
Biography
1958 Born, Wales
1980 Graduated, St Martin’s School of Art, London
1984 MA, Film and Video, Royal College of Art, London
Lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions and Film Screenings
2008 Cerith Wyn Evans, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
…visibleinvisible, MUSAC, Leon
Cerith Wyn Evans, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2007 Socle Du Monde, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Remote Viewing, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu
Futa Omote (double face), Taka Ishii, Tokyo
Bubble Peddler, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2006 Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
Take my eyes and through them see you, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
…in which something happens all over again for the very first time, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
The Curves of the Needle, White Cube, London
2005 The Sky is Thin As Paper Here, Kunsthaus Graz - BIX Media Façade, Graz
Eaux d’artifice (after K.A.), The Conservatory, Barbican Centre, London
Once a Noun, Now a Verb…, Galerie Neu, Berlin
299792458m/s, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
2004 Thoughts unsaid, now forgotten…, MIT Visual Arts Center, Boston
Cerith Wyn Evans, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cerith Wyn Evans, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
The Sky is Thin as Paper Here…, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Meanwhile Across Town, Centre Point, London
Rabbit’s Moon, Camden Arts Centre, London
2003 Look at that picture… How does it appear to you now? Does it seem to be Persisting?, White Cube, London
Cerith Wyn Evans, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Take your desires for reality, Cerith Wyn Evans/MATRIX 201c, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
2002 Cerith Wyn Evans Screening, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2001 Cerith Wyn Evans, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus
Cerith Wyn Evans, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna
Cerith Wyn Evans The Art Newspaper project: Venice Biennale, Venice
2000 Cleave 00. Art Now, Tate Britain, London
Cerith Wyn Evans, fig-1, London
“Has the film already started?’’, Galerie Neu, Berlin
1999 Cerith Wyn Evans, Asprey Jacques Contemporary Art Exhibitions, London
1998 Cerith Wyn Evans, The British School at Rome in collaboration with Asprey Jacques Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Rome
Cerith Wyn Evans, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
1997 Cerith Wyn Evans, Deitch Projects, New York
1996 Inverse Reverse Perverse, White Cube, London
Cerith Wyn Evans, Studio Casa Grande (Part of British Art in Rome), Rome
1993 Les Visiteurs du Soir, London Film Festival, London
1992 Crossoverworkshop, HFAK, Vienna
1990 Sense and Influence, Kijkhuis, The Hague
1989 Solo Exhibition 79-89, ICA, London
1983 Solo Project, London Film Makers Co-op, London
1982 Solo Project, Film excerpts shown on Riverside, BBC2
1981 Solo Project, London film Makers Co-op, London
A Certain Sensibility, ICA Cinematheque, London
1980 ...And Then I ‘Woke Up’, London Film Makers Co-op, London
Selected Group Exhibitions and Film Screenings
2008 Always Begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
Voice and Void, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
You Dig The Tunnel – I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Typed, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Voice and Void, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2007 Ian Hamilton Finlay & Cerith Wyn Evans, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge
The Projection Project: Budapest episode, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Before the advert of radio astronomy, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
This is the love of these, Magazin 4, Bregenz
Romantic Conceptualism, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg ; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988, Institute of Contemporary Art, London,
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2006 All Hawaii entrées / Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London
'Nach Rokytnik', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Thank you for the music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London
The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Stage of Life-Rhetorics of Emotion, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London
2005 Flourish, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Thank you for the music, Sprüth Magers Project, Munich
Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Pasolini E Roma, Museo di Roma, Trastevere
9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul
Seoul Film Festival, Seoul
London in Six Easy Steps, ICA, London
The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
I Really Should…, Lisson Gallery, London
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
Bidibidobidiboo: La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Cavallerizza Chiablese e Salone delle Guardie, Turin.
Light Lab, MUSEION, Bolzano
Can Buildings Curate, AA School of Architecture, London
Ice Storm, Kunstverein Münich, Munich
I’d Rather Jack, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
E-Flux Video Rental Store, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Ellen Cantor, Cerith Wyn Evans, Prince Charles Cinema, London
2004 Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Modus Operandi, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Curating The Library, DE Singel, Antwerp
Schöner Wohnen (Living Nicely), Platform voor Actuele Kunst, Waregem
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Uses of the Image: Photography, Film and Video In The Jumex Collection, Malba, Buenos Aires
Quodlibet, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Trafic d’influences: Art & Design, Tri Postal, Lille
The Future Has A Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich
Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics, Revolver, Frankfurt
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Drunken Masters, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Making Visible, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Doubtiful Dans Les Plis Du Reel, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
Hidden Histories, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Ulysses, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Sans Soleil, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2003 Take a Bowery: The Art and (larger than) Life of Leigh Bowery, MCA Sydney, Sydney
Wittgenstein Family Likenesses, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge
Heiliger Sebastian: A Splendid Readiness For Death, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
Further: Artists from Wales, 50th International Venice Biennale, Venice; Aberystweth Arts Centre, Aberystweth; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and National Museum & Gallery of Wales, CardiffUtopia Station, 50th International Venice Biennale, Venice
Adorno, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Addiction, 15 Micawber Street, London
Light Works, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Someone to Share My Life With, The Approach, London
The Straight or the Crooked Way, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Cardinales, MARCO, Vigo
Edén, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City
2002 Documenta11, Kulturbahnhof, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta-Halle, Orangerie/Karlsaue and Binding-Brauerei, Kassel
Mirror: Its Only Words, London College of Printing, The London Institute, London
Shine, The Lowry Centre, Manchester
My Head is on Fire but My Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen
Lost Past/2002-1914, Merghelynck Museum, Ypres
Screen Memories, Contemporary Art Centre, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Iconoclash. Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Void Archive, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
It’s Only Words, Mirror Gallery, The London Institute, London
ForwArt, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
2001 “Wales”: Unauthorized versions, part of “Welsh days festival”, Extended Media Gallery and House of the Croatians Artists, Zagreb
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yamashita Pier, Yokohama
There is something you should know: Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Gymnasion, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
My Generation 24 Hours of Video Art, Atlantis Gallery, London
Wir, Comawoche. Film Screening, Metropolis Cinema, Hamburg
How do you change …., Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge
Bridge the Gap, Industrial Club of the West of Japan/Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
Dedalic Convention, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Zusammenhänge in Biotop Kunst, Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzzuschlag
Video Screening, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
The Stunt/The Queel, London Institute, RAMC, London
What’s Wrong?, Trade Apartment, London
Diesseits und jenseits des Traums, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
Sensitive, Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud
Rumours, Arc en Reve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux
La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire 1998-2000, The French Academy at Rome, Villa Medici, Rome
Ever get the feeling you’ve been…, A22 Projects, London
There is something you should know, Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere, Vienna
Out There, White Cube², London
The British Art Show 5, The Scottish National gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery in collaboration with The Natural History Museum, London
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1999 Group exhibition, Re Rebaudengo Collection, Re Rebaudengo Gallery, Turin
54x54, Financial Times Building, London
Group exhibition, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Retrace your steps: Remember Tomorrow, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
La Memoire, The French Academy in Rome, Rome
Fourth Wall, Public Art Development Trust, Royal National Theatre, London
Essential Things, Robert Prime, London
1998 How will we behave?, Robert Prime, London
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Ray Rapp, Tz’Art & Co., New York
Close Echos: Public Body and Artificial Space, City Art Gallery, Prague and Kunsthalle, Krems
1997 7th International Video Week, Geneva
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 1998-99
A Print Portfolio from London, Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Gothic, ICA Boston, Boston
False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Rome
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
1996 Life/Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Against, Anthony d’Offay, London
Some Drawings From London, 20 Princelet Street, London
British Artists in Rome, Studio Casagrande, Rome
Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
1995 Sick, 152 Brick Lane, London
Stoppage, FRAC Tours, Tours
General Release: Young British Artists, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
Faction Video, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Future Anterior, Eigen + Art’s/IIAS - Young British Artists, London
1994 Potato, IAS, London
Olive Tree Installation, The Orangery, Holland Park, London
Superstore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
People Must Bed God to Stop..., Performance at Fete Worse than Death, London
Flux, Minema Cinema, London
Liar, Hoxton Square, London
5th Oriel Mostyn Open Exhibition, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
1993 Modern Medicine, Installation/event at the Barley Mow with Angus Fairhurst and Leigh Bowery in association with Factual Nonsense Gallery, London
Speaking of Sofas, Tate Gallery, London and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1992 240 Minutes, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne
Cerith Wyn Evans and Gaylen Gerber, Wooster Gardens Gallery, New York
1990 Sign of the Times, MOMA, Oxford
Image and Object in Current British Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1988 Degrees of Blindness, Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh
The Melancholy Imaginary, In collaboration with Jean Mathee, London Film Makers Co-op, London
1987 The Elusive Sign, Tate Gallery, London
1985 Syncronisation of the Senses, ICA, London
The New Pluralism, Tate Gallery, London
1984 The Salon of 1984, ICA, London
Artist as Film Maker, National Film Theatre, London
1983 The New Art, Tate Gallery, London
1982 Riverside – Film excerpts, BBC2 Television, London
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