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
2022
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern Gallery (Window), New York, USA
2021
Buttercup, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
2020
Year Unknown, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Northern Soul, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2019
Wild is the Wind, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Zobop (Curulean) Stairs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Skin Shape, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2018
Totally Wired, Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Spiral Scratch, Pacific Place, Admirality, Hong Kong, China
Both Ends Burning, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2017
Zobop (Viridescent), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2016
Electrolux, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
La Scala, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Derrick Alexis, Coard, Glasgow International, Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015
Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sun Rise Sun Ra Sun Set, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Answer Machine, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2013
The Flowers of Romance, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2012
Shaved Ice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Metal Box, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
you drunken me – Jim Lambie in collaboration with Richard Hell, Arch Six, Glasgow, UK
Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Franco Noero Gallery, TurinTuri, Italy
2011
Spiritualized, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Goss, Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
Beach Boy, Pier Art Centre, Orkney, Scotland, UK
2010
Boyzilian, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
2009
Atelier Hermes, Seoul, South Korea
Jim Lambie: Selected works 1996 - 2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Television, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2008
RSVP: Jim Lambie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Forever Changes, (part of Glasgow International 2008), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art Glasgow, UK
Rowche Rumble, Atle Gerhardson, Berlin
ACC, Melbourne Australia
Unknown Pleasures, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Jim Lambie, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2006
P.I.L., Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jim Lambie, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
2005
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Concentrations 47, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox, Buffalo, USA
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Jim Lambie, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Jim Lambie, Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Jim Lambie, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2004
My boyfriend's back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern, New York, USA
Grand Funk, OPA, Mexico
2003
Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
2002
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Acid Trails, Artists Statement, Basel/Miami Beach Art Fairs, USA
The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece
2001
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern, New York, USA
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco, USA
2000
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Triangle, Paris, France
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
1999
Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
1998
Ultralow, video screening Carnival, Soho, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Tondo, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Shine On, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia
2022
A Collection withour Boundaries, GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Turin, Italy
Status Need a World Interlude, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Repeater, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2021
Colourspace, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy
Casa Balla: From home to universe and back, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Big Medicine, GIANT, Bournemouth, UK
2020
Recut: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art, RSA, Edinburgh, UK
My Mapping, Fundacion van Gogh Museum, Arles, France
Remix 2020, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
MY CARTOGRAPHY, The Erling Kragge Collection, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019
Artworks from the Videoinsight Collection, Videoinsght Foundation, Turin, Italy
The TURNER, The Royal Glasgow Instititute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, UK
Chairs Beyong Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York, USA
Alan Kane's 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Surface Tension, Crolina Nitsch, New York, USA
2018
Eurovisions: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, Australia
COLOR-BLOCKING,Cragg, Dibbets, Feldmann, Lambie, Ruff, Ryman, Zeniuk, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
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, UK
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2015 White Columns Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, New York, USA
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
A Man Walks Into a Bar… Jokes & Postcards, me Collectors Room, Berlin
2014
Manic Panic, Shoot The Lobster, New York, USA
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo, Japan
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, UK
Urs Fischer curated show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, UK
That Petreolemotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Libanon
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, USA
Mutant Moments and Memorabilia, Voidoid Archive, 2014 Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2013
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, USA
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner Berlin, Berlin
Somos Libres, MATE, Lima, Peru
Sculpture in the City 2013, various sites in the City of London, UK
2012
Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
AKA Peace, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Untitled (Works from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection), Riverview School, East Sandwich, USA
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, Germany
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
you drunken me: Richard Hell collaborates with Jim Lambie, Glasgow, UK
2011
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., USA
Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, USA
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA
Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin, Ireland
Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2010
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
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, USA
Compass in Hand: Selection from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
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, UK
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary College, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
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, UK
Color Chart, MoMA, New York, USA
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, Canada
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
2007
BREAKING STEP / U RASKORAKU, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Belgrad, Serbia
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, USA
Fit to Print. Gagoisian Gallery Madison, New York, USA
Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, USA
2006
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
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, USA
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, USA
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, USA
Brand New and Retro, UP Projects, The Empire, Tower Hamlets, London, UK
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow, UK
Boros collection exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago, USA
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, USA
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, Germany
ZENOMAP, Venice Biennale, Italy
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, Italy
Plunder: Culture as Material, DCA, Dundee, UK
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Architecture Scmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
OUTLOOK, Athens, Greece
Silver Convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Grayscale/CMYK, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Nightlife, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
VIP, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
New, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Jim Jonathon Kenny France and Sol, Stedlijk Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Hello My Name Is ..., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
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, USA
Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Artists Statement, Basel/Miami Beach Art Fairs, USA
2001
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts, Klaedefabrik, Denmark
Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Tailsliding", British Council touring show
Silhouettes, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
2000
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK
Off the Record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA
Raumkörper", Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles, USA
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The British Art Show 5, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton, UK
Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
Grant Selwyn, Los Angeles (Clarissa Dalrymple), USA
Black Gloss, Anton Kern, New York, USA
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mapin Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, UK
1999
Mathew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Papermake, Modern Art Inc., London, UK
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
To be continued..., Walsall Public Projects, UK
Dots and Loops, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London, UK
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Silk purse, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1998
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery (Triangle), Marseille, France
Slant6, Jacob Javit's Center, New York, USA
The Modern Institute, sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, UK
1997
This is ... These are, Norwich, UK
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
1996
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, UK
Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Art's, Los Angeles, USA
Girls High, Fruitmarket Galley, Glasgow, UK
Insanestupidhatfuctpervert, Cubitt St, London, UK
Sick building, Globe gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Insanestupidhatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, UK
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Kilt ou Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France
1995
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, UK
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