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Cornelia Parker (British, 1956)

Timeline

1956: Born in Cheshire, England
1974–1975: Gloucestershire College of Art & Design
1975–1978: Wolverhampton Polytechnic - B.A. with Honors
1980–1982: Reading University - M.F.A.
: Lives and works in London

Exhibitions

2008: Frith Street Galllery, London (solo)
2008: Blown Away - The Artful Explosion, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois
2007: Projektion, Lenos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2007: Says the junk in the yard, Flowers East, London
2007: Collective One, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
2007: Living in the Material World, National Art Center,Tokyo
2007: The Shadow,MAN Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro
2007: IKON, Birmingham (solo)
2006–2007: The Shadow, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna
2006: Resonance, Firth Street Gallery, London
2006: Thread, Ingleby Gallery
2006: Projektion, Museum of Art, Luzern
2006: Brontean Abstracts, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire (solo)
2005: Focus: Cornelia Parker, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas (solo)
2005: New Work by Cornelia Parker, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (solo)
2005: Subconcious Terras, New York; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
2005: Water, Air, Earth, Ice. At the origins of life between Art and Science, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy
2005: The Real Ideal, Sheffield Galleries, Sheffield
2005: Presence, Gimpel Fils, London
2005: Bye-Bye blackboard..from Einstien and others, Museum of History of Science, Oxford
2005: Think & Wonder, Wonder & Think, Museum of Childhood, London
2005: In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen:one Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004–2005: Cornelia Parker: Installations from the Tate Collection, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich (solo)
2004: Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2004: Finesilver Gallery, Project Space, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
2004: The West Wing, St. Barts and The London Breast Cancer Centre, London
2004: Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2004: City Art Gallery, Prague
2004: After Life, curated by Simon Morrissey, The Bowes Museum
2003: D�Amelio Terras, New York (solo)
2003: Guy Bartschi, Geneva (solo)
2003: Dust Memories, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, NY
2003: Days like These, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain
2003: Stacked, D'Amelio Terras, New York
2003: The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine - On tour: Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and Austin Museum of Art
2003: Independence, South London Gallery
2003: Doublures, Musée Du Québec
2002: To Eat or not to Eat, Centro de Arte de Salamanca
2002: Continuitá: Arte in Toscana 1945-2000, Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
2002: Summer Palace, A Garden for Artists, Duesseldorf
2002: Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle UK
2002: Frith Street Gallery (solo)
2001: GAM, Galleria Civica D�Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (solo)
2001: Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London
2001: Solid State: Reflections upon the Real, Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge
2001: 2000: the end of century. The seeds of the future Comune di Milano, Italy
2001: The Silk Purse Procedure, Spike Island and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
2001: Paper Assets British Museum
2000: British Art (part 1), Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin
2000: Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
2000: Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London
2000: Interventions, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
2000: Boston ICA, USA (solo)
2000: Chicago Arts Club, USA (solo)
2000: Aspen Museum of Art, USA (solo)
2000: Philadelphia ICA, USA (solo)
1999: Frith Street Gallery, London (solo)
1999: Warburg Institute, London (solo)
1999: Science Museum, London (solo)
1999: Porcupines, 291 Gallery, London
1999: Porcupines, 291 Gallery, London
1999: Disaster, Harris Museum, Preston
1999: Documents and Lies, Optica, A Centre For Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
1999: Dards D�art, Mouches, Moustiques...Modernite, Arles Museum, France
1999: Melbourne 1st International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
1998: Yoko Ono�s Water Piece, Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast
1998: New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
1998: Drawing Itself, The London Institute
1998: Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
1998: Deitch Projects, New York, USA (solo)
1997: ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (solo)
1997: Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy (solo)
1997: The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1997: Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
1996: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (solo)
1996: Matter of Facts, Hawerkamp, Munster
1996: City Space, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
1995: Something The Matter: Helen Chadwick, Cathy de Monchaux, Cornelia Parker, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Rosario, Argentina; and travelling to Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasilia
1995: A House in Time, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovinia
1995: The Maybe (Collaboration with Tilda Swinton), Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
1995: Gallery 102, Dusseldorf (solo)
1994–1995: Art Unlimited, Royal Festival Hall, touring exhibition of multiples
1993–1995: Recent British Sculpture, Arts Council touring exhibition
1994: XXII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993: Eigen+Art, New York
1993: Ha-Ha, Killerton Park, Devon
1992: Nigel Greenwood, London
1992: Eigen+Art, Leipzig (solo)
1992: Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris (solo)
1991: Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo)
1991: Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris(solo)
1991: Spitalfields Heritage Centre, presented by the Whitechapel Gallery, London (solo)
1991: Excavating the Present, Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge
1991: Tous Azimuts, Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris
1990: The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Hayward Gallery, London
1990: Mostra, British School in Rome
1990: Rome Scholars 1980-90, Royal College of Art, London
1990: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1989: Cornerhouse, Manchester (solo)
1989: Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth (solo)
1988: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (solo)
1987: Actualities, London (solo)
1987: Systems of Support, Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge
1986: Surveying the Scene, South Hill Park, Bracknell, Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth
1986: New British Sculpture, Air Gallery, London
1985: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1983: Sculpture by Women, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1980: Midland View, Stoke City Art Gallery & Museum, touring
1980: Stoke City Art Gallery & Museum (solo)

Literature

2003: Williams, Eliza. 'Cornelia Parker,' Tema Celeste Issue No. 96, March-April, p. 95, illus.
2003: Montreuil, Gregory. 'Cornelia Parker at D'Amelio Terras,' Flash Art July.
2003: Reynolds, Nigel. 'A Kiss From Cornelia With Strings Attached,' Daily Telegraph February 26.
2003: Campbell Johnston, Rachel. 'Rodin and the Art of Bondage,' The Times of London February 26.
2002: Morrissey, Simon. 'In Pursuit of Freedom,' AN Magazine, March
2001: Hubbard, Sue. 'Fur-lined Fetishism,' Art Review, September
2001: Lawson, Susan. 'Irreconciliable Difference: Ode/Owed to Cornelia Parker,' n.paradoxa, Vol. 8, pp. 12-21
2001: Helguera, Pablo. 'Imaginary Landscape,' tema celeste, No. 83, pp. 46-51
2001: 'Anarchy and Ecstasy,' The Economist, 9 June, p. 133.
2001: Batchen, Geoffrey. 'Carnal Knowledge,' Art Journal, Spring, Vol. 60 No. 1, pp. 21-23
2001: Higgins, Ria. 'A Life in the Day of Cornelia Parker,' Sunday Times Magazine, 4 February, p. 62