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Angus Fairhurst    (British, 1966-2008)

 Angus Fairhurst - Unprinted (Prints) h: 40.5 x w: 50.5 cm / h: 15.9 x w: 19.9 in
Angus Fairhurst
Unprinted
 
 Angus Fairhurst - Unprinted II (Prints) h: 40.5 x w: 50.5 cm / h: 15.9 x w: 19.9 in
Angus Fairhurst
Unprinted II
 
 Angus Fairhurst - Unprinted III (Prints) h: 40.5 x w: 50.5 cm / h: 15.9 x w: 19.9 in
Angus Fairhurst
Unprinted III
 

Biography
1966 Born in Kent, England
1985 - 1986 Canterbury Art College, Kent
1986 - 1989 Goldsmith’s College, London

Exhibitions
2006 Under Construction, THE SHORE INSTITUTE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS, curated by Barbara MacAdam, Long Branch, NJ
2006 Dark, MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York
2006 Gegenstände/Handlungsformen, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2006 Big City Lab, 11. Artforum Berlin
2006 Nothing But Pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
2006 Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006 Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam (solo)
2006 Unwit, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2005 Notnot, Vacio 9, Madrid (solo)
2005 Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
2005 Cross Section, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2005 Threshold, MW Projects, London
2005 Notnot, GALLERY VACIO 9, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2005 Threshold, MAX WIGRAM GALLERY, London
2005 Vertigo, SUDELEY CASTLE, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England
2005 Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, GALLERI KAARE BERNSTEN, Oslo
2005 Out of the Melting Pot, DEXIA BANQUE INTERNATIONALE À LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg
2004 Summer Exhibition, ROYAL ACADEMY, London
2004 Collage, BLOOMBERG SPACE, London
2004 Incommunicado, CITY ART CENTRE, Edinburgh
2004 57th Aldeburgh Festival, Contemporary British Sculpture at Snape (Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas), SNAPE, England
2004 Unwork, CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004 Dysuniversal, GEORG KARGL, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2004 Drunkenmasters (Angus Fairhurst, Liam Gillick, Cerith Wyn Evans), GALERIA FORTES VILACA, São Paolo, Brazil (solo)
2004 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, TATE BRITAIN (with Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst), London, England (solo)
2004 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (solo)
2004 Georg Kargl, Vienna (solo)
2003 Trickfilm, BUCHMANN GALERIE, Cologne
2003 Sterling Stuff: Fifty Sculptors, SIGURJON OLAFSSON MUSEUM, Reykjavik and ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London
2003 In Retrospect: Thirty Sculptors, GALLERY PANGOLIN, Chalford, England
2002 Sterling Stuff: Fifty Sculptors, GALLERY PANGOLIN, Chalford, England
2002 Generator, SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter, England
2002 Iconoclast: Beyond the Image Wars, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 'Why Bother?’ The Burger King Exhibition, BURGER KING, London
2002 Man in the Middle, SAMMLUNG DEUTSCHE BANK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2002 The Unblinking Eye: Lens-based work from the IMMA Collection, IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Dublin
2002 Alphadelta Gallery – Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
2001 This Does Not Last More Than One Second, Spacex Gallery, Exeter (solo)
2001 Angus Fairhurst More or Less, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
2001 This Does Not Last More Than Ten Seconds, Kunsthalle St Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2001 This Does Not Last More Than One Second, SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter, England (solo)
2001 More or Less Angus Fairhurst, SADIE COLES HQ, London, England (solo)
2001 Casino 2001, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
2001 Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, ALPHADELTA GALLERY – ARTIO GALLERY, (curated by Sofia and Dimitria Vamiali), Athens, Greece
2001 Animations, P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, New York
2001 Alternative Currents, THE MAC, MCKINNEY AVENUE CONTEMPORARY, Texas
2001 Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, TATE MODERN, London
2001 Lens and Paper – the Beauty of Intimacy, GEMEENTEMUSEUM, THE HAGUE and tour to STAATLICHE KUNSTHALLE BADEN-BADEN and MUSEUM HAUS AM WALDSEE, Berlin
2001 KUNSTHALLE, St. Gallen, Switzerland (PERFORMANCE)
2001 EXETER, Phoenix (PERFORMANCE)
2000 Apocalypse, THE ROYAL ACADEMY, London
2000 Video-vibe, BRITISH SCHOOL IN ROME, Italy
2000 00, BARBARA GLADSTONE GALLERY, New York
2000 Body Beautiful, GALERIE JENNIFER FLAY, Paris
2000 Puerile 69: Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, THE LIVING ART MUSEUM, Reykjavik
2000 About Collage, TATE LIVERPOOL, Liverpool, England
2000 Sanssouci Oder: Die Kunst Der Entsorgung, BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 The Anagrammatical Body, ZKM CENTRE FOR MEDIA ART AND TECHNOLOGY, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Sex and the British, GALERIE THADDEAUS ROPAC, Salzburg, Austria and Paris
2000 Hoxton HQ, SADIE COLES HQ AT HOXTON HOUSE, London
2000 Psycho, Art and Anatomy, ANNE FAGGIONATO, London
200 More or Less Angus Fairhurst, Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
1999 Art Lovers, LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL, Liverpool, England
1999 Gallery Swap, SADIE COLES HQ AT CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin
1999 The Anagrammatical Body, NEUE LANDESMUSEUM, Graz, Austria
1999 Lowest Expectations, THE SCALA, London (PERFORMANCE)
1999 Lowest Expectations, BRITISH COUNCIL, Cologne, Germany (PERFORMANCE)
1999 Lower Expectations, URSULA BICKLE STIFUNG, Kraichtal, Germany (PERFORMANCE)
1999 The Trouble with Comedy, CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1999 The Foundation, URSULA BLICKLE STIFTUNG, Kraichtal, Germany and KUNSTHALLE ST. GALLEN, St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
1998 The Missing Link, SADIE COLES HQ, London, England (solo)
1998 Standing Stock Still, ANTON KERN GALLERY, New York (solo)
1998 Odd-Bod Photography (with Sarah Lucas), SADIE COLES HQ, London and KOLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1998 Low Expectations, BUROFRIEDRICH, Berlin (PERFORMANCE)
1998 Low Expectations, FLEX, Vienna (PERFORMANCE)
1998 Thinking Aloud, KETTLE’S YARD, Cambridge and tour to CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE, London
1998 Maximum Diversity, GALERIE KRINZINGER IN DEN BENGER FABRIK BREGENEZAND ATELIERHAUS DER AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KUNSTE, Vienna
1998 Crossings, KUNST ZUM HOREN UND SEHEN, Kunsthalle, Vienna (touring exhibition)
1997 Dimensions Variable, BRITISH COUNCIL, touring exhibition
1997 Package Holiday, HYDRA WORKSHOPS, Hydra, Greece
1997 Painting, Photography, Drawing, ANTON KERN GALLERY, New York
1997 Contemporary British Drawings, SANDRA GERING GALLERY, New York and GALERIE PAUL ANDRIESSE, Amsterdam
1997 Other Men’s Flowers, THE BRITISH SCHOOL IN ROME, Italy
1997 From Figure to Object, KARSTEN SCHUBERT LTD. and FRITH STREET GALLERY, London
1997 Top Ten Expectations, ICA, London (PERFORMANCE)
1997 Low Expectations, CABLE FACTORY, Helsinki (PERFORMANCE)
1997 Stand Still and Rot, CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, Berlin (solo)
1996 Low Lower Lowest, JAY JOPLING/WHITE CUBE, London (solo)
1996 The Artist Has Left, (with Lothar Hempel) ANTON KERN GALLERY, New York (solo)
1996 A Cheap and Ill-fitting Relationship, PAUL ANDRIESSE GALLERY, Amsterdam (solo)
1996 A False Dawn On The Road To Personal And Artistic Freedoms, RIDINGHOUSE EDITIONS, London (solo)
1996 Plastic, ARNOLFINI GALLERY, Bristol and tour to WALSALL MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, Walsall, England
1996 Full House, KUNSTMUSEUM, Wolfsburg, Germany
1996 Domestic Violence, RHONA HOFFMANN GALLERY, Chicago
1996 A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, ICA, London and tour (video programme)
1996 Other Men’s Flowers, AUREL SCHEIBLER, Cologne, Germany
1996 Low Expectations, DEAN STREET, London (PERFORMANCE)
1996 Lexopewctations, ANTON KERN GALLERY, New York (PERFORMANCE)
1995 Low Expectations, BRIXTON ACADEMY, London (PERFORMANCE)
1995 Low Expectations, 56A CLERKENWELL ROAD, London (PERFORMANCE)
1995 Brilliant! New Art From London, WALKER ART CENTRE, Minneapolis, touring to CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Houston
1995 Corpus Delicti, PORTALEN, Copenhagen
1994 Karaoke Football, PORTIKUS NO 58, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1994 Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, SERPENTINE GALLERY, London, touring to NORDIC ARTS CENTRE, Helsinki; Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany; MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago
1994 Not Self Portrait, KARSTEN SCHUBERT LTD., London
1994 Gallery Connections, KARSTEN SCHUBERT LTD., London (solo)
1994 Drawings and Cartoons, 71 HARTHAM ROAD, London (solo)
1993 All Evidence of Man Removed, KARSTEN SCHUBERT LTD., London (solo)
1993 Privacy, OPOS, Milan, Italy
1993 Other Men’s Flowers, FACTUAL NONSENSE, London
1992 Twenty Fragile Pieces, GALERIE ANALIX, Geneva, Switzerland
1992 Etats Specifiques, MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS, Le Havre, France
1992 Mat Collishaw, Angus Fairhurst, Abigail Lane, VIAFARINI, Milan, Italy
1992 Man Abandoned by Space, GALERIE ANALIX, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1991 Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, KARSETN SCHUBERT LTD., London (solo)
1991 Gambler, BUILDING ONE, London
1991 Modern Medicine, BUILSING ONE, London
1990 You in Mind, KARSTEN SCHUBERT LTD., London (solo)
1988 Freeze, PLA BUILDING, London

Literature
2006 Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, 2006
2006 David Hopkins, Dada’s Boys, Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2006
2006 Sari Carel, New York Critics Picks, Artforum, Mai 2006
2005 Jennifer Allen, Angus Fairhurst / Contemporary Fine Arts, Artforum, Febuar 2005
2005 Visionaire 46: Uncensored by Mario Testino, New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2005
2005 Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Oslo: Kaare Bernsten Galleri, 2005
2005 Out of the Melting Pot, Luxembourg: Dexia, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, 2005
2004 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, London: Tate Britain / Tate Publishing
2004 Jones, Dafydd, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, ARTREVIEW, April
2004 Renton, Andrew, There is life after Hoxton, EVENING STANDARD, Jan 6
2004 Haw, Alex, London: Bloomberg Space, CONTEMPORARY, no. 63
2004 Gronlund, Melissa, Tate Britain: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, CONTEMPORARY, no. 63
2004 Furness, Rosalind, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, MODERN PAINTERS, Summer
2004 Reynolds, Nigel, A six-legged calf in paradise, THE TELEGRAPH, March 3
2004 Kent, Sarah, The Eden Project, TIME OUT, Feb. 25-March 3
2004 Katrin Wittneven, Augensterne, Tagesspiegel, 4. Dezember 2004, S. 49.
2004 Stripped Bare: The Body Revealed in Contemporary Art, London: Merrell Publishers
2004 Summer Exhibition, London: Royal Academy
2004 Waldemar Januszczak, The rot of ages, The Sunday Times, 7. März 2004
2004 Richard Dyer, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Contemporary, no. 61, März 2004
2003 Andrew Hale, (Interview) ‘The Art of Fragility’, GQ
2003 Proof of Principle, Arnhem, Netherlands: Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
2003 In Retrospect: Thirty Sculptors, Chalford, England: Gallery Pangolin
2002 Biesenbach, Klaus, Animations, New York: P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Centre, Dutch Magazine (ill)
2002 Man in the Middle, Germany: Sammlung Deutsche Bank
2002 Sterling Stuff, Chalford, England: Gallery Pangolin
2002 Falconer, Morgan and Pablo Lafuente, Art Rocks! The Group Show, ARTREVIEW, Vol. LIII, May
2002 Generator, FLUX, Issue 33, October-November
2001 Balth, Carel, Lens and Paper – the Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
2001 Strauss, Dorothea, This Does Not Last More Than Ten Seconds, Kunsthalle St.Gallen, Switzerland (cat.).
2001 Kertess, Klaus, 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2001 Artists Project, Exquisite Corpse, Tate, The Art Magazine, Issue 26, Autumn
2001 Malik, S & D. & S. Vamiali, Open Plan P3; The Marathon, Athens. (cat.)
2001 Herbert, Martin, Review, TIME OUT, LONDON, March 28 – April 4
2001 Hackworth, Nick, Less is Less—More or Less, EVENING STANDARD, March 23
2001 Bussel, David, Art School Rock, I-D MAGAZINE, April
2001 Testino, DUTCH MAGAZINE, #34, July/August
2001 Art Athina 2001, GALLERY GUIDE: ATHENS, Autumn/Winter
2000 Shone, Richard, Puerile 69: Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Reykjavik: The Living Art Museum
2000 Perrella, Cristiana and Daniela Cascella, Video-vibe – art music and video in Britain, Rome: British School in Rome
2000 Psycho, Art and anatomy, London: Anne Faggianato (cat.)
2000 Stepken, Angelika, Sanssouci Oder: Die Kunst Der Entsorgung, Karlsruhe, Germany: Badischer Kunstverein (cat.)
2000 Rosenthal, Norman, Sex and the British, Salzburg, Austria: Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac (cat.)
1999 Stallabrass, Julian, High Art Lite, London: Verso Books
1999 Wiebel, Peter and Christina Steinle, The Anagrammatical Body, Graz, Austria Neu Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (cat.)
1999 Dwiezor, Yilmaz, Angus Cook, Jorg Heiser, Dorothea Strauss, Angus Fairhurst, Kraichtal, Germany: Ursula Blickle Stiftung (cat.)
1999 Lewisohn, Cedar, Art and Rock Stars, From White Cube to Gold Disk, FLASH ART, March-April
1999 Gibbons, Fiachra, Sensation’s over, now it’s Apocalypse, THE GUARDIAN, May 3
1999 Artists Portfolio, POP, # 01, Autumn/Winter
1998 Guha, Tania, Angus Fairhurst, TIME OUT LONDON, November 16
1998 Sanders, Mark, No Sex Please We’re British, DAZED AND CONFUSED MAGAZINE, October
1998 Wentworth, Richard, Thinking Aloud, London: SBC National Touring Exhibitions (cat.)
1998 Aliaga, Juan Vicente, Angus Fairhurst/Sarah Lucas, ARTFORUM, Sept.
1998 Buck, Louisa, Moving Targets: A User’s Guide to British Art Now, London: Tate Gallery Publishing
1998 Maximum Diversity, Vienna: Galerie Krinzinger in der Benger Fabrik, Bregenez and Academy of Arts (cat.)
1998 Self Portraits, Rotterdam, Netherlands: Caldic Collection (cat.)
1998 Arning, Bill, Standing Stock Still, TIME OUT (NEW YORK), June 11
1997 Dimensions Variable, London: The British Council (cat.)
1997 Package Holiday, London: Sadie Coles HQ / Hydra, Greece: Hydra Workshops (cat.)
1996 A False Dawn On The Road To Personal And Artistic Freedoms, London: Ridinghouse Editions
1996 Cummings, Neil, Plastic, Bristol, England: Arnolfini Gallery (cat)
1996 Angus Fairhurst and Gary Hume, Arena
1996 Contemporary British Art in Print, Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery for Modern Art and Paragon Press (cat.)
1996 Avgikos, Jan, Angus Fairhurst and Lothar Hempel, ARTFORUM, No. 36, February
1996 Bussel, David, First Expectations, FRIEZE January/February
1996 Harris, Mark, Angus Fairhurst, ART MONTHLY, No. 202, December
1996 Sound and Vision, THE ART NEWSPAPER, No. 64, November
1996 Art, ‘New Haven, Connecticut, ART NEWS, Vol. 95, March
1995 Brilliant! New Art from London, Minneapolis (MN): Walker Art Centre (cat.)
1995 Christiansen, Torben, Andrew Renton, Corpus Delicti, Copenhagen: Portalen (cat.)
1994 Muir, Gregor, Angus Fairhurst, FRIEZE, Summer
1993 Archer, Michael, Art Schubert Ltd, ARTFORUM, Vol. 32, December
1993 Romano, Gianni, Privacy, Milan: Opos (cat.)
1992 Angus Fairhurst, Geneva, Switzerland: Galerie Analix (cat.)
1992 Romano, Gianni, Twenty Fragile Pieces, Geneva, Switzerland: Galerie Analix (cat.)
1991 Gillick, Liam and Andrew Renton, Technique Anglaise, London: Thames and Hudson
1991 Man Abandoned by Colour, (artist’s project), FRIEZE, pilot issue
1990 Gillick, Liam, Gambler, London: Building One (cat.)
1990 Fairhurst, Angus, Modern Medicine, London: Building One (cat.)
1990 Renton, Andrew, Modern Medicine, FLASH ART INTERNATIONAL, Summer
1990 It’s A Maggot Farm, ARTSCRIBE, November/December
1988 Jeffrey, Ian, Freeze, London: PLA Building (cat.)
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