Jim Lambie
1964
born in Glasgow
lives and works in Glasgow
1990 - 1994
BA (Hons) Fine Art Glasgow School of Art
Public Collections (selection)
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Aberdeen City Art Gallery Collection, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Edinburgh National Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Government Art Collection, London, United Kingdom
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Instituto Horizontes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, UK
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
TATE Modern, London, UK
Towada Art Center, Towada, Aomori, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Buttercup, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2020
Year Unknown, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Northern Soul, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2019
Wild is the Wind, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
Zobop (Curulean) Stairs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Skin Shape, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2018
Totally Wired, Franco Noero, Turin
Spiral Scratch, Pacific Place, Admirality, Hong Kong
Both Ends Burning, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2017
Zobop (Viridescent), Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2016
Electrolux, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
La Scala, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Derrick Alexis, Coard, Glasgow International, Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow
2015
Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Sun Rise Sun Ra Sun Set, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2014
Answer Machine, Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013
The Flowers of Romance, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012
Shaved Ice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Metal Box, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
you drunken me – Jim Lambie in collaboration with Richard Hell, Arch Six, Glasgow
Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Franco Noero Gallery, Torino
2011
Spiritualized, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Goss, Michael Foundation, Dallas
Beach Boy, Pier Art Centre, Orkney, Scotland
2010
Boyzilian, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
2009
Atelier Hermes, Seoul, South Korea
Jim Lambie: Selected works 1996 - 2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Television, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2008
RSVP: Jim Lambie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Forever Changes, (part of Glasgow International 2008), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art Glasgow
Rowche Rumble, Atle Gerhardson, Berlin
ACC, Melbourne Australia
Unknown Pleasures, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2007
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006
P.I.L., Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jim Lambie, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
2005
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Concentrations 47, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox, Buffalo
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Jim Lambie, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Jim Lambie, Modern Institute, Glasgow
Jim Lambie, Sadie Coles HQ, Londo
2004
My boyfriend's back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern, New York
Grand Funk, OPA, Mexico
2003
Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2002
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Acid Trails, Artists Statement, Basel/Miami Beach Art Fairs
The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece
2001
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern, New York
Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco
2000
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Triangle, Paris
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
1999
Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London
1998
Ultralow, video screening Carnival, Soho, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Colourspace, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome
Casa Balla: From home to universe and back, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome
Big Medicine, GIANT, Bournemouth
2020
Recut: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art, RSA, Edinburgh
My Mapping, Fundacion van Gogh Museum, Arles
Remix 2020, Kunsthalle Bremen
MY CARTOGRAPHY, The Erling Kragge Collection, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid
2019
Artworks from the Videoinsight Collection, Videoinsght Foundation, Turin
The TURNER, The Royal Glasgow Instititute of Fine Arts, Glasgow
Chairs Beyong Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York
Alan Kane's 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Surface Tension, Crolina Nitsch, New York
2018
Eurovisions: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
2016
Wolke und Kristall - Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2015
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2015 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna
A Man Walks Into a Bar… Jokes & Postcards, me Collectors Room, Berlin
2014
Manic Panic, Shoot The Lobster, New York
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo
Station Gallery, Tokyo; Itami City Museum of Art / The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
On The Devolution Of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London
Urs Fischer curated show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
That Petreolemotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin
Mutant Moments and Memorabilia, Voidoid Archive, 2014 Glasgow International, Glasgow
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2013
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner Berlin, Berlin
Somos Libres, MATE, Lima
Sculpture in the City 2013, various sites in the City of London
2012
Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
AKA Peace, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Untitled (Works from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection), Riverview School, Capco
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
you drunken me: Richard Hell collaborates with Jim Lambie, Glasgow
2011
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin
Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey
Selections from the Hara Museum, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyko, Japan
The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, Zabludowitz Collection, London, UK
2009
Saints and Sinners, Rose Art Museum, Waltham
Compass in Hand: Selection from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Saint-Nazaire Biennale 2009: Le sang d'un poète, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, England
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary College, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2008
Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan
Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
FILMS, (screening of Ultralow), Sadie Coles HQ, London
Color Chart, MoMA, New York
Malcolm McLaren Musical Paintings, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London
2007
BREAKING STEP / U RASKORAKU, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Belgrad, Serbien
Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy
Ironie der Objekte, Museion, Bozen, Italy
SUBSTANCE & SURFACE, Bortolami, New York, NY, USA
Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
Sympathie for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Fit to Print. Gagoisian Gallery Madison, New York, NY
Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, NY
2006
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it, The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
abstract art now2, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Life's a beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, Austria
2005
POST NOTES, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, NY
Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Minimalism and After III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Carnegie International 2004/2005, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
SODIUM & ASPHALT, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004
Jim Lambie and Yang Fudong, The Moore Space, Miami
Brand New and Retro, UP Projects, The Empire
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow
Boros collection exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
2003
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Italy
Painting Not Painting, Tate St Ives, UK
MART, Trento, Italy
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
ZENOMAP, Venice Biennale
The Fourth Sex, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Tate Triennale, Tate Britain, London, UK
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
The Unhomely, Kettle's Yard. Cambridge, UK
Unplugged, Galleria civica di arte contemporanea, Trento
Plunder: Culture as Material, DCA, Dundee
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Architecture Scmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
OUTLOOK, Athens, Greece
Silver Convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch
Grayscale/CMYK, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2002
Nightlife, Barbican Gallery, London
VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
New, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Jim Jonathon Kenny France and Sol, Stedlijk Bureau, Amsterdam
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London
Hello My Name Is ..., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy
There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Italy
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full of Love, Charlottenbourg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, New York
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Artists Statement, Basel/Miami Beach Art Fairs
2001
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts
Klaedefabrik, Denmark
Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Tailsliding", British Council touring show
Silhouettes, Lenbachhaus, München
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
2000
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Off the Record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania
Raumkörper", Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
Parking Meters, Cologne
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The British Art Show 5, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone
Grant Selwyn, Los Angeles (Clarissa Dalrymple)
Black Gloss, Anton Kern, New York
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mapin Gallery, Camden Arts Centre
1999
Mathew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
To be continued..., Walsall Public Projects
Dots and Loops, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam
Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Silk purse, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
1998
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery (Triangle), Marseille, France
Slant6, Jacob Javit's Center, New York
The Modern Institute, sadie Coles HQ, London
Host, Tramway, Glasgow
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow
1997
This is ... These are, Norwich
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1996
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Art's, Los Angeles
Girls High, Fruitmarket Galley, Glasgow
Insanestupidhatfuctpervert, Cubitt St, London
Sick building, Globe gallery, Copenhagen
Insanestupidhatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes
1995
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2017
65 Chapters for Knowing about Scotland, Mizuma Art Gallery
Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Jim Lambie, Skira Rizzoli, New York
2014
Not Just For Me: A Sample of The Poetry Club’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2004
Michael Bracewell, Jim Lambie: Male Stripper, published by Modern Art Oxford
Voidoid, The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Anton Kern Gallery, New York in collaboration with Koenig Books, London
2001
New York Times Sep 14th, Roberta Smith
Flash Art May-June, Sylvia Chivaratanoud
Flash Art March-April, Magdalena Kroner
2000
New York Press Feb 15th, Christian Viveros-Faune
New York Times Feb 18th, Holland Cotter
Village Voice, Feb 20Th, Levin
Frieze Feb, Papermake, Neal Brown
1999
Time Out, Dec (Review of Weird Glow)
Self service Issue 10
I.D. Issue 187, Stuart Shave
Circa Issue 87, Marc Dawes
Seven Wonders of the World, published by Bookworks
Art and Text Issue 65, Transmission Gallery, Elisabeth Mahony
Frieze Issue 46, Ross Sinclair
Art Monthly, April/May, Nicky Bird
ZOBOP, Catalogue Transmission/Showroom Gallery Rob Tufnell
1998
Contemporary Visual Arts Urban Myths, Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt
Lovecraft Catalogue, Spacex Gallery
1997
Zing Magazine, Insanestupidphatfustpervert, Toby Webster
Newsweek, Glasgow Gets Conceptual, Peter Plagens
1995
Circa Issue 75, Jonnie Wilkes Jim Lambie, Richard Wright