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Alan Michael    (Scottish, 1967)

 Alan Michael - Apologia (Paintings) h: 103 x w: 62 cm / h: 40.6 x w: 24.4 in
Alan Michael
Apologia 2005
 
  

Biography
1967 Born in Glasgow
1992 - 1996 BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1997 Study exchange with Hunter College MFA Programme, New York
1996 - 1998 MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1998 Artist Residency at Asterides – Systeme Friche, Marseilles, France
Lives and works in Glasgow

Exhibitions
2009 The Associates, DCA, Dundee
2008 Sphinxx, Curated by Alexis Vaillant, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2008 Legende, Domain of Chamarande, Chamarande, France
2008 Ritual in the Dark, Collaboration with Stephen Sutcliffe, Hotel Gallery, London
2008 Mood: Casual, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (solo)
2008 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
2007 Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, LA (solo)
2007 Space To Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin (solo)
2006 The Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate Britain, London
2006 The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005 Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (solo)
2005 The Invention of Birth Control, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow (solo)
2005 Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan
2004 The Fee of Angels, Man in the Holocene, London
2004 Eye of The Needle, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Year Zero, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2004 Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London
2004 Souvenir, HOTEL, London
2004 Gertcha, Michael Wilkinson’s, Glasgow
2004 Synth, Kunstraum b/2, Leipzig, Germany
2004 Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 Burlesque Schematic, HOTEL, London (solo)
2003 The Moment of Fiction, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
2003 Put out more Flags (curated by Christabel Stewart), Sutton Lane, London
2003 This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, with Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2003 Minerals In The Water, Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael, The Changing Room, Stirling
2002 Entwistle, London (solo)
2002 Damage (with works by William Copley), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (solo)
2002 Hero, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow
2002 Alan Michael, Vangelis Vlahos, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
2002 Jean-Luc Blanc, Alan Michael, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2002 Gwang Ju Biennial with Transmission Gallery, Gwang Ju, South Korea
2002 Half the World Away, Halls Walls CCA, Buffalo (NY), USA
2001 Stray Show, Seventhreesplit, Chicago, USA
2001 Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2001 Antarctica, Entwistle, London
2001 Angel Dust, Intermedia, Glasgow
2001 Record Collection, VTO Gallery, London and Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 Glasgow Art Fair 2001 with Charisma/DBF and Transmission Gallery
2001 Brown Field, curated by Rob Tufnell, Market, Glasgow
2001 British Mythic, cover artwork for contemporary culture publication
2000 Panache, Keith Farquhar, Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
2000 Red Marauder, Tramway, Glasgow
2000 John I’m Only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
2000 Focus on the Fear, On Destruction, Power, Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art Inc., New York
2000 Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands
1999 Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (solo)
1999 Misty In Roots, curated by Alex Frost and Alan Michael, including Duncan Campbell, Lorin Davies, Howard Fried, Ewan Imrie, Lucy McKenzie, Fly Gallery, Glasgow
1999 Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Room and PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1999 The Black Diamond no.1, Artist’s pages published during the Liverpool Biennial
1999 White Bear ZZ with Scott Myles, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, 78 Roslea Drive, Glasgow
1999 You Are Very Important, with Alex Frost, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 Shake The Disease, curated by Lucy McKenzie, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1999 Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London
1998 Mountain Madness, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
1998 Slipstream, curated by Francis McKee and Toby Webster, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
1998 Fan of Exaggeration, La Cie La Compagnie, Marseilles, France
1998 Family Credit, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1998 Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London
1998 Crystal State part of ‘Artranspennine 98, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool
1998 Longsight, Benefit Office, Manchester
1998 Toga, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
1997 Olympic Village, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1997 Tutor With An Idea, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool
1997 Suburban Affair, Newport-on-Tay, Fife

Literature
2005 Lewisohn, Cedar, Alan Michael, in Map issue 4, Winter issue, p. 64
2005 Herbert, Martin, The Fee of Angels, in Time Out London, January 12-19, p. 58
2004 Morton, Tom. Alan Michael, frieze, issue 84, June/July/August, p. 96-99, cover
2003 Pethick, Emily. Put Out More Flags, Artforum.com, ‘Critics Picks’, July
2003 Honigman, Ana Finel. Alan Michael, Time Out London, May 28 – June 4, p. 54
2003 Lowndes, Sarah. Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael, frieze issue 74, April, p. 112
2003 Tufnell, Rob. Made In Scotland, Tema Celeste, January/February, p. 45
2001 Lowndes, Sarah. Brownfield, Untitled, Summer, p. 32
2001 Falconer, Morgan. Antarctica, What’s On London, July 18-25, p. 24
2001 Gazzola, Alex. Antarctica at Entwistle, Lam Magazine, July 9, p. 28
2001 Ratnam, Niru. If You’re Feeling Sinister, The Face, July, p. 153
2000 Mahoney, Elisabeth. Red Marauder, The Guardian, October 9, p. 21
1999 Herbert, Martin. Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Time Out London, February 10-17, p. 50
1998 Caussat, Pascale. Divers Lieux: Automme-hive, Artpress, March, p. 78
1998 Burrows, David. Olympic Village, Art Monthly, February, p. 33
1998 Findlay, Judith. Suburban Affair, Flash Art, January – February, p. 66
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