David Shrigley Born: 1968, Macclesfield Lives and works in Glasgow Education 1988-91 Glasgow School of Art, BA Fine Art One-Person Exhibitions (selected) 2008 Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain BAWAG Foundation, Vienna 2007 Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (With Lily Van der Stokker) 2006 Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Recent Prints, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2005 BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA 2004 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland 2003 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark BQ, Cologne, Germany Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Billboard Commission, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London 2002 Camden Arts Centre, London, travelling to Mappin Gallery, Sheffield FRAC, Bretagne, France Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA Domaine de Kerguehennec, France 2001 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London CCS Museum, Bard College, New York, USA Yvon Lambert, Paris, France 2000 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark 1999 Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 1998 Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1997 CCA, Glasgow Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Photographers’ Gallery, London 1996 Catalyst Arts, Belfast The Contents of the Gap…, Luxus Cont.e. V, Glasgow The Contents of the Gap ... Luxus Cont.e.V, Berlin, Germany 1995 Map of the Sewer, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Group Exhibitions (selected) 2008 Square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbruch, Germany Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 2007 Six Feet Under, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, New Art Gallery, Walsall; touring to Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth; Tullie House, Carlisle Learn to Read, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London Momentary Momentum, Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, London 2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic, Gateshead, UK Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK Under Gods Hammer: William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri David Shrigley & Peter Land, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Dear Friends, D.o.m.a.i.n.e. d.e. K.e.r.g.u.é.h.n.n.e.c, Centre d’art contemporain, Bignan, France Humour Me, Artspace Kansas City, USA The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2005 Situation Comedy, MCA, Chicago, USA Emotion Pictures, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2004 splat! boom! pow!, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London Britannia Works, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany The Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA Living Dust, Norwich Gallery, Norwich 2003 Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow EU3, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Sanctuary, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge The Cat Show, Acme, Los Angeles, USA Knockabout, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA The Square Show, Bloomberg SPACE, London Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA, touring to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA 2002 The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, USA Jokes, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Out of Line, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU, Los Angeles, USA State University, Los Angeles, USA Gymnasion, Bregenz Kunstverein, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Germany Open Country, Contemporary Scottish Artists, Le Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations: Recent British Art and Photography, Consejéria de Cultura, Madrid, Spain Reality Check, (various venues) 2001 Rendezvous III, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Televisions, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria Under Bridges and Along The River, Casino Luxembourg The Fantastic Repetition of Certain Situations, Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (touring) 2000 The British Art Show 5, (catalogue) Edinburgh (touring to Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham) Beck’s Futures, ICA, London (catalogue), (touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and CCA, Glasgow) One in the Other, London (with Ewan Gibbs) Personal History, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester (touring), (catalogue) Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland 1999 Love Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (touring) Zac 99, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Bildung-information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine arts, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Shopping, London, (organised by FAT) GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands Plug In, Salon 3, London Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London Common People, British Art between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per L’arte, Torino, Italy Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Free Coke, Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Ainsi de suite 3 (deuxième partie), Sétè, France Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester 1998 Surfacing–Contemporary Drawing, ICA, London Matthew Benedict, Yves Chaudouët, Anne-Marie Schneider and David Shrigley, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Real Life, Galeria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy Young Scene, Secession, Vienna, Austria Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Blueprint, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tales of The City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Young British Photography, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany Caldas Biennale, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal About Life in the Periphery, Wacker Kunst, Darmstadt, Germany Appetizer, Free Parking, Toronto, Canada Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Biscuit Barrel, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans 1996 Sarah Staton Superstore, Up & Co, New York, USA Absolut Blue and White, Inverleith House, Edinburgh The Unbelievable Truth, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Tramway, Glasgow Fucking Biscuits and Other Drawings, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Big Girl/Little Girl, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh White Hysteria, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Melbourne, Australia Toons, Gallerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark Upset, James Colman Fine Art, London 1995 Scottish Autumn, Bartok 23 Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 1994 Some of My Friends, Gallerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow 1992 In Here, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Publications and Catalogues (selected) 2007 David Shrigley, Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos, Burgos, Spain 2006 Under God’s Hammer: William Blake versus David Shrigley, The Art Gallery of Western Australia This is a Paper Trinket for You to Wear, Bywater Brothers Editions, Toronto, Canada 2005 The Book of Shrigley, Redstone Press/Chronicle Books, London Photographs with Text, BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany Worried Noodles-The Empty Sleeve, Tomlab, Cologne 2004 Kill Your Pets, Revolver, Frankfurt/ Redstone Press, London Blocked Path, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark It is It, Nieves, Zurich, Switzerland Let’s Wrestle, Redstone Press, London Rules, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards) 2003 Yellow Bird With Worm, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Who I Am and What I Want, Redstone Press, London Leotard, BQ, Cologne, Germany Joy, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards) Evil Thoughts, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, USA (book of postcards) Human Achievement, The Redstone Press, London 2002 Recent Developments in British Photography and Video, British Council Evil Thoughts, 24 Postcards, The Redstone Press, London David Shrigley, Camden Arts Centre, Mappin Art Gallery David Shrigley, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan 2001 The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations, The British Council and Photographers’ Gallery, London Do not bend, The Redstone Press, London Collaboration with Yoshitomo Nara in Bijutsu Techo 2000 Weekly cartoon in the Independent on Sunday Grip, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh Why we got the sack from the Museum, The Redstone Press, London Blank Page and Other Pages, The Modern Institute, Glasgow Hard Work, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow 1999 The Beast is Near, Redstone Press, London (Reprinted 2000) Fel, Rudins, Sweden (Swedish translation of Err) 1998 To Make Meringue You Must Beat The Egg Whites Until They Look Like This, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Centre Parting, The Little Cockroach Press, Toronto, Canada Order of Service, The Armpit Press, Glasgow Why We Got the Sack From The Museum, Redstone Press, London (Reprinted 2002) 1997 Public Relations-New British Photography, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1996 Err, Book Works, London (Reprinted 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003) Drawings Done Whilst On The Phone To Idiot, The Armpit Press, Glasgow Let Not these Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow 1995 Enquire Within, The Armpit Press, Glasgow 1994 Blanket of Filth, The Armpit Press, Glasgow 1992 Merry Eczema, Black Rose, Glasgow Slug Trails, Black Rose, Glasgow Undated The Bloodied Spear Bibliography (selected) 2007 Richard Nicoll, ‘Rock Art’, Dazed & Confused, October 2007 Horatia Harrod, ‘Oddly Drawn Boy’, Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazine, 2007 Davies, Lillian, ‘Momentary Momentum’, Artforum, April Hubbard, Sue, ‘The details are nicely sketchy’, Independent, March 27 Gavin, Francesca, ‘Moving Drawings at London’s Parasol Unit’, BBC Collective, March 8 Q & A 2006 Searle, Adrian, ‘Crude Awakenings’, Guardian, November 21 Arendt, Paul, ‘Tate snaps up cartoons by David Shrigley’, Guardian, October 17, pg. 21 ‘The Galleries’ Top 100 Artists’, Flash Art, Vol. 39, No. 250, October Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine (Ed.), ‘Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature’, Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg (cover) Williams-Akoto, Tessa, ‘Why Settle For a Garrett?’, Independent on Sunday, 9 August (cover and pp.2-3) Smith, Aidan, Scotland on Sunday, 2 July DJ, ‘Book of the Fortnight’, Leeds Guide, 25 January 2005 Morton, Tom, V&A Magazine, Winter Beagles, John, MAP, Issue 4, Winter, pg.62 McLeish, Numpty, Nude, Winter The Times, 3 December Knave, 1 December Instant, December Baxter, Glen, Observer Review, 27 November Wilson, Rebecca, Art Review, 16 October Observer Magazine, 16 October Independent Magazine, 15 October, pg.7 AC, Metro, 5 October Sooke, Alastair, Telegraph, 1 October Quirk, Justin, Arena, October i-D, October Kultureflash, 28 September Allan, Vicky, Sunday Herald Magazine, 18 September (cover) Bucknall, Simon, Blueprint, 12 September Barton, Laura, Guardian, 10 September Quintessentially, 1 September Previews, Bookseller, 12 July The Bookseller, 8 July Hanley, Lindsay, Glasgow Herald, 18 June, pg.8 2004 Sawyer, Miranda, Observer, 12 September Orr, Deborah, Independent, 8 November Close, Ajay, The Scotsman, 8 November 2003 Caniglia, Julie, Anton Kern review, Artforum, January, pg.140 Garrett, Craig, ‘Art and Artlessness’, Flash Art, May/June 2002 Stern, Steven, Anton Kern review, Time Out NY, 31 Oct–7 Nov Triming, Lee, Camden Art Centre review, Flash Art, May/June 2001 Wilshire, Mark, Art Monthly, April Power, Mike, ‘Doodles from the Dark Side’, BIG, 15-21 October, no.459 pp.21-22 Neal Brown, Art Review, March, vol.LIII, pg.48 Healy, Jim, ‘David Shrigley - Stephen Friedman Gallery’, What’s On in London, March-April Wilson, Michael, ‘David Shrigley - Stephen Friedman Gallery’, Art on Paper, July/August 2000 Walters, Helen, Creative Review, October Davies, Sophie, Time Out, 11 October Medway, Jim, Flux, August Jonathan Jones, ‘Beck’s Futures’, The Guardian, 21 March 1999 Coomer, Martin, Review, Time Out, 31 March–7 April, pg.45 Searle, Adrian, ‘Objects of ridicule’, The Guardian, 23 Mar, pg.9 Lingaard, Jade, Les Inrockuptibles, 16-23 September 1998 Chapman, Anna, Arena, December Bracewell, Michael, ‘Renaissance man’, The Guardian, December Palmer, Judith, ‘The wonderful world of Shrigley’, The Independent, 19 November ‘Insert: David Shrigley’, Parkett, 53, August, pp.153–168 Killam, Brad, ‘David Shrigley’, New Art Examiner, 25, no.4, December 1997/January 1998, pg.59 Smith, Roberta, New York Times, 10 July 1997 Beech, David, ‘David Shrigley: The Photographers’ Gallery’, Art Monthly, 204, March, pp.29–30 Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, 2-9 April Thrift, Julia, ‘David Shrigley, Roman Signer’ Time Out, 26 Feb 1996 Wilson, Mike, ‘David Shrigley: Catalyst Arts, Belfast’, Circa, Winter Larsen, Lars Bang, ‘Toons: Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen’, Flash Art, November/December Findlay, Judith, ‘David Shrigley: Artist’, Flash Art, May/June, pg.64 Findlay, Judith, ‘David Shrigley: Transmission’, Flash Art January/February, pg.106 1995 Findlay, Judith, ‘David Shrigley: Map of the Sewer-Transmission Gallery’, Zing Magazine, Winter Bracewell, Michael, ‘Jesus doesn’t want me for a sunbeam’, frieze, 25, November/December, pp.50-51 Commissions/Awards (selected) 1999 BMW Financial Services Group Photographic Calendar Project, London Magazine Projects (selected) 2007 Art World Magazine, Issue II December, Insert 2005-ongoing Guardian (weekly cartoon every Saturday) 2001 The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Cabinet Magazine, Issue 2 1999/2000 Independent On Sunday Review (Weekly Cartoon 1/1999 to 2/2000) 1998 Parkett, Number 53, Insert Animations (selected) 2007 ‘Light Switch’, edition of 6, running time 1 minute, 29 seconds ‘The Door’, (Frieze Film 2007), 2006 ‘Laundry’, edition of 6, running time 2 minutes, 40 seconds ‘New Friends’, edition of 6, running time 1 minute 2005 ‘Who I Am And What I Want’ Animate! Commission for Channel 4 (Collaboration with Chris Shepherd) 2004 BBC.co.uk/collective (weekly animation 'Modern Thought') Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Agnes Queen of Sorrow’ promo 2003 Blur ‘Good Song’ promo (collaboration with Shynola) 2002 What Happens After