Jim Lambie
1964
Born in Scotland
1990-94
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2009
Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea Television, Sadie Coles HQ, London Jim Lambie: Selected Works 1999-2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Forever Changes (part of Glasgow International 2008), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow
RSVP: Jim Lambie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
8 Miles High, ACCA Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Secret Affair, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2007
The Prismatics, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006
Directions, Hirschhorn Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
P.I.L, Mitzuma Gallery, Tokyo
Adidas Originals Store, London
2005
The Kinks, Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (TX)
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2004
My Boyfriend’s Back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mars Hotel, Galleria Franco Noero / Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino, Italy
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern, New York
Grand Funk, OPA, Mexico
2003
Jim Lambie: Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (cat.)
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2002
Hot Butter, Anton Kern, New York
Acid Trails??Statements, Miami Basel, Miami (FL)
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Breeder Projects, Athens, Greece
2001
Jim Lambie, Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco (CA)
2000
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy (cat.)
Triangle, Paris
Black Gloss, Anton Kern, New York
1999
Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (cat.)
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London
1998
Ultralow, The Modern Institute Video Screening Carnival, London
Group Exhibitions
2010
At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY)
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
Peeping Tom (curated by Keith Coventry), VEGAS Gallery, London
Languages and Experimentations, MART, Rovereto, Italy
2009
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, UK
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
Malcolm McLaren: Musical paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (QC), Canada Internationell Konstfilm Utställning (screening), Jönköping, Sweden Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria FILMS, Sadie Coles HQ, London Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today , Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY), USA
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art · Barbican, London
2007
Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy
Ironie der Objekte, Museo, Bozen, Italy
SUBSTANCE & SURFACE, Bortolami, New York (NY) USA
Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC, Gateshead
Fit to Print, Gagoisian Gallery Madison, New York (NY) USA
Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
Melting Point, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Reconstruction 2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MA)
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Echo Room, Alcalá 31, Madrid
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Off the Wall, Scottish National Galler of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006
This is Not For You : Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London
Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (MA)
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO)
JaGGy-edge, The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland
Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York
IMPLOSION, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden / Total Damage, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London
Abstract art now – strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
2005
Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Omaggio al Quadrato, Franco Noero, Turin, italy
Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Prisms & Shadows (curated by Toby Paterson), Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2004
Works from the Boros Collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (cat.)
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (PA)
From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
Brand New and Retro, Up Empire, London
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut CT
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City and Museo de Arte Contemporaro de Monterrey
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow
last winter spring never came, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Genesis Sculpture – Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, France
2003
Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future, MCA Chicago
Scottish Pavillon (with Simon Starling and Clare Barclay), 50th International Biennale of Arts, Venice (cat.)
Days Like These - Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (cat.)
The Fourth Sex, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Painting Not Painting, Tate St. Ives, St Ives, England (cat.)
Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell’arte Contemporanea (The tale of the other thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contemporary Art), MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
The Moderns, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
OUTLOOK, Athens, Greece
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Plunder, Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection, touring exhibition: Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberrystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England; Tullie House, Carlisle, England
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
2002
VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (cat.)
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Greyscale/ CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (curated by NIFCA, Helsinki) (cat.)
New – Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh (cat.)
Jim, Jonathan, Kenny, Francis and Sol, Stedelijk Museum Bureau,
Amsterdam
Roma Roma Roma, Rome
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat.)
Early One Morning – Five Young British Sculptors, presentation at Tate Britain, London
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenberg Museum, Copenhagen (cat.)
Hello, My Name Is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA) (cat.)
Superlounge, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London
Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Life Is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
2001
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MI) (cat.)
SchattenRisse/Shadows, Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (cat.)
Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (cat.)
Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (cat.)
Tailsliding, British Council touring exhibition (cat.)
2000
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London
British Art Show 5, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (Hayward touring exhibition) (cat.)
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, Mapin Gallery Sheffield, Camden Arts Centre London(cat.)
Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Off the record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg (PA)
Raumkörper, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Black Gloss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles (CA)
1999
Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
To be continued…, Walsall, England (public projects) (cat.)
Dots and Loops, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
Silk purse, Waygood gallery, Newcastle, England
Mathew Higgs @Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
1998
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England (cat.)
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery Triangle, Marseille, France
Slant6, Jacob Javit’s Center, New York
Ultralow, (solo video screening), Carnival Cinema, Soho, London
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London
Host, Tramway, Glasgow (cat.)
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
This is…These are, Kirsty Ogg, Norwich, England
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1996
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, Scotland
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Valencia (CA)
Girls High, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (cat.)
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt Street, London
Sick building, Globe Gallery, Copenhagen
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France
1995
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland
Residencies
2000
Triangle, New York
1998
Triangle, Marseille, France
Commissions and Awards
2003
BBC Underground 2003 Award
2000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, London
1998
British Council award for residency at Triangle, Marseille, France
‘Ultralow’ commission for the Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Collections
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
British Council Collection, London, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, Uk
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA), USA
Towasa Art Center, Towada, Aomori, Japan