Biography
Born 1964
Lives and works in Glasgow
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Rowche Rumble, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
ACCA, Melbourne
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Jim Lambie - Forever Changes, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
RSVP: Jim Lambie, MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007
'The Prismatics', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006
'Jim Lambie', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Directions- Jim Lambie', Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington
D.C.
'P.I.L.', Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2005
'The Byrds', The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Shoulder Pad,' Sadie Coles HQ, London
'Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2004
'My Boyfriend's Back', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
'Mental Oyster', Anton Kern, New York
'Grand Funk', OPA, Mexico
'Mars Hotel', Franco Noero, Sonia Rosso, Turin
Konrad Fisher, Dusseldorf
2003
'Male Stripper', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
'Kebabylon', Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2002
'Acid Trails', Basel/Miami Beach Art Fair, The Modern Institute
The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece
'Salon Unisex', Sadie Coles HQ, London
2001
'Boy Hairdresser', Anton Kern, New York City
Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Blank Generation', Jack Hanley, San Francisco
2000
Konrad Fisher, Dusseldorf
Triangle, Paris
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
1999
'Weird Glow', Sadie Coles HQ, London
'Voidoid', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'ZOBOP', The Showroom Gallery, London
1998
'Ultralow', The Modern Institute video screening Carnival, Soho, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
FILMS, (screening of Ultralow), Sadie Coles HQ, London
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA, New York
The Local, SWG3, Glasgow International 2008, Glasgow
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary
Art North Miami, Miami
MAXImin, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - Sammlung als Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz,
Graz
Gravity. Colección Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte
Contemporáneo
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York
Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan, April
2007
Wild West, recommended Galerie Gebr. Lehmann - Berlin, Berlin
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary
Art, Gateshead
Da Bauhaus (Agora!), Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
- MASP, São Paulo
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York
Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia, Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti
Contemporanee, Caraglio
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea,
Bolzano
Out of Art, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre dArt, Biel/Bienne
Substance & Surface, Bortolami, New York
Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Passion Complex - Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st
Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
'Reconstruction 2', Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
'Melting Pot', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967', Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
'Breaking Step', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
'Half Square, Half Crazy', Villa Arson, Nice
'Off the Wall', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006
Off the Wall: Floor and Ceiling-based works from the Collection of the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
In the darkest hour there may be light, Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, Essex
This Is Not For You. Diskurse der Skulptur, T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna
DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Good Vibrations - Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro
Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
'All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
’In the darkest hour there may be light', Serpentine Gallery, London
'JaGGy-edge', The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland
'Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires', Ancient & Modern, London
'How to Improve the World, British Art 1946-2006', Hayward Gallery, London
'Life’s a Beach', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
'abstract art now – strictly geometrical?', Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
am Rhein
'Strange Powers', Creative Time, New York
'IMPLOSION', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden/Total Damage', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
'If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom
history', The Showroom, London
2005
Know what they mean?, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum,
Karlsruhe
8e Biennale de Lyon - Expérience de la durée - Experiencing
Duration, La biennale dart contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Camera fissa, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
'The Turner Prize' (nominee), Tate Britain, London
'Experiencing Duration', Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art
'Omaggio al Quadrato', Franco Noero, Turin
'Minimalism and After IV', Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
'Extreme Abstraction', Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
'Prisms & Shadows' , curated by Toby Paterson, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2004 54th Carnegie International Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
'From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink', Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
'Collage', Bloomberg SPACE, London
'Brand New and Retro', UP Projects, The Empire
'Synth', Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
'Ouroboros', CCA, Glasgow
Boros collection exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe
'Stalemate', MCA, Chicago
'Into My World', Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Sodium & Asphalt (Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City)
Sodium & Asphalt (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey)
2004
four color pen show, Locust Projects, Miami
Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Drunk Vs. Stoned, Gavin Browns Enterprise GBE modern, New York
How Sculptors See, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Four Rooms, Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
lastwinterspringnevercame, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2003
Unplugged, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Group Show - Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
New Space! Group Show!, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
'Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future', MCA, Chicago
'ZENOMAP', Venice Biennalle 'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear',
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
'Love Over Gold', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
'The Moderns', Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
'I Got Ants in My Pants', Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
'Cut Out', Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
'Architecture Scmarchitecture', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Days Like These - Tate Triennial', Tate Britain, London
'Painting Not Painting', Tate St Ives, UK
'Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell'arte Contemporanea (The tale of
the other thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contemporary Art)', MART - Museo
di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
'The Fourth Sex', Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
'OUTLOOK', Athens, Greece
'Plunder, Culture as Material', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
'Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection', touring exhibition: Longside
Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England; Aberystwyth Arts Centre,
Aberrystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; The Hatton
Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England; Tullie House, Carlisle,
England
'Silver Convention', Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch
'The Unhomely', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Grayscale/CMYK', Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2002
Tailsliding - Young and upcomig British Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku
'VIP', Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
'EU2', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
'Greyscale/CMYK', Tramway, Glasgow
'New', Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
'Early One Morning', Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
'Jim Jonathan Kenny Frances and Sol', Stedlijk Bureau, Amsterdam
'Electric Dreams', Barbican Gallery, London, UK
'Hello My Name Is ...', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
'There is a Light That Will Never Go Out', Galleria Sonia Rosso, Italy
'My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love', Charlottenbourg Museum,
Copenhagen, Denmark
'Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain', Grant Selwyn Fine Art,
New York, USA
'Superlounge', Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, New York, USA
'Life is Beautiful', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2001
Third Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles
»songs of love and hate - side a«, galerie wieland, Berlin
Fresh - The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York City, NY
'Here and Now', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
'Between Object and Arabesque', Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark
'Funktional Fictional', Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
'Tailsliding', British council touring show
'Silhouettes', Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
2000
'Electric City', The Lighthouse, Glasgow
'Off the Record', Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania
'Raumkörper', Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles, Hoxton St, London
'Parking Meters', Cologne
'Heart and Soul', Los Angeles
'What If', Moderna Museet, Stockholm
'The British Art Show 5', Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton
Mark Selwyn, Los Angeles
'Black Gloss', Anton Kern, New York
'Dream Machines', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mapin Gallery, Camden Arts Centre
1999
Matthew Higgs @ Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
'Papermake', Modern Art Inc., London
'Creeping Revolution', Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
‘To be continued ...', Walsall Public Projects, England
'Dots and Loops', MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam
'Heart and Soul', 60 Long Lane, London
'The Queen is Dead', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
'Silk purse', Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, England
1998
'Lovecraft', Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
'All or Nothing', La Friche Gallery (Triangle) Marseille, France
'Slant6', Jacob Javit's Center, New York
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London
’Host', Tramway, Glasgow
'Two Up', Property Gallery, Glasgow
1997
'This is ... These are', Norwich, England
'European Couples and Others', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1996
'The World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow
'Brain Mail', Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Los Angeles
'Girls High', Fruitmarket Galley, Edinburgh
'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Cubitt St., London
'Sick building', Globe gallery, Copenhagen
'insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow
'Art for People', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'Kilt ou Double', La Vigie Gallery, Nîmes, France
1995
'In Stereo', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie', Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
'Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie', 115 Dalriada, Glasgow