Born: Paisley, Scotland, 1968
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
Education
1991-93
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1986-90
Glasgow School of Art, Department of Environmental Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2011
Reading off the Surface, Skulpturi, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010-2011
Shadow Spans, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (commissioned by Bloomberg)
2010
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Overlap, Glasgow Print Studios, Glasgow International 2010, Glasgow, Scotland
2009
Pale Heights, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Openwide, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008
Shifting Ground, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
After the Field, Washington Garcia, Dumbreck Riding School, Glasgow, Scotland
2007
Fault on the Right Side, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig,
Germany
2006
Ill Gotten Gains, The Station, Bristol, UK (commissioned for the British Art Show 6, Bristol)
2005
Silver Gilt, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Foul Play, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland
2004
Half-Light, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, England
2003
Ideal Pursuits, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
2002
Some reddish work done at night, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001
Welcome for Sea and Game, 24 Hour Window, Bulkhead, Glasgow, Scotland
2000
Homemaking, Project Space, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Take to the Ground, The Showroom Gallery, London, England
1999
Claire Barclay, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
1998
Dream Catcher, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
1997
Out of the Woods, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1996
Museum Intervention, Colonial Room, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,
Australia
Claire Barclay, New Works, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Australia
1994
Claire Barclay, New Works, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2011
You, Me, Something Else, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Structure and Material: Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black, Yorkshire Sculpture
Park, Yorkshire, UK; travelling to The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
You Seem the Same as Always, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
2010
What Matters, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, UK
2009
SubjectMatter, CASS Sculpture Foundation, UK
Material Intelligence, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Chance Encounters, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia
2008
Claire Barclay, Sara Barker, Neil Clements, Sally Osborn, Jonathan Owen, Albrecht
Schäfer, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland
Contemporary Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2007
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
2006
If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, England
2005
British Art Show 6, Baltic, Gateshead, UK (touring exhibition)
2004
Dumbreck Marsh Project, Public Art Commission, Kilsyth, Scotland
2003
Zenomap, Palazzo Guistinian-Lolin, Venice Biennale, Italy
This was Tomorrow, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
2002
Howl, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia
Dragon Doll, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Any Where, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Tra-La-La: British Sculpture in the Sixties (Early One Morning display), Tate Britain, London, England
2001
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
The Hoorn of Glasgow, Mariakapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands
Attacking Mud, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
G3 NY, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
Circles 4, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000
If I Ruled the World, Part 2, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
The Blue Chamber, Duff House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Bush Mechanics, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Museum Magogo, Independent Studios, Glasgow and Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Publications and Catalogues (selected)
2010
Gill Saunders and John Mackechnie, eds., Surface Noise, Jerwood Visual Arts, (catalogue)
2009
Openwide, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, (catalogue)
2007
Fault on the Right Side, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (catalogue)
2006
Fortnum, Rebecca, Contemporary British Women Artists, I/B/ Tauris, London, England
2005
Blazwick, Iwona and Tarsia, Andrea, Eds. Ideal Pursuits, Dundee, (catalogue), Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery Publishing, London, England
2003
Blazwick, Iwona and Tarsia, Andrea, Eds. Early One Morning, Whitechapel, (catalogue),
Art Gallery, London, England
Claire Barclay: Ideal Pursuits, Dundee Contemporary Arts, ed. Katrina Brown, Dundee, Scotland
2001
Brown, Katrina, Ed. Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, (catalogue)
Take to the Ground, The Showroom Gallery, London, England, (catalogue)
Awards and Residencies
2008
The Hospital Club Creative Award, London, England
2007
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist's Award, London, England
2000
Three Year AHRB Fellowship, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1997
Scottish Arts Council Artist's Award, Edinburgh, Scotland
Artist in Residence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Artist in Residence, Millennium Project, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland
1995-96
Scottish Arts Council Australian Residency, Australia
Bibliography (selected)
2012
Stockman, Nick, Connect 10 will bring museums and the arts together like never before, The Guardian, 22 February
2011
Sherwin, Skye & Clark, Robert, This week's new exhibitions, The Guardian, 10 December
Miller, Ben, Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley and Karla Black's Structure & Material at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Culture 24, 1 April
Lind, Maria, Abstract: Maria Lind on Claire Barclay, Artforum, March
2010
Trimming, Lee, Claire Barclay, Art in America, December
Perry, Colin, Claire Barclay Flat Peach, Art Monthly, October
Sherwin, Skye, Artist of the Week: Claire Barclay, The Guardian, 2 September
Sherwin, Skye, Claire Barclay, London, The Guardian, 22 May
2009
Paterson, Dominic, Claire Barclay, MAP, Issue 18, Summer
Pick of the Week Openwide, The Guardian, March
Grotell, Michael, Claire Barclay, The Journal, 21 February
McLean-Ferris, Laura, Claire Barclay, The Guardian, 20 February
Mansfield, Susan, Claire Barclay, The Scotsman, 18 February
Garner, James, Claire Barclay, Metro, 13 February
2008
Liechti, Natalie, Claire Barclay: Shifting Ground, Flavorpill, Spring 2008
Martin, Courtney J., Claire Barclay, ArtForum Online, June
2006
Bradley, Fiona, Artist: Claire Barclay, MAP, Issue 5, Spring
Woodley, Caroline, Claire Barclay: Silver Gilt, MAP, Issue 5, Spring
2005
Herbert, Martin, Claire Barclay, Time Out, London, 2 - 9 November
Long, Camilla, 24-Hour Arty People, Tatler, September
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Top Five Galleries, Sunday Herald, 21 August
Black, Catriona, Claire Barclay: Foul Play, Sunday Herald, 21 August
Mottram, Jack, Foul Play: Claire Barclay, The List, 18 August
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The dark side of the rainbow, The Times, 17 August
Macmillan, Duncan, Hanging Together, The Scotsman, 16 August
Gale, Iain, Welcome to the spirit world, Sunday Herald, 14 August
Black, Catriona, An act of balancing, Sunday Herald, 14 August
Mottram, Jack, Claire Barclay, Sunday Herald, 7 August
Didcock, Barry, Claire Barclay: Foul Play, Sunday Herald, 7 August
2004
Carey-Thomas, Lizzie, Half-Light, Tate Britain, London, 3 July - 12 September
2003
Morton, Tom, Dark Matter, Frieze Magazine, Nov/Dec
2002
Blazick, Iwona, Interview with Claire Barclay, Whitechapel Gallery online, Summer
Wilson, Lucy, EU2, a-n for artists, November, p. 7
2000
Lind, Maria, Moderna Museet Projeckt, Sweden (catalogue)
McLaren, Duncan, The Independent, 30 April
Kyriacou, Sotiris, Art Monthly, May
McKee, Francis, Make, May
