Jim Lambie
Works
Biography
Bibliography
Previous Shows
Born 1964 in Glasgow
Lives and works in Glasgow
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
La scala, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Derrick Alexis Coard, Glasgow International, Project Ability gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow (Installed in collaboration with Jim Lambie)
Electrolux, The Modern Institute, 14—20 Osborne Street, Glasgow
2015
Jim Lambie – Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Train in Vein, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Sun Rise Sun Ra Sun Set, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2014
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Answer Machine, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Barrowland Park, Glasgow
2013
The Flowers of Romance, Pearl Lam, Hong Kong
2012
Shaved Ice, The Modern Institute Aird's Lane, Glasgow
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin (Gallery Weekend Berlin)
you drunken me - Jim Lambie in collaboration with Richard Hell, Arch Six, Glasgow
Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Franco Noero Gallery, Torino
2011
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Project B, Milan
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Beach Boy, Pier Art Centre, Orkney
2010
Jim Lambie - Boyzilian, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Sadie Coles HQ, Paris
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2009
Television, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Jim Lambie : Selected Works 1996 - 2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Atelier Hermes, Seoul
2008
Rowche Rumble, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Jim Lambie – Forever Changes, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Kunst in Deinem Stadtviertel: Jim Lambie, Museion, Bozano
RSVP: Jim Lambie, MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Festival Secret Affair, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Eight Miles High, ACCA, Melbourne
Unknown Pleasures, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2007
'The Prismatics', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006
'Jim Lambie', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Directions– Jim Lambie', Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
'P.I.L.', Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2005
'The Byrds', The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Shoulder Pad,' Sadie Coles HQ, London
'Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2004
'My Boyfriend's Back', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
'Mental Oyster', Anton Kern, New York
'Grand Funk', OPA, Mexico
'Mars Hotel', Franco Noero, Sonia Rosso, Turin
Konrad Fisher, Dusseldorf
2003
'Male Stripper', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
'Kebabylon', Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2002
'Acid Trails', Basel/Miami Beach Art Fair, The Modern Institute
The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece
'Salon Unisex', Sadie Coles HQ, London
2001
'Boy Hairdresser', Anton Kern, New York City
Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Blank Generation', Jack Hanley, San Francisco
2000
Konrad Fisher, Dusseldorf
Triangle, Paris
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
1999
'Weird Glow', Sadie Coles HQ, London
'Voidoid', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'ZOBOP', The Showroom Gallery, London
1998
'Ultralow', The Modern Institute video screening Carnival, Soho, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Gallery
Generosity. The Art of Giving, National Gallery of Prague, Prague
Jennifer Herrema & Jim Lambie, VoidoidARCHIVE, Glasgow
Artistic Differences, Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), London
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh
The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, Rob Tufnell, Cologne
12th East Wing Biennial- Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, London
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2015
Platform, Holden Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Curves of the Needle, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Curves of the Needle, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Color Fields, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Music palace. The power of music seen by visual artist, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
Ein Quadrat ist ein Quadrat ist ein Quadrat, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Andy Warhol sul comò, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genes
Sleepless – The Bed in history and contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna
A Secret Affair, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Below Another Sky, British Council, London, British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Devils in the Making, GOMA, Glasgow
Misappropriations: New Acquisitions’, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
A man walks into a bar. . . ., me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
2014
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Itami City Museum Of Art, Itami; Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; The Museum Of Art, Kochi
You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney Biennale, Sydney
That Petrol Emotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut
Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
What is contemporary in contemporay art?, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
Below Another Sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, curated by Phong Bui, 220 West 18th Street, New York
On the Devolution of Culture, 83 Page Street, London
Archive Fever!, The Clay and Glass Gallery, Ontario
Contort Yourself, curated by The Modern Institute, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
A Sense of Things, Zabludowicz Collection London, London
2013
You Are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney Biennale, Sydney
My Crippled Friend, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus
Freedom Not Genius: Works From Damien Hirst's Collection, MAMM Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Something about a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Pop! Pop!! Pop!!!, Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Something about a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
40/40, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art
The Humors, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Something About a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (Curated by Linda Yablonsky)
Pull Down The Future, SWG3, Glasgow (A Collaborative Exhibition Lawrence & Jim Lambie)
Out of the House, Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
2012
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair
Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection', Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
AKA PEACE, ICA, London
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg (Curated by Gerold Miller)
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles
2011
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent
CCA Andratx, Colección Art Foundation Mallorca 2011 - Obras Destacadas y Últimas Adquisiciones, KUNSTHALLE - CCA Andratx, Andratx
Lustwarande-Raw 11, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Kent
Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin
Private/Corporate VI, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Space Oddity, curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx, Andratx
Dublin Contemporary 2011, St. Stephen’s Green House, Dublin
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong
Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2010
Highlights From The Collection, Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas
The Adventure of Reality International Realism, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
The New Decor, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow
Mixtapes : Popular Music in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Bilder über Bilder, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna
Permanent Trouble - Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, KOG - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
SHAZAM!, c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London
What matters, Worcester Art Museum, Worchester
Party!, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
Undone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
British Council Collection: The Third Dimension, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
FLOWER POWER, Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
OFF THE WALL, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City
Le sang d’un poète, Hanger à bananes, ïle de Nantes, Nantes
Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh,
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Beg Borrow and Steel, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
minimal funktional - Highlights aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Design, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA, New York
Musical Paintings, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
FILMS, (screening of Ultralow), Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Local, SWG3, Glasgow International 2008, Glasgow
’Towada Art Project’, Towada Art Centre, Towada
’Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – Sammlung als Aleph’, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
MAXImin, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
’Gravity. Colección Ernesto Esposito’, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo
’Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, Barbican, London
’Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
is it tomorrow yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
Long Distance Information, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka
2007
'Reconstruction 2', Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
'Melting Pot', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
'Breaking Step', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
'Half Square, Half Crazy', Villa Arson, Nice
'Off the Wall', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Wild West, recommended Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Da Bauhaus (Agora!), Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, São Paulo
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York
Collectors 1 – Collezione La Gaia, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION – Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano
Out of Art, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre dArt, Biel/Bienne
Substance & Surface, Bortolami, New York
Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Passion Complex – Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – Kanazawa, Kanazawa
Fit To Print: Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City
2006
'All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
’In the darkest hour there may be light', Serpentine Gallery, London
'JaGGy-edge', The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland
'Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires', Ancient & Modern, London
'How to Improve the World, British Art 1946–2006', Hayward Gallery, London
'Life’s a Beach', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
'abstract art now – strictly geometrical?', Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
'Strange Powers', Creative Time, New York
'IMPLOSION', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden/Total Damage', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
'If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history', The Showroom, London
Off the Wall: Floor and Ceiling-based works from the Collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
In the darkest hour there may be light, Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, Essex
This Is Not For You. Diskurse der Skulptur, T-B A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Good Vibrations – Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
2005
'The Turner Prize' (nominee), Tate Britain, London
'Experiencing Duration', Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art
'Omaggio al Quadrato', Franco Noero, Turin
'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
Know what they mean?, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
8e Biennale de Lyon – Expérience de la durée – Experiencing Duration, La biennale dart contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Camera fissa, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
2004
54th Carnegie International Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
'From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink', Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
'Collage', Bloomberg SPACE, London
'Brand New and Retro', UP Projects, The Empire
'Synth', Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
'Ouroboros', CCA, Glasgow
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, ZKM, Karlsruhe
'Stalemate', MCA, Chicago
'Into My World', Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey
four color pen show, Locust Projects, Miami
Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Drunk Vs. Stoned, Gavin Browns Enterprise GBE modern, New York
How Sculptors See, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Four Rooms, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
lastwinterspringnevercame, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2003
'Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future', MCA, Chicago
'ZENOMAP', Venice Biennalle 'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
'Love Over Gold', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
'The Moderns', Castello di Rivoli, Turin
'I Got Ants in My Pants', Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
'Cut Out', Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
'Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Days Like These – Tate Triennial', Tate Britain, London
'Painting Not Painting', Tate St Ives, UK
'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
'The Fourth Sex', Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence
'OUTLOOK', Benaki Museum, Athens
'Plunder, Culture as Material', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
'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
'Silver Convention', Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
'The Unhomely', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Grayscale/CMYK', Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Unplugged, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Group Show – Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
New Space! Group Show!, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
2002
'VIP', Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
'EU2', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
'Greyscale/CMYK', Tramway, Glasgow
'New', Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
'Early One Morning', Whitechapel Gallery, London
'Jim Jonathan Kenny Frances and Sol', Stedlijk Bureau, Amsterdam
'Electric Dreams', Barbican Gallery, London
'Hello My Name Is ...', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
'There is a Light That Will Never Go Out', Galleria Sonia Rosso
'My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love', Charlottenbourg Museum, Copenhagen
'Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain', Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
'Superlounge', Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, New York
'Life is Beautiful', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Tailsliding – Young and upcomig British Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku
2001
'Here and Now', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
'Between Object and Arabesque', Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik
'Funktional Fictional', Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
'Tailsliding', British council touring show, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius
'Silhouettes', Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Third Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, LACE – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
»songs of love and hate – side a«, galerie wieland, Berlin
Fresh – The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998–2000, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
2000
'Electric City', The Lighthouse, Glasgow
'Off the Record', Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania
'Raumkörper', Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles, Hoxton St, London
'Parking Meters', Cologne
'Heart and Soul', Los Angeles
'What If', Moderna Museet, Stockholm
'The British Art Show 5', Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton
Mark Selwyn, Los Angeles
'Black Gloss', Anton Kern, New York
'Dream Machines', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mapin Gallery, Camden Arts Centre
1999
Matthew Higgs @ Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
'Papermake', Modern Art Inc., London
'Creeping Revolution', Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
‘To be continued ...', Walsall Public Projects, England
'Dots and Loops', MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam
'Heart and Soul', 60 Long Lane, London
'The Queen is Dead', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
'Silk purse', Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, England
1998
'Lovecraft', Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
'All or Nothing', La Friche Gallery (Triangle) Marseille, France
'Slant6', Jacob Javit's Center, New York
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London
’Host', Tramway, Glasgow
'Two Up', Property Gallery, Glasgow
1997
'This is ... These are', Norwich, England
'European Couples and Others', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1996
'The World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow
'Brain Mail', Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Los Angeles
'Girls High', Fruitmarket Galley, Edinburgh
'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Cubitt St., London
'Sick building', Globe gallery, Copenhagen
'insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow
'Art for People', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'Kilt ou Double', La Vigie Gallery, Nîmes, France
1995
'In Stereo', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie', Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
'Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie', 115 Dalriada, Glasgow
Residencies / Commissions / Awards / Activities
2006
Menswear Fall 2006 show, Louis Vuitton, Paris
2003
BBC Underground 2003 Award
2000
Triangle, New York, (residency)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists
1998
Triangle, Marseilles, (residency)
British Council award toward residency at Triangle, Marseille, France