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David Blandy 1976 Born in London 1995-98 Chelsea College of Art BA (Hons) Sculpture 2001-03 Slade School of Art MA in Fine Art Media | gallery And Distribution
Seventeen Gallery 17 Kingsland Road London E2 8AA E:info@seventeengallery.com Video works distributed by Lux |
Current and Forthcoming
2012
"Thank You For The Music", Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland "25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2012, Festival for Expanded Media", Stuttgart, Germany "Let the Rythym Hit 'Em", Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany "David Blandy - Passage Of The Soul", Exeter Phoenix | Solo Exhibitions
2011
Artistic Dialogues II, David Blandy & Nilbar Güreş, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany "Run a Mile in My Shoes", Solo exhibition, Great North Run Moving Image Commission 2011, Newbridge Space, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 2010 “Child of the Atom”, solo show, Seventeen Gallery, London Solo presentation at TankTV project space 2009 “Crossroads”, Solo exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol, touring to Turner Contemporary, Margate, and 176 Project Space, London "The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim", Solo screening, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 2008 “Artprojx Dojo: Duels and Dualities”, Artprojx Space, London 2007 “Fortress of Solitude”, Jerwood Platform for Artists, Cell Project Space, London “The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim”, Platform China Project Space, Beijing, China, curated by David Thorp |
Selected Commissions and prizes2011
Great North Run Moving Image Commission 2011 2010 Winner of “The Times/The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award”, Nominated as the representative for the Visual Arts 2009 Daiwa Award for travel to research “Child of the Atom” in Hiroshima, Japan 2008 “The Search for Mingering Mike Museum”, commission by the Bluecoat, Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial Video work “Samurai Story parts I & II” and comic “The Gateless Barrier”, commissioned by Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire 2007 “Spike in the City”, commission by Spike Island, Bristol 2006 “The Man who Fell to Earth”, commission by Heron Mill, Cumbria 2005 “Soul of the Lakes” Grizedale Arts commission for “Cumbriana Proof”, Coniston, Cumbria Artsadmin Live Arts Bursary 2005-2006 “Radio Nights” Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, The Gate Cinema, London 2004 “Mostyn Open”, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, winner of the £6000 award “Enter the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim”, performance as a hermit, Painshill Park, Surrey, commissioned by Danielle Arnaud & Parabola for “Tempered Ground” 2003 “Ya get me?”, Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, that centres on the use of language inside subcultures 2002 “Beck’s Student Prize for film & video”, runner up prize winner, ICA, London 1999 “Medway Open”, Gillingham, Kent, winner of £5000 award selected by David Thorp & Permindaur Kaur“ | Selected exhibitions, residencies AND screenings2011
"28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival", Kassel, Germany "Kunst&Zwalm 2011", Public Art Commission, Belgium "I will talk with anyone who will talk with me", The City Gallery, Leicester "SUNDAY" Art Fair, The Zabludowicz Collection presents David Blandy limited edition action figures "David Blandy, Riley Harmon and Graham Hudson", Seventeen, London “Amen Brother”, Grand Union, Birmingham The Drawing Room Gallery Fundraiser 2011, London "Journey Men" Two person show with Antti Laitinen, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent 2010 “Choose your character” solo event at the ICA, London, as part of Live Weekends “Be Glad For the Song Has No End: A Festival of Artists' Music”, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge “Contort Yourself”, three person show at ACME, London “Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art”, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland “The Crossroads Shack”, installation and screening at Latitude Festival, Suffolk “Royale with Cheese”, AICON Gallery, London, curated by Niru Ratnam “Psychic Geography”, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead 2009 “Stranger Things Are Happening”, Aspex, Portsmouth “Personal Affects”, Exhibition and Residency, A.I.R. Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands "Hesperides II", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA), Switzerland "The 6th Bremen Art Spring", GAK, Bremen, Germany "The Underground Soul", Solo exhibition, Brighton Art Festival, Grey Area, Brighton "My Philosophy", Solo screening, Artprojx Matinee Presentations, Prince Charles Cinema, London 2008 “Far West”, Arnolfini, Bristol; touring to A Foundation, Liverpool and Turner Contemporary, Margate “Museumnight 2008: Tomorrow is Humourless”, screening event, Stedelijk Museum Bureau (SMBA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands “I/Legitimate”, Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Brazil “Made Up”, the Bluecoat, as part of the Liverpool Biennial “Tatton Park Biennial”, Tatton Park, Cheshire “Sonic Youth”, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland & touring to Wallace Gallery, New York, USA “Phenomena”, Pori Art Museum, Finland “The David Blandy Special”, screening, 176 Project Space, London “Jerwood Moving Image Awards”, Jerwood Gallery, London, Finalist “Artprojx Hi Fi” at Anthology Film Archives, The Armory Show, New York |
Past exhibitions, residencies and Screenings from 2007
2007
Art Review’s invited comic contribition, December Issue “Persona Non Grata”, curated by Ben Judd, One in the Other, London “Artprojx Hi Fi presents”, Art in Marrakech, Théâtre Royal de Marrakech "Encore Pacifca", Video screening, Kunsthall Bergen, Norway “Microwave International New Media Arts Festival”, Hong Kong, as part of “À la Chinoise” curated by Marcelo Rezende and Fernando Oliva "My Still Life as a Personal Object," Alma Enterprises, London “The Great Escape- New Art from London”, White Flag Projects, St Louis, USA, curated by Katrina Hallowell “Live Screen”, Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London “Artprojx Hi Fi presents” at Late at Tate Britain “Konst på Bio" (Art at the Movies), Biografen Sture, Stockholm, Sweden "A Second Life”, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Barnaby Drabble “Big Family Business” The IMÇ Buildings, Istanbul, curated by Esther Lu and Adnan Yildiz “Artradio”, exhibition and residency, Cornerhouse, Manchester “About Turn”, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany tank.tv DVD of selected video artists, distributed by Thames & Hudson “Artprojx at Greenland Street presents”, Screening Event, Greenlands Street, Liverpool “Inter-Faces”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Almaty, Kazakstan Artsadmin Screening Programme, Artsadmin Studios, London “The Communism of Form: Sound + Image + Time”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil “Extend Your Neck”, Cafe Gallery, London “100 Tage=100 Videos”, Kunstvereine Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark “Role Model”, The John Institute, Zurich, Switzerland “KolnShow2”, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne, Germany curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel “16 Hour Museum”, AIT, Tokyo, Japan “Air Video”, Air Space, Stoke on Trent “Media Attention”, G39, Cardiff 2006-07 IASPIS residency in Stockholm, Sweden, culminating in “Open House” 2006 “Street: behind the cliché”, Witte de With Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands “Because the Night”, Artangel Interaction, Bethnal Green Town Hall, London “I don’t know what else to do with myself!” Video Screening & discussion, AK28 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden “100 Tage=100 Videos”, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany “[Incorporaciones+Polesello] Recientes”, Macro-Museo de arte contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina “The Mothership Collective”, South London Gallery, curated by Harold Offeh “Kaleidoscope”, screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London “Turtle”, Chelsea Space, curated by Michael H. Shamberg “Represent”, two person show with Saskia Holmkvist, Gasworks Gallery, London “FILMPERFORMANCE”, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford “Kill your Timid Notion”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee “Culture Bound”, VII East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London 2005 “Monitor”, LOT, Bristol, curated by Sally Shaw “Adding Up”, screening, Sous-Station Lebon, Nice, France Thirteenth Raindance Film Festival, tank.tv showcase, London Gasworks Gallery/Triangle Arts Trust residency at El Levante, Rosario, Argentina “About Time”, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark, curated by Nikolaj Larsen “Cumbriana Proof” Grizedale Arts, Cumbria “Projekt Migration”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany “The Mind is a Horse (Part 2)”, Bloomberg Space, London “Astigmatic 2005 festival”, Tank.tv, Gdynia, Poland “It is hard to touch the real”, touring video archive, curated by Maria Lind, to Kunstverein Munich, Germany, Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden; Yeans, Gothenburg, Sweden; Unge Kunstnerers Samfund UK, Oslo, Norway; Tallinn Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia “Faltering Flame: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art”, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, curated by David Thorp “Biennale! Artist Film & Video”, Temporarycontemporary Gallery, London, selected by Jananne Al-Ani, touring to Dashanzi International Arts Festival, Beijing, China, and Raum 3, Berlin | past exhibitions, residencies and screenings from
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