(1964- )
1964 Born in Aylesbury, Bukinghamshire, UK
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1984-87 BFA, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK (Hons.)
1983-84 MFA, Hertfordshire College of Art, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 MADRE–Museo d/Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy (Upcoming)
Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Light is no Brighter at the Centre, CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Were People This Dumb Before TV? A Curated Selection from the Graphic Archive
1990–2017, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Extended Soundtrack For A Lost Production Line: Ton und Film, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Liam Gillick: Campaign. An Exhibition in Four Moments, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
What’s What in A Mirror, Dublin City Gallery – The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
The Red Wood Pigeon Meets Some Meetings, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Stardust Expressions, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan
Phantom Structures, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
2015 All-Imitate-Act, Holland Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
All-Imitate-Act, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
Collection teaching area, CCS Bard College, New York, NY, USA
Liam Gillick, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels, Belgium
Four developments & a thought, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
The thought style meets the thought collective, Maureen Paley, London, UK
2014 Liam Gillick: Revenons à nos moutons, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
From 199C to 199D, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Complete Bin Development, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 Liam Gillick, Taru Naso, Tokyo, Japan
From Fredensborg to Halen via Loch Ruthven - Courtyard Housing Projections, HICA
(Highland Institute of Contemporary Art), UK
Margin Time 2 and Laguna Discussion Platform, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
November 1 - December 21, with Louise Lawler, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA
For the doors that are welded shut, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Cross//Roads, with Willie Birch, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College, New York, NY, USA
Five Structures and a Shanty, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea
2012 From 199A to 199B, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College,New York, NY, USA
Scorpion or Felix, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Scorpion and und et Felix, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA
Margin Time, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Agreements, McNamara and Lead Times, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan
Four Propositions Six Structures, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2011 Sit in the machine, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Sit on the machine, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
A Game of War Structure (site-specific work commissioned for IMMA), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2010 1848!!!, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
One long walk… Two short piers, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Seven Structures and Large Vodka Soda..., Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Everything Good Goes, Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Discussion Bench Platforms/A “Volvo” Bar + Everything Good Goes, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA
2009 Three perspectives and a short scenario, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Executive Two Litre GXL, MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Wall diagrams from the 1990s and early 2000s, House of Art, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
How are you going to behave? - A kitchen cat speaks, German Pavillion, La biennale di Venezia – 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice
Two Short Plays, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2008 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Kunstverein München, München, Germany
Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Fractional Factories in the Snow, Air de Paris, Paris, France
The State Itself Becomes A Super Whatnot, Casey Kaplan, New York, ,NY, USA
2007 The State/Commune Itself as a Super State/Commune, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium
The Commune Itself Becomes A Super State, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Weekend in So Show, The Lab at Belmar, Lakewood, CO, USA
Monument to Charles Fourier, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France
2006 The State Itself Becomes A Super Commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Literally Based On H.Z., Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Briannnnn & Ferryyyyy (w/ Philippe Parreno), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
We Are Medi(eval) (w/ Angela Bulloch), Cubitt Artists, London, UK
2005 As you approach the edge of town the lights are no softer than they were in the centre..., Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Briannnnn & Ferryyyyy (with Philippe Parreno), Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
Texte court sur la possibilité de créer une économie de l'équivalence, La Casa
Encendida, Madrid, Spain
McNamara Motel, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malága, Spain
Fabriken im Schnee..., Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Presentism, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Another 2004 Again, Baltimore Museum Of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
M/M (Paris), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Texte court sur la possibilité de creer une economie de l’equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Two Hundred and Twenty-Second Floor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Germany
2004 Övningskörning (Driving Practice Parts 1-30), Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Construccion de Uno, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
A Group of People, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Liam Gillick: Nineteenfortysixxisytrofneetenin, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
(Rider): Law & Creativity (w/ Philippe Parreno), Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2003 Hills and trays and..., Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
...punctuated everydays, Galerie Max Hetzler, Holzmarktstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Por Favor Gracias de Nada (with Gabriel Kuri), Kurimanzutto, México City, Mexico
Exterior Days, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA
Liam Gillick: Communes, Bars and Greenrooms, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Projects 79. Liam Gillick: Literally, MoMA QNS, New York, NY, USA
Liam Gillick, platform art, London Underground, in collaboration with Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
A Film, A Clip and a Documentary, (with Sean Dack), Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2002 The Wood Way, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Light Technique, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Liam Gillick, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2001 Firststepcousinbarprize, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Liam Gillick, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Liam Gillick, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Annlee You Proposes, Tate Britain, London, UK
Dedalic Convention, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna and Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2000 Applied Complex Screen, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Liam Gillick, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Liamm Gilllick. Themagazineofthe4thofMarch, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
Consultation Filter, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Schmerz in einem Gebäude, Fig 1, London, UK
Woody, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
Literally No Place, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Renovation Filter: Recent Past and Near Future, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Liam Gillick, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999 Liam Gillick, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Liam Gillick, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
David, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1998 Liam Gillick, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Up on the twenty-second floor, Air de Paris, Paris, France
When Purity Was Paramount, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic
Big Conference Center, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Irland
Liam Gillick, Robert Prime, London, UK
Révision: Liam Gillick, Villa Arson, Nice, France
When do we Need More Tractors? Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
The Trial of Pol Pot (with Philippe Parreno), Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Liam Gillick, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
1997 Discussion Island, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Discussion Island - A What If? Scenario Report, Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany
A House in Long Island, FORDE, Espace d'art contemporain, L'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
Another Shop in Tottenham Court Road, Transmission Gallery, London, UK
McNamara Papers, Erasmus and Ibuka! Realisations, The What If? Scenarios, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Reclutamento!, Gallery Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
1996 Erasmus is Late ‘versus’ The What If? Scenario, Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany
Liam Gillick, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The What If? Scenario, Robert Prime, London, UK
Documents (with Henry Bond), Schipper & Krome, Cologne, Germany
1995 Ibuka! (Part 1), Air de Paris, Paris, France
Ibuka! (Part 2), Kuenstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Ibuka! Galerie Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Part Three, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Documents (with Henry Bond), Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany
1994 McNamara, Schipper & Krome, Cologne, Germany
Documents, (with Henry Bond), Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland
Liam Gillick, Interim Art, London, UK
1993 Documents, (with Henry Bond), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
An Old Song and a New Drink, (with Angela Bulloch), Air de Paris, Paris, France
1992 McNamara, Hog Bikes and GRSSPR, Air de Paris, Nice, France
1991 Documents, (with Henry Bond), Karsten Schubert Ltd, London, UK
Documents, (with Henry Bond), A.P.A.C., Nevers, France
Documents, (with Henry Bond), Gio’ Marconi, Milan, Italy
1989 84 Diagrams, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London, UK
AWARDS
2008 The Vincent Award Nomination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002 Turner Prize Nomination, London, UK
1998 Paul Cassirer Award, Berlin, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) France
Le Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) France
Musée des Beaux Arts et d’archéologie, Besançon, France
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Foundation Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Korea
Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany
Museum der Angewandten Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria
Mamco, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Fundación Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
FER Collection, Laupheim, Germany
Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria