Angus Fairhurst
1966
Born in Kent
1985-86
Canterbury Art College, Kent
1986-89
Goldsmith’s College, London
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Angus Fairhurst, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006
Angus Fairhurst, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam
Unwit, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2005
Notnot, Vacio 9, Madrid
2004
Unwork, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Dysuniversal, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Drunkenmasters (Angus Fairhurst, Liam Gillick, Cerith Wyn Evans), Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (with Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst), Tate Britain, London (cat.)
2002
Angus Fairhurst, Alphadelta Gallery – Artio Gallery, Athens
2001
This Does Not Last More Than One Second, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
More or Less Angus Fairhurst, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Angus Fairhurst More or Less, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
This Does Not Last More Than Ten Seconds, Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
1999
The Trouble with Comedy, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin
The Foundation, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany (cat.) and
Kunsthalle St.Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
1998
The Missing Link, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Standing Stock Still, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Odd-Bod Photography (with Sarah Lucas), Sadie Coles HQ, London and Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1997
Stand Still and Rot, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1996
Low Lower Lowest, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
The Artist Has Left (with Lothar Hempel), Anton Kern Gallery, New York
A Cheap and Ill-fitting Relationship, Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam
A False Dawn On The Road To Personal And Artistic Freedoms,
Ridinghouse Editions, London
1994
Gallery Connections, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Drawings and Cartoons, 71 Hartham Road, London
1993
All Evidence of Man Removed, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
1992
Man Abandoned by Space, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.)
1991
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
1990
You in Mind, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Sterling Stuff, Kings Palace Gallery, London, UK You dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube Hoxton, London, UK
2006
Nothing but Pleasure, Bawag Foundation, Vienna
Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Implosion: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Dada’s Boys, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York
Dark, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Bazar de Verão, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
Cross Section, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Threshold, MW Projects, London
Vertigo, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England
Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Bernsten, Oslo
Out of the Melting Pot, Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2004
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (cat.)
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Incommunicado, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
57th Aldeburgh Festival, Contemporary British Sculpture at Snape (Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas), Snape, England
2003
Trickfilm, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sterling Stuff: Fifty Sculptors, Sigurjon Olafsson Museum, Reykjavik and Royal Academy of Arts, London
In Retrospect: Thirty Sculptors, Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, England
2002
Sterling Stuff: Fifty Sculptors, Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, England
Generator, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
Iconoclast: Beyond the Image Wars, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
`Why Bother?’ The Burger King Exhibition, Burger King, London (cat.)
Man in the Middle, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Unblinking Eye: Lens-based work from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2001
Casino 2001, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium (cat) Open Plan P3 – The Marathon (curated by Sofia and Dimitria Vamiali), Alphadelta Gallery – Artio Gallery, Athens (cat.)
Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Alternative Currents, The Mac, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London (cat)
Lens and Paper – the Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and tour to Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Museum Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (cat.)
2000
Apocalypse, The Royal Academy, London (cat.)
Video-vibe, British School in Rome, Rome (cat.)
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (cat.)
Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Puerile 69: Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Gillian
Wearing, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (cat.)
About Collage, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (cat.)
Sanssouci Oder: Die Kunst Der Entsorgung, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
The Anagrammatical Body, ZKM Centre for Media Art and Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria and Paris
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London
Psycho, Art and Anatomy, Anne Faggionato, London
1999
Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles HQ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
The Anagrammatical Body, Neue Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
1998
Thinking Aloud, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and tour to Camden Arts Centre, London (cat.)
Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger in den Benger Fabrik,
Bregenezand Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste,
Vienna (cat.)
Crossings, Kunst Zum Horen und Sehen, Kunsthalle, Vienna (cat.) (touring exhibition)
1997
Dimensions Variable, British Council Touring Exhibition (cat.)
Package Holiday, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
Painting, Photography, Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Contemporary British Drawings, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, and
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Other Men’s Flowers, The British School in Rome, Rome
From Figure to Object, Karsten Schubert Ltd. and Frith Street Gallery,
London (cat.)
1996
Plastic, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and tour to Walsall Museum and Art
Gallery, Walsall, England (cat.)
Full House, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Domestic Violence, Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago (IL)
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, ICA, London and tour
(video programme)
Other Men’s Flowers, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1995
Brilliant! New Art From London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (MI), touring to Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (TX) (cat.)
Corpus Delicti, Portalen, Copenhagen (cat.)
1994
Karaoke Football, Portikus No 58, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London, touring
to Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki; Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL) (cat.)
Not Self Portrait, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
1993
Privacy, Opos, Milan, Italy (cat.)
Other Men’s Flowers, Factual Nonsense, London
1992
Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.)
Etats Specifiques, Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France (cat.)
Mat Collishaw, Angus Fairhurst, Abigail Lane, Viafarini, Milan, Italy (cat.)
1991
Gambler, Building One, London (cat.)
Modern Medicine, Building One, London (cat.)
1988
Freeze, PLA Building, London (cat.)
Performances
2001
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
Exeter Phoenix
1999
Lowest Expectations, The Scala, London
Lowest Expectations, British Council, Cologne, Germany
Lower Expectations, Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
1998
Low Expectations, BuroFriedrich, Berlin
Low Expectations, Flex, Vienna
1997
Top Ten Expectations, ICA, London
Low Expectations, Cable Factory, Helsinki
1996
Low Expectations, Dean Street, London
Lexopewctations, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
1995
Low Expectations, Brixton Academy, London
Low Expectations, 56a Clerkenwell Road, London