Martin Boyce

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1967, Scotland
Lives: and works in Glasgow

Education
1986�1990 Glasgow School of Art.
(Dept. of Environmental Art)
1995�1997 Glasgow School of Art. MFA
1996 California Institute for the Arts

Solo Exhibitions
2009
Scottisch Pavilion, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2008
Ikon Gallery, Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow, Birmingham
Westf�lischer Kunstverein, Munster

2007
The Modern Institute, That Blows Through Concrete Leaves, Glasgow
Centre d'Art Contemporain, A Lost Cat and Alleyways. Back Gardens, Pools and Parkways, Gen�ve
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, We Make an Unsubstantial Territory, New York
Atelier Hermes, Suspended Breath, Seoul

2006
Frac - Fonds R�gional d� Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, Carquefou
Carquefou
Johnen Galerie, We Are the Breeze, Berlin

2005
Kabinett f�r aktuelle Kunst, Broken Fall, Bremerhaven
Gallery Ruediger-Schottle, Munich

2004
Galerie Eva Presenhuber � We Are Resistant, We Dry Out In The Sun, Zurich
The Modern Institute, Brushing Against Strange Weeds, Glasgow
Krefeld Museum, Dark Reflections, Adolf Luther Prize, Krefeld
Johnen und Sch�ttle, In Between Breaths and the Sodium Spill, Cologne

2003
Art concept, Paris
RomaRomaRoma, Undead Dreams, Rome
Contemporary Art Gallery, Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth, Vancouver

2002
Tramway, Our Love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Glasgow
Museum f�r Moderne Kunst, For 1959 Capital Avenue, Frankfurt

2001
Els Hanappe Underground (Solo), Athens

2000
Johnen und Sch�ttle, Fear View, Cologne
Jerwood Gallery, London

1999
Jacob Fabricius / recent projects, Copenhagen
Fruitmarket Gallery, When Now is Night, Edinburgh
Talbot Rice Gallery, round room, Edinburgh
Lotta Hammer, London

1998
Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, London

1996
Loggia Gallery, Toronto
Lime Gallery, California Institute for the Arts, You Are Here, Los Angeles

1995
The Agency, Something�s Got to Give, London


Group Exhibitions
2009

MMK Frankfurt, Yellow and Green, Frankfurt
Kettle�s Yard, Material Intelligence, Cambridge
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

2008

Kunsthalle Kiel, Heavy Metal. Die unerkl�rbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kiel
Sculpture Center, New York, We Burn, We Shiver (with Ugo Rondinone)
Sculpture Public Project, A Kaldor Art Project, Melbourne (tbc)
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Paul Stolper, London
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, ...5 minutes later, Berlin

2007
Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Minimalism and Applied, Berlin
Munster Sculpture Project, Munster
Alcala 31, La Camara del Eco. Arte Britanico, 28014, Madrid
Palais de Tokyo, The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris
House Eva Presenhuber, 'Jubilee Exhibition', Vn�, Switzerland
The New Museum, �Unmonumental: The Art Object in the 21st Century�, New York

2006
Art Unlimited, Concrete Autumn (Broken Fall), (with The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd and Johnen + Sch�ttle, Cologne), Art 37 Basel, Basel
Tate Britain, Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours in British Art 1900- 2006, (curated by Helen Delaney as part of Tate Collection), London
Ottawa Art Gallery, Body: New Art from the UK, Ottawa
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai
Museum Abteiberg, Strange I�ve Seen That Face Before, Moenchengladbach
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Street: Behind the clich�, Rotterdam
Tanya Bonakdar, Punching Through the Clouds, New York
Kunstnernes Hus, Draft Deceit, Oslo
Oakville Galleries, Body: New Art from the UK
Edmonton Art Gallery, Body: New Art from the UK
Art Gallery Novia Scotia, Body: New Art from the UK
Royal College of Art Galleries, Again for Tomorrow, London
Breeder, When the moon shines on the moonshine, Athens
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2005
Andrew Kreps, New York
Museum f�r Moderne Kunst� What�s New Pussy Cat, Frankfurt
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri� Die gute Form, Berlin
Vancouver Art Gallery, Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver
Ruzicska Gallery, De Sculptura, Salzburg
Gallery Ruediger-Schoettle, Munich
Betty Rymer Gallery, ThickDesign05, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Arnolfini, The Storm is what we call Progress, Bristol

2004
Kunstverein Hamburg, Formalismus Moderne Kunst Heute, Hamburg

2003
Lyon biennale, Lyon
Gallery of Modern Art, Love Over Gold, Glasgow
Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh
Glasgow Print Studio, Contemporary Arbstraction, Glasgow
Friedrich Petzel, 3D, New York
Bard College, Sodium Dreams, New York
Martin Janda Gallery, Discussing Sculpture, Vienna
Rouchechouart Museum, Special Dedicace
Neue Galerie, M_ars � Art and War, Graz
Galerie Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Breathing the Water, Zurich

2002
Tramway, Greyscale CMYK, Glasgow
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Non Places, Frankfurt
Roma, Roma, Roma, Rome
Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Martin Boyce, When Now is Night, Basel,
Foksal Gallery, Martin Boyce & Toby Paterson, Warsaw
Galleria Sonia Rosso, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Torino
Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw & City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Happy Outsiders, Katowice
Charlottenborg Museum, My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Copenhagen
Johnen and Sch�ttle, Group Exhibition, Cologne
Hallways CAC, Half the World Away, Buffalo, NY
neugeriemschneider, Hell, Berlin

2001
Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Here and Now, Aberdeen
DCA Dundee, MOMA Oxford, Trauma, Dundee and Oxford
Casey Caplan, G3, New York
Kunstverein fur die Rheinlands und Westfalen, Zero Gravity, Dusseldorf
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Open Country, Lausanne
Gallerie ZKM, Circles, Karlsruhe
Fondazione Teseco, Stratagies Against Architecture, Pisa

2000
Chicago Project Rooms, Living, Los Angeles
Mark Muller, Pavillion, Zurich
NAK, Model Model, Aachen
The Moderna Museet, What If, Stockholm
Inverleith House, The British Art Show, Edinburgh
The I.C.A., Becks� Futures, London
Kiasma Museum, Can 303�s Heal, Helsinki
Centre for Visual Arts, Cardif, the Cornerhouse, Future Perfect, Manchester
Lisson Gallery, A Shot in the Head, London
Mjellby Konstgard, Waiting, Halmstad
CCA, If I Ruled the World, Glasgow

1999
Lotta Hammer, The Office of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annexe), London
SCP, Please Touch, London
The Lighthouse, Please Touch, Glasgow
Or Gallery, Getting the Corners, Vancouver
Fly Gallery, Furoshikibility, Glasgow
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Disaster, Preston
Seven Wonders of the World, Publication Curated by Matthew Higgs
Word Enough to Save a Life Word Enough to Take a Life, London
Bourneville, In the Midst of Things, Birmingham
de Appel, Anarchitecture, Amsterdam
Living Art Museum, If I Ruled the World, Reykjavik
Stills Gallery, The Queen is Dead, Edinburgh
Centre Regional d�Art Contemporain, Slip of the Mind, Sete
Stop Stop, (publication) Glasgow

1998
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Strolling, Melbourne
Museet for Samtidskunst, Nettverk Glasgow, Oslo

1997
Hayward Gallery, Material Culture, London
Photographers Gallery, Airport, London
Lotta Hammer, Group Exhibition, London
Centro Cultural de Belem, Life/Live, Lisbon
83 Hill Street, Wish You Were Here Too, Glasgow

1996
Broad, Studio 17 California Institute for the Arts, Brain Mail, Los Angeles
Musee d�Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Life / Live, Paris
Staffordshire University, City Limits, Stoke-on-Trent
C.C.A., Wallpaper, Glasgow
Moat House Hotel, No Tell Hotel, Glasgow
The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow School of Art, Girls High, Glasgow
Free Parking, Transmissions, Toronto
McLellen Galleries, Fuse, Glasgow

1995
Mu-Tereem, Martin Boyce & David Allen, Budapest
Scotland Street Museum, Fairy Tales in the Supermarket, Multiples Show, Glasgow
Art Gallery of Ontario, 30 Seconds + Title, Ontario
Transmission Gallery, New Rose Hotel, Glasgow
C.C.A., Hopeless, Glasgow

1994
ICA, Institute of Cultural Anxiety, London
The Agency, Miniatures, London
Transmission Gallery, Modern Art, Glasgow
The Bourse, Wish You Were Here, Leeds
99 Gallery, Difficult Relationships, Glasgow

1993
Collection Gallery, Matter and Fact, London
Left Luggage, Travelling Group Project, Hanru�s Home, Paris
Intermedia Gallery, Home and Away, Glasgow

1992
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, How Noisy Everything Grows, London
The Showroom Gallery, Love at First Sight, London
Cafe Picasso, l�u di carte, Rome
Transmission Gallery, Contact 552 4813, Group Show, Glasgow

1991
Seamen�s Mission, Windfall, Glasgow
The Living Room, Glasgow
Tranmssion Gallery, Speed, Glasgow

1990
Exchange Between Transmission Gallery and Hordaland Kunstner Sentrum, 5 Artists from Glasgow, Bergen

1989
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Information, Glasgow



Bibliography
Selected Bibliography

2009

Herbert, Martin, Sifting Defunct Modernity in Search of Something Useful, in: Tate etc., No. 15, Spring 2009, p. 62-69
Delany, Max, Looking back: Solo show, in: frieze, January/February 2009, p. 106

2008

Luckow, Dirk (ed.), Heavy Metal. On the Inexplicable Lightness of a Material, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2008 (exh.cat.)
Cros, Caroline, Que'est-ce que la sculpture aujourd'hui?, Beaux-Art �ditions, Paris 2008, p. 62/63
Diez, Renato, Art Basel. Cosa compro con 40 mila euro?, in: Arte, May 2008, p. 126-131
John-Paul Stonard, The Third Mind, Palais de Toyko, in: Artforum, No. 7, March 2008, p. 373

2007

Unmonumental. The Object in the 21st Century, Exh. Cat New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, New York, 2007
Ugo Rondinone, The Third Mind, Palais Magazine, No. 04, Paris, Fall 2007
La c�mara del eco, in: Todo Madrid, April 9, 2007
Nacho Santos, La c�mara del eco, in: Arte, April, 2007, p. 25
Arte brit�nico actual. Por el fin de la iron�a, in: La Vanguardia, Barcelona, May 2, 2007,
p. 19
La raz�n desva�da, in: El Pais, Madrid, April 28, 2007, p. 20
Mirando desde una Isla, in: ABC de las artes y las letras, Madrid, April 28, 2007, p. 38-39
Los Nuevos Britanicos, in: El Mundo S.XXI, Madrid, April 13, 2007, p. 62
Ecos de la Modernidad, in: El Mundo, Madrid, April 5, 2007, p.33
Ecos de las vanguardias, in: Diario Palentino, Palencia, March 30, 2007, p. 58
The Echo Room, in: El Pais, Madrid, March 30, 2007, p. 42
Menz, Marguerite, in: Kunst-Bulletin, No. 8, July/August 2007, p. 62
Menz, Marguerite, Verlorene Katzen, in: NZZ, No. 168, July 23, 2007, p. 20
Mack, Gerhard, in: NZZ am Sonntag, July 1, 2007, p. 67
Martin Boyce, in: Monopol, No. 7, July 2007, p. 128

2006

Emily Butler, Bruce Haines, La C�mara del Eco, Arte Brit�nico. Echo Room, Art from Britain, Exh. Cat. Alcal�31/British Council, Madrid, 2006
Haubrock, Axel, Der Konzeptioner, in: Spike, No. 10, Winter 2006, p. 100-103
Weibel, Peter, Jansen, Gregor (ed.), light art from artificial light. Light as a Medium in 20th and 21th Century Art, ZKM | Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2006,
p. 131
Herbert, Martin, All That is Solid, in: frieze, No. 102, October 2006, p. 232-237
Ward, Osian, Brise im Bl�tterwald aus Beton, in: monopol, No. 5, October/November 2006,
p. 68-72
Royal College of Art, Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, 2006

2005

Lunn, Felicity, Martin Boyce: Reviews - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Z�rich, in: Artforum International Magazine, XLIII, No. 5, January 2005, p. 192

2004

Derieux, Florence, Martin Boyce, g�om�tre, in: Art Press, September 2004
Mansfield, Susan, Martin Boyce, in: The Scotsman, May 22, 2004
Iain Gale, in: The Scotsman, May 14, 2004
Mottram, in: The List, April 29 � May 13, 2004

2003

Larsen, Lars Bang, Martin Boyce. Tramway, in: Artforum International, Summer 2003, No.10, p.202
Fabricius, Jacob, in: Flash Art, May/June 2003

2002

Dorment, Richard, in: The Daily Telegraph, January 15, 2002
Garavelli, Dani, in: Scotland on Sunday, November 17, 2002
Lorch, Catrin, in: Kunst-Bulletin, December 2002
Pfeffer, Susanne, For 1959 Capital Avenue (exhibition text, Frankfurt), September 2002
Osberghaus, Monika, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 13, 200

2001

Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, in: Artforum, December 2001
Tufnel, Rob, Here + Now, exhibition catalogue, September 2001
Bradley, Will, Ero Gravity, Exhibition catalogue, April 2001
Hess, Barbara, in: Flash Art, Januaray / February 2001

2000

Smyth, Cherry, in: Art Monthley, May 2000, Becks Futures ICA, London
Bloom, Ina, What if Modern Museet Stockholm, in: Frieze, September 2000
Mulholland, Neil, If I ruled the World, CCA Glasgow, in: Frieze, September 2000
Gidley, Tom, Martin Boyce, Fruitmarket Gallery Catalogue, May 2000
Crowley, David, The Jerwood Gallery, February 2000
McLaren, Duncan, in: The Independent on Sunday newspaper, January 23, 2000