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Conrad Shawcross    (British, 1977)

 Conrad Shawcross - A picture of a cord falling into silence (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 44 x w: 135 cm / h: 17.3 x w: 53.1 in
Conrad Shawcross
A picture of a cord falling into silence 2008
 
 Conrad Shawcross - A picture of a cord falling into silence (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 44 x w: 135 cm / h: 17.3 x w: 53.1 in
Conrad Shawcross
A picture of a cord falling into silence 2008
 
 Conrad Shawcross - Lattice (wood) (Sculptures) h: 136 x w: 200 x d: 144 cm / h: 53.5 x w: 78.7 x d: 56.7 in
Conrad Shawcross
Lattice (wood) 2007
 
 Conrad Shawcross - Slow arc inside a cube (Installations) h: 94 x w: 94 x d: 180 cm / h: 37 x w: 37 x d: 70.9 in
Conrad Shawcross
Slow arc inside a cube 2008
 
  

Biography
1977 Born in London
1996 Foundation, Chelsea School of Art, London
1999 BA, Fine Art, Honors, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
2001 MFA, Slade School of Art, University College, London
Prices and Awards
2001-2002 First Base Acava Free Studio Award
2001 Ray Finnis Charitable Trust Award

Exhibitions
2008 Academia: Qui es-tu, La Chapelle de L’Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2008 Lattice III, Art | 39 | Basel Public Art Projects
2008 Beyond Measure: across art and science, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2008 A Life of Their Own curated by Richard Cork, Lismore Castle, Ireland
2008 Art L’Plage, St. Tropez, France
2008 Conrad Shawcross, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami (solo)
2008 Conrad Shawcross, Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich, Germany (solo)
2007 Unilever Commission, Unilever House, London (solo)
2007 Lattice, Selfridges Commission, London (solo)
2007 Reconstruction 2, Sudeley Castle, England
2007 All Tomorrow’s Parties, ICA, London
2006 Sudeley Castle 2006: Reconstruction 1, Sudeley Castle, England
2006 No Such Thing As One, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
2005 The Steady States, The New Art Gallery, Walsall and The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (solo)
2005 S.N.O.W Sculpture in Non-Objective Way, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice, Turin
2004 - 2005 Continuum, The Queen’s House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London (solo)
2004 Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain (solo)
2004 Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich (solo)
2004 After Life, Death, Remembrance. Redundancy. Reanimation, Bowes Museum, County Durham, curated by Simon Morrissey
2004 New Blood, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2003 The Nervous Systems, Entwistle, London (solo)
2003 Dead Game, Museum 52, London
2002 Fame and Promise, 14 Wharf Road, London
2002 It was bigger than all of us, Prenelle Gallery, Canary Wharf
2001 Engine II (Communicating at an Unknown Rate), The Old Armory, Harrow Road, London
2001 New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Centre, London; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2000 Engine I, Dollard Street Studios, Vauxhall, London

Literature
2008 Richard Cork, Top Forms, RA Magazine, Summer 2008
2008 Richard Cork, Expect the Unexpected Financial Times, 26/27 April 2008
2008 Jan Dalley, Artistic Impressions, Financial Times, Spring 2008
2007 Emily Candela, Conrad Shawcross, The Independent, 23 October 2007
2007 Jan Dalley, Warming to the Frieze Effect, Financial Times, 13 October 2007
2007 Ossian Ward, Have I got new for you?, Time Out, 26 September – 2 October 2007
2007 Ann Lee, Artist appeals for the return of his Soulcatcher, Hackney Gazette & North London Advertiser, 29 March 2007
2007 Oliver Duff, Steals onwheels: Shawcross loses Capri, The Independent, 23 March 2007
2007 Valentine Low, Sculptor in Search of a lost Soul, Evening Standard, 13 April 2007
2007 Francesca Martin; Stephanie Theobald, State of the Art, Harper’s Bazaar, April 2007
2007 Tom Morton, Conrad Shawcross, Frieze, March 2007
2007 Sally O’Reilly, Riflemaker Becomes Indica, Frieze, March 2007
2007 Ana Finel Honigman, Conrad Shawcross at Victoria Miro, Art in America, February 2007
2007 Andrew Wilson, Yesterday, Today , Tomorrow, Art Monthly, 2007, no. 2
2006 Martin Herbert, Riflemaker becomes Indica, Time Out, 29 November- 6 December 2006
2006 Rachel Campbell-Johnston, They all wanted to change the world, The Times, 12 November 2006
2006 Charles Darwent, The Grooviest Gallery, The Independent on Sunday, 26 November
2006 Eloise Napier, Something like a phenomenon, Harper’s Bazaar, November 2006
2006 Rebecca Rushmer, Living Sculptures, Professional Engineering, 8 November 2007
2006 Scott Reyburn, Four years old and fully grown up- the phenomenon that is Frieze, Antiques Trade Gazette, 28 October 2006
2006 Conrad Shawcross, Dazed and Confused, October 2006
2006 Peter Chapman, Pick of the week: Conrad Shawcross, Independent, 28 October 2006
2006 Time Out, Helen Sumpter, Conrad Shawcross, 25 October 2006
2006 Hannah Duguid, Metaphysical machines and double sums, Independent, 16 October
2006 The Art Newspaper/Frieze Art Fair Daily, Conrad Shawcross: Light Entertainment, 14-15 October 2006
2006 V & A Magazine, Mental Freefall without a parachute, Winter 2006
2006 Harriet Lane, The Art of Invention, Vogue, November 2006
2006 Julian Kiverstein, Where in the World do Art & Science Meet?, Map, Issue 5, Spring 2006
2006 S.N.O.W Sculpture in Non-Objective Way, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice, Turin
2005 Oliver Basciano, Life in 3-D, Wonderland, Issue 2, December 2005 / January 2006
2005 Alistair Sooke, In the Studio, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2005
2005 Tim Adams, Portrait of the artist as a young boffin, Observer, 27 November 2005
2005 Jessica Cheney, Conrad Shawcross, London Magazine, August / September 2005
2005 S.N.O.W Sculpture in Non-Objective Way, Andrea Bellini, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice, Turin, 2005
2005 Sally O’Reilly, Conrad Shawcross, The Guardian, 3 September 2005
2005 Conrad Shawcross: The Steady States exhibition catalogue, texts by Jenny Uglow and Andrea Bellini. New Art Gallery, Walsall and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2005 Delphine Velloire, L’homme machine, Jalouse, February
2005 Michael Glover, Like a circle in a spiral, The Independent Review, 25 January
2005 Fisun Guner, Deep Sea Monster, Metro Life, 5 January
2004 Mary Horlock, Greenwich ideal for time sensitive sculpture, Financial Times, 28 December
2004 John Russel Taylor, Looking for the deus in machina, The Times, 22 December
2004 Rose Jennings, Time and Motion Studies, The Observer, 19 December
2004 Nick Hackworth, Striking out into the vast unknown, Evening Standard. 17 December
2004 Nick Hackworth. ‘Batteries Not Included’, Dazed & Confused, Vol. 2 Issue#10, p. 106-9
2004 Adeline Iziren. ‘What Happened Next?’ The Guardian (Rise Section), 17 January p. 1-2
2003 Martin Herbert. ‘Best of 2003,’ Artforum, December 2003, p.134
2003 Jane Campbell. ‘50 Best Tips for Investing in Art’ The Independent 25 - 31 October, 2003, p. 7
2003 Colin Gleadell. The Telegraph magazine, 29th March, p. 46 – 53.
2003 Jane Neal. Contemporary, Issue 49, p. 90
2003 Martin Herbert. Frieze, April Issue, p. 101.
2003 Simon Morrissey. Art Monthly, March
2003 Richard Dorment. Daily Telegraph, 5 February.
2003 Jorn Ebner. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 February.
2003 Martin Coomer. Time Out (London), 29 January - 5 February.
2003 Nick Hackworth. ‘Designs upon the nature of time’. Evening Standard, 21 January.
2003 Florence Hallet. What’s On, 15–22 January.
2003 Louisa Buck. The Art Newspaper, January.
2003 Sophie Léris. ‘Artist Profile’. Art Review, January.
2002 Geoff Nicholson. ‘Soul-Searching in a Ford capri’. Modern Painters, Winter
2001 Niru Ratnam. The Face, May.
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