Geboren 1967 in Glasgow, Schottland / born 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland
| 1986-1990 | BA Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, GB |
| 1995-1997 | MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, GB |
| 1996 | California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles, US |
Lebt und arbeitet in Glasgow, Schottland / lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
Auszeichhungen & Stipendien / Awards and Grants
| 2011 | Turner Prize 2011, GB |
| 2005 | Universität der Künste Fellowship, Berlin, DE |
| 2004 | Hamlyn Foundation Award. Adolf Luther Stingfeld, Krefeld, DE |
Einzelausstellungen / Solo Exhibitions
2012
In Praise of Shadows, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Scarecrows & Lighthouses, Part Two: A collaboration with Raymond MacDonald and David Mackenzie, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
The Spirit Level Curated by Ugo Rondine, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2011
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts, US
Winter Palms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
KölnSkulptur 6, Skulpturenpark Köln, DE
The Shape We're In, Zabludowicz Collection, London, GB
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB
SHAPES, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, DE
Through Layers and Leaves (Closer and Closer), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US
Night terrace - lantern chains - forgotten seas - sky, The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, GB
2010
Commission for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US
Martin Boyce. No Reflections, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
A library of Leaves, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
2009
Scotland and Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 53rd International Exhibition of Art, Scottish Pavilion, Venice, IT
No reflections, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Nethergate, GB
2008
We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked, RMIT University Alumni Courtyard, Melbourne, AU
Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB
This Place Is Close and Unfolded, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
We Burn, We Shiver, SculptureCenter, (two person show with Ugo Rondinone), New York, US
2007
Suspended Breath, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, KR
We Make An Unsubstantial Territory, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
A Lost Cat and Alleyways, Back Gardens, Pools and Parkways, Centre d’art Contemparain, Geneve, CH
That Blows Through Concrete Leaves, Modern Institute, Glasgow, GB
2006
We Are The Breeze, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, FRAC des Pays de Loire, Carquefou, FR
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, 37, Basel, CH
2005
Broken Fall, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, DE
concrete autumn, Galerie Jochum + Tissi, Berlin, DE
Galerie Ruediger-Schottle, Munich, DE
2004
In Between Breaths and the Sodium Spill, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, DE
Brushing Against Strange Weeds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, GB
Dark Reflections, Adolf Luther Prize, Krefeld Museum, Krefeld, DE
We Are Resistant, We Dry Out In The Sun, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
2003
Art Concept, Paris, FR
Undead Dreams, Roma Roma Roma, Rome, IT
Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun the Trees and the Birth, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2002
Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tramway, Glasgow, GB
For 1959 Capital Avenue, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Martin Boyce & Toby Patterson, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL
When Now Is Night, Art 33 Basel, Basel, CH
2001
Martin Boyce, Els Hanappe Undergroound, Athens, GR
2000
Fear View, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, DE
Jerwood Gallery, London, GB
Gruppenausstellungen / Group Exhibitions
2012
New Sculpture, Zacheta Narodowa Galeriea Sztuki, Warsaw, PL
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2011
Turner Prize 2011, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GB
Breitseite - Im Fokus: Raum, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE
Nothing in the World but You, Turner Contemporary, Margate, GB
Conceptual Tendencies, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art. From the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US
Shapes, Haubrok Collection, Berlin, DE
La carte d'après Nature, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Sculpture Now, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, HK
KölnSkulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, DE
The Shape We're In, Zabludowicz Collection, London, GB
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB
2010
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (3 person show with Victoria Morton and Eva Rothschild), FR
The New Decor, Hayward Gallery, GB
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, The 4th Auckland Triennal, NZ
La carte d’après Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, AU
Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm, SE
Living Rooms, Centre d'art contemporain, Chamarande, FR
HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Permanent trouble Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE
Silent Revolution, K21, Dusseldorf, DE
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowitz Collection, Berlin, DE
2009
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, FR
Material Intelligence, Huddersfield Art Gallery, GB
Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, GB
Tonite, The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, UK
2008
We Burn, We Shiver. Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone, The Sculpture Center, New York, US
Open Plan Living. ArtTLV, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion & Gan Ya’akov, Tel Aviv, IL
5 minutes later, KW Kunst-Werke, Berlin, DE
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, US
The Eternal Network, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FR
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, GB
Peter Saville: Accessories to an artwork, Paul Stolper, London, GB
2007
Skulptur Projekte, Münster, DE
The Third Mind. Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Jahresgaben 2007, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Minimalism and Applied, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT
Abstraction: Extracting from the world, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, GB
Echo Room - Art from Britain, Alcalá 31, Madrid, ES
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, FR
Jubilee Exhibition, Haus Eva Presenhuber, Engiadina Bassa, CH
STA FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, South London Gallery, London, GB
Unmonomental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, US
Winter Palace, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2006
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, DE
Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Installation, Tate Collection, Tate Britain, London, GB
Street: behind the cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
floating forms. abstract art now, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
Life’s a beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
SeeHistory2006 – Schätze Bilden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, DE
FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER! Signetwerke der Sammlungen, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, DE
Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
AGAIN FOR TOMORROW, Royal College of Art, London, GB
How to improve the World, British Art 1946-2006, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, GB
Punching Through the Clouds, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
When the moon shines on the moonshine, Breeder, Athens, GR
2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, DE
spinnwebzeit – die eBay-Vernetzung, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
NATURALIA. Collections sans frontières V. Œuvres des collections des FRAC du grand est, Futura, Centrum soucasného umení / Centre d’art contemporain, Prague, PL
B SHARP, Haubrok Collection, Berlin, DE
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US
Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
De Sculptura, Ruzicska Galler, Salzburg, DE
Die gute Form, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
The Storm is what we call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, GB
ThickDesign05, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
What's New Pussy Cat New Acquisitions, MMK, Frankfurt, DE
2004
Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg, DE
Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich von ihr weiß, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE
MOCA Miami, US
Sodium & Asphalt, Museo Rufino Tamayo, MX (British Council Touring exhibition)
The Sculptural Sphere, Goetz Collection, Munich, DE
Die Sammlung Boros, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
Georg Karl Gallery, Vienna, AT
La Partie Continue 2, Le crédac - Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Ivr, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR
2003
Lyon Biennale, FR
Adorno 100, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, GB
Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh, GB
Contemporary Abstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, GB
3D, Friedrich Petzel, New York, US
Sodium dreams, Bard College, New York, US
Special Dedicace, Rouchechouart Museum, FR
M_ars - Art and War, Neue Gallerie, Graz, AT
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, CH
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, GB
Bad Behaviour, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, GB
Discussing Sculpture, Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna, AT
2002
Martin Boyce, Martin Creed, Wilhelm Sasnal, Anri Sala, Johnen+Schöttle, Cologne, DE
Happy Outsider, zacheta gallery, Warsaw, PL
This Building is, Exterior Projection, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
Strategies against architectures 2, CAC Vilnius, LT
My Head is on Fire but my heart is full of Love, Charlottenburg Museum, Copenhagen, DK
Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE; Rome, IT
Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh, GB
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, GB
When Now Is Night, Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, CH
There is a Light that Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, IT
Half the World Away, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo, US
Hell, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE
Martin Boyce & Toby Paterson, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
Non places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
Still Life, British council touring show, Santiago, CL
2001
Trauma, DCA, Dundee, Scotland; MOMA Oxford, GB
G3, Casey Caplan, New York, US
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein Duesseldorf, DE
Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, CH
Circles, Galerie ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts & Aberdeen Art Gallery, GB
Strategies Against Architecture, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, IT
2000
Pavillion, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, CH
Future Perfect, Centre For Visual Arts, Cardiff, GB
A Shot In The Head, Lisson Gallery, London, GB
Waiting, Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, SE
If I Ruled The World, C.C.A, Glasgow, GB
What If, Art On The Verge Of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Can 303’s Heal, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, FI
Beck’s Futures, ICA London, London; Corner House, Manchester; C.C.A, Glasgow, GB
British Art Show, Edinburgh; Birmingham; Cardiff; Southampton, GB
Living, Chicago Project Rooms, Los Angeles, US
Model Model, NAK, Aachen, DE
Waiting, Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, SE
"Jenseits der Stile", Artnet.de, 27.4.2012
"Als hätte es Gott in den Zwanzigern entworfen", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 07.12.2011
"Turner-Preis für fragile Landschaften", Zeit Online, 06.12.2011
"Martin Boyce wins Turner Prize 2011", The Guardian, 06.12.2011
"Turner Prize 2011", Sueddeutsche.de, 06.12.2011
"Martin Boyce gewinnt Turner Prize", Monopol, 06.12.2011
"Shortlist for 2011 Turner Prize Announced", Frieze, 05.04.2011
"The New Decor", Frieze, 28.09.2010
"Reference Monographs", jrp ringier, 2009
"Zersägte Moderne: Der Bildhauer Martin Boyce in Münster", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27.05.2008
"Auf den Abfallhalden der Moderne", Art Magazine, 2007
"All That is Solid", Frieze, Dec 2006
"Zum Geburtstag ein Fest", Süddeutsche Zeiutng, 17.10.2005