Paul McDevitt Born 1972 in Troon, Scotland Lives and works in Berlin Education 2007 International Artists Fellowships, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland 2000-20 01 Saatchi Fellow, Artist in Residence, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London 1999-20 00 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London 1997 Artist in Residence, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California 1992-19 95 BA (Hons) Visual Arts, Lancaster University 1991-19 92 Foundation Course, Jacob Kramer College of Art & Design, Leeds One-Person Exhibitions/Projects (selected) 2007 Solitary Figure in Landscape, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland 2004 Paul McDevitt, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2003 Merge, Jerwood Print, Jerwood Foundation, London The Horns of Moses, Habitat, Kings Road, London 2002 Lost Weekend, Galala, Fukuoka, Japan 2001 Half-Life, Hales Gallery, London Group Exhibitions (selected) 2008 Space to Draw, Jerwood Space, London 2007 Star Dust, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL) Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery; touring to New Art Gallery, Walsall; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth; Tullie House, Carlisle, (catalogue) Drawing 2007 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London 2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, (catalogue) 2005 Sonnenblume Titanic, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Ticker, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Aurélie Voltz) The Failure, Korridor, Berlin, Germany Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Post Notes, ICA, London; toured to Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Communism, Project, Dublin, (curated by Grant Watson) 2004 Implosion, Raum500, Munich, Germany Pledge, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Dave Beech) No-How, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2003 Post It, Floating IP, Manchester EU3–European Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London I want! I want! NGCA, Sunderland Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, London Arrangement: the use of flowers in art, Rhodes+Mann, London, (catalogue) Please Take One, 39, London Bad Touch, Keith Talent Gallery, London Ponce, the Ship, London Phillip Allen, Diana Cooper, Paul McDevitt, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Tullie House, Carlisle, Angel Row, Nottingham 2002 Non-Plan, domoBaal, London, (catalogue) YesteryearNowadays, Hales Gallery, London Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, MK G, Milton Keynes; Cornerhouse, Manchester, (curated by Emma Mahony, catalogue) Neverland, Cell Project Space, London Reverberator, Houldsworth, London, (curated by Michael Archer) Lovely, Kohlenhof, Nuremberg, (curated by Andreas Oehlert) 2001 Please Use The Space Provided For Additional Information, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London What's Wrong?, The Trade Apartment, London, (curated by Dave Beech) Die München Sonne, Maximiliansforum, Munich, (with Declan Clarke) Skuggspel Tullkammaren, Umeå, Sweden The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001, Jerwood Space, London, (catalogue) Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham The Alberto Vilar Gallery at the Prince's Foundation, London EICH Gallery, Hull Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London Freie Wahlen, (McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, (catalogue) Saatchi Gallery Bursaries 1999-2001, The Saatchi Gallery at 30 Underwood St, London, (catalogue) 2000 Compilation, PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany Felt-Tip, Zwemmer Gallery, London Hellseher, Projektraum Konkordiastrasse, Düsseldorf, Germany The Armchair Project, Cinch, London Assembly, Stepney City, London McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck-Bigger Monster Lover, Glasgow Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck-Uptight (Outta Sight), PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany Curated Projects (with Declan Clarke) 2005 Matt Calderwood, Bj"rn Dahlem, Sophie von Hellerman, Ian Kiaer, Cornelius Quabeck, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland 2002 Play it as it Lays-17 artists from Los Angeles, London Institute Gallery Millbank, London 2000 The Armchair Project, Cinch, London Dust Up-Two Down, The House, Chelsea College of Art, London Publications (selected) 2007 Cult Fiction Art and Comics, Hayward Gallery Publications 2006 The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney 2005 Clarke & McDevitt present, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane 2002 Paul McDevitt-Piranesi Penguin Pool & other stories, Der Atom No. 3, The Galleries Book, Royal Academy of Arts Bambi, April, (poster) Paul McDevitt 'Lost Weekend', Pocko Editions 2001 Tafelrunden, RischArt Produktion 2000 Parallel Lines, London Institute Bibliography (selected) 2006 ‘Clarke & McDevitt Present’, Artforum, August 2005 Beech, Dave, ‘I Could’ve Been a Contender’, The Internationaler Pilot Issue, October, pp. 11-12 Humphrey, David, Miser & Now, Issue 7, pp. 22-24 Ho, Gitta, ‘Räume für Wirklichkeit’, Artnet, review of Ticker 9, July 21 Clancy, Luke, ‘Clarke & McDevitt present’, Modern Painters, July/Aug, review, pp. 108-109 Long, Declan, ‘From Despair to Where…’, Feint, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 3-6 ‘Clarke & McDevitt present’, The View, RTÉ TV panel discussion, May 17 ‘Summer Sights’, The Irish Times, April 14, pg. 3 ‘Live Radio interview’, NewsTalk106, April 10 ‘On-site at the Hugh Lane’, The Irish Times, April 9 O’Halloran, Robbie, Circa, Spring, review, pp. 110-111 Charlesworth, JJ, ‘Communism’, Art Monthly, No. 284, March, review, pp. 19-21 Stott, Tim, ‘Communism’, CIRCA Art Magazine Online ‘Communism’, The View RTÉ Television panel discussion, January 25 Dunne, Aidan, ‘Bursting the Art Bubble’, The Irish Times, January 25, pg. 16 2004 Kultureflash 101, ‘Paul McDevitt at Stephen Friedman Gallery’, November 10 Coomer, Martin, Time Out, No. 1785, ‘Paul McDevitt at Stephen Friedman Gallery’, Nov 3-10, review, pg. 57 ‘Postcard’, Art Review, July/August, Volume LIV, pg. 110 Conrads, Martin, ‘No Future Revisited’, Zitty, 14, pg. 80 Eklund, Karin, ‘EU3’, Untitled, No. 31, Spring, review, pg. 73 2003 Charlesworth, JJ, ‘I want! I Want!’, Art Monthly, October, No. 270, review, pp. 33-35 McIntosh, Jackie, ‘Arrangement’, a-n magazine, October, review, pg. 7 ‘Flora Historia’, Tank, Volume 3, Issue 7, pg. 155 Lack, Jessica, ‘Arrangement’, The Guardian, September 1, pg. 18 Hickling, Alfred, ‘I Want! I Want!’, The Guardian, review, August 27, pg. 24 Underhill, Emma, Factory DVD Magazine, Issue 2, interview Hopwood, Alasdair, Sleaze Nation, Volume 4, Issue 26, May, pg. 124 King, Emily, 'Palm Reading', Frieze, Issue 73, March, pp. 48-49 2002 Kitamura, Katie, 'YesteryearNowadays', Contemporary, October, review, pp. 81-82 Blandford, Richard, 'Play it as it Lays', Frieze, Issue 69, September, pg. 112 Lack, Jessica, ‘YesteryearNowadays’, July 26 Charlesworth, JJ, 'Reverberator', Art Monthly, No. 258, Jul-Aug, pp. 33-35 Wilson, Andrew, 'Summer Reading (Lost Weekend)', Art Monthly, Jul-Aug, No. 258, pg. 54 Charlesworth, JJ, 'Play it as it Lays', Artext, No. 77, Summer, pp. 82-83 Ihara, Nathan, 'The Pocko Collection', LA Weekly, June 21-27 'Pocko', Flux, No. 30, April/May, pg. 23 'Gotta catch 'em all!', lab 03, Spring, pp. 20-21 Ward, Ossian, 'Seven days in LA', Art Review, April, Volume LIII, pp. 50-51 Fergusson, Ben, 'Lost Weekend - review', Art Review, Volume LIII, April, pg. 84 Gavin, Francesca, 'Weekender', Dazed & Confused, No. 88, April, pg. 169 'Monet und adidas', Fürther Nachrichten, March 21, pg. 25 Maucher, Ute, 'An der Oberfläche kratzen', Abendzeitung Nürnberg, March 21, pg. 15 2001 Hedge, Paul, 'Hard Labour', Art Review, Volume LII, Dec/Jan, pp. 46-47 'Art Under £500', Art Review, Dec/Jan, Volume LII, pg. 70 'Paul McDevitt - Observatory', Tank, Volume 2, Issue 7, pp. 72-81 Ward, Ossian, 'Paul McDevitt, ‘a 72-hour guy or a one minute man?', Art Review, Volume LII, October, pp. 59-60 Västerbottens-Kuriren, Umeå, September 7, pg. 1,5 'Last Chance - Art, Saatchi Gallery Bursaries', Evening Standard, August 3 'Breaking Down Barriers', Insight, Issue 2, pg. 27 2000 Creative Review, December, pg. 94 Ewald, Gudrun, ‘Hellsen ist eine Kunst’, Coolibri, October, pg. 50