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Liam Gillick

Born 1964, Aylesbury, U.K.,
lives and works in London and New York.


EDUCATION
1983/84 Hertfordshire College of Art
1984/87 Goldsmiths College, University of London, B.A. (Hons.)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008   
Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Kunsthalle, Zurich
The State Itself Becomes a Super Whatnot, Casey Kaplan, New York
Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Kunstverein, München

2007  
Weekend in So Show, The Lab, Belmar
The commune itself becomes a super state, Corvi-Mora, London
The state/commune itself becomes a super state/commune, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

2006   
We are Medi(evil), Angela Bulloch and Liam Gillick, Cubitt, London
Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Kunsthalle Zurich
Literally Based on HZ, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
The State itself becomes a super commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin

2005   
222nd Floor, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
A short essay on the possibility of an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Another 2004 Again, Baltimore Museum of Art
Presentism, Corvi-Mora, London
Factories in the snow, Meyer Kainer, Vienna
McNamara Motel, CAC Malaga, Spain
A short essay on the possibility of an economy of equivalence, Casa Encendida, Madrid
As you approach the edge of town the lights are no softer than they were in the centre, Casey Kaplan, New York

2004   
Construccion de Uno, Javier Lopez, Madrid
A Group of People, Air de Paris, Paris
Liam Gillick, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Övningskörning (Driving Practice), Milwaukee Art Museum
Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp   


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008
Images: A spike magazine project, Forde, Geneva
Mixed Emotions, Domus Atrium, Salamanca
Lapdogs of the Bougoisie, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
MAXImin, A century of abstraction, Fondacion Juan March, Madrid
KW Hommage à Klaus Werner, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig
The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Cube Passerby, Passerby, New York
Typed, Sadie Coles, London
Fantasy, MuKHA, Antwerp
Book/Shelf, MoMA, New York
This is the gallery and the gallery is many things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Tuplis and Roses, The Store, Vilnus
Blasted Allegories: Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
The Sydney Biennale, Sydney
Call it what you like, Art Center Silkeborg Bad
No so subtle subtitle, Casey Kaplan, New York
Vincent Award, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Private/Corporate V,  Haus Huth, Berlin
Mondo e Terra, FRAC Corse
Shapes of Space 2, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga
Theanyspacewhatever, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Branding Democracy, New School, New York

2007   
Lapdogs of the Bourgoisie, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Active Constellation, Brno House of Art
Collateral: When Art Looks at Cinema, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Los Vinilos, El Basilico, Buenos Aires
Models for Tommorow: Cologne, EU Kunsthalle, Köln
Pure, Sean Kelly, New York
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Redistribution of the Sensible, Galerie Magnus Muller, Berlin
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London
If Everybody Had an Ocean, Tate, St. Ives
Trajectory 4: AKA Institute of Contemporary Art, Old Harbour, Riga
How to improve the world, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Intocable (El ideal de la transparencia), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Valladolid
It starts from here, De La Warr Pavillion
Edition Schellmann Door Cycle, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
All You Desire, PPOW, New York
Other Men’s Flowers, Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York
Franchise, Assen
I can’t live without, The Showroom, London
L’ottava Tavola: An Etymology of Contemporary Codes, Cortona
The Showroom Talks, The Showroom, London
Fourier, Centre d’art mobile, Besançon
If Everybody Had an Ocean, CAPC, Bordeaux
Floating Territories, Various Locations (Venice, Istanbul…)
Projektion, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Franz West: Soufflé, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Tomorrow is Another Day, Artsonje, Seoul
Eva Presenhuber/Jubilee Exhibition, Vnà
If everybody had an ocean, CAPC, Bordeaux
Fusion Now! More light, more power, more people, Rokerby Gallery
Winter Palace, de Aterliers, Amsterdam
Xmas Hysteria, Galerie Emi Fontana, Milan


AWARDS
1998 Paul Cassirer Kunstpreis, Berlin
2002 Turner Prize Nomination, Tate, London
2008 Vincent Award Nomination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam


LIVE EVENTS
2006 Construcción de Uno, Tate, London


BOOKS
1991 Technique Anglaise (with Andrew Renton), London, One-Off Press/Thames & Hudson
1995 Erasmus is Late, London, Book Works
1995 Ibuka!, Stuttgart, Kunstlerhaus                  
1997 Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre, Derry/Ludwigsburg, Orchard Gallery, Kunstverein
1998 Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2000 auf 1997 (with Matthew Brannon), Leipzig, Galerie für Zetigennössische Kunst
1999 Five or Six, New York, Lukas & Sternberg
2002 Literally No Place, London, Book Works
2004 Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), Brussels/Dijon, Les maitre des forme contemporain, Les Presses du Réel
2004 Anna Sanders Films Identity Spot, Liam Gillick and Sean Dack, Onestar Press, Paris
2006 Malaga – An album of Covers, Liam  Gillick and M/M, Paris, Brussels, Two Star  Books
2006 Le Montrachet, Liam Gillick and Heather McGowan, Los Angeles, Rocky Point Press

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