Lehmann Maupin

Anya Gallaccio

(Scottish, b. 1963)

Anya Gallaccio

because nothing has changed, 2000

Anya Gallaccio

because nothing has changed (detail), 2000

Anya Gallaccio

like we've never met, 2003

Anya Gallaccio

Now the leaves are falling fast (1), 2000

Anya Gallaccio

Why Make It Doubt, 2003

Biography

Timeline

1963: Born in Paisley, Scotland
1984 - 1985: Kingston Polytechnic, London
1985 - 1988: Goldsmith's College, University of London
1997: Jan-March Art Pace, Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio Texas, USA, International Artist-In-Residence Programme
1998: Sargeant Fellowship, The British School at Rome, Italy
1999: Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, London
: Kanazawa College of Art, Japan
2002: 1871 Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA
2003: Nominee for the Turner Price, Tate Britain, London
2004: Headlands Center for the Arts, Sansalitos, California, USA
: Lives in London.

Exhibitions

2010: Unknown Exhibition, The Eastshire Museums in Scotland including the Dick Institiute, the Baird Institute and the Doon Valley Museum, Kilmarnock, UK (solo)
2009: Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
: Radical Nature- Art & Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Inaugural Exhibition Blum&Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008: If I was a painter, but then again, no, Kinsale Arts Week, Charles Fort, Kinsale, Ireland
: Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, USA
: Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
: Turner Prize: A Retrospective (touring exhibition), Tate Britain, London; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
: Comfort and Conversation, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
: That Open Space Within, Camden Arts Center, London, UK (solo)
: Camden Art Centre, London, UK (solo)
: The Flower of Life: an exhibition about art, love and nature, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK
: Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
: Relationships: Contemporary Sculpture, York Art Gallery, York, UK
: Kim Light Gallery Early 90’s, Kim Light Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Chanel, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moskow, Russia
: Apres la Pluie, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rouchechouart, France
: Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fills, (curated by Alice Correia), London UK
2007: Thre Sheets to the Wind, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2006: Still Life, New Art Centre, Wiltshire, UK
: Core, Illuminate Productions, Union Works, London, UK
: If It didn’t exist you’d have to invent it...A partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, UK
: Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
: Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
: One Art, Sculpture Center , New York, USA (solo)
: Galeria Leme, Såo Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2005: Shadow with the things you know, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
: Silver Seed, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland (solo)
: Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
: Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (solo)
2004: Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (solo)
Lustwarande 04: Disorientation of Beauty, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2003: Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate, London (solo)
Ikon, Birmingham, England (solo)
Urban Baroque, Plane Space, New York
FlowerPower, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
: Sometimes with one I Love, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2002: beat, Duveen Sculpture Commission, Tate Britain, London
Caldic Collection in Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (curated by Henry Meyric Hughes + Gijs van Tuyl)
Different States, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
In Print, A British Council touring exhibition of contemporary prints commissioned and
published by the Paragon Press. The Art Pavilion Gallery, Belgrade; Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Arts, Urals Museum of the Youth at Yekaterinburg; Centre of Graphics and Printmaking and Akhmatova Museum and Novosibirsk Fine Art Gallery.
Words from the Arts Council Collection, A National Touring Exhibition, City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth; Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; City Art Gallery, York; Gallery, Oldham, and The City Gallery, Leicester (selected by Isobel Johnstone and Fiona Bradley)
2001: "blessed," Lehmann Maupin, New York.
Egofugal: fugue from ego for the next emergence, 7th International Istanbul Biennial
Cadiz, Spain.
FIELD DAY: Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
2000: "now the leaves are falling fast," fig-1, London, UK.
"Falling from grace," annet gelink gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"Falling from grace," Projektraum, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland.
Lemon Tree Hill, Asprey Jacques, London
Art in the Park, Compton Verney
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London
The Invisible Touch, The Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria
1999: Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery London
Flower Show, Fruitmarket Edinburgh
Releasing Senses: Anya Gallaccio, Christian Marclay, Muraoka Saburo, Martin Walde, curated by Mami Kataoka, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan.
: 60s/90s Two Decades of Art and Culture, Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne
Viereck und Kosmos: Amdenener Rundang, Amden, Switzerland.
Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Centre for British Art, New York, NY
: Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green? curated by Maia Damianovic, Elga Wimmer, New York.
Prime, curated by Andrew Nairne and Katrina Brown, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland.
: "All the Rest is Silence," Sadler's Wells, London
"Glaschu," Tramway at Lanarkshire House Glasgow
1998: "Chasing Rainbows," Bloom Gallery Amsterdam
"Two Sisters," Minerva Basin Hull
"Chasing Rainbows," Delfina, London, UK.
: Fifty Years of Sculpture Works from the Arts Council Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK.
Still…, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, UK.
Les Capteurs de Rêves, curated by Claude Gosselin, La Biennale de Montréal, Canada.
New Art from Britain, curated by Peter Murray, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria.
Real Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum, Tokyo MOCA, Ashiya City Museum, British Council.
: Here to Stay: Arts Council Collection purchases of the 1990s, National Touring Exhibitions, Plymouth Arts Centre; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; The Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone; The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Laing Art Gallery.
: Organic, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
Thinking Aloud, curated by Richard Wentworth, National Touring Exhibitions, Kettles Yard Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
: Der Verlorene Garten, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland.
Der Verlorene Garten, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland.
: Blum and Poe, Los Angeles.
"Keep of the Grass," Serpentine Gallery Lawn, London.
Art Pace, San Antonio, TX.
1997: Private Face/Urban Space: A New Generation of Artists from Britain, The Gasworks, Athens, Greece.
Pictura Britannica, curated by Bernice Murphy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
1996: "absolute," Galerie Rodolphe Janssen Brussels
"Harvest of the winter months," Galerie im Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany.
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
: The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, curated by Amikam Toren, The Showroom, London, UK.
From Figure to Object: A century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London, UK.
Private View: Contemporary British and German Artists, a New Collection for John and Josephine Bowes, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham, UK.
Time Wise, Swiss Institute, New York.
1995: The British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibition: “Faith,” Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland; Cardiff.
Brilliant! New art from London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.
On Beauty, curated by Dan Cameron, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Where you were even now, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland.
Chocolate!, Swiss Institute, New York.
Anya Gallaccio and Fortun O’Brien, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
: "Towards the rainbow," Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
Stephen Friedman, London, UK.
1994: "Stroke," Blum and Poe, Los Angeles.
"Couverture," Filiale, Basel, Switzerland.
"Stroke," Karsten Schubert, London, UK.
"La Dolce Vita," Stephania Miscetti, Rome, Italy.
: Art Unlimited: Multiples from the 1960s and 1990s, National Touring Exhibitions.
Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
Sarah Staton Supastore Boutique…, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK.
inSITE 94, (Chrematis) Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
Group Show: Gallery Artists, Karsten Schubert, London, UK.
Choix de Bruxelles, Espace Jacqmotte, Brussels, Belgium.
Domestic Violence, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy.
Punishment + Decoration, Hohenthal und Bergen, Köln, Germany.
A Group Show: Keith Coventry, Peter Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Zebedee Jones, Bridget Riley, and Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert, London, UK.
1993: Sarah Staton Supastore, Poster Studio, London, UK.
Le Jardin de la Vierge, Musée Instrumental, Brussels, Belgium.
Mandy Loves Declan 100%, Mark Boote Gallery, New York.
Home Alone, with Angus Fairhurst, 85 Charlotte Street, London, UK.
Le Principle de Réalité, Villa Arson, Nice, France.
Ha-Ha, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
Wooster Gardens: A Group Show, curated by Michael Jenkins.
: "Brown on white," Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992: "red on green," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.
: With Attitude, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
20 Fragile Pieces, curated by Gianni Romano, Galerie Barbara et Luigi Polla, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sweet Home, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Gwynedd; South London Gallery, London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
A Group Show: Lea Andrews, Keith Coventry, Anya Gallaccio, Liam Gillick, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Steven Pippin, Marc Quinn, Marcus Taylor and Rachel Whiteread, Barbara Gladstone Gallery and Stein Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Life Size, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy.
15/1, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK.
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK.
1991: Confrontaciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain.
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK.
The Times: London’s Young Artists, Art ’91 Olympia, London, UK.
: Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK.
1990: Next Phase, Wapping Pumping Station, London, UK.
East County Yard Show, Surrey Docks, London, UK.
1989: The Drum Show, Broadgate Arena, London, UK.
New Year New Talent, Anderson O’Day, London.
1988: Poetic Figuration in the Eighties, Laudale House, London, UK.
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK.

Literature

: Hasegawa, Yuko. egofugal / fugue from ego for the next emergence. 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.
Reckitt, Helena, and Peggy Phelen. Art and Feminism. Phaidon Press.
Morgan, Robert C. “Anya Gallaccio at Lehmann Maupin,” Tema Celeste, Nov-Dec: 79
Smith, Roberta. “Anya Gallaccio,” Art in Review, The New York Times. 19 Oct: E39
Mahoney, Robert. “Anya Gallaccio, ‘Blessed,’” Time Out. 11-18 Oct: 57.
Levin, Kim. “Anya Gallaccio,” Voice Choices, The Village Voice. 2 Oct: 86.
Newhall, Edith. “Talent: A Tree Grows in Manhattan,” New York Magazine. 1 Oct: 103.
“Anya Gallaccio,” Galleries-Downtown, The New Yorker. 24 Sept: 16.
Gell, Aaron. “Critical Eye: Art.” W Magazine. Sept: 272.
Francis, Mark, with Cristina Colomar and Christabel Stewart, Eds. fig-1 50 Projects in 50 Weeks, fig-1 2000 Ltd and Spafax Publishing.
Blazquez Abiscal, Jimena. Interview in arte y naturaleza. NMAC (exh. cat.)
Hoet, Jan and Dewilde, Michel. artline 5-Natur & Architektur, two volumes, Stadt Borken and S.M.A.K. Gent (exh. cat.)
FIELD DAY: Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and The British Council (exh. cat.)
Gussin, Graham and Ele Carpenter. Eds. Nothing. August Media.
Patrick, Keith. “Sites of trespass, the return of the narrative.” Contemporary Visual Arts. 33: 42-47.
McLaren, Duncan. “Ancestral Voices.” Contemporary Visual Arts. 32: 54-59.
“Cold Comfort.” Round Up, The Guardian. 25 Jan.
: Gallaccio, Anya. “Response to a space.” (a-n) For Artists. Nov: 3.
Kent, Sarah. “Lemon Tree Hill.” Time Out. 23-30 Aug: 52.
Markwell, Lisa. “Estate of the Art.” The Independent Magazine. 29 July: 28-29.
Den Breejen, Maartje. “Vergankelijkheid, geld, chocola en rotte appels.” Het Parool. 22 Jul: 27.
Bronwa, Sacha. “Zoetfris maar ook misselijkmakend.” Volkskrant. 12 Jul.
Hughes, Henry Meyric. “New Art from London.” Tema Celeste. Mar/April: 64-69.
: Zoo. 3: 174-175.
Kataoka, Mami. Releasing Senses. Tokyo City Opera Art Gallery (exh. cat.)
Deblonde, Gautier. artists. Tate Gallery.
Nairne, Andrew. Chasing Rainbows. Tramway and Locus+.
Patrick, Keith. “Anya Gallaccio: Chasing Rainbows.” Contemporary Visual Arts. 25: 76-77.
Musgrave, David. “Natural Dependency.” Art Monthly. 232: 34-36.
Kennedy, Maev. “Out of the garret.” The Guardian. 1 Oct.
Searle, Adrian. “Gifted.” The Guardian Weekend. 2 Oct: 24-25.
Mahoney, Elisabeth. “Anya Gallaccio.” Art Monthly. 226: 31-33.
Beaumont, Susanna. “Say it with flowers.” The List, Art Preview. 4 Mar.
Henry, Clare. “Melting Moments.” The Herald Magazine. 13 Mar.
Mahoney, Elisabeth. “The floral trance.” The Scotsman. 12 Mar.
“REAL/LIFE.” Ryusei Ikebana. 465: 34-35.