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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

COLOR-BLOCKING

23. Nov 2018 - 16. Feb 2019
BERLIN


Jim Lambie

16. Mar 2018 - 12. May 2018
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50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

15. Sep 2017 - 25. Nov 2017
BERLIN

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Jim Lambie

20. Nov 2004 - 15. Jan 2005
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