/ June.
  Public Art, Art & Design, by Judith Findlay.
  Flash Art, January/February, by Judith Findlay.
1995 Frieze, November/December, by Michael Bracewell.
  Zing Magazine (USA), Winter, by Judith Findlay.


Magazine Projects (selected)

2005 Guardian (weekly cartoon every saturday)
  The Stranger (Seattle, WA, USA)
2001 Cabinet Magazine, Issue 1
2000 Sleaze Nation, October
1999 Independent On Sunday Review. (Weekly Cartoon 1.99 to 2.00)
1998 Insert, Parkett no. 53, 1998.
   
   
   

Public Collections
  Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
   
Animations  
   
2005 "Who I am and what I want", Animate! Comission for Channel 4 (collaboration with Chris Shepherd
2004 BBC.co.uk/collective (weekly animation 'Modern Thought')
  Bonnie Prince Billy 'Agnes Queen of Sorrow' promo
2003 Blur 'Good Song' promo (collaboration with Shynola)
2002 "What happens after you're dead", Channel4.com viro project
   
Awards  
   
2006 Winner of Tiger Short Film Award at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival, The Netherlands (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Public Choice Best Film Award at the British Animation Awards, United Kingdom (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Best Animated Film at Kino Int. Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Best Comedy Film at Stuttgart Int. Animation Film Festival, Germany (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Special Mention at Granada Int. Film Festival, Spain (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Best Animated Film at the Wood Green Int. Film Festival, United Kingdom (for "Who I am and what I want")
  Winner of Public Choice Award at Ann Arbor Int. Film Festival, USA (for "Who I am and what I want")