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Gavin Turk
CV
1967 Born, Guildford
1991 Graduated, Royal College of Art
Currently lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2007 GAVIN TURK: ‘Me as Him’, Riflemaker, London
The Negotiation of Purpose, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague; MAGASIN Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
2006 Waste not, Want not, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen
Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise Show), Schloss Eggenberg, Graz
2005 Ha ha ha!, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Melange, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
White Elephant, Sean Kelly, New York
2004 Gavin Turk: Faces, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Faces: A Print Portfolio by Gavin Turk, Paul Stolper, London
The Golden Thread, White Cube, London; Sculpture at Goodwood
2003 Gavin Turk, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen
Gavin Turk, Oki-ni, Savile Row, London
Gavin Turk: et in arcadia eggo, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury
Gavin Turk In The House, Sherborne House, Dorset
Spare Change, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2002 Gavin Turk: Oeuvre, Tate Britain Sculpture Court Display, London
Copper Jubilee, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2001 The Che Gavara Story, Residence in the East End of London
2000 More Stuff, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Gavin Turk, fig-1, London
1999 The Importance of Being Ernesto, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
1998 The Stuff Show, South London Gallery, London
1997 Gavin Turk, Charing Cross Road, London
Gavin Turk, Charing Cross Road, London
1996 Unoriginal Signiture, Habitat, Kings Road, London
Gavin Turk, (Part of British Art in Rome) Galleria D’Art De Crescenzo & Viesti, Rome
1995 Turkish, Aurel Schiebler, Cologne
1993 Collected Works 1989-1993, Jay Jopling, Denmark Street, London
1993 A Marvellous Force of Nature, Jay Jopling/White Cube , London
A Night out with Gavin Turk, Victoria Public House, Bapisha Gosh, London and Schiefer Haus, Cologne
1992 Signature, Bipasha Ghosh/Jay Jopling, London
Group Exhibitions
2007Citadel 1. Front room/Killing room, David Risley Gallery, London
The Freak Show, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Galerie Trafó, Budapest
Intimacy, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Pure, Sean Kelly, New York
Draw, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
2006 In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery, London
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy, London
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Darkness Visible, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
World Cup, 39, London
In Between, Galeria Presena, Porto
Space Cavern Expérience Pommery 3, Cave pommery, Reims
Stage of Life – Rhetorics of Emotion, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
William Ling Fine Art, 18 Fremont Street, London
Culture Bound, The Courtauld Institute, London
2005 Et Maintenant - What Now, Crac Alsace, Altkirch
The Drawing Show, Shangri-La tattoo Parlour, London
Superstars! The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle wien, Vienna
My Beauty Picture Show, 21 Tudor Grove E9, London
M-City, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
25th Annual Series of the ICI New York Studio Events, New York
The Stuff of Life, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol / Laing Gallery, Newcastle / National Gallery, London
2004 Chaim Soutine, Happy Sailor, London
The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Art 4 All, Tea Building, London
The (de) Construction of Living, Odapark Foundation, The Netherlands
Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo
Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester / Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton / Park Gallery, Falkirk
Emotion Eins, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal / Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Domestic (f)utility, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2003 Bag Lady, Cell Project Space, London
The Art of Reinvention, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
Sculpture, London Institute Gallery, London
Artlab Especial, Mobile Home, London
Group Show, Mobile Home, London
FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
The Square Show, Bloomberg Space, London
Identity, Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, London
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon
Let’s See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London
2002 It’s Unfair, Museum de Pavilijeons, Netherlands
Face Off, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Second Skin. Historical Life Casting and Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop. Tate Liverpool
2001 Heart of Glass, Mirror, London
Art-Tube 01, Café De Paris, London
East Wing Collection, No. 5. Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Printers inc., The Gallery, Stratford- upon-Avon, England
The Colony Room Club 2001. A Space Oddity, A22 Projects, London
Abbild. Recent Portraiture and depiction, Steirisc[:her:]bst, Landesmuseum, Graz
Teeth and Trousers, Ideal House, London
Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Mind the Gap, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
The Saatchi Gallery eyestorm Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Please Disturb Me, Great Eastern Hotel, London
Dead, The Roundhouse, London
Century City, Tate Modern, London
Insider Trading: profit without honour, Mandeville Hotel, London
2000 In Memoriam, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Ever get the feeling you’ve been…, A22 Projects, London
Warning shots. Contemporary art exploring themes of conflict and violence, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds
Out There, White Cube², Hoxton Square, London
Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
White Ass European Cowboys, Rob Malasch / Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam
Art at the Dome, Greenwich, London
Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London
1999 The Self Absorbed, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Officina Europa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Self Evident, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
Skin Deep, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Gronningen, Charlottenbrog, Copenhagen
Mode of Art, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf
1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Dinstinctive Elements: Contemporary British Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
New Displays, The Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York
Feeringbury VIII. Cultivated, Feeringbury Manor, Feering and Firstsite, Colechester
Drawing Itself, London Institute Gallery, London
Heatwave, The Waiting Room, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton; Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton Square, London
Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
1997 Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
Renovate, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Dissolution, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
Mutants, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
All of a Sudden II, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1996 Plastic, Richard Salmon, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Other Men’s Flowers, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne; The British School at Rome, Rome
Private View, The Bowes Museum/Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Two Seconds. Nine Months, Bankside London
Fuck Off, Bank, London
Museum Vitale, Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
All of a Sudden, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Sex & Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1995 Young British Artists III, Saatchi Collection, London
Mito, Museo Dell’arredo, Ravenna, Italy
Hardcore (Part II), Factual Nonsense, London
Other Men’s Flowers, Icebox, Athens
Beauty is Fluid, Dering Street, London
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
1994 Karaoke & Football, Portikus, Frankfurt
Le Shuttle, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Fate Worse than Death, Hoxton Square, London
Minatures, The Agency, London
Other Men’s Flowers, Factual Nonsense, London
1992 Seventeen, Greenwich Street, New York
Molteplici/Cultura, Speaker Project, Rome
Tattoo, Jennifer Flay, Paris; Andrea Rosen, New York
London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert, London
Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi, GioMarconi, Milan
1991 Group Exhibition, Clove gallery, London
Other Projects
2006 Guantanamo Che The Studio of Gavin Turk, V&A, London
Waiting for Gavo, Performance (Puppet Theatre), Spice Festival, Hackney Empire
Waiting for Gavo, Performance (Puppet Theatre), Schloss Eggenberg, Graz
2005 Port Eliot Lit Fest, Saltash, Cornwall
2004 Judge of John Moores Painting Prize
Jury member of the Victoria & Albert Museum Illustration Award, London
More on Gavin Turk
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| Tonight, Manzoni, I'm Going to be Gavin Turk by Alex Farquharson | |
| Bibliography | |
| The Unbearable Awkwardness of Things A Conversation between Gavin Turk and Tim Marlow | |
| Text from Collected Works 1989-1993 by Andrew Wilson | |
| Exhibitions | |
| The Golden Thread 23 Jan—28 Feb 2004 | |
| A Marvellous Force of Nature 17 Sep—2 Oct 1993 | |
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