(Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)
Born: 1968, Macclesfield, UK
Lives and works in Brighton, England
Education
1988-91
Glasgow School of Art, BA Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions (selected)
2024
People reveal themselves slowly, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
David Shrigley & Tal R, The Notebook, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2022
Proposals for Record Covers, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
Sayaka Murata’s Utopias—Violence and the Structure of Normality: David Shrigley & Teppei Kaneuji in dialogue with Murata’s worldview, Gyre, Tokyo, Japan (two-person)
Before the Lawn Takes its Revenge…, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
MAYFAIR TENNIS BALL EXCHANGE, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2020
CLARITY: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Do Not Touch the Worms, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
Fond Memories of Giant Bug, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2019
Kindness: Prints & Drawings by David Shrigley, Newstead Abbey Historic House & Gardens, Nottinghamshire, England
Do it (do not do it), Museo de arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
David Shrigley: To Be of Use, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, USA
Exhibition of Inflatable Swan Things and Other Things, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fluff War, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
David Shrigley, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
2018
Lose Your Mind, British Council, Power Station of Art & Design, Shanghai, China (touring, catalogue)
Exhibition of Inflatable Swan Things, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
David Shrigley: Laughterhouse, Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Athens, Greece
David Shrigley: Life Model II, Fabrica, Brighton, England
David Shrigley, Sketch, London, England
2017
New Drawings, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Skip Gallery, London, England
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
Problem Guitars, Anton Kern Gallery, Independent New York, USA
2016
Lose Your Mind, British Council, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico; MAC, Santiago, Chile; Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul and Art Tower Mito, Japan (touring, catalogue)
Really Good, The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, England
Memorial, Public Art Fund commission, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, England
Drawings and Paintings, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
Colourful Works on Paper, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Song For The Rat, BQ, Berlin, Germany
Prix Canson 2016, Drawing Center, New York, USA
2015
David Shrigley, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Light Switch, Glow Winter Arts Festival, Third Drawer Down, Melbourne, Australia
David Shrigley, La Batie, Festival de Geneve, Bibliotheque Municipale De La Cite, Geneva, Switzerland
Lose Your Mind, British Council, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico (touring, catalogue)
2014
David Shrigley, Sketch, London, England
David Shrigley: Life and Life Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Drawing, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Life Model, The Young Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Life Model, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Peanut Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Big Shoes, BQ, Berlin, Germany
Signs, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Turner Prize, Derry ~ Londonderry, UK
2012
Animations, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
How Are You Feeling?, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
David Shrigley, Bradford 1 Gallery, Bradford, England
Drawings, Mumbai Art Rooms, Mumbai, India
Arms Fayre, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery, London, England; touring to Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Beginning, Middle and End, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011
Insects, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Animate, Turku Art Museum, Finland
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
BQ, Berlin, Germany
2010
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Frieze Art Fair, London, England
M Museum, Leuven, Belgium
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2009
David Shrigley New Works, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Powers, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
David Shrigley, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Fumetto, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
David Shrigley, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2008
David Shrigley, Monotypien, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Jonathan Monk & David Shrigley Corroborative Paintings, Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
David Shrigley, books, prints and ephemeras, Christoph Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2007
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Everything Must Have a Name, Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
To the Wall: David Shrigley with Lily Van der Stokker, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Monotypes, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
David Shrigley: Recent Prints, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
David Shrigley, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Fish, Frogs, Men, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Photographs With Text On Them, BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
I’m Exhausted, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
2003
Antidepressants, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Billboard Commission, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London, England
2002
Camden Arts Centre, London, travelling to Mappin Gallery, Sheffield FRAC, Bretagne, France
Musée 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, England
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, England
1998
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997
CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1996
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland
The Contents of the Gap…, Luxus Cont.e. V, Glasgow, Scotland
The Contents of the Gap ... Luxus Cont.e.V, Berlin, Germany
1995
Map of the Sewer, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Murmuration, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England
2023
NGV Triennial 2023, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Middlesborough Art Week: Measure, Middlesbrough, England
Visual Language: The Art of Protest, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022
The Horror Show!, Somerset House, London, England
A Perfect Day, NDSM Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Part 4: Lumen Quarterly 2022 Spring, DRIVE Space, Coachangdi Art Village, Beijing, China
2021
Joy: On Happiness, The Wellcome Collection, London, England
Earth Beats - The changing face of nature, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Where we are now, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland, England
SKIP Gallery’s Bums, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Grayson’s Art Club, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
2020
Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark (catalogue)
My Name is Not Refugee, Firstsite, Colchester, England
Figure Up, BCMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
State of the Arts, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
2019
Lines from Scotland, St Andrews Museum, Fife, Scotland; touring to Dunfermlines Carnegie Library & Galleries, Dunfermline, Scotland
Drawn World: Drawings from Menzel to Warhol, Galerie Ludorff, Germany
Playmode, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
Stance & Fall: A Wavering World, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Dog Show, CGP London: The Gallery & Dilston Grove, London, England
There’ll Never be a Door You’re Inside: Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
The Lie of the Land, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England
The Stage is Yours, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2018
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Here & Now, Peter Harrington Gallery, London, England
TYPE, Hang-Up Gallery, London, England
Collaborationism, Peter Harrington Gallery, London, England
BRIT ART, Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London, England
Sweats & Tears, Saasfee Pavilion, Berlin, Germany
And I Will Take You To Paradise, Kunstmuseet Kube, Ålesund, Norway
2017
Partizipation Als Künstlerisches Prinzip, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, England, England
You Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Hang-Up Gallery Collections 2017, Hang-Up Gallery, London, England
JUMP, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
News/Prints, International Print Centre, New York, USA
Donde Esta La Playa? The Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2016
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Toulouse International Art Festival, Toulouse, France
Alice in Crisis, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Found, Foundling Museum, London, England
The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason 1945 to the present, Dovecot Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Joia De Artista, Galeria Bergamin Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil
720, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Problem In Toulouse, Institut Supérieur Des Arts De Toulouse, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
2015
I Dropped the Lemon Tart, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, USA
Eyes on the Prize, The Travelling Gallery in association with Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
All Of Us Have a Sense of Rhythm, David Robert’s Art Foundation, London, England
Drawing Now: 2015, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Below Another Sky, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
Idiot Box, Kate MacGarry, London, England
Devils in the Making, Gallery Of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2014
Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; touring to Itami City Museum of Art & The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi; Japan and Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
ARCHIVE FEVER!, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Below another sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Reclaimed: The Second Life of Sculpture, The Briggait, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
More Than This, Theodore: Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, England
2013
Old School Anachronism in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Fourth Plinth Commission, The Crypt, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England
Lightness of Being, Public Art Fund, New York, USA
The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, USA
Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich, England
The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan, USA
Homelands, British Council Touring Exhibition, curated by Latika Gupta; travelling to Delhi; Kolkata; Mumbai; Bengaluru, India
SUPER Visions – Drawing and Being, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Turquoise Heid, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012
What are you like?, House of Illustration, Holburne Museum, Bath, England
A Parliament of Lines, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Punkt-Systeme, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Curators Series 5, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England
A Perfect Day, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musique Plastique, agnès b. Galerie Boutique, New York, USA
Mothers, Contemporary Art Space Chester, Chester, England
Zoo, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
Adventureland Golf, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
Danish and International Art after 1900, Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, København K, Demark
Sous influences, arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2011
Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, The Roundhouse, London, England; touring to Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
You seem the same as always, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
Placement, Oriel Mostyn, Wales
Relax in Peace, Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland
Ceramic Connections: Wales & Scotland, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
Clap, Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Ein tierisches Vergnügen, Sommerköln 2010, Cologne, Germany
Rude Britannia, Tate Britain, London, England
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
The More I Draw, Museum Fur Gegenwartkunst, Siegen, Germany
The Drawing Room, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Facemaker, Royal/T, Culver City, California, USA
Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, England
A Sense of Humor, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
Best of Wonderland, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Than a T-shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Grin & Bear It: Cruel humour in Art and Life, Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
While we are waiting, Gallery Artists, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fumetto, International Comix Festival, Kornschutte, Lucerne Town Hall, Switzerland
Born in the Morning. Dead by Night, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA
Slightly Unbalanced, Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Consider the Lobster (w/Rachel Harrison), Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, USA
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Connected Things Collected, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
Individualdiagnose, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne Animated, Centre d ́Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
BLACK HOLE, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx / Mallorca, Spain
2008
Fuck You Human, Maribel López Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Life on Mars - 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, Curated by Douglas Fogle
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Lots of Things Like This, apexart, New York, USA
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Overkill, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
Irony and Gesture, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Order, Desire, Light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Contemplating Modern Art, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbruch, Germany
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, England
Momentary Momentum, Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, London; touring to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2008)
Comix, Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paper Trails, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Spank The Monkey, Baltic, Gateshead, England
Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, England
Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall, England
Under Gods Hammer: William Blake versus David Shrigley, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA
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, USA
Defamation of Character, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Old News, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2005
Situation Comedy, MCA, Chicago, USA
Emotion Pictures, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Drawings: A-Z, Funchal, Portugal
2004
splat! boom! pow!, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Britannia Works, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
The Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Living Dust, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England
About Corporeality, Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
EU3, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Sanctuary, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
The Cat Show, Acme, Los Angeles, USA
Knockabout, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Square Show, Bloomberg SPACE, London, England
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, England
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
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, Edinburgh (touring to Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham) (catalogue)
Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, England, (touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England and CCA, Glasgow, Scotland) (catalogue)
One in the Other, London, England (with Ewan Gibbs)
Personal History, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England (touring) (catalogue)
Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1999
Love Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
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), England
GREEN, Exedra (Foundation for Contemporary Art), Hilversum, Netherlands
Plug In, Salon 3, London, England
Word enough to save a life, Word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, London, England
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, England
Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
Surfacing–Contemporary Drawing, ICA, London, England
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, Scotland
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, England
Biscuit Barrel, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, England
1996
Sarah Staton Superstore, Up & Co, New York, USA
Absolut Blue and White, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Unbelievable Truth, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Fucking Biscuits and Other Drawings, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Big Girl/Little Girl, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
White Hysteria, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Toons, Gallerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark
Upset, James Colman Fine Art, London, England
1995
Scottish Autumn, Bartok 23 Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
1994
Some of My Friends, Gallerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
In Here, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Other Projects
2023
Pulped Fiction, Swansea, Wales
2020
Artist Carte Blanche, Ruinart Champagne
2018
Guest Director, Brighton Festival, Brighton, England
2016
London: Everyone Welcome, poster for Art on the Underground, Transport for London Contemporary Art Programme
2013
“Bubblesplatz” - A Space Called Public, Elmgreen & Dragset artistic project, Promenadeplatz, Munich, Germany
Secret 7 Project, Royal College of Art, London, England
Below another sky, The Scottish Print Network, Scotland
2011
Week-End Festival, Cologne, Germany
Sort of Opera: Pass the Spoon (In collaboration with David Fennessy and Nicholas Bone, featuring a live music played by the Red Note Ensemble), The Tramway, Glasgow; touring to Southbank Centre, London, England
Publications and Catalogues (selected)
2022
Get Your Shit Together, Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, USA
2021
David Shrigley: A Retrospective, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Earth Beats: The changing face of nature, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2020
Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2016
Animals, published on the occasion of David Shrigley: Lose Your Mind, British Council, London, England
2015
20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Lose Your Mind, British Council, London, England
2014
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations, Canongate Books, London, England
David Shrigley: Life and Life Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2012
David Shrigley: Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Relax in Peace, JRP Ringier, Hard Hat, Genever, Switzerland
2011
Fragments of Torn Up Drawings, BQ, Berlin, Germany
2010
What the Hell Are You Doing, Canongate Books, London, England
2009
Red Book, Redstone Press, London, England
2008
Grip (New Edition), Redstone Press, London, England
Man in a Room, Blue Q, USA
Hand, BQ, Cologne, Germany
2007
David Shrigley, Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Ants Have Sex In Your Beer, Redstone Press/Chronicle
Worried Noodles, 104 pages, Tomlab, Cologne, Germany (Box Set with 2 CDs)
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
Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others, Azuli, London (spoken word recording 12” Vinyl & CD), England
Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve), Tomlab, Cologne, Germany
2005
The Book of Shrigley, Redstone Press/Chronicle Books, London, England
Photographs with Text, BQ Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Worried Noodles-The Empty Sleeve, Tomlab, Cologne, Germany
2004
Kill Your Pets, Revolver, Frankfurt/ Redstone Press, London, England
Blocked Path, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
It is It, Nieves, Zurich, Switzerland
Let’s Wrestle, Redstone Press, London, England
Rules, Redstone Press, London, England (book of postcards)
2003
Yellow Bird With Worm, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Who I Am and What I Want, Redstone Press, London, England
Leotard, BQ, Cologne, Germany
Joy, Redstone Press, London, England (book of postcards)
Evil Thoughts, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, USA (book of postcards)
Human Achievement, The Redstone Press, London, England
2002
Recent Developments in British Photography and Video, British Council, London, England
Evil Thoughts, 24 Postcards, The Redstone Press, London, England
David Shrigley, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; travelling to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
David Shrigley, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
2001
The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations, The British Council and Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Do not bend, The Redstone Press, London, England
Collaboration with Yoshitomo Nara in Bijutsu Techo
2000
Weekly cartoon in the Independent on Sunday
Grip, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh, Scotland
Why we got the sack from the Museum, The Redstone Press, London, England
Blank Page and Other Pages, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Hard Work, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
1999
The Beast is Near, Redstone Press, London, England (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, Scotland
Why We Got the Sack From The Museum, Redstone Press, London, England (Reprinted 2002)
1997
Public Relations-New British Photography, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
1996
Err, Book Works, London, England (Reprinted 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003)
Drawings Done Whilst On The Phone To Idiot, The Armpit Press, Glasgow, Scotland
Let Not these Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
1995
Enquire Within, The Armpit Press, Glasgow, Scotland
1994
Blanket of Filth, The Armpit Press, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
Merry Eczema, Black Rose, Glasgow, Scotland
The Bloodied Spear
1991
Slug Trails, Black Rose, Glasgow, Scotland
Magazine Projects (selected)
2007
Art World Magazine, Issue II, December, Insert
2005-2009
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
Commissions/Awards (selected)
2016
Memorial, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA
Really Good, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, England
2013
Nominee for the 2013 Turner Prize, London, England
Shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, London, England
2011
High Line Art (commissioned billboard), New York, USA
2006
Winner of Tiger Short Film Award at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival, The Netherlands (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Public Choice Best Film Award at the British Animation Awards, United Kingdom (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Best Animated Film at Kino Int. Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Best Comedy Film at Stuttgart Int. Animation Film Festival, Germany (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Special Mention at Granada Int. Film Festival, Spain (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Best Animated Film at the Wood Green Int. Film Festival, United Kingdom (for Who I am and what I want)
Winner of Public Choice Award at Ann Arbor Int. Film Festival, USA (for Who I am and what I want)
1999
BMW Financial Services Group Photographic Calendar Project, London, England
Public Collections
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Arts Council Collection, London, England
The British Council, London, England
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tate, London, England
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria