Lives and works in London
1967 Born in Glasgow, Scotland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Matchmakers, Jenny’s, New York
2021
Playlife, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Wonder Workers, High Art, Paris
2019
Stars of the Source, Le Bourgeois, London
2018
Astrology and the City, Cell Projects, London
People Puzzle, Jan Kaps, Cologne
2015
London Foam, LONDON, London
Coup de Mall, Galeria Zero, Milan
2014
Syn, Tramway, Glasgow
P.A., Vilma Gold, London
2013
Calvinistic Girls, HIGH ART, Paris
The Manual xx, 0HI0, Glasgow
2011
Res Gestae, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2010
Silhouette Formulas, HOTEL, London
2009
In a Rotterdam Cell, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2008
It’s A British Sound, Sammlung Schürmann Berlin
Mood: Casual, Art Now - Tate Britain, London
2007
Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Space to Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2005
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
2003
Burlesque Schematic, HOTEL, London
2002
Damage (with works by William Copley), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Misery: The English, Centre d’Editions, Melbourne
2022
Thirst Trap, Rice, Leipzig
Drive Language Crazy, The Wig, Berlin
Comme Otto Dix, Saigon, Athens
Vype is now Vuse, Leech, London
Picpus, Dépendance Gallery, Paris & St. Martin Bookshop, Brussels
2021
This City Is, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
2020
Eight works from 2013, 2019, 2009, 1998, 2019, 2003, 2018, 1998, Wschód, Warsaw
Sphinx of black Quartz - Judge my Vow, Palfrey Gallery, London
well, well, well..., Sundy, London
Soft View/ Privatissime, Neuer Essener Kunstverein (NEK), Essen
The Vapours, curated by Kate Mackeson, Kunstraum Kesselhaus, Bamberg
2019
The person who is recording cannot intervene, curated by Ruth Pilston, Arcadia Missa, London
2018
Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, curated by Melanie Bühler, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
The Long Zoom, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
(a.) Orality; or a general assembly on delay, Jan Kaps, Cologne
2017
Pharmacy For Idiots, Tanya Leighton & Rob Tufnell (Okey Dokey 2017), Cologne
The Painting Show, The British Council / Aram Art Gallery, Goyang AramNuri Arts Centre, South Korea
I’m Nobody, HIGH ART, Paris
The Painting Show, The British Council / Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
All Men By Nature Desire to Know, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2016
Dio Horia, Mykynos, Greece
Dead Ends, (curated by Kari Rittenbach) 1001 44th Rd Long Island City, New York
Le Bourgeois, 3236RLS, London
The Painting Show, The British Council / CAC Vilnius, Lithuania
2015
Integration (with Matthew Richardson), Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Oeuvre Sans Valeur a Vendre Cher, Stems, Brussels
Gallery Artists, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2014
Let's Destroy the Earth But Keep Humans, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Somewhat Abstract : Selections From the Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2013
Attachments and Assignations, Cubitt, London
Note to Self, Artist's Institute, New York City
All Masters at the Swing Door, ReMap, Athens
Evil Under The Sun, Fiorucci Art Foundation, Stromboli, Italy
2012
Construct, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, NYC
2011
Space Oddity, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2010
BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux
Real Estate, Galleria Zero, Milan
Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2009
Depression, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
Why Painting Now?, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
White Wallet, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
2008
Sphinxx, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
Legend, Domain Chamarande, Paris
Ritual In The Dark, HOTEL, London (with Stephen Sutcliffe)
2007
Gallery Swap: HOTEL at Guido W. Baudach, Guido W. Baudach Galerie, Berlin
2006
If it Didn’t Exist You’d Have to Invent It: A Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London
2005
Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan
2004
Eye of The Needle, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Year Zero, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Souvenir, HOTEL, London
Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2003
The Moment of Fiction, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Put Out More Flags, Sutton Lane, London
Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael, The Changing Room, Stirling
2002
Alan Michael, Vangelis Vlahos, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Jean-Luc Blanc, Alan Michael, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2001
Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2000
Panache, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands
1999
Shake The Disease, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London