Fiona Banner  (British, 1966) 

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Fiona Banner Biography
1966   Born in Merseyside, UK
1989   BA Fine Art, Kingston Polytechnic London, UK
1993   MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College London, UK
  Lives and works in London, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
2012   Alice in the Wonderland of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2012   A Room for London: Roi des Belges, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
2010   Tate Britain Duveens Commission, Tate Britain, London (solo)
2010   All the World‘s Fighter Planes, Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec, Canada (solo)
2009   Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London
2009   Winter Light, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009   Exquisite Trove, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2009   Punctuation Marks: text and language in modern British sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2009   Send, Two Rooms, Newton Auckerland, New Zealand
2009   Summer Show in April Weather, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2009   Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), The Burger Collection, Berlin
2009   Art-Read, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, NY
2009   London Calling, Who Gets To Rule The World, Total Museum Of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009   Parades and Processions: Here comes everybody, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
2009   The Sculpture Show, The Almond Building, The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London
2009   Inspired, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, UK
2009   Diana and Actaoen, The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
2009   Drawings: A-Z, Museu Da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2009   Mind The Step, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009   Just What Are They Saying, Johnathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
2009   This this sextime, One day event at Elektra House, London, UK
2009   Diana und Aktaion. Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
2008   Collection as Aleph, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, curated by Adam Budak and Daniela Zyman, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2008   Power, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2008   Silently you - ouy yltneliS, curated by Dawn Ades, Phil Terry and Marina Warner, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
2008   In The Beginning, University Of California, San Diego, CA, USA
2007   Neon, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2007   Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
2007   Body Politicx, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007   The Bastard Word, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2007   Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, MOMA NYC, USA
2007   Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2007   Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (touring exhibition)
2007   Das Buch, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2007   Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 - 2007   This is not for you, Sculptures as tropes of criticality., Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2006 - 2007   Eye on Europe, Prints, Books, & Multiples, MOMA, New York, USA
2006   Tina B, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2006   Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
2006   1301PE, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2006   Nude & Parade, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, USA (solo)
2006   Nude, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2006   SPEED, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2006   Resonance, Frith Street Galery, London, UK
2006   Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006   I walk the lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2006   Summer exhibition, Frith Street Galery, London, UK
2005 - 2006   All the World‘s Fighter Planes, Artspace NZ, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
2005   Traces Everywhere, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY, USA
2005   Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, USA
2005   Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, USA (solo)
2005   Body: New Art from the UK, British Art Council Touring exhibition
2005   Critics Choice, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2005   Horror, Science Fiction, Porn, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
2005   Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
2004   Arsenal, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004   Arsewoman in Wonderland, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004   Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004   Entropy: Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, curated by Moritz Küng, Museum Bozen, Italy (group)
2003   Atttack! Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (group)
2003   M_ARS, Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria (group)
2003   The Sky’s the Limit, curated by Astrid Mania, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany, (group)
2003   Murray Guy, New York, USA (solo)
2003   1301PE, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2002   The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London, UK (group)
2002   Nothing, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK (group)
2002   Iconoclash - Beyond the Image, Zentrum für Kunst und neue Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany (group)
2002   Viva la Republique! Pagan images of the last queen of the British Isles by her indigenous subjects, The Centre of Attention, London, UK (group)
2002   Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2002   Fiona Banner, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK (20. April - 9. June) (solo)
2002   My plinth is your lap, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (solo)
2002   The Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, UK (group)
2002   Prophets of Boom - aus der Sammlung Schürmann, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (group)
2001   Arsewoman in Wonderland, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2001   Murray Guy, New York, USA (solo)
2001   2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (group)
2001   Superman in Bed, Contemporary Art and Photography, Collection Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (group)
2001   City Racing, ICA, London, UK (group)
2001   Featherweight, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada (group)
2001   3 x 3 x 3 - FIONA BANNER-MUNRO GALLOWAY-COREY McCORKL, Murray Guy, New York, USA (group)
2001   Total Object Complete with Missing Parts, curated by Andrew Renton, Tramway, Glasgow, UK (group)
2000   1301PE, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2000   Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, VancouverCanada (solo)
1999 - 2000   Stop, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1999   Don´t Look Back, Brook ALexander Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1999   Murray Guy, New York, USA (solo)
1999   Asterisk, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (solo)
1999   The Nam and Related Material, Printed Matter, New York, USA (solo)
1999   Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1998   The Nam launch at Brain Multiples, Brian Butler, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1998   Tate Gallery, Art now room, London, UK (solo)
1998   Love double, Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1998   1301 PE projects and editions, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1997   The Nam - 1000 page all text flick book, London, UK (solo)
1997   Only the Lonely, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1995   Viewing Room, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1994   Pushing Back The Edge Of The Envelope, City Racing, London, UK (solo)
Literature
2009   Naked Truths, video (3 min), Editors‘ pickes, The Guardian Online, Wednesday 8. April 2009
2009   Art Stripped Bare - Fiona Banner on the Nude, The Guardian Online, Wednesday 8 April 2009
2009   A Sort of Portrait. Banner, Fiona. Home, Stewart. Tutti, Cosey Fanni in conservation, 2009. Life Writing. Bracewell, Michael. (Performance Nude, Other Criteria). 2009
2007   The Bastard Word. Burke, Gregory and Fiona Banner in conversation, 2007
2007   Work-In-Progress. Rabinowitz, Sophie Cay. The Bastard Word (exh catalog) Toronto, Canada 2007
2007   MoMA, Highlights since 1980. 250 Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA, New York, 2007
2007   The Bastard Word, exh.cat. The Power Plant, Toronto, 2007
2006   All the world´s fi ghter planes, The Vanity Press (publ.), 2006
2006   Adam Mendelsohn: Fiona Banner, Time Out New York, April
2006   Five Best Exhibitions, Fiona Banner, The Independent, June
2006   John Quin: Fiona Banner, contemporary 21, issue 85, 2006, p. 28-31
2006   Nancy Princenthal: The Body of the Text, Art in America, June/July 2006, no. 6, p. 178-181
2006   Lisa Pasquariello: Fiona Banner at Tracy Williams Ltd., Artforum, summer 2006, XLIC, no.10, p 348-349
2006   Maria Walsh: Fiona Banner, Art Monthly
2006   JuneMartin Coomer: Fiona Banner, Time Out, p.p. 41, 24 May
2006   Jessica Lack: Fiona Banner Preview, Guardian Guide, April
2006   Agenda-Shows New York, Fiona Banner: Nude/Parade, Wallpaper
2006   MayRoberta Smith: Fiona Banner: Nude, The New York Times
2006   AprilJoao Ribas: The AI Interview: Fiona Banner, www.artinfo.com, March
2005   Pablo Lafuente: Portraiture stripped bare, Art Review, April 2005
2005   Richard B. Woodward: Artists are following the buzz of bohemia back to Berlin, International Herald Tribune, 12.-13.03.2005
2005   Richard B. Woodward: For Young Artists, All Roads Now Lead To a Happening Berlin, The New York Times, 13.03.2005
2005   Bonds of Love, Lisa Kirk Projects, 2005
2005   Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery & The British Council (publ.), 2005, pp. 18, 19
2004   Francis Mc Kee: Beyond Words, Parkett, issue 71, 2004, pp. 146 - 156
1995   General Release - Young British Artists at Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, 1995, The British Council (publ.)
1995   Perfect Speed - Six British Artist, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario and University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa (Essays by Jean-Christophe Royoux and Catsou Roberts)
1994   Adrian Dannatt: Exposure, Sunday Times The Magazine, June 5th