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DOUGLAS GORDON | SELECTED WORKS | ARTISTS INFORMATION
DOUGLAS GORDON
 

 
Biography

1966                 Born in Glasgow, Scotland
1984-1988         Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1988-1990         The Slade School of Art, London

Lives and works in Glasgow and New York


 
Solo Exhibitions

2009
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2008
Collection Lambert, Avignon

2007   
Gagosian Gallery, New York, self-portrait of you + me, after the factory
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, Douglas Gordon
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Douglas Gordon

2006   
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, superhumanatural
Patrick Painter INC, Los Angeles, Black and White (Babylon)
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Mart), Trento, Italy,
Prettymucheverwordwritten, spoken, heard, overheardfrom 1989…
Gagosian Gallery, New York, Self-Portraits of You + Me
National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Museo d’Arte Moderne e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Timeline
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires-Colección Constantini 
Galería Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, The Rules of the Game
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, What do you want me to say? I am already dead
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2005   
Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England, Croque-Mort
Lisson Gallery, London,

2004   
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Fog

2003   
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Blind Star
Q Gallery, Derby, England, Spotlight on Douglas Gordon
Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), Play Dead; Real Time
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 24 Hour Psycho

2002   
Hayward Gallery, London, What Have I Done?
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Confessions of a Justified Sinner
6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sleeper
University of Brighton Gallery, England, What you want me to say

2001   
The Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, Douglas Gordon
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada,
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Meeting House Square, Dublin, Feature Film
Lisson Gallery, London,
Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), Thirteen
Twentynine Palms, California, Five Year Drive-By
K21 Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf

2000   
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, You’ll get a bang out of this
Tate Liverpool, England, black spot
ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sheep and Goats
The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Double Cross
Yvon Lambert, Paris, croque-morts
Deste Foundation, Athens, Monument for X

1999   
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland, pretty much….
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Gagosian Gallery, New York (SoHo), through  a looking glass
DIA Center for the Arts, New York, Stan Douglas and Douglas Gordon: Double Vision
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Harmony
Atlantis Gallery, London, Feature Film
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Feature Film
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cinéma Max Linder, Paris

1998   
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, Douglas Gordon, Works
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Brunswick St. Glasgow GI, Glasgow, empire, a public work by Douglas Gordon
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Dia Center for the Art, New York

1997   
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium
Münster Skulptur Projekte, Münster
Gandy Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, Douglas Gordon
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 5 Year Drive-By
Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany, Leben nach dem Leben nach dem Leben…
Côté-Rue - Yvon Lambert, Paris

1996   
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillion, Montpellier, Douglas Gordon & Rirkrit Tiravanija
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 24 Hour Psycho
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden, …head
Galleria Bonomo (part of British Art Festival), Rome
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, raise the dead
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Galerie Walchenturm, Zurich, words & pictures
museum in progress, Vienna, Cinema is dead
Tate Gallery, London, The Turner Prize 1996
DIA Center for the Arts, New York

1995   
Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany, Bad Faith
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, The End
the Agency, London, Douglas Gordon/Graham Gussin, Jukebox
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Entr’Acte 3
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fuzzy Logic
Rooseum Espresso, Malmö, Sweden

1994   
Lisson Gallery, London

1993   
Tramway, Glasgow, 24  Hour Psycho
Kunst-Werke, Berlin, 24 Hour Psycho
ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Migrateurs

1991   
Orpheus Gallery, Belfast, Roderick Buchanan/Douglas Gordon

1988   
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 40 years
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, From Cradle to grave
4th Avenue Festival, Arnheim, Netherlands
Midland Street Car Park, Glasgow, Scotland, The Puberty Institution
N.R.L.A. @ Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, The Puberty Institution: Refuse – consumption –
decay – survival

1987   
Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland, Experiments under Nostalgia’s Umbrella
Riverside Studios, London, N.R.L.A.


 
Group Exhibitions

2008
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2007   
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Horowitz
House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland, Jubilee Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery, London (Britannia Street), Pop Art is…
Whitney Museum, New York, Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ flims for the cinema

2006   
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, Into Me/Out of Me
Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Surprise, Surprise

2005
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Body: New Art from the UK
The Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada
Oakville Galleries, Ontario
Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
Art Gallery Nova Scotia
Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark, Skyggen: The Shadow
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, Bidibidobidiboo
Haunch of Venison, London, Changes of Mind: Belief and Transformation
51st Venice Biennale, Lisson Gallery, Venice, Italy, God is Great
Tilton Gallery, New York, Celebrate: 22 Years
Glasgow International, Scotland
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, La Beauté de l’Enfer
Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, Evergreen
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, What’s New Pussycat?
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Logan Galleries, San Francisco, CA, Irreducible:
Contemporary Short Form Video
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Baby Shower
Sutton Lane, London, Reflection Part 2 (Self-Reflection)

2004   
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today
Castello Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
James Cohan Gallery, New York, Realm of the Senses
North Miami Museum Contemporary Art, Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Point of View. A Contemporary Anthology ofthe  Moving Image
Miami Art Central
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL, I feel mysterious today
Passage de Retz, Paris, D’ une image qui ne serait pas du semblant – la photographie écrite
Museu de arte moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Encontros com o Modernismo
Museo de Arte Contemporãneo de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, Time Clash
Jeu de Paume, site Sully, Paris, Figures de l’acteur
Wellcome Medicine in Context Gallery at the Science Museum, London, Future Face
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uses of the image
Dundee Contemporary Arts and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Somewhere,
Everywhere, Nowhere
Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium, What Did You Expect?
Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Detroit, MI, Piss Off
Museum of Contemporary Art MoCAB, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, Hypermedia
Hayward Gallery, London, About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait
Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Monument to Now
La Cité de l’énergie, Shawinigan, Quebec, Noah’s Ark
Yvon Lambert, New York, La Nuit Américaine
Atelier Augarten, Zentrum für Atelier Augarten, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst der
Österreichischen Gallerie Belvedere, Vienna, Ulysses
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, From Anastasi to Weegee

2004   
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain, Remakes
SITE Sante Fe Biennial, New Mexico
Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium, accrochage
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany, isonethingbetterthantheother
Atelier Augarten, Zentrum für Zeitgenossische Kunst der Österreichischen Gallerie Belvedere,
Vienna, Ulysses: Die unausweichliche Modalität des Sichtbaren
Shanghai Art Museum, China, The Past of the Present: Encounters with Modernism
Singapore Art Museum
Artists Space, New York, Establishing Shot
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, Multiple Räume (1): Seele – Konstruktionen des Innerlichen in der Kunst
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Treasure Island
Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne, Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, Material Witness

2003   
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Imperfect Innocence
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth,FL
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, Rooseum Universal Studios
Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City, The Air is Blue
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Breathing the water
Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), Same time this year
Sølvberget Stavanger Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway, Northern Grammar
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, False Innocence
Arario Gallery, Korea, VideoMIX
Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary, Micro/Macro, British Art 1996 – 2002
Pabilhaão Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, A Bigger Splash
Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Brightness
Galleri Nicolai Wallner Copenhagen, Ten Year Anniversary of Gallleri Nicolai Wallner
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, Plunder
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Upon Reflection   

2002
Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, Conversation?
Gagosian Gallery, London, Hollywood is a Verb
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, Passenger: the viewer as participant
Crestet Centre d'Art, Crestet, France, Silence
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Multiple Personalities
Milton Keynes Gallery, England, Air Guitar: Art Considering Rock Music
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Angel Row, Nottingham
Tullie House, Carlisle
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Summer Reading
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, My Marilyn
Art Resources Transfer, New York, Chapter V
Friedrich Petzel and Marianne Boesky, New York, Penetration
Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea) Monitor 2
P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, Loop
Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany, Hautnah
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tempo
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, The Music in me, Chapter I: Concerting and Exhibition
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, To whom it may concern
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, New, Recent Acquisitions
Musée d'Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d'Asq, France, Sans commune mesur. Image et texte dans l'art actuel
Presença Galeria, Porto, Portugal In dreams
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, In dreams   
The Contemporary Arts Center, 5th Street Space, Cincinnati, OH, Loop. Back to the beginning
Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Superstudio
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Recent Acquisitions
Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, Hollywood revisited
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Same Difference

2001   
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Making Time
Casey Kaplan, New York, G3 NY 13
Musé Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne, France, Open Country
Fundación Jumex, Mexico City, Inaugural exhibition
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Hypermenta
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Double Vision (with Stan Douglas)
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
One for one, ZKM Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Circles no. 4
Villa Arson, Nice, France, endtroducing
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Relocation - On Moving
Museum of Fine Art, Berne, Black box, the dark room in art
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), Monitor: Volume I
Galeria Estrany - de la Mota, Barcelona, Begijnhof IV: A Kiss is Just a Kiss
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Limousin, France, Au delà du reel Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Limousin, France, Switch
Institut d'Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon, France, Dévoler, vivent les FRAC
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, Double Vision
Villa Merkel, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerie im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany, Moving Pictures –
Photography and film in contemporary art
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, The Beauty of Intimacy: lens and paper
Galeri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Group Show
Dundee Contemporary Arts and Generator Projects, Scotland, Here + Now: Scottish Art
1990 - 2001
Taipei Fine Art Museum, China, Field Day: sculpture from Britain
Le Collège, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Champagne-Ardennes, France
Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham, England, Porject: Film and Video
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Loop – alles auf Anfang
Bunkier, Sztuki, Poland, Black Box Recorder
Southampton City Art Gallery, England, I love Melancholy
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Narcissus: Twentieth Century Self Portraits
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, The Dark – Update No. 4
Hotel du Commerce, Basel, Room 137
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Let’s Entertain, Life’s Guilty Pleasures
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Secret Victorians

2000   
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Let’s Entertain, Life’s Guilty Pleasures
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Let’s Entertain, Life’s Guilty Pleasures
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Bleibe
Tate Modern, London, Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, On Language
Milwaukee Art Museum, MN, Inverventions
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, Sincerely Yours
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz / Palais Enzenberg, Schwaz, Austria, For those about to Rock
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Voilà le Monde dans la Tête
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, There is something you should know
Galerie Neugeriemschneider, Berlin, Vicinato2
Yvon Lambert, Paris, Sentimental 
Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Kunstverein München, Rotunde Siemens Kulturprogramm, Munich,
Die verletzte Diva/The Wounded Diva
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, Dream Machines
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England
Camden Arts Centre, London
Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, waiting
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Lisson Gallery at the Covent Garden, London, Video Work
Tate Britain, London, Intelligence: New British Art   
Museum of Art, Lucerne, Mixing Memory and Desire – Wunsch und Erinnerung
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Au-delà du spectacle
Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul, South Korea, Media City Seoul 2000
9 Kean Street, Covent Garden, London, Lisson at Covent Garden
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Private Home: Erlanger Road, London, Living with the Dutch
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gall, Sammlung (1), The oldest possible
memory
Centro de Exposiçoes do Centro Cultural de Belém, Bélem, Initare

1999   
Arsenale, Venice, Italy, d’Apertutto
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and contemporary art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Provinciaal Museum voor Beeldende Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Arts and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, Dimensions Variable
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Exhibition Hall, Bucharest, Romania
Artsway, Sway, England, The History of the Turner Prize
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
Optica, Centre en Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada, Documents & Songes
Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Art in Living Room
Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, München, Germany, Geschichte des Augenblicks / Moments in Time
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Contemporary Artists at Sir John Soanse’s Museum
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Gesammelte Werke I: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten - d'Eendt, Amsterdam, Filmic Images
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Le Grand Praemiere
Trafi FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France, Larmes Blanches
Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, XN99
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, Moving Images, Film – Reflexion in der Kunst
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Search Light, Consciousness
at the Millenium
Galeria Estrany-De la Mota, Barcelona, Ragtime
Clare College Mission Church, London, Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Guarene, Italy, Common people
Museum für Neue Kunst / ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Video cult/ures
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino, Italy, Sogni/Dreams
Espace des Arts, Châlon sur Saône, France, Janviers en Bourgogne: Xn 99
dAPERTutto, Venice Biennale, Italy, through a looking glass
Stedeljik Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Cinema Cinema
Locally Interested, Sophia, Bulgaria
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Regarding Beauty
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway, New Art from Scotland
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, View II
Encore, Brussels, Belgium, So Far Away, So Close
Artangel, London
MEC, Glasgow, Scotland
Centraal Museum/City of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Panorama 2000
Huis a/d werf beeldende kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Videoscene UK
Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Japanese Museum Tour 1998-99:
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,
Fukoka City Art Museum, Japan,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan,
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan
6th Caribbean Biennial, St. Kitts, Blown Away

1998   
Firstsite - The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England, Secret Victorians: contemporary art and
their 19th century vision
Arnolfini, Bristol, England
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Middlesborough Art Gallery, England
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, On the edge: New art from private
collections in France
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, h:min:sec, Eine Ausstellung zur Zeit
Kunstraum Innsbruck, h:min:sec, eine Ausstellung zur Zeit
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, Emotion
Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York,
Berlin Biennale, Kunst Werke & throughout Berlin
Berlin Art Club as gust in the Mies van der Rohe-Pavilion, Barcelona, grenzenlos
Juliet, Trieste, Italy, Dall’interno / From Within
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Wounds
City Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia.Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, Close echoes
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan, Real / Life
Fukuoka City Art Musem, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan,
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Tuning up No. 5
British School at Rome, London Calling
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Projected Allegories
Lisson Gallery, London, Then and Now
Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium, New Works
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Crossings, Kunst zum Hören und Sehen
Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, Eight People from Europe
Yvon Lambert, Paris, Happy Hours
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Contemporary Art from private collections in France
Slot Loevestein, Gorinchem, Netherlands, Everything of Value
An Tuireann, Portree, Isle of Skye, England, This Island Earth
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Auf der Spur, Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen
Holderbank AG, Holderbank, Kunstausstellung Holderbank

1997   
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Pictura Britannia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Goetz Sammlung, München, Germany, Art from the UK
Münster Skulptur Projekt, Münster, Germany
Hayward Gallery, London, Material Culture
Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, Treasure island
Old Factory of Army Clothes, Hiroshima, Japan, Hiroshima Art Document ‘97
Apex Art CP, New York, Letter and Event
Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany, Douglas Gordon, Hjynur Hallson, Petra Kaltenmorgen,
Silke Schatz
Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, Quelques motifs de déclaration Amours
Billboards between Buxtehude and Cuxhaven, Germany, Follow me
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Scream and Scream Again
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, KünstlerInnen, 50 Positionen
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Flexible
Soros Contemporary Art Gallery SCCA, Kiev, Ukraine, Infra-slim Spaces
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, The Lost Ark: Animal
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
83 Hill Street, Glasgow, Scotland, Wish you were here too
ICA, Boston, Gothic
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Past, Present, Future
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, The Magic of Numbers
4th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France, L’autre
Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Athens, Greece, Private Face-Urban Space
Festival de Cahors, France, 1 Minute Scenario
Wacker Fabrik, Darmstadt, Germany, Auf dem Pluto is es noch kälter als erwartet - Über Leben in
der Peripherie
Schloß Ottenstein, Austria, Kunst-Energie in Ottenstein
PS1, New York

1996   
Le Nouveau Musée- Institut FRAC Rhône Alpes, Villeurbanne, France, Identité
École nationales supériere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Connexions Implicites
Tate Gallery, London, The Turner Prize 1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hall of Mirrors, Art and Film
The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus,
Palazzo Delle Espozioni, Rome
Museum for Contemporary Art, Chicago
Kunstammlungen Weimar, Germany, Nach Weimar
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Full House - Young British Art
Tate Gallery, London, The Turner Prize
Throughout Eindhoven, Stichting Peninsula, The Netherlands, Travaux Publics / Public Work
Artisti Brittannici a Roma, Rome
Brasilian Embassy, Paris, Looking awry - une soirée de projection vidéo
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, By Night
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 21 Days of Darkness
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, Traffic
Hayward Gallery, London, Spellbound
Uppsala Konstmusum, Uppsala, Sawn-Off
Sutdio Guenzani, Milan, Controfigura
Cole and Cole, Oxford, England, Out of Space
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Manifesta
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, Auto reverse 2
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, France, Propositions
MOMA, Oxford, England, Scream and Scream Again
Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium, Perfect
Rue Antoine Danaert / Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium, Entre-deux
OB projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Host
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia, 33 1/3
10th Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Jurassic Technologies Revenant
The Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Girls High
The Fruitmarket, Scotland
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ID
Insitut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, France
Musée d’Art de la ville de Paris, Paris, life/live
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, life/live
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grünert, Cologne, Germany, Found Footage, Kunst über Film
Camden Arts Centre, London, Itinerant Texts

1995   
Galéria Knoll, Budapest, Turkey, You Show
South Bank Centre, London, The British Art Show 4, traveled to various venues in Manchester,
Edinburgh and Cardiff, UK
City Centre, Bordeaux, France, Shopping, traveled to: Soho, New York
Teatro Fondamente Nove, Venice, Italy, Projected Images
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, Scottish Autumn
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada, L'Effet Cinéma - Quand l'image raconte
Eigen + Art at the Independent Art Space, London
Hauptbahnhof Leipzig, Germany, Kopfbahnhof/Terminal
Serpentine Gallery, London, Take me (I’m yours)
Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, Germany, Take me (I’m yours)
Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Stora Kvarngatan 34, Malmö, Sweden, Varje gång jag ser dig (Every Time I see you)
Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, Chez l’un, L’AUTRE (1 + 2)
5, rue des Ursulines, Paris, Chez l’un, chez L’AUTRE (1)
Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, Italy, General Release, British Council selection of Young
British Artists
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Shift
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy, Arte Inglese d’ Oggi
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Conqueyrac, France, Aperto ‘95
Riva San Biagio, Venice, Italy, On Board
Photographers’ Gallery, London, Pulp Fact
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Wild Walls
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, Am Rande der Malerei
Korean Biennale, Kwang Ju, Korea, Info Art
MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Canada, Perfect Speed
The Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Perfect Speed
Galeria Antoni Estrani, Barcelona, Seeing Things
Biennale de Lyon, France, installation, cinema, video, informatique
Galéria Knoll, Budapest, Turkey, Übergänge / Transitions
Donia Cieremans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Over de melancholie

1994
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Points de vue: Images d’Europe
ICA, London, The Institute of Cultural Anxiety
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England, Wall to Wall
Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, WATT
Medien Biennale Leipzig, ehemalige VEB Buntgarnwerke, Leipzig, Germany, Minima Media
Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Stains in Reality
South Bank Touring Exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery, England, Wall to Wall
Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, England, Something between my mouth and your ear
The Reading Room - a project initiated by Book Works, London
Air de Paris, Nice, France, Rue des Marins
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Modern Art
Carré des Arts, Parc Floral de Paris, Paris, Gaze:  l’Impossible transparence
Rhizome, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Conceptual Living
Chapter, Cardiff / Oriel Gallery, Mold, Scotland, New Painting
First European Gallerist Congress, Munich, Europa ‘94
Galerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Some of my friends

1993   
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoy, High Fidelity
Rötngen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, High Fidelity
Galerie Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Some of my friends
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, traveled to: Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
Secession, Austria, High Fidelity
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Purpose Built New England
artist’s soundworks throughout Paris, Before The Sound Of The Beep
Maison Hanru, Paris, Left Luggage/Rencontres dans un couloir
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Prospekt ‘93
Gallery Gruppe Grun, Bremen, Germany, Douglas Gordon – Simon Patterson
Moagens Harmonia, Oporto, Portugal, Walter Benjamin’s Briefcase
Lisson Gallery, London, Wonderful Life,
Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris, Chambre 763
Museum for Modern Art, Passau, Germany, Übergänge
Royal Festival hall, London, Moving into View: recent British Painting
The Drawing Center, New York, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis

1992   
Studio Marconi, Milan, Instructions/Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi   
Cafe Picasso, Rome, L’U di carte,
Milch Gallery, London, A Modest Proposal
Patent House 7 / Andrew Cross, London, Anomie
Multiplici Culture, Rome, Speaker Project
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Speaker Project
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Contact
The Showroom, London, Love at First Sight
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, And What Do You Represent?
Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, Guilt by Association
Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany, 240 Minuten
Museum of Natural History, Bergen, Norway, 5 Dialogues

1991   
Serpentine Gallery, London, Barclays Young Artist Award
APAC Centre d’Art Contemporain, Nevers, France, Archive Project
Orpheus Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, London Road
Bellgrove, Glasgow, Scotland, The Bellgrove Station Bilboard Project
Seaman’s Mission, Glasgow, Scotland, Windfall ‘91
Jack Tilton Gallery, NY & Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Walk On
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Speed

1990   
Glasgow Green, Scotland, Sites/Positions
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, Self Conscious State
Octagon Gallery, University of London, …meaning and location   
Archive Room, Slade School of Art, London

1989   
Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Paisley, England, Information
Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling, Scotland, Smith Biennial
A.G. Weser Bunker, Bremen, Germany, Windfall ‘89
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow Group
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Festival of Plagiarism
Open-Eland Studios, Reading, England, Live Art at the Keep
Windfall ’89, Bremen

Curatorial Projects

2005   
German Guggenheim, Berlin, Vanity of Allegory


 
Awards and grants

2008
Roswitha Haftmann-Preis, Rowitha Haftmann-Stiftung, Zürich

1998   
Central Kunstpreis, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Lord Provost’s Award, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow, Scotland
Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Publication of Monograph “Kidnapping”, van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1997   
Premio 2000 at Venice Biennale, Italy
Daad-Stipendium, Berlin

1996   
Turner Prize, London
Kunstpreis Niedersachsen, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany



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